Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone
Internationalize your iPhone .com key
Today Mac OS X hints offers an easily overlooked internationalization hint. You're probably well aware of the trick where you hold down an iPhone button on the keyboard to view accented variations on the letter being tapped. What you might not have know about was the regional domains. In settings, choose General > Keyboards and enable some of those international keyboards.
Next go to Safari and start to enter a new URL. Tap the globe to switch the active keyboard from US English to some other nationality. (French is shown here.) Finally, tap and hold the .com button. After a second, a regionalized version of .com appears just to the left of the default.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Yazdgerd said 3:35PM on 3-21-2008
Need .ir
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Steven said 3:50PM on 3-21-2008
I wish there was a .net one, without changing the language....for emails
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matthew said 3:56PM on 3-21-2008
I'd like a .edu too, since I work for a University and often go to .edu sites.
J. said 1:29PM on 3-22-2008
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Let your voice be heard!!
Piotr Malecki said 4:01PM on 3-21-2008
Apple should definitively add .net, .org and maybe .edu as standard ones that don't require using a different keyboard set.
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David said 4:13PM on 3-21-2008
Wow, that's really cool! I didn't know you could do that. And I agree, add .net and .org.
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DrWho said 4:17PM on 3-21-2008
Another vote for .net .org et al, seems like an oversight somehow.
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Atariboy said 4:38PM on 3-21-2008
Another great tip, tuaw is on form today :)
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The General said 5:05PM on 3-21-2008
I've said they needed .com, .net and .org exactly like this since 1.0.0. I wish they'd just do it ...
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Karl Bundy said 5:29PM on 3-21-2008
Shame that this tip does not change to .co.uk when you pick the UK keyboard, just good old .com
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Doomed Planet said 7:18PM on 3-21-2008
It works for my UK keyboard, keep holding it and .co.uk does appear.
Paul said 12:11PM on 3-22-2008
It does offer .co.uk, you just need to make sure you have the "English (UK)" keyboard selected in Settings->General->Keyboard->International Keyboards. Then when you have the keyboard up and ready to type something, hit the little globe icon to switch to the UK keyboard and then when you hold down the .com button for a few seconds you will get .co.uk as an option.
Victor said 6:18PM on 3-21-2008
Need .mx, too.
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oZone said 6:45PM on 3-21-2008
stfu mexican, lol. gtfo.
master.xtor said 3:56PM on 3-22-2008
I agree, we get the general .es (Spain)
XIV said 6:54PM on 3-21-2008
Another vote for a standard .net and .org.
A .qc.ca for Quebec in Canada would be great too
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Shervin said 7:33PM on 3-21-2008
.ir
.co.uk
:D
nice one
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KTswami said 7:41PM on 3-21-2008
Nice international domain tip, and good comments.
The v2.0 Update HAS to have email address auto-fill and the .NET, .ORG, .EDU buttons, because having the .COM button is keeping users very stupid.
Does anyone type in .COM on the desktop any more?? Or WWW...? Having a .COM button implies that typing WWW into your browser is still necessary. Only the geniuses at Microsoft, didn't allow IE to open a website without WWW or .COM and issue . That has contaminated billions of internet users before they discovered Opera, Safari, FF, etc...and they keep doing it.
When I was giving some iPhone tips to a couple friends, they were both typing in WWW in mSafari...! What a disaster.
Still, good tip. :))
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Allister said 11:27PM on 3-21-2008
Not typing .com in a browser is a *shortcut*. The DNS still has .com and so it should. Just because you choose to use a browser (Mobile Safari) that doesn't offer the same shortcuts as you are used to doesn't make it lame.
As for email address auto-complete - it's already there. It completes from your address book with *known* addresses. It just doesn't guess.
KTswami said 3:31PM on 3-22-2008
Apologies, Allister...thx for clarifying on the email address. I imprecisely meant to say "email address fill-in for registration fields", so typing in my own email address 25x to re-register to news sites and others on my iPhone was a headache. I think I saw a 1Password iPhone but it seems a little insecure to me.
On the .COM item, I don't know what you're saying about *shortcuts* and TLDs, so please help me. If we type into any modern browser like Opera the last 8-10 years, or Safari/FF more recently, "tuaw" (without quotes), please tell us what happens in your browser (desktop or mobile).
This will be amusing.