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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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Here at Toucthip we spend a great deal of time reading on the web. In fact, we read so much that our system for marking web pages for reading at a later time has completely failed us. Browser bookmarks don’t work because we have go back and delete them using the bookmark manager. Sending items to social bookmarking apps like Delicious has the same problem, we’ve got to constantly delete pages we’ve already read but don’t want to save any more. For the longest time now we ended up loading pages into separate browser tabs that we can come back to, but having lots of tabs open can eat up system resources. These tools just weren’t designed to do the one thing we need to do; to flag a web page that we want to read but don’t have time at that moment. Enter Instapaper, sublime in its simplicity and focused on doing one single thing very well; mark web pages for later reading. This is one of those web apps we’ve come to depend on so much that we really couldn’t live without it. If you use the web for reading or research, you should try out Instapaper. It’s free, and after the jump we’ll tell you how it works.
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This week’s iPhone tips roundup contains a few gems you won’t want to miss if you own an iPhone or iPod touch. Last week, a Touchtip reader shared with us a simple way to get to the period button on the keyboard, and today we learn an even easier way! You’ll also learn a cool tip about how you can get to the music control display while the screen is locked, how to fix the SMS order bug in 1.1.3, and how to adjust low volume settings for your music player.

Continue reading to learn about this week’s iPhone tips. And don’t forget that you can submit your own tips on our Share a Tip form, or by posting them directly to our iPhone and iPod touch forums. Enjoy.

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