General tips

Do Not Disturb has a new setting to prevent notifications coming through if your Mac’s display has gone to sleep (on purpose or after a period of inactivity), which is great if you sleep in the same room as your MacBook. Speaking of accessibility, Apple has added a cool new feature to make OS X even better for the blind. Turn on the new video descriptions feature, and Yosemite’s VoiceOver will add a spoken voice to the video content on the screen, providing an even richer experience for the visually impaired. If you like to organise your apps in Launchpad, Apple has finally lifted the limit on how many can fit inside folders. They work in a similar way to those in iOS; once there are too many to display on one page, a series of white dots at the bottom of a folder indicates the number of pages’ worth of icons it contains. Swipe horizontally or click the dots to move between pages. (Remember, if you’re in a hurry, you can type part of an app’s name as soon as Launchpad opens to search for it, just as you could in Mavericks.)