{"id":29227,"date":"2015-03-17T11:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T16:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=29227"},"modified":"2015-03-17T14:59:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T19:59:40","slug":"quick-tip-the-five-finger-pinch-on-your-trackpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/29227-quick-tip-the-five-finger-pinch-on-your-trackpad\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Tip: The Five-Finger Pinch on Your Trackpad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Launchpad<\/a><\/p>\n

Today I have a quick tip for those of you who either use a MacBook<\/a> or an Apple Magic Trackpad<\/a> with a desktop machine.<\/p>\n

I’m one of those people who is sadly pre-programmed to do things a certain way. In the case of my Mac apps, up until recently that meant that when I needed to launch an app that wasn’t already in my Dock, I’d go over to the Applications folder I had smartly placed on the right side of the Dock, click it, and then scroll the resulting window up and down until I found the app I was looking for. Little did I know that a simple gesture would make it much easier for me to find and launch apps.<\/p>\n

The gesture in question is a five-finger pinch<\/em>. In other words, you place all five fingers on your trackpad and move them towards each other in a pinching motion. Doing that displays Launchpad, a full-screen listing of all of your app icons above an out-of-focus image of \u00a0your desktop (see image at the top of this post). In the case of my iMac, I have five screens of apps available, but I can scroll through them with a two-finger swipe left or right. Once I’ve found the app I’m looking for, it’s launched with a click. Don’t want to launch any of the apps? Just do a five-finger reverse pinch and your Mac screen reappears.<\/p>\n

Of course, if you don’t have a trackpad or are adverse to multi-finger gestures, you can always just launch Launchpad by clicking its icon (which looks strikingly similar to the Rocket Yard logo!) in the left side of the Dock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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