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For those of you with an iPhone or iPod Touch who have been recklessly spending money on all those apps from the App Store in iTunes, now is time for a reality-check.
An app for Mac OS X named App Store Expense Monitor that sits in the menu-bar is here to reveal all the dirty secrets by revealing how much you have been spending on the apps available in the iTunes App Store.

On the front, this may look like just a simple app that tells you how much you have been spending on the App Store, but there is more to it.



This app not only reveals the total money spent on the App Store, but also makes a table of your apps which can be sorted by the Name of the app, the Developer, the Category and the Price. This might be helpful in getting some detailed statistics about your App-purchasing behavior such as what sort of Apps one buys mostly and the maximum and minimum range of money spent on a single app.

For users with multiple accounts in iTunes, this app will also categorize the total money spent based on the iTunes account using which the purchases were made. Since it fetches the data from Mobile apps folder in iTunes and does not access the account itself, so this utility is pretty safe to use and can be a little inaccurate in terms of the statistics.

This utility is only available for iPhone users on Mac OS X. Download it.

Included with iPhone is a special version of Apple's iconic iPod earbuds. With the same smoothed-out style of the new generation earbuds introduced with the aluminum iPod Nano, iPhone's earbuds include a microphone on the right side wire. These music-grade earphones far surpass mobile voice quality. They are so high fidelity that we can easily hear every audio compression artifact introduced by the GSM voice compressor! The mic is high quality as well; listeners on the other end reported clear, undistorted sound. We've never had good luck with hanging mics before, but this one does its job well.

(The mic is also a controller: squeeze it between your fingers to pause/unpause iPod playback; squeeze twice to skip to the next song. It works better than you'd think.)
Unfortunately, these earbuds offer the same reduced bass response as their conventional siblings; the original post-style iPod earbuds provide far louder and clearer bass to our ears.

If you ever use non-Apple headphones, you'll probably need an adapter. The audio socket is deeply recessed, and most standard headphone plugs simply won't fit. A Belkin adapter ($9.95 at the Apple Store Online, $14.95 at the Apple Retail store) makes the connection — but it's bulky, ugly, and thows off the balance of the iPhone. (Griffin Technology has announced a much nicer one on their web site, but it's not yet available to purchase.) We're not happy campers; there is no justifcation for requiring a $10-15 adapter just to use standard headphones.