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Some general tips for OS X (subjective of course)

- Spaces are akin to Workspaces (Three finger left/right swipe) and are great for running VM's fullscreen.

- Use gestures (Two finger/Three finger Left/Right/Up/Down swipe or grab/spread)

- Spotlight (Command-Space) is handy

- Give Safari a fair try but you mightn't like it (I switched from Chrome last year and am loving it)

- I never use Launchpad (Grab gesture)

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Alfred is even better than Spotlight alone, I have it mapped to option-A and I never launch apps any other way.

Thanks dysfunction, good tip. I haven't looked at Alfred in a long time. Out of interest, for you, what differentiates Alfred from Spotlight in Yosemite? Having a quick look, Alfred having 1Password is excellent. Spotlight though is great for an instant Calculator and Currency conversion. Does Alfred support these OOTB? It looks pretty flexible, could I write something to integrate these?

Do you have the powerpack? Is it useful?

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