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• To close a window, tap :. Flick over to the miniature window you want
to close, and then tap the ˛ button at its top-left corner.
You can’t close the very last window. Safari requires at least one window to be
open.
RSS: The Missing Manual
In the beginning, the Internet was an informational Garden of Eden. There
were no banner ads, pop-ups, flashy animations, or spam messages. Back
then, people thought the Internet was the greatest idea ever.
Those days, alas, are long gone. Web browsing now entails a constant battle
against intrusive advertising and annoying animations. And with the proliferation
of Web sites of every kind—from news sites to personal weblogs
(blogs)—just reading your favorite sites can become a full-time job.
Enter RSS, a technology that lets you subscribe to feeds—summary blurbs
provided by thousands of sources around the world, from Reuters to Apple to
your nerdy next-door neighbor. The result: You spare yourself the tediousness
of checking for updates manually, plus you get to read short summaries of
new articles without ads and blinking animations. And if you want to read a
full article, you just tap its headline.
RSS either stands for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. Each
abbreviation explains one aspect of RSS—either its summarizing talent or its
simplicity.
Safari, as it turns out, doubles as a handy RSS reader. Whenever you tap an “RSS
Feed” link on a Web page, or whenever you type the address of an RSS feed
into the address bar (it often begins with feed://), Safari automatically displays
a handy table-of-contents view that lists all of the news blurbs on that page.
Scan through the summaries. When you see an article that looks intriguing,
tap its headline. You go to the full Web page to read the full-blown article.
It’s worth bookmarking your favorite RSS feeds. One great one for tech fans is
feed://www.digg.com/rss/index.xml, a constantly updated list of the coolest and most
interesting tech and pop-culture stories of the day. Most news publications offer
news feeds, too. (Your humble author’s own daily New York Times blog has a feed
that’s http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/?feed=rss2.)
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