Learning to Share

When you happen upon a webpage you wish to visit later, there is a way to get a copy of the URL from the iPhone to other places.

We've noted before that the iPhone lacks a copy/paste buffer for sharing information between applications. In those places where this is most painfuly obvious, such as the Notepad, the designers make an email option available. The Safari browser has this option also but the location is not intuituve.

While you are in the browser looking at the webpage you like, tap the address bar as you would if you wanted to enter a new address. When the keypad appears along with it comes a "Share" button in the top left corner of the screen. Tap it to create an email message with the URL already entered in body of the message. This is especially useful when you are trying to work with one of those long-ish URL's like so...

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