Chapter 5. Safari

Got some free time? Great! Pick up your old cell phone, and look for the application it uses to browse the Web. No, really—if the phone was made in the past couple of years, it probably has such an application. Did you find it? Try over there. Ah, there you go.

What? Oh, that’s right—you have to be signed up for a data plan to use it. Don’t bother, really. By the time you do, and finally figure out how to get onto the Web, you’ll likely see a very skimpy version of that very Web. That’s the way phones—even smart ones—have done things in the past.

With the iPhone, that’s no longer the case. Your phone has a real live Web browser, very much like the one on your computer. In this chapter, I show you how to use it to best advantage. ...

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