Mac Kung Fu, 2nd Edition

Tip 63

Master Notification Center

In a default installation of OS X, Notification Center can be activated in two ways, as follows:

• Swiping from right to left with two fingers on a trackpad, if your computer has one; start the swipe gesture from the very right edge of the trackpad. This can take some practice to get right!

• Clicking the Notification Center icon at the top right of the screen.

However, you can add two quicker and substantially more intuitive ways to activate Notification Center, as follows.

Using Hot Corners to Activate Notification Center

OS X lets you configure hot corners to activate certain desktop functions, which is to say you can push the mouse cursor into any of the four corners of the screen to activate things like Mission ...