Master Your Files With Finder & Spotlight

In this section of 9 lessons, we'll be going over the essentials to navigating and optimizing your OS X file system. Organization philosophies, backup best practices, ninja plugins, epic shortcuts, and a lot more await you.

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Yellow Belt Lessons (9 Total)

Yosemite Spotlight Basics

Yosemite has brought us a brand new design for Spotlight and made it completely more awesome. Here are the basics.

New Yosemite Spotlight Shuriken

New Spotlight features for enhancing your access to instant information.

Advanced Spotlight Plugins

Supercharge your Spotlight with this 3rd party app that allows you to install hundreds of unique plugins.

Desktop Centric Philosophy

The Desktop is the most powerful Folder and tool on your Mac. All of your future Ninja-OSX experience will revolve around the Desktop and th...

How I Use Dropbox To Secure My Life

Whether you use DropBox or not, you definitely need to consider how your keep your data backed up. Here's how the Dojo does it.

iCloud Storage Tour

Apple's new iCloud Storage is a dropbox clone with some interesting pricing plans starting at $0.99. Let's check it out.

Finder Settings Enhancements

With just a few tweaks, let's make Finder more awesome than it already is.

Finder Shortcuts

The Finder keyboard commands you need to know in order to start your journey towards becoming a Mac Expert.

Finder Navigation & Tabs

Start zooming around Finder with Tabs and these quick-like shortcuts.