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The MacBook Air Pinch Gesture Feature

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Summary: Apple introduced the pinch gesture with the iPhone and it is now a new feature of the MacBook Air laptop. Learn how to use this great new feature in this free video.

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"BRANDON KARON: The MacBook Air's oversized touch pad is great for the pinch gesture, which is a multi-touch gesture. Apple developed the multi-touch with the iPhone and they introduced it with the MacBook Air and the pinch gesture is great. You can use it to control, let's say we see over here over here in the corner of the icons. I can just take two fingers like this, my thumb and my index finger and pinch in or out. If you pinch out it increases the size, you pinch in and it lowers the size, it's great. Now, let me open a picture, I got picture of my--my car here for instance. It opens up in preview, I can hover over it and then I can pinch to zoom in and I can pinch to zoom out, which is great I can zoom far out if I want. I can pinch to zoom all the way in and this works equally as well in Safari to increase the size of the text. Let's say I'll bring up--I'll start page up for instance, if our internet was a little faster it would be better, but here for instance, see the text is kinda small, I can use my fingers to pinch and I can increase the size of the text which is another great feature of the touchpad and the pinch--that's the pinch gesture."

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