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A List of OS X Yosemite Apps With Notification Center Widgets, Share Support, and More
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Surprised nobody has mentioned iStat Mini. I had decided not to upgrade to the newest iStat Menu for Yosemite, but this little widget has enough information for me. It's pretty bare bones. I wish I could switch from % to actual used, but it's only $2. Check it out:
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Disagree. Found myself never using Dashboard but I'm rather enjoying Notification Center. Primarily because it doesn't move me out of whatever app Im using.
I wish the message board would let me give this a +1000 ... though we seem to be the only 2 people left who like Dashboard.
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You can change this back to the pre-Lion way of doing things by going into Mission Control prefs and have the Dashboard show as an overlay (Apple have changed this .. it used to be a checkbox as to whether or not you wanted the Dashboard to show as a space or not).
I think they're both good.
Two finger swipe on the mouse gets me to dashboard, where my main apps are Currency Converter and World Clock, which I probably use several times a day. Once you get used to switching desktops with 2-finger swipe it really couldn't be easier. Currency Converter is incredibly useful.
Notifications are very good for incoming mail, texts, and calls because they pop up and messages ding (nice sound now!). Calculator will also be useful there. As are Calendar/Dropbox notifications. In the past I found Facebook/Transmit/Textwrangler/iTunes notifications fairly pointless generally - but I keep them because on occasion it's useful to get notified.
The new Stocks widget is OK, but they should make it easier to add multiple tickers, and maybe have some charts or something. Edit: Oh I've just noticed they're synced with my phone! That's very cool - as I use the phone stocks app all the time. They should definitely add charts and news. Plus there's a big grey space at the top - bug?
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I always turn off dashboard, i find it messy and annoying. but love the idea of widgets in notification centre. Airmail 2 for example lets me see my inbox with a simple left swipe on the trackpad. very simple and easy.
Not sure if I'm allowed to advertise here, but Lyrical is also a Notification Center widget that lets you control iTunes, and shows you song information/lyrics. I just uploaded v1.0.1 with some UI fixes and v1.1 will have Last.fm support, and a much better icon. The current one is a bit ugly I know, I sort of rushed it when Apple announced I can submit my app.
Check out the Link to it in my sig.
Oh and also, it's pretty helpful to set a keyboard shortcut for the Notification Center, (I like Option + Space, similar to Command+Space for Spotlight) if you don't want to move your hands away from the keyboard. It's quicker than moving your hand to perform the gesture, imo.
Great little app! Just a few requests from a first time user:
• Is it possible to have it as an invisible app, so it doesn't show in the Menubar?
• Can you make it so you can scrub the track you're listening to when you click the play bar?
• Can you add the option to select the AirPlay device in the widget?
• If there are no lyrics, just don't show anything
• Clicking the Album Art takes you to iTunes
Thanks!
Can't email a web link from Safari
When I select the 'share" button to email a weblink it says "No Service", any suggestions?
Also, does any one have a summery of what does and doesn't work on different mac models with Yosemite?
Yosemite, Macbook Pro, mid 2010
When I select the 'share" button to email a weblink it says "No Service", any suggestions?
Also, does any one have a summery of what does and doesn't work on different mac models with Yosemite?
Yosemite, Macbook Pro, mid 2010
to you.
to me -- i dont use dashboard anymore. i have a very large, very wide monitor, so swiping in some space on the edge going vertical makes sense. i get value out of it.
we're not all you. see how that works?
You don't HAVE to leave your existing app to use Dashboard.
Go to Settings/Mission Control, find the Dashboard Popup menu (about halfway down the window) and choose As Overlay (rather than the default of As Space).
This will give you a Dashboard which
- appears on top of your existing apps (it zooms in and zooms out rather than sliding/pushing)
- cannot be accessed via the 3-fingers swipe on a trackpad (because it's no longer a space) but
- CAN be accessed via F12
I don't know if this is the right sort of setting for you, but I find it helpful.
I agree with the original complainer that I tend to have so much stuff displayed in Dashboard that I don't want it all (can't fit it) in a small sidebar, and I don't look at it often, but I do want it all to be there when I do access it.
Make that 3 people who like Dashboard. I have world clocks, calculator, and weather in my notification centre, but it's set to the notification side and not the today side. I got all these features and more in my dashboard, and I use that a lot more than I use notification centre.
Dock Question Mark Icon??
Just upgraded to Yosemite yesterday and there is a large question mark icon in the dock and when I point at it it is identified as "ControlCenter" ... but nothing happens when I click on it? What is it supposed to do... I don't find a "ControlCenter" app in the applications and no mention of it on any of the online sources I've checked. Any reason to NOT delete it?
Just upgraded to Yosemite yesterday and there is a large question mark icon in the dock and when I point at it it is identified as "ControlCenter" ... but nothing happens when I click on it? What is it supposed to do... I don't find a "ControlCenter" app in the applications and no mention of it on any of the online sources I've checked. Any reason to NOT delete it?
Big Problem with Sound Recording
All of my programs, including Quicktime, that have video/sound recording capabilities have had the sound disabled with no way to fix. Videos can record, but sound is not recognized. The sound works everywhere except when recording through the computer system. Apple, how did this happen when "Quicktime" is part of your operating system?
All of my programs, including Quicktime, that have video/sound recording capabilities have had the sound disabled with no way to fix. Videos can record, but sound is not recognized. The sound works everywhere except when recording through the computer system. Apple, how did this happen when "Quicktime" is part of your operating system?
I figured out my answer to the "Dock Question Mark"
I have a wireless Brother printer-scanner, and the question mark icon is located where I previously had a Brother printer-scanner app icon called "ControlCenter". That app was rendered useless by Yosemite and that disfunction was represented by the question mark in the dock. Brother supposedly is working on a new app to be issued "later in October"... I hope!! But at least I can still print! There's always something that gets left behind when you make a major system upgrade... so far... everything else I've tried seems to be functional!
I have a wireless Brother printer-scanner, and the question mark icon is located where I previously had a Brother printer-scanner app icon called "ControlCenter". That app was rendered useless by Yosemite and that disfunction was represented by the question mark in the dock. Brother supposedly is working on a new app to be issued "later in October"... I hope!! But at least I can still print! There's always something that gets left behind when you make a major system upgrade... so far... everything else I've tried seems to be functional!
Exactly all of this. The only thing I do different is have mine set to F19 on my Extended Keyboard so it's an easy tap of the upper-right key. From that one tap, I gain one-glance access to weather, calendar, stocks, multiple timezone clocks, iStat Pro, the Dictionary widget for quick word look-ups, and the APOD widget which gives me a moment of respite from work with a daily celestial wonder.
Viewing all of that from the confines of the Notification Center is not even possible, and if it was somehow crammed into that space, it would certainly not be a comfortable experience. Even on an individual basis, the information in NC extensions feels cramped. For instance, the World Clock extension presents skeuomorphic clocks with faces about 100x100 pixels in size and light-grey, fuzzy city label text which blends into the background. Not very readable at a quick glance. In contrast, the Dashboard skeuomorphic clocks are about 200x200 pixels in size, have readable labels, and also have labels which denote AM or PM.
As an aside, while it's good that Apple still includes the Dictionary app in Yosemite, it's somewhat telling that they don't offer a Dictionary extension for NC. Their focus on education has been waning. For instance, the Grapher application wasn't even updated for Yosemite. (By contrast, the NeXT included not only the Oxford Dictionary, but also Oxford's Book of Quotations, and the complete works of Shakespeare)
There are all great suggestions! Thanks, I'll work on adding them in
Edit: You can freely quit the menu bar icon without making the widget disappear.
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There are all great suggestions! Thanks, I'll work on adding them in
Edit: You can freely quit the menu bar icon without making the widget disappear.
Thanks
