Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Tips and Tricks. Spotlight is a quick and simple way to search the content on your Mac.Either click on the magnifying glass icon in the top right of your screen, or click. By now, you've probably already installed 10.10 Yosemite, the newest version of Mac OS X, on your computer. While you most certainly noticed the visual changes, you might have missed some of the really cool additions.

This year’s update to OS X has been officially previewed, and we know its California place name: Yosemite. But while developers have access to an early version of the new OS now, regular users will have to wait until the fall to use it (unless they sign up for, and get into, the public beta program). So there are lots of questions swirling around out there about OS X Yosemite; based on what we've learned at WWDC (and from testing out the early OS on a system that Apple loaned to Macworld's Jason Snell), here are answers to some of the most common.

The interface

What’s this I hear about a revamped user interface?

You’ve heard correctly. Taking a cue from iOS 7, Yosemite now features transparency not only on the menu bar, but applied to windows and other small interface features, as well. For much more on all the changes, see Hands-on with OS X Yosemite: Design.

You’ll also find that Apple has dispensed with the 3D design elements of old in lieu of flatter, more colorful surfaces. Toolbars have also been simplified. For example, in Safari, the Favorites bar no longer appears by default; instead, you find Favorites when you click in a window’s smart-search field. Yosemite also uses a new System font, Helvetica Neue.

How different is Helvetica Neue as the system font?

It’s initially a bit of a shock if you’re used to Mavericks and older versions of OS X. But once that shock wears off, the font is fine, and it certainly matches the overall visual of Yosemite better than Mavericks’s Lucida Grande would have. On a Retina display, the thinner font especially shines.

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The Dock looks strangely new-but-familiar. What’s up with that?

Back in OS X 10.4, the Dock was two-dimensional: a translucent background that separated app icons from the desktop. Starting in OS X 10.5, however, Apple changed the Dock’s bottom position to render in 3D (unless you performed a Terminal tweak. With Yosemite’s new flat UI, the Dock is back to being 2D again. We like it a lot from what we’ve seen so far, and it otherwise behaves just like the Dock we’re used to: You will be able to resize and reposition it, hide it, and so on.

I’ve heard Apple changed the ‘stoplight’ buttons at the upper left of windows.

In many (but not all) apps they’re now integrated into the toolbar, rather than above it, thus saving some screen real estate. They also have the same flatter appearance as the rest of the operating system. If you’re a long-time Mac user, the experience will be a bit odd at first, but it should be a nice change—especially given the widescreen aspect ratio of all of Apple’s current displays.

In addition, Apple has tweaked the behavior of the green button. Previously, it’s always been a zoom toggle—though exactly how it zoomed varied widely. In Yosemite, the green button is now a full-screen toggle: individual windows zoom to the width of the screen when pressed, while the main window of an app enters full-screen mode. Many of us will miss the green button’s zoom control, but given Apple’s current emphasis on full-screen mode, this change makes a lot of sense and reduces clutter in the toolbar.

Are full-screen apps dead? I don’t see the little double-arrow icon in the top right of windows.

Full-screen mode is alive and well. But as we just mentioned, Apple has done away with that specialized double-arrow button and instead changed the functionality of the green ‘stoplight’ button. The Full Screen keyboard shortcut (Command-Control-F) still exists and works within supported apps (Safari, Mail, and Calendar, for example). When you hold down the option key, the green button will turn back into its more familiar function of expanding the dimensions of your window.

What’s this new Dark mode they mentioned in the keynote? How does it look?

It appears to darken the menu bar and associated menus, with light text on a dark background. Apps and menu bar options may need to be modified to really make it consistent across the entire system. We'll see how it shakes out this fall.

While Yosemite does pick up some visual effects from iOS 7, it does so in a way that feels very much like an evolution of OS X.

How much does Yosemite resemble iOS? Does it still feel like prior versions of OS X?

While Yosemite does, as we mentioned above, pick up some visual effects—the translucency, brighter colors, flatter icons, and typography—from iOS 7, it does so in a way that feels very much like an evolution of OS X, rather than simply aping iOS. There are some options in programs such as Safari (the Favorites bar, for instance) that are hidden by default, but they can be easily accessed by power users. And as we noted earlier, if you really dislike translucency, you will be able to turn it off.

System Services

What’s changed in Spotlight?

Apple has enabled Spotlight to tap into more information sources and expanded what you’ll see in results lists. In addition to the files, apps, contacts, Messages, and other data Spotlight could already find, those sources now include Wikipedia; Bing; Maps; news; movie listings; and the iTunes, Mac App, and iBooks Stores. The Spotlight key command remains Command-Spacebar; if you conduct a normal Finder search by pressing Command-F, online sources won’t be searched, just as they weren’t in previous versions of the Mac OS.

Spotlight is also now more interactive. Not only will you be able to read a document within a Spotlight preview, but you’ll be able to do things like send an email message, make a phone call, or get directions right from the search interface. For much more about Spotlight, see Hands on with OS X Yosemite: Spotlight.

Will you be able to have more than one instance of Spotlight search?

Nope, it’s just the one search bar. You may, however, see certain Spotlight search results when typing in a Safari window.

What are the chances I’ll replace my third-party launcher with Spotlight?

We’ve been asking this question since Spotlight was introduced, and the answer seems to be the same: Spotlight improvements should make regular users happy; it’s even better for quick local queries and for Siri-esque questions about movie showtimes. But more advanced users who rely on third-party launchers to do all sorts of productivity-boosting things will probably want to stick with those tools.

What’s changed in Notification Center?

Third-party widgets (technically they're called Today Extensions) are the big news in Notification Center. They allow developers to create little code snippets that display things like the current weather, sports scores, bidding in online auctions, and more. In addition, Notification Center takes a page from iOS and brings over the Today view, which provides a summary of your day’s events, reminders, and birthdays, along with calendar events for tomorrow. For much more on this, read Hands on with OS X Yosemite: Notification Center.

So, with the introduction of extensions and widgets, has Dashboard finally been killed off?

Surprisingly, no! Dashboard remai

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