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there are so many ways to set up your new Mac but if you're just getting started here are five of the most essential settings first let's get something really important out of the way keeping track of your Mac if it ever falls out of your grasp or you leave it in the library under some drunken fatigue there is an easy setting that will let you find out exactly where you left it it's a good idea to enable find my Mac like Find My iPhone the free service lets you locate your missing Mac from any other device by default it's disabled so to turn it on head to System Preferences then iCloud and check the box next to find my Mac give it permission and you're good to go now if you ever need to find your computer just log into iCloud on another browser or use the app on another iOS device once you log in a map will show up pinpointing the last tracked location of your Mac okay with that safeguard in place let's enable a few small but important features that will make getting around your Mac a lot easier for starters enable tap to drag go to preferences then accessibility settings then head over to Mouse and trackpad then trackpad options and enable dragging you might also want to customize what shows up on your desktop for instance you can put your hard drive directly on your desktop for quick access to do this go to the finder menu and choose preferences then to the general tab and use these checkboxes to pick the items that will appear on your desktop and one more setting you'll be much more relaxed enabling battery percentage there is no use trying to figure out how much battery is left based on this symbol so instead click the battery symbol and head down to show percentage lect it and from now on you'll see exactly how much power you have love now if you want to be really productive on your Mac get to know the gestures Apple calls the trackpad the Magic Trackpad for a reason it can do a lot more than just Mouse around so for instance you can use two fingers up or down to scroll on any page to zoom double tap with two fingers or use the familiar pinch to zoom to navigate swipe left or right with two fingers and to view all open apps swipe down with three fingers and pinch out with your thumb and three fingers to reveal the desktop at any point finally if you have spaces or full screen apps open use three fingers to navigate between them now that you have those essential tips down you're one step closer to mastering your Mac you