Several of our readers have written in and asked how to make their iPhone stop sending them copies of their outgoing Gmail. Here’s how. Go to Settings -> Mail -> (Your Gmail account) -> Advanced. Switch “Use Recent Mode” from ON to OFF. Be aware that the first time you do this, you may end up sucking a bunch of old messages into your iPhone inbox. (I had about a dozen old emails which shows exactly how little I use my gmail account.) It’s a one time thing, though. After you get rid of those old e-mails by disabling “recent mode”, your iPhone will stop sending you those outgoing copies.

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Apple has answered one of my burning requests for the iPhone: a built-in RSS reader. Kinda.

While it’s not the dedicated RSS client that I hope they’ll build for iPhone, it helps a news junkie get his fix on a slow EDGE data connection. It works like this: when you click on an RSS badge on a site Safari for iPhone it redirects you to a page at reader.mac.com.

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You can do a lot with the iPhone—make a phone call, surf the Web, watch a movie—just with the touch of a virtual button. But dig a little deeper, and you’ll find you can do a lot more. After putting the iPhone—which hit market shelves June 29—through its paces, here are 21 tips for getting the most out of the its advertised features—or using features you might not know were part of the repertoire.

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While I love the iPhone, there are some typing issues, especially when entering punctuation and
so David Pogue offers this tip by way of Andrew:  The iPhone doesn’t register most key presses until you *release* your finger. But Andrew discovered that the Shift and Punctuation keys register their taps on the *press-down* instead.So here’s what you can do, all in one motion.

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What a hack-y afternoon. Here are some more secret iPhone codes for you to enjoy. After realizing that the *3001#12345#* was a familiar Nokia code, I decided to spend some time googling for other phone codes that might work on the iPhone. These (mostly) do. There are more. Feel free to add your own to the comments.

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