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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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We gotta hand it to Justin Michael for creating a cut-and-paste code snippet that turns Backpack into a must-have app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Adding value to Backpack is not an easy thing to do because its creators, 37signals, have already thought of almost everything to make its collaboration and productivity tool very useful. However, they overlooked users who want to access Backpack from mobile Safari, and that’s where Justin’s iBackpack comes in. You simply paste a snippet of code into a Backpack divider to create a new layout that is optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch. Like Backpack, the code snippet is also free. And if you aren’t already familiar with the award-winning Backpack, go sign up for a free account and give it test drive on your desktop web browser. If you like it as much as we do, drop in the iBackpack tweak and you’re good to go on mobile Safari.
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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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iJailBreak, written by a 13 year old hacker, now works on iPod touch as well as the iPhone for firmware 1.1.4. As a bonus for iPod touch, iJailbreak will also add the “missing” iPhone apps that Apple is charging iPod touch owners twenty bucks for. iJailbreak is super simple to set up. You download the tool, install it, run it, connect your iPhone or iPod touch, then jailbreak. This new version of iJailbreak fixes some of the issues earlier versions had with YouTube, Yahoo Mail, and songs purchased from the iTunes Store. iJailbreak currently runs on intel Macs running Tiger or Leopard. Get the latest download and Jailbreak today.

Hi-dee-ho! After a brief hiatus, the Friday Roundup is back! This week, Touchtip readers have sent us some really great iPhone and iPod touch tips that we’d love to share with you. Don’t forget to share your own tip with us, or post them directly to our iPhone and iPod touch forums.

So what’s in store this week? Find out where to browse popular magazines for free. Learn how to stop iPhoto from opening up every time you sync your device. You’ll also discover some handy utilities for recording voice memos, and another that turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a remote touch pad for your Mac or PC. There’s also a few mods for your iPhone camera. What are you waiting for? Read on.
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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. The unofficial Playstation 1 emulator is officially here and just in time for Christmas! In fact, if you have a Jailbreak iPhone or iPod touch you may already have it in your hand. Just check the Installer.app for psx4iphone to add it to your device. You can also try the manual installation method if you don’t want to run Jailbreak.
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Simplify Media, the iTunes plugin that lets you share your entire music library over the internet, now works with iPhone and iPod touch. Unlike similar applications, Simplify Media does not use Safari to stream music. This allows you to surf the web while you and your friends listen to your iTunes library from anywhere you have Wi-Fi access.
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Macworld recently ran a story about hackers and the iPhone. Up until now, most of the iPhone hacks in the news have focused on unlocking and adding third party applications, with almost no coverage given to the potential security holes in the iPhone platform. No doubt that hackers are already working on damaging iPhone attacks just for bragging rights, if no other reason. This threat is compounded by consumer demand that Apple open the iPhone to allow the installation of third party apps, a demand which Steve Jobs has yielded to by promising an SDK early next year.

As iPhone owners, what should we look forward to in 2008? An endless series of firmware updates containing security patches? Or will the iPhone enjoy the same safety record that the Mac desktop has had as compared to the numbers of attacks on Windows computers?

Join the discussion in the Touchtip Forums now and let us know what you think.