Yosemite’s Epic Notification Center

Start getting the information you want at a glance with Yosemite's new Notifications Center. Learn about widgets, get new ones, and start being more awesome!

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Training Information

Action Tips: Open your Notification Center and tweak the widgets to your fancy. Move them around, check them out, and browse the app store too!

You can find the two apps I talked about in the lesson here:

Monity ($2.99) - An advanced System Monitoring Widget for the Notification Center.

MonthlyCal ($.99) - A colorful monthly calendar widget for the Notification Center.

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