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- [Don] Hi, this is Don McAllister,
and welcome to another ScreenCastsOnline weekly tip video.
Mobile Safari is one of the apps you'll find yourself
constantly using whilst on the iPad or iPhone.
So, in this tip video, I'm going to take a look
at some tips for using it effectively.
We'll start with search,
different ways to search using Mobile Safari.
You can do it from within the application.
I tend to go into the Search panel by swiping down
on the home screen and typing in my search term.
Now, that will bring up a number of different suggestions,
including suggested websites, but down at the bottom
of this list, you get an option to search the web.
If you tap Search the web, it will open Mobile Safari
and paste the search term into your browser.
Say you're in a different application.
Let's say I'm in Notes,
and let's say I want to do a search here,
say, for this particular artist.
I can select the artist.
Now, I could do a lookup.
In fact, let's do that.
If I do a lookup, it will give me some local information,
access to Wikipedia, suggested websites,
and also a web search here as well.
But let's just say Done to that.
So that would invoke Safari web search,
but if I tap and say Copy
and then go across to Mobile Safari,
then in the URL bar, if I tap and hold,
I'll need to select all to overtype tiger,
then say Paste and Search.
We'll paste in that search term,
and it will actually search as well.
Of course, Mobile Safari does support multiple tabs,
so to create a new tab, hit the plus button,
and then we can enter a new search term of website name.
Let's just go ahead and search for our tiger again.
Let's perhaps add a third tab.
So now we have three tabs.
I can pick up one tab, and I can rearrange it,
or I can move the third one to the second position.
I can close tabs by tapping on the X.
I can also go into a split screen view as well.
So if I want to see both these websites side by side.
if I select the tab and drag down
and then drag it across to the right-hand side and let go,
we now have two instances of Safari running side by side.
Now, this shouldn't be confused with the split view
or slideover view on iOS.
This is Safari itself giving us two
completely independent presentations of these two websites.
You can see at the bottom, we've got two identical menu bars
or toolbars down at the bottom,
two separate URL bars at the top that we can work with.
So if I wanted to, I could tap into the left-hand pane,
do a different Google search on here.
I'll cancel that for now.
I can also work independently
on the right-hand pane as well,
but we'll cancel that.
Now, to go back to the single pane view,
I could tap the X in the tab bar
to close one of the windows down,
or I can just grab the tab,
move it across to the left-hand side
and just drop it in the left-hand panel,
and we're back to a single pane view.
We've already taken a look at using the Plus button
in the toolbar to create new tabs,
but you can also use that Plus button
to open recently closed tabs.
So if I hit the Plus and hold it,
you'll see we get a new option here
for recently closed tabs.
If I tap into Tivoli,
it gives us the Tivoli search that we did before.
Now, some websites are clever enough to determine
whether or not you're using a mobile device or a desktop.
Now, obviously, I'm using the iPad, and Google Search
has identified that, and it's presenting the information
to me in a mobile format,
which is fine.
In fact, the mobile format is quite nice.
I quite like this format,
but you may want to see the desktop presentation.
You can force Mobile Safari to ask the website
to deliver the desktop presentation
by tapping the Refresh button in the URL bar and holding,
and you get this option now to request the desktop site.
If I tap on that,
you'll see a standard Google search result page.
So, if you want that,
you can force the website to deliver it to you
by tapping and holding on the Refresh button.