Now that the initial iPhone 3g craze has passed and you no longer have to wait in long lines to pick up your own iPhone it may be the perfect time to be the newest iPhone owner. But before you make that purchase you may want to compare the iPhone 3g to the iPod Touch one more time.

The chart below shows that while the iPhone 3g does have all the features of the iPod Touch but with some additions and more flexibility, but the total 2 year costs is over $1500 more than the slightly less featured iPod Touch.

It may be an easy and clear decision for you that the iPhone is the way to go as you’d be paying similar prices if you combined your iPod Touch price with your Cell Phone subscription for 2 years but don’t over look the value of the iPod Touch. It can do almost everything an iPhone can do when you’re in WiFi locations such as your home or work, and I imagine for many of us those are the two places we spend most of our time.

While I can see value added with the flexibility of the iPhone I do understand that those extra features may not be enough for everyone. So, if you haven’t already made a decision, review the feature sets, costs, and how you feel you’ll use the devise to see if the iPhone 3g or the iPod Touch is perfect for you.

Apple enhanced their Finder navigation with OS X 10.5 Leopard. They added new icons, made network navigation easier, and added Cover flow. All these additions have made Finder much more easier to navigate and use but sometimes you still want to add that custom touch to finding and launching applications or files.

Luckily adding apps, folders, or files to Finder’s Sidebar is quick and easy. To Add an application, file, or folder to Finder’s Sidebar:

1. Find the Folder, Application or File you’d like to add to the Finder Side Bar
2. Select the Folder, Application or File and press command + t (Or select Add to Sidebar under File on the File menu)
3. Additionally, you can select the item in Finder and drag and drop it to the sidebar under Places in between or below the places already listed.

To remove an item from the Finder Sidebar, click and hold, then drag and drop out of finder.

Since the release of the iPhone 3G more and more people are browsing the web in the iPhone Ready version of Safari. It is true that Safari on the iPhone is capable of rendering full web pages but that doesn’t mean that you want your readers to have to wait for your content to load. Luckily, it is quick and easy to take your iWeb Blog and make it iPhone Ready allowing your readers to keep up on your articles while on the go.

To create an iPhone ready “site” of your iWeb blog you’ll need to download the latest version of Dashcode. This can be achieved by installing the free iPhone SDK. Once you’ve installed Dashcode via the free iPhone SDK you’ll be ready to start your iPhone ready iWeb blog creation.

To create an iWeb Blog site for the iPhone:

1. Open Dashcode and select a Web Application Template for RSS

2. Change the Title of the RSS Feed by clicking on the default entry and allow it to match your sites title
3. Select Application Attributes

4. Under Properties, enter the Feed URL of your iWeb RSS feed. You can find this by clicking the RSS feed link on your iWeb site.

5. Verify that the feed is being pulled correctly by clicking the Run button at the top of Dashcode - This will launch an iPhone Simulator and display your site as it would be viewed on an iPhone. If your feed is working correctly, you’ll see your latest posts displayed in the Simulator

6. Close the Simulator and return to Dashcode. You can Set your Home Screen Icon (the image that would display on an iPhone Home Screen) or save the site to your Hard Disk. Click Share and then Save to Disk, select the location you’d like to save your iWeb Blog that is now iPhone Ready
7. Upload the folder that you just created in Dashcode to your web server and save it to within your iWeb folder.

Your site should now be ready for iPhone users to view. Create a link to the folder you just created on your web server on your iWeb Page and let your readers know that they can follow you quickly and easily on their iPhones.

Here is a final product of our test iWeb Blog that is now iPhone Ready.

Adium, one of the best Instant Messaging clients available on Mac OS X, has just added some new features with their latest release. These features include:

1. Complete redsign of the Contact Inspector (formerly the Get Info Window)
2. Added Facebook Chat Service to Adium
3. Added a search field to the Standard Contact List Window
4. Switch to MSN-Pecan, a new MSN library for libpurple
5. Major performance improvements, especially with signing on multiple accounts simultaneously
6. Tons of improvements and fixes

For additional details about the latest updates visit the Adium Version History page.

Most notably of all the changes is the addition of the Facebook Chat Service. Now you can chat with all of your Facebook friends that are checking out their latest social site.

To Add Facebook to Adium:

1. Download the latest version of Adium, or update your current Adium software
2. Select Adium and click File on the Menu Bar
3. Click Add Account and then Facebook

4. Enter your facebook account intformation and click ok

5. Verify that the Facebook friend list has been added to the bottom of your Adium contact list. You should now be able to chat with your Facebook friends via Adium

Check out these other Adium plugins/features that help make it a great Instant Messaging client.

GrandCentral, a phone service from Google that lets you “ring” multiple phones anytime you receive a call, has recently released their own iPhone application GrandDialer. We’ve discussed GrandCentral previously and how combining it with Gizmo allows you to turn any Mac computer into a free phone.

Now some of those same capabilities are available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

With GrandDialer, you can dial numbers from your iPod Touch or iPhone and have your number appear on the person’s you’re calling Caller-ID appear as your GrandCentral phone number. It does not use VOIP but instead will ring your iPhone or another phone of your choice and then call the individual you dialed.

To setup and make a call with GrandDialer.

1. Download and install the app to your iPhone or iPod Touch.
2. Open the application and click Settings

3. Enter your GrandCentral username and password

4. Select edit phone numbers, and enter the phone number you’d like to “ring” before any calls are made. This can be your iPhone or any other phone you’d like to call from.

5. After you’ve entered a ring number, you can return to the main screen, enter in a number you’d like to call and start using the GrandDialer.

With each call GrandDialer will ring either your iPhone or any land line number you entered previously and then ring the the number you entered to call once you pick up the line you wished to call. The individual you’re calling will see your GrandCentral phone number in their caller-id.

This feature may be especially beneficial to individuals that have setup a business line with their GrandCentral number and still want to keep their mobile phone number private from people they’re calling.