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Today in iOS Podcast - The Unofficial iOS, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch News and iPhone Apps Podcast

tii_0092_bonus.mp3

Today in iOS Podcast - The Unofficial iOS, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch News and iPhone Apps Podcast

Rob @ podCast411

Technology, News, Tech News

4.4616 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2010

⏱️ 2 minutes

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0:00.0

Today in iPhone item number 92 bonus content.

0:04.0

Opening Safari with a blank page tip.

0:07.0

Welcome to today and I...

0:15.0

Okay, let's go ahead and get into today's tip, which was phoned in from Steven.

0:20.0

Hello, this is in from Stephen.

0:27.4

Hello, this is Stephen from Texas. I have a tip I would like to pass on to fellow iPhone users that I haven't heard mentioned. A lot of times in Safari, I like it the way it brings up

0:34.2

the last few pages you've been on. I've got multiple pages open in different screens.

0:40.5

It brings all those up.

0:41.8

But there are times that I want to open up Safari to a blank page.

0:46.3

I don't want to have to start loading a page automatically when I start Safari.

0:52.6

So this is an idea that I came up with.

0:54.8

Go into Safari, type in about, colon blank for the URL.

1:02.6

Then when you get that base comes up, hit the plus sign and then tell it to add home page

1:10.5

page, or home icon. And then it to add home page, home icon.

1:11.6

And then it will give you the name,

1:15.6

I change it to blank, the icon is totally white,

1:19.6

and then I save it, and I put that icon on my home page.

1:23.6

Now whenever I want to start Safari, we got a blank page, I just click the blank icon.

1:30.3

And it works just fine. I hope that helps other users. Have a good day. Bye.

1:36.3

Okay, that was a tip for today's episode. If you like these tips, make sure you Twitter about the app, the TII iPhone app.

1:45.0

If you want to find out about more tips, you can go to the main episode list and go under the extra content.

1:52.4

Check the PDF there.

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