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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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how you can get the most out of Mission
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Control in os10 Lion now Mission Control
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unifies spaces as well as expose into
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one kind of conglomerate feature if you
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want to call it and there's a lot of new
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stuff with it and with that new stuff
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there's also a lot of changes so I'm
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going to show you how you can get the
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most out of those changes and if you're
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missing some things or if you weren't
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really happy with the changes in Mission
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Control I'm going to show you how you
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can tweak it so that maybe you'll like
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it more so first of all if you're not
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familiar there's a couple different ways
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to access it um if it's in your dock you
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could obviously click on it there or in
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applications folder um and as you might
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know on the trackpads that Apple has if
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you swipe with three fingers you can get
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to machion control but what what you
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might not know is that if you have a
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Magic Mouse you can also easily access
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Mission Control uh by double tapping on
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the surface with two
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fingers just like so and you can see I'm
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in mission control and this is a really
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handy way to get to it rather than going
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into a folder or clicking on something
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it's just a quick gesture now there's
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also a lot of different settings with
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mission control so if you go into system
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preferences and Mission Control you can
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do a lot of different things and you may
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find it to your benefit to change a
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couple of these things around so by
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default when you go to dashboard now in
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line it looks just like this and it's
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its own separate space but if you like
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the way it wasn't snow leopard you can
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untick this box that says show dashboard
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as a space And now when you access
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dashboard it'll come down just like it
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used to so you can do that as well and
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when you go into Mission
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Control you won't see dashboard as a
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space anymore and you can also rearrange
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spaces based on most recent use uh so
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this can be handy if you recently using
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something your spaces can automatically
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be arranged so you can get back to what
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you working on quicker and then you can
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also have an option where you can switch
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to a space with open windows for an
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application when you switch to
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it and then of course you can customize
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your keyboard shortcuts what I really
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like is hot corners and you can see I
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have two hot Corners set up here and you
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can set up different hot corners for
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every corner of your screen and right
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now for me the bottom right hand corner
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is Mission Control so basically what
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that means is when I have that set up
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when I drag my mouse into the bottom
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right corner Mission Control will pop
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open now if you're looking around in the
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mission control preferences trying to
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add spaces to Mission Control like you
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used to be able to do in spaces it's
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different and you actually do it right
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Within mission control so you can see
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all my spaces and my dashboard here now
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if I bring my mouse over to the right
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you can see the little plus button pop
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up and if I click that it'll add a new
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space so that's pretty neat and I can
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add up to 16 desktop spaces and if you
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have all these spaces open and you don't
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want them anymore you can hover your
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mouse over them and a little XO up here
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and you can delete your spaces right
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from
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there now another thing that Apple
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changed around with mission control is
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the way that desktop wallpapers app app
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to spaces now I've heard about a lot of
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people who find this annoying um
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personally I don't really care but it's
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just a new thing they added where if you
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set your wallpaper for a certain space
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when you go back out your other desktops
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don't have that's that wallpaper applied
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to them now this isn't a bug or anything
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uh it's the way Apple intended it and
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it's to kind of move you from workflow
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to workflow like you have one thing open
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here and you have one thing open here
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and and each desktop is its own space so
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I can set of course maybe I want this
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tone to be gray you can see that each
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desktop has its own space now I prefer
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all of them to have the same space so I
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usually leave it the same uh but of
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course you could change it and you might
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prefer it that way now two other
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gestures I want to show you if you have
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a whole bunch of windows open here and
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they're all sitting open taking up space
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and you go to Mission Control you can
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see how they all look and it's a pretty
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normal thing and of course if you have
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multiple windows open the same thing
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like in Safari for example and you go
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back out to Mission Control you can see
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them all but let's say I don't want to
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have to go out to Mission Control to see
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all my windows like this and in snow
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leopard you had the option where when
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you hold down on the apps tile you could
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see all the open Windows now when you
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hold on an the app style you can click
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show all windows and it'll do the same
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same thing but if you want the easy
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access like snow leopard head there's a
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gesture you can do and for me on the
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Magic Mouse it is double tapping with
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two fingers just like I would access
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mission control but I do it one at my
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mous cursors hovering over the
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application icon so you use the same
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Mission Control gesture but for a
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specific application and you can see the
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windows just for that application and
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then of course for me on the magic most
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I can swipe with two fingers through all
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my spaces and see all my
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desktops and you can do the same on the
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trackpad but with a three finger gesture
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so those are some ways that you can
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maximize your use of Mission Control and
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if you thought there were some features
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missing or perhaps you didn't like it as
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much I hope this cleared up some things
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for you if you have any other Mission
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Control tips feel free to leave them in
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the comments and if there's anything
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that you want to know how to do either
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in Mac OS 10 or iOS send me an email and
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I'll try to do a video how to on it as
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soon as I can so I hope you found this
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video useful and thank you for
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watching
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