How to browse the web with iPhone: Part 1

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If you have worked with Safari previously on PC, or Mac then you will discover the iPhones version from Apple’s web browser strange and familiar, but it can not do everything as the desktop can do, such as it doesn’t presently have flash support. Safari on your iPhone allows you to view almost any site on web, or fill web forms and do searches. To see where any link is going to take you before it actually goes there simply hold down your fingertip on the link rather than clicking on it. When you do this the information balloon will display your underlying URL.

Click on Safari icon at the home screen, here a tiny version of Apple’s web browser will appear. On top of Safari Window you will find the address bar that has two icons on each side, at the left you have a plus sign [+] this is for adding the present page to the list of your bookmarks, at your right is a circular arrow, this is to reload the present page. Below is the toolbar with forward and back arrows, also two icons, one is to open multiple pages (this is a stack of pages) and one is for bookmarks (this is the book icon) to visit any web page, click within the address bar on the top of the Window. From below the iPhones screen the keyboard slides up, as you start to type a URL, Safari will display the list of the sites that are on your bookmarks or in the history which match; click on any one item in that list to have that page opened. Otherwise, you may type the whole URL then click on GO. When entering URLs, your Safari keyboard offers helpful keys for inserting backlash (/), .com suffix and period (.). When entering text at the web page or the search engine, the keyboard switches back to standard layout. When the page starts to load this circular arrow turns to an X. Click the X if you want to have the loading process stopped- handy when you accidentally choose the incorrect site or if the site is taking to long to load.

While scrolling to the bottom of the page, your address bar disappears from the screen. If you need to enter another web address, just click on status bar on the screen that would bring back your address bar. You able to edit your URL that’s already at its address field just click it, or quickly have the address field cleared by clicking the X button, that’s on the right of your address bar, and if you prefer searching the web, then click within your search field which appears at the bottom of address bar. First type a search query there after click on Google key, by default your iPhone uses Google to make web searches, however you are able to change the default to Yahoo. To change this just click on your Settings button which is on home screen, then select Safari then search engine, next click on Yahoo.

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