The shelf has gone, which will be a great relief to many, and the Dock has now reverted back to its original format, a rectangle. For those of us who used to mark Finder files and folders with a specific colour to indicate action that needed to be taken, for example, the tagging system is an irritation more than an aid. Nothing has been done about those confusing tagsįolders are now a brighter blue, but Apple hasn't taken the opportunity to rethink its confusing implementation of tags, which is a great disappointment. It also displays the files you've opted to store there from apps like Pages, Numbers, and Text Edit. Your iCloud storage drive now shows up in the Finder and you can drag and drop files and folders to it just like any other location. Not a huge amount has changed here, but there is one key addition: iCloud Drive. iTunes, for example, now has a red icon instead of a blue one. Some of OS X's application icons have changed to resemble their iOS counterparts. It takes a bit of getting used to, and for some it will never be right, but we found ourselves warming to it over time. Perhaps the most controversial change in Yosemite's user interface, however, is the switch in font from Lucida Grande to Helvetica Neue – another alignment with iOS.

Want to get more out of OS X? Check out these OS X Yosemite Tips & Tricks from Mac|Life!.If you do hate it, you can 'reduce' it in the Accessibility pane of System Preferences. It's been tweaked so that the underlying image is blurred and less distracting than in Mavericks, but we suspect it will still be a love it or hate it feature. Where once it was limited to the Finder's menu bar, it now pops up in lots of places, including Finder menus and the sidebar of Finder windows. There's more translucency in Yosemite than its predecessor, Mavericks. The interface has seen some of the biggest changes

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