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If you do any social networking with your friends or colleagues online, then you know what a pain it is to check all the sites to monitor their activity. You have to go to each site, sign into your account, check the updates. This gets more and more tedious as you connect with more people using different social networks. You’ve got friends on YouTube, and some are on Facebook, your colleagues are on LinkedIn, he uses Digg, she uses Flickr, you get the idea. It’s getting to be a big distraction just to keep up, and your CPA (constant partial attention) is getting stretched to its limit.

Enter FriendFeed, a social media aggregator that combines activity from all of your social networks into a single stream. While FriendFeed does not currently have a mobile-friendly version of the service, there are other ways of using it on mobile Safari and we’ll tell you how after the jump.
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Tax day has finally come to pass and Friday is now upon us. That means we deliver another batch of glorious iPhone tips submitted by you, the totally awesome readers of Touchtip. This week we have some fantastic tips you won’t want to miss. Got an iPod touch you want to turn into and iPhone? We got that (no, seriously). Are you a couch potato looking for a good TV guide that you can read on your iPhone without getting off the Lazyboy? We got that, too. We also have a few clever ways to use your iPhone camera, a creative method to sync notes from your device to your Mac, and how to access iPhone-only web sites from your desktop. And finally, coverflow enthusiasts learn how to find missing album art for your music collection. So don’t wait, read on and impart some iPhone wisdom upon yourselves. Or, if you have a handy tip you think we’d like, please share it with Touchtip. Now, on to the tips.
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It’s Friday again and time to share the best iPhone tips and iPod touch tips submitted by you, the readers of Touchtip.

Today, we’ll learn how users yearning for 3rd party apps don’t have to wait for the App Store in June. You can Jailbreak or unlock your iPhone or iPod touch in 45 seconds, and it works on any firmware version. We also hear about one resourceful way to take notes on your device using only Safari and a local wiki application (no hacks required). And another reader suggests a clever way to flag phone calls from telemarketers so you can ignore the call. Be sure to read all these tips and more after the jump.
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Early stage start-up, Buzzd, is buzzing with good press after winning multiple awards for the best mobile application. Although Buzzd was not specifically created for the iPhone, it is designed to work well on any mobile device including the iPhone. Buzzd is targeted to the local social butterflies, people who like to go out at night and on the weekends to clubs, concerts, and other events. You simply tap in your location and get back a list of all the events in your area. You can rate events or shout them out to your friends via SMS. You can even connect with people at the event using Buzzd. This is great, unless you live in the boonies, in which case Buzzd will only serve as a reminder of how lame your town is. For everyone else, check out Buzzd at www.buzzd.com/m and bookmark it for your next night out.

Moving sucks, especially when you have to move data from one mobile phone to another. Manually having to input all of your calendar data, contacts, notes, photos, and more. It can take hours and hours of tedious typing to get all of your valuable data on your new device. If you are planning to move to the iPhone from from another mobile phone and want to quickly move your data to your new iPhone, then check out The Missing Sync for iPhone. This utility will quickly transfer your data from Palm, BlackBerry, or Windows Mobile smartphone. And after you transfer your data you can continue to use The Missing Sync for iPhone to archive your data. It will also work for iPod touch but only for syncing Notes. At $39.95 US it’s a bit pricey for just Notes syncing, but for the iPhone it’s worth every penny to preserve your mobile data. Sorry Windows users, this is Mac only. We are looking for a worthy iPhone sync utility for Windows. Let us know if you know of one.

A new, free data syncing service from Funambol enables you to wirelessly sync your email contacts to your iPhone. This eliminates having to manually enter or update contact information on your iPhone, or using a cable to sync contacts from Outlook, Yahoo, Thunderbird, or even other cell phones. Funambol does all this through a web app so you don’t have to download and install anything on your iPhone (they do offer a native app for Jailbreak iPhones, but since it does the same thing as the web app you should just use web app).
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This is a funny and clever way to ‘capture’ your Contacts. Use your iPhone to take pictures of your contacts pressed up against a glass window or door. The photos will look like you have them trapped inside your iPhone! Check out the samples on Stillframe’s photo stream at Flickr.