Most Macs have multi-touch capabilities these days, allowing for gestures to perform common tasks that would otherwise require keyboard shortcuts or additional clicking about. To use the gestures, you’ll obviously need a Mac with multitouch capabilities, that means either a newish laptop with a trackpad, Magic Trackpad, or Magic Mouse. Some gestures require OS X Lion or later to use, and some gestures may have to be enabled manually in the System Preferences > Trackpad control panel. Without further ado, here’s a bunch of helpful gestures for Mac OS X and commonly used Mac apps:
Finder, Mission Control, and Desktop
- Push Windows Aside to Show Desktop – Four Finger Spread
- Activate Mission Control – Four Finger Swipe up
- Switch Desktops & Full Screen Apps – Three finger swipe left or right
- Mission Control All Windows for Current Application – Four Finger swipe down
- Zoom Into Window in Mission Control – Two finger swipe up over window
- Open Launchpad – Four finger pinch
- Drag Windows – Three finger hold and drag over window bar
- Tap to Click – Tap with a single finger
- Right-Click – Two finger click
- Scroll – Two finger swipe in direction to scroll
Safari, Chrome, Firefox
- Zoom In & Increase Font Size – Spread
- Zoom Out & Decrease Font Size – Pinch
- Go Back – Two Finger swipe right
- Go Forward – Two Finger swipe left
- Look Up Word in Dictionary – Three fingered double tap over word (Safari only)
- Smart Zoom – Two finger double tap (Safari only)
Quick Look & QuickTime Player
- Enter Full Screen – Spread
- Exit Full Screen – Pinch
- Scrub Video – Two finger swipe right or left (QuickTime only)
Preview
- Rotate Image – Two finger rotate gesture
- Zoom Into Image – Spread
- Zoom Out Image – Pinch
Misc
- Flip Calendar Pages – Two finger swipe left or right (iCal)
- Refresh Tweet Stream – Two finger pull down (Twitter)
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(Via OS X Daily.)
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