How to Turn off Notifications in OS X
What are Notifications?
Notifications are the little text bubbles and alerts that appear in the upper right part of your Mac OS X screen. They can be calendar alerts, email alerts, Drop Box alerts, etc.
Wow, they're annoying. How do I turn them off?
In Mac OS 10.9 there is a notification setting in Apple-> System Preferences.
Select on Notifications and adjust the individual notifications as desired (eg. email, etc). If you wish to turn them off completely select none.
System Preferences Screen:
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Base Notifications Window:
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Setting Mail Notifications to None:
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