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The Ghost of iPhone Past paid us a visit last night to remind us of all the great iPhone tips our readers sent to us throughout the year.

It’s been a great year for Touchtip, and along the way we shared the best tips here so you could get the most out of your beloved iPhones and iPod touches. As we look toward a new year, we rounded up the best of the best iPhone tips into a single collection, just in case you missed them the first time around.

Read on to see all the best tips, submitted by you, our readers. Also, if you have an iPhone tip you’d like to share, send it to us so we can share it with the iPhone and iPod touch community here at Touchtip.
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Is it just us, or are you also having an increasingly difficult time trying to find new apps in the App Store? Maybe it shouldn’t be surprising given that the App Store currently lists over 10,000 apps for the iPhone and iPod touch, but the iTunes interface doesn’t appear to be scaling very well with the rising number of apps available.

Let’s say you’re looking for a better to-do list app for your iPhone. You’ve spent an hour going through the iTunes browse feature and doing some searching, but none of the apps are appealing to you. You know that new apps are showing up in the App Store on a daily basis, but you don’t want to have to go to the App Store every day and do a search for “to-do list” apps. With One Juicer, a free web service, you can now get email alerts when you apps appear in the App Store.
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The wait is finally over. Rolando, the iPhone game from the makers of Topple, has finally been released in the App Store.

Unlike other iPhone games such as Brothers in Arms and Sim City, Rolando is not just a port of a game from another platform. Rolando was designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod touch, and boy does it show. The game features luscious and bright graphics in a 2D illustrative style that looks gorgeous on the high resolution displays of the iPhone and iPod touch. The innovative controls take full advantage of the touch screen interface, also utilizing the accelerometer for tilt input. The result is an iPhone game that feels completely natural and plays like a dream.
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Oh, my. Now we’ve seen it all. The latest holiday addition to the App Store drops the bar to a new low for iPhone apps. This time around we’re asked to fork over a buck to turn our iPhone or iPod touch into a mistletoe simulator. Say what?

Seriously. The Mistletoe iPhone app from Chili X claims to be an “interactive mistletoe simulator”. A color picture of mistletoe is the simulator part, and the interactive part is the sound of jingle bells that ring when you gently shake the iPhone.

You can bet our pervy Uncle Martin will be at the next family gathering with this sucker loaded up on his iPhone ready to go. Thankfully, the app has that jingle bell sound which should send the ladies packing from Uncle Martin’s wet lips and sour eggnog breath.

We think most perverts will be too smart to pay a dollar for this rip off. Even pervs know that most people don’t know what mistletoe looks like so anything green will do, like a sprig of Douglas Fir, or even a green handkerchief. Yeah, a green handkerchief soaked in chloroform. Now that’s a guaranteed Christmas kiss.

• Mistletoe iPhone app - $.99 [app store]

Special gloves for touch screen devices? We knew it had to happen, we’re just surprised it took this long.

Etre Touchy gloves are 40% off and we don’t mean the price. These gloves have only 6 out of 10 fingers covered, leaving two index fingers and two thumbs exposed to the elements. This provides easy access to your touch screen device while keep your remaining digits nice and cozy.

The Etre Touchy website bills these babies as “stylish”. This will be great news to Pete, our neighborhood homeless guy who has been sporting gloves like these for years. In fact, Pete may want to think about a lawsuit here ’cause we’re pretty sure he invented these. With all due respect to Pete, we’re gonna go out on a limb and say you could probably procure your very own version of these for free by introducing a pair of scissors to the old gloves in your closet.
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Looking for a cheap iPod touch? Best Buy has a great deal going down now where you can get a brand new, 2nd generation iPod touch (8GB).

You kick in $229 and they’ll throw a $50 gift card into the mix. You can regift the card to someone else and check that person off your holiday shopping list. Or, you could scrooge the gift card for yourself and buy some apps or accessories for your own iPod or iPhone. Oh, the moral choices we face.

Shopping for iPod touches at Best Buy may not be as fun, or as cheap, as scoring one on Swoopo, but at least it’s a sure thing. And you’ll respect yourself in the morning for not having engaged in legalized gambling. Not to mention the $50 gift card you get, which could be karma’s way of rewarding you for going legit.

Do the right thing, get great deal now on an iPod touch at Best Buy.

By now, you must have heard of iPhone Ocarina, the incredibly tasty iPhone app that turns your iPhone into a wind instrument. It’s a delight to play and joy to listen to, especially if it’s in the hands of someone with real musical talent. Ever since the Ocarina’s appearance in the App Store a few weeks ago, players of this fascinating instrument have been lighting up YouTube with musical videos.

This Contest Blows
The Ocarina has already claimed one of the top spots in the App Store for downloads due to its viral, and almost magical nature. The app has been a huge success for its creators, the Sonic Mule, and now they’d like to pay it forward. The quirky and funny Smule team has just announced a throw down, “This Contest Blows“, a chance for Ocarina minstrels to show off their goods on YouTube and win $1,000. There are ten grand prizes and loads of t-shirts to win. This will be a fun contest to watch as people all over the world give it their best shot in a contest that could be billed as Ocarina Idol. Don’t think you can win? Think again.
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