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October 21, 2003 T-Mobile Sidekick Owner’s Manual 61
Specifically, you can:
Set Your Home Page
Set Your Search Engine
Set Web Page Load Complete Alert
Show Pictures
•Clear History
•Clear Cache
Clear Cookies
The sections below explain what each setting means.
Set Your Home Page
To set your Web home page (the page you want the browser to open by default), do the following while in the
Web Browser application:
1 From the Web Browser screen, press Menu then select Settings.
2 On the Settings screen, scroll to the Home Page text field and type the URL of your preferred home page.
Alternatively, you could select the Use Current Page button if you want to use the Web page that was
displayed on the screen before you opened the Settings screen.
3 Press Back to save your setting.
Set Your Search Engine
To set the search engine you want to use by default, do the following while in the Web Browser application:
1 From the Web Browser screen, press Menu then select Settings.
2 On the Settings screen, scroll to highlight the Search Engine pop-up menu.
3 Press the wheel to open the list of options.
4 Scroll to your preferred search engine and press the wheel to select it.
5 Press Back to save your setting.
Set Web Page Load Complete Alert
If you want an alert to sound when a Web page has finished loading (assuming you are in another application at
the time the page loads), then select a ringtone from this pop-up menu.
Show Pictures
You can decide if you want the Web Browser to display Web pictures on your device by doing the following while
in the Web Browser application:
1 From the Web Browser screen, press Menu then select Settings.
2 On the Settings screen, scroll to highlight the Show Pictures in Web pages check box.
3 To have pictures display, press the wheel to select the check box; to prevent pictures from displaying, press
the wheel to clear the check box. Web pages should load faster if you clear this check box.