As an app reviewer, I spend an inordinate amount of time browsing apps and app reviews in Apple’s App Store. When I’m considering an app review, or considering purchasing an app for personal use, one of the first things that I do is to read the user reviews, as I’m sure many of you do too.

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If you enjoy having the ability to hear, listening to your iPhone at a reasonable volume is important. Here are two quick tips to help you keep that volume under control in any situation.

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Sometimes you’ve got a long movie, podcast, or audiobook on your iPhone and need to rewind or fast-forward to a specific point. Scrubbing close to that point in the audio or video is easy enough, but it’s imprecise.

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If you have a GPS-enabled camera or pretty much any recent smartphone, using iPhoto Places is seamless. iPhoto will pull in the GPS information when you import photos to your iPhoto library. But for older cameras without GPS, you can assign a place to photos and events in iPhoto.

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Dear Lifehacker,
As attractive as buying a shiny new gadget might seem, I don’t want to drop hundreds of dollars on a new phone when my old iPhone still does everything I need. That said, I’m also suffering from at least a little new-phone envy. Anything I can do to make my old iPhone faster?

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iCloud is Apple’s new cloud service, which stores your music, photos, apps, calendars, and documents and wirelessly pushes them to all your devices. iCloud integrates seamlessly with your apps, so everything happens automatically. iCloud will be free for iOS 5 and OS X Lion users. More information is available at http://www.apple.com/icloud.

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Apple’s iOS 5 will bring with it some pretty major innovations (and a fair few “borrowed” ideas to boot) when it turns up this Autumn, but there are a number of little tricks that haven’t been granted quite so much coverage. Here some pointers on how to get the most out of iOS 5 on your iPhone 4.

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Apple has finally brought us the ability to delete individual calls from iPhone Recents call history in iOS 5. We have always wanted this feature on the iPhone since its release and in fact it is one of the many other reasons people jailbroken their iPhones.

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Because Emoji is now a standard international keyboard in iOS 5, you can easily add some mood to your iMessages and liven up any text entry with emoticons without having to download a bunch of apps from the App Store to access it.

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I just can’t get enough of these car themes! We just saw a Lamborghini theme and now I’m quickly switching over to the classy BMW… (Wish only if I could this for real!)  ‘Never Judge anything by their first looks..!’ Well those are my first words looking at this theme.

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A good friend of mine had been complaining that her iPhone 3GS battery was holding less and less of a charge. When we got together at 5 p.m. one recent day, it was at 5 percent full — and it had been fully charged that morning. She had barely used it all day. The phone was apparently running itself dry simply by being turned on.

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Onavo is an app which cuts your cellphone data use drastically. Amazingly, it works in the background even on the iPhone and iPad, which sounds like some kind of impossible voodoo given Apple’s strict multitasking rules.

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Jake shows a quick ways you can save yourself some time, and some mistakes, when sending a text message.

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This hack is yet another example of why jailbreaking your iPhone 4 is oh so sweet. RecognizeMe is a little tweak available for jailbroken iPhone 4s that uses the front FaceTime camera to scan your face and unlock your smartphone. Yeah, facial recognition tech on the iPhone!

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Once you’ve purchased or made ringtones for your iPhone, you need to transfer iPhone ringtone to Mac. But lots of iPhone users have troubles when they sync iPhone ringtone to Mac, they can’t sync ringtone from iPhone to Mac without iTunes.

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With a single attachment, you can turn your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch into a video player that mimics an Apple TV, Roku player, and other video players. And it even rivals those dedicated devices for quality.

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If you have ever wonder how you can earn extra cash with your smartphone, wonder no more, as the Gigwalk app enables you to do just so. Gigwalk is an iOS app that allows you to use your iPhone to complete on-demand, on-site tasks.

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A reader sent this in. He was apparently able to make iPad-only GarageBand run on an iPhone 4 using a hack that requires a jailbroken device. It involves transferring the GarageBand application with changed metadata to an iPhone 4 via OpenSSH. “Surprisingly, it didn’t crash as much as I expected it to do”, he writes.

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Did you know that it’s possible to read on your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch? Crazy, right? Like anyone reads anymore. Seriously, though, reading is one of our favorite pastimes. We usually enjoy using the Kindle, because it’s lightweight and very easy to use. The eInk screen is pleasant to look at. No complaints from us. Thing is, there are also plenty of iPads out there. Why not give people something to read?

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Awhile back, we showed you a jailbreak theme called “OS7? that replicated Windows Phone 7?s interface on the iPhone. Some of you installed the theme and played around with it. The theme’s attention to detail and resemblance to Windows Phone 7 was striking.

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