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if you upgrade it to Mac os10 lion you'll notice that a lot of things have changed some snow leopard Mission Control and launch pad are new and they both use a bunch of new gestures I'm Sharon Vaknin and today I'll show you how to navigate these new features and get to know the new trackpad to get started you can open Mission Control by going to your desktop and swiping up with three fingers this does two things it scatters all your open windows so that you can easily select one and you'll see your dashboard desktop full screen apps and desktop spaces across the top mouse over the top right corner and you'll see a plus sign clicking this adds a new desktop space which you can use as an extra desktop so for example you can have a desktop for your documents a desktop for your games and a desktop for your web browsing you can switch between these desktops and full screen apps by going back to Mission Control or by swiping right and left with three fingers from any screen if you want to get rid of a desktop just reopen Mission Control hover over the space you want to close and click the X there are a few tweaks for Mission Control in your settings go to System Preferences than Mission Control one setting you might want to change is automatically rearranged spaces based on most recent use if you uncheck it the desktops and full screen apps will be arranged in the order they were opened Launchpad is another new feature that gives you a tiled view of all your apps for easy launching pull in with three fingers and your thumb to open it up if you have an iDevice the setup will look really familiar to open an app you only have to click once you can also organize your apps into folders to create one just click and drag one app over another your map will automatically choose a name for the folder but you can change it by clicking on it and entering your own from here you can add more apps by dragging them in and remove apps by opening the folder and dragging the icons out to exit launchpad push three fingers and your thumb you can do the same gesture whenever you want to get a clean view of your desktop just pull back in to bring you windows back Launchpad and Mission Control will take some getting used to but once you've mastered the gestures you might find that they actually make your computer a lot easier to navigate there are about a dozen more new gestures in lion that you can learn by going to system preferences then trackpad just hover over one of the gestures and you'll get a handy video of how it works some of the gestures like Mission Control can be changed and all of the gestures can be disabled if you don't feel comfortable pinching and pulling at your computer just yet if you have any questions feel free to ask them on my facebook page and visit how to cnet.com for more lion tips and tricks for cnet I'm Sharon Vaknin and i'll see you on the interwebs