Self Service
get the most from Yosemite
There are still plenty of little tricks in Yosemite that most people haven’t yet discovered. How many of these did you know about already? When a Spotlight search includes folders in the results, you can highlight one of the folders with the cursor keys and then press † to jump to the list of files and folders inside it. Hit ß+† to jump back to the main list of search results. You can create repeating reminders in Calendar with just about any interval – the third Saturday of the month, say, or ‘every four years on the last weekend day of March and October’. Click ‘repeat’ on a new event and choose Custom. iTunes shows an album art as a thumbnail at the top of its window, next to the currently playing track. If you click this you can instantly switch to the MiniPlayer view. Holding down å when you click will leave the main iTunes window open as well. Holding down ç instead will give you a version of the MiniPlayer with larger album art. Yosemite now defaults to Windowsstyle file sharing in the Go > Connect to Server dialog within Finder. This means you no longer need to prefix a device’s network name or IP address with smb://. When you change your login password in Yosemite (in System Preferences > Users & Groups) you now have the option of using your iCloud password. One less password to remember!