Remember that old yellow pages add? It went like this: By searching the phone book, moving your index finger up and down the columns, you could find everything you need - eliminating the need to go store to store. You use your fingers to get around the iPhone too. Here are a couple of tricks to help you become even better at it.

Sometimes Bigger Is Better
Unlike the Yellow Pages, you can make iPhone type size larger. Almost every iPhone user knows that by moving your two fingers apart you can enlarge the text, but here's an even faster way. When browsing in Safari, two taps with a finger instantly enlarges the web page to fill the screen. This works when your iPhone is either vertical or horizontal. And it works in reverse too: a double tap will shrink the page on your screen.

Getting to the top
Suppose you are reading a rather long article on your iPhone, and you want to get back to the top of the story to reread or refresh it, or to enter another URL. You could scroll up by dragging your finger up the screen. But you can get there more quickly by tapping your finger at the top of the screen - where the time is. You'll be at the top in an instant. You can refresh, or if you tap again, you'll get the Google search screen.

Touch Typing Tutor
Although the touch keypad is intuitive and easy to use, picking up typing speed requires practice. A typing tutor for the iPhone is available as a free web application. Just go typingweb.com. There's an option to login as an anonymous user or you can sign up and typing tutor will track your progress. There are beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels with plenty of opportunities to practice capitalizing letters and typing punctuation.