Are you having problems with apps that close unexpectedly on your iPhone or iPod Touch, returning you repeatedly to the device’s Home screen? Apple has detailed both the cause and the suggested cures in a new knowledge base article.

According to Apple, the primary cause for apps closing unexpectedly is a device running low on memory allocated for applications—a bigger problem on the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G, since each had only 128MB of application memory.

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Last week, a new iPhone app called Tiger Text hit the App Store. The app lets users send text messages to a server that could be read by the recipient via an app reader. The text message would then be wiped from the face of the earth (i.e. both the texter and recipient’s iPhones, and the server) after a pre-determined amount of time.

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Horrified at Apple’s recent lawsuit against HTC, and refuse to flaunt the company’s brand on your iPhone any more?  We think you’re probably taking the patent litigation a little too seriously – Mommy and Daddy still love each other, they just choose to show it via the ITC – but just at the right time comes Hack N Mod’s gadget polishing tutorial, showing you how to take a battered iPhone.

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The iPhone accelerometer is, for all practical purposes, a good addition to a handheld device. However, sometimes it can be annoying, especially when trying to show off your favorite picture. The picture can flip between portrait and landscape modes over and over again as you move the phone or hand it off to a friend. The orientation change is enough to make you dizzy, but not if you use this tip.

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Our guide to your life: this week, a few tech tips can quickly reunite you with your BlackBerry or iPhone. You’ve lost your most prized possession: your mobile device. Don’t write it off just yet. We explain what to do when your cellphone goes missing.

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As a full-time blogger and speaker at Social Media and Social Networking conferences, I’m always trying to optimize what I do. My suitcase is compartmentalized with Eagle Creek bags. My MacBook Air has everything I need on it, and nothing more. The goal is to get the most out of the smallest, lightest package possible.

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Just because many of us only use five or ten iPhone apps on a regular basis doesn’t mean we should stop tapping into a variety of other options.

An article published earlier this week in the New York Times mysteriously claimed that, as far as iPhone apps are concerned, “people prefer fewer choices, and that they gravitate consistently towards the same small number of things that they like.

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Let me preface this hint by explaining the use for the Navigon Connect Bookmarklet on my iPhone. I understand that there are apps out there that already connect to Navigon’s MobileNavigator; this is just another option if you find yourself on Google Map’s site in Mobile Safari and want to quickly open MobileNavigator with the destination you found on Google. With that said, lets get to business…

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Apple has limited the number of home screens on the iPhone to 11. Even though that adds up to a total of 180 applications including the dock, some users want more space. This is possible on firmware version 3.1.2 thanks to a trick that doesn’t require…

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We haven’t seen any official announcement, but a few eagle-eyed readers pointed out that the Google Voice web interface now allows users to send text messages to multiple recipients.

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I’ve always said that the best iPhone app on the market is the Facebook 3.0 iPhone App – it’s actually 3.1.2 now, but who’s counting.  And just this morning, when I clicked on my “Friends” button on the Facebook iPhone app, I was presented with a feature called “Sync Friends“.

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When the going gets tough in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, cheat. After all, raising hell in the game — out now for the iPhone — is more fun when you’ve got unlimited ammo, full armor and every weapon. And while many modern games have abandoned cheats or turned them into unlockable perks, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the iPhone continues the series’ tradition of letting you plug codes into the game for a bounty of forbidden items.

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We’re big fans of the DIY ethos when it comes to our beloved iPhone: check out our past articles on desk stands made out of paper and even paper clips. (Not to mention the guy who wired a Palm Pre’s Touchstone charger into his BMW.)

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Have you ever tried to sync your Firefox bookmarks with your iPhone? If so, you must have been very frustrated as it is not easy as it may sound. For some reason, Apple didn’t deem it necessary to add Firefox to the short list of browsers from which you can sync bookmarks to your iPhone.

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Here’s a short, handy tip for sorting your iPhone or iPod Touch app icons in alphabetical order for people who find comfort in an alphabetized world.

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As a designer you are probably it is likely that you have got yourself an iPhone by now. If not I’m quite sure this post may make you reconsider if it is time to invest. This post provides a list of 30 iPhone Apps that will be particularly useful for Designers. A great thanks to Kevin from http://www.theroxor.com/ for contributing with this guest post.

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If you’ve got regular customers with shiny new smartphones, then building a mobile application might be right for you. Designed well, an app puts information about your products, discounts and customer service at customers’ fingertips, wherever they may roam.

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Yes, we need to click a button to take a photo, whether on a digital camera or with your iPhone. But the secret with the iPhone is whether we click or release.

Jeff Carlson at TidBITS is the author of the recently published Take Control of Your iPhone Apps book, which is available in electronic download or hardcopy (costing $10 and $20, respectively).

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The folks over at Instructables have a very timely winter tutorial on hacking your winter gloves so that you don’t have to freeze your digits off to use your iPhone or iPod as the temperature falls.

You’ll need conductive thread, a sturdy needle and enough sewing capability to execute a few stitches without stabbing your eye out.

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Know someone with an iPhone? Check out these great gifts. For a few pence you can transform your iPhone into just about anything you can think of by shopping for a new little bit of software in the App Store, but don’t forget that you can also add hardware to an iPhone too.

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