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• Block Pop-ups. In general, you want this turned on. You really don’t
want pop-up ad windows ruining your surfing session. Now and again,
though, pop-up windows are actually useful. When you’re buying concert
tickets, for example, a pop-up window might show the location of
the seats. In that situation, you can turn this option off.
• Accept Cookies. As described on page 142, these options let you limit
how many cookies (Web preference files) are deposited on your iPhone.
• Clear History. Like any Web browser, Safari keeps a list of Web sites
you’ve visited recently to make it easier for you to revisit them: the
History list. And like any browser, Safari therefore exposes your tracks to
any suspicious spouse or crackpot colleague who feels like investigating
what you’ve been up to. If you’re nervous about that prospect, tap Clear
History to erase your tracks.
• Clear Cookies, similarly, deletes all the cookies that Web sites have
deposited on your “hard drive.”
• Clear Cache. See page 318.
• Developer. This item lets you turn the Debug Console, which is an information
strip at the top of the Safari screen. It’s intended to display errors,
warnings, tips, and logs for HTML, JavaScript, and CSS—solely for the
benefit of people who are designing and debugging Web pages or Web
apps for the iPhone.
iPod
On this panel, you can adjust four famous iPod playback features:
• Sound Check is a familiar iPod feature that attempts to create a standard
baseline volume level for the different songs in your library, so you don’t
crank up the volume to hear one song, and then get your eardrums
turned to liquid by the next due to differences in CD mastering. Here’s
the on/off switch.
• Audiobook Speed. If you’ve bought audio books from Audible.com, you
can take advantage of this feature to make the reader speed up a little or
slow down a little—without sounding like either a chipmunk or James
Earl Jones. (Your options are Slower, Normal, and Faster.)
EQ. • EQ is equalization—the art of fiddling with specific frequencies in
your music to bring out highs, lows, midrange, or whatever, to suit cer-
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