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Readers offer their best tips for figuring out which earphone goes in which ear, fixing finicky DSLR cameras, and performing advanced searches in Microsoft Word.

Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasonsmaybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it inthe tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for your buffet-style consumption. Got a tip of your own to share? Add it in the comments, email it to tips at lifehacker.com, or share it on our tips and expert pages.

E1M0 discovers a small trick for remembering which earphone goes in which ear:

If you have a set of iPhone earbuds (with a remote), the remote is always on the right. This in common knowledge for most people, and yet it is useful for determining which ear to put your buds in. At night, if you sleep on your side, it can be uncomfortable to have both phones in your ears.

It makes sense then, to lay with your right ear up, allowing you easy access to the built in remote, thereby saving your eyes from the glaring screens of your gadgets. And as you only have one earbud in, it is sensible to go into accessibility settings, and turn on mono audio, so you are not missing the track for the left ear. While you are there, feel free to set a triple press of the home button to toggle white on black, making most apps easier on the eyes at night.

Photo by Nicholas Lundgaard.

Ellie finds a strange fix for her misbehaving Nikon:

I have a Nikon D90 camera, and while it's fantastic, I'd been having a problem. The autofocus stopped working and no matter what I could do, for months I couldn't get it to work again. I tried turning it off and on again (with multiple different switches that seemingly control the same feature), turning it off, resetting to factory settings, and nothing worked. I stumbled on this old MacRumors thread that recommended disconnecting the lens and putting it back on. What do you know: everything went back to normal after doing so.

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