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Finger Tips: Safari Scroll, Quick-typing a Period, Smooth Caps
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2007-07-03 19:33:14
Here are three iPhone "finger tips" that might just make life easier for everyone out there sporting the new Lord of the Smartphones.
Tip One:
A MacRumors forum user points out a technique of which you may be unaware for quickly getting back up to the Safari address field at the top of any given webpage.- You're at the bottom (or anywhere) of a webpage on your iPhone and want to go to the URL field.
- Tap the top bar with the time and battery life indicator.
- Boom! You're at the URL entry field!
Tip Two:
Another tip comes from David Pogue, who recently reviewed the iPhone, and has modestly been dubbed "Pogues Awesome iPhone Period-Typing Shortcut." This tip is great and was news to us here at iPod Hacks. It's to do with adding punctuation to your keyboarding. The drill you've probably been using to type a period, quote, exclamation point, etc. is to tap the ".?123" key to switch to the punctuation keyboard, tap the desired mark, then tap the "ABC" key to jump back to the alpha keyboard and resume typing. It breaks the flow.
Here's how to do it all in one, fluid motion.- Touch the ".?123" key, but don’t lift your finger as the punctuation layout appears
- Slide your finger a half inch onto the period or comma key, and release.
Incredibly, the ABC layout returns automatically. You've typed a period or a comma with one finger touch instead of three. In fact, you can type ANY of the punctuation symbols the same way.
Tip Three:
And this tip we discovered in playing with Pogue's above technique while writing this post! I had complained to Arn of MacRumors earlier today of the somewhat cumbersome drill for typing a capital letter, especially if you're single-fingering. Tapping the shift key and then tapping the target letter is less of an ordeal than the punctuation situation, but it does slow you down somewhat. It can be done more smoothly, it turns out.
Just touch the shift key and then slide your finger across the screen to the target letter. Your moving finger will trigger the confirmation pop-ups for the letters you're swiping over, and the letter under your finger when you lift off the screen will register (or be typed), in caps. Smooth caps!
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