Let's compete with iPad

1. Cisco Cius: 7 inch diagonal, Android, HD video camera, HD Audio, 3G/4G data and Bluetooth.
Macworld. How Cisco Cius stacks up against iPad

2. BlackBerry Playbook: 1 GHz dual-core processor, 1G RAM, QNX (it's an OS that supports symmetric multiprocessing with use of the QNX Neutrino microkernel architecture), WiFi, no 3G, 1024x600-pixel touchscreen, HD video playback, Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and HTML 5 are both supported for Web browsing

Macworld. RIM launches 7-inch PlayBook tablet
3. Acer developing Android-based tablets.
IntoMobile. Photo: Acer CEO shows off 7 inch Android powered tablet due to hit the market in Q4 2010

4. Samsung Galaxy Tab: Android 3.0 Gingerbread, Cortex A8 1.0GHz chip, 7 inches, WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0 and 3G HSUPA, support for H.263, DivX, MPEG4, XviD, MPEG4, H.264 video formats.

IntoMobile. Hands-on: Samsung Galaxy Tab Android – 7 inches of Android tablet goodness
TechPinas about it.

5. LG Android Optimus Tablet.
CrunchGear about it.

Create Xcode project template

New article from Ohmu:
CodeProject. Creating an Xcode Project Template
shows how to make a project template in Xcode.
Tested. Works fine.
I made a template from the Simple project

cd to the folder opened in Finder

Copy the following bash script and paste it in Terminal:

function ff { osascript -e 'tell application "Finder"' \
-e "if (${1-1} <= (count Finder windows)) then" \
-e "get POSIX path of (target of window ${1-1} as alias)" \
-e 'else' -e 'get POSIX path of (desktop as alias)' \
-e 'end if' -e 'end tell'; };\
function cdff { cd "`ff $@`"; };

press Enter, then type cdff and press Enter. You will see that now the current folder in Terminal is the same as in the opened Finder.
You can save this function in .profile, re-open Terminal session and now, to switch to the folder opened in Finder, type 'cdff'.

Nice?
Don't tell me that you simply could drag an item from the Finder to the Terminal Window. :)
(If someone doesn't know, in Terminal type "cd ", then drag from the Finder Window the tiny icon near the folder name:

Open Terminal Here

OpenTerminalHere is a very useful AppleScript: http://www.entropy.ch/software/applescript/

The source code, probably, may look so:

on run
    tell application "Finder"
        activate
        
        try
            set this_folder to (the target of the front window) as alias
        on error
            set this_folder to startup disk
        end try
        
        my process_item(this_folder)
        
    end tell
end run



-- This handler processes folders dropped onto the toolbar script icon
--
on open these_items
    repeat with this_item in these_items
        my process_item(this_item)
    end repeat
end open



-- this subroutine does the actual work
--
on process_item(this_item)
    set the_path to POSIX path of this_item
    repeat until the_path ends with "/"
        set the_path to text 1 thru -2 of the_path
    end repeat
    tell application "Terminal"
        if (count of windows) is 0 then
            do script with command "cd " & quoted form of the_path
        else
            if front window is busy then
                --Can be tested by looking at a manpage or running top in terminal.app
                tell application "Terminal" to activate
                tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to ¬
                    keystroke "t" using command down
            end if
            do script with command "cd " & quoted form of the_path in window 1
        end if
        activate
    end tell
end process_item

Or so:

on run
    tell application "Finder"
        try
            activate
            set frontWin to folder of front window as string
            set frontWinPath to (get POSIX path of frontWin)
            tell application "Terminal"
                activate
                close
                do script with command "cd \"" & frontWinPath & "\""
            end tell
        on error error_message
            beep
            display dialog error_message buttons ¬
                {"OK"} default button 1
        end try
    end tell
end run

An update versions are available on james david low:
OpenTerminalHere and AntHere

You can find more:
Enhanced Open Terminal Here, for Leopard

Here is an Objective-C project "cdto":
http://code.google.com/p/cdto/downloads/list

Funny Programming

Nice article on Cocoa with Love: Minimalist Cocoa programming
So here is the minimalistic Cocoa application:

If You Don't Need Interface Builder.

My new article published on EE:
If You Don't Need Interface Builder.

Freelance

I found few interesting posts:
1. Manage Your Risk –> Don’t Get Taken for a Ride
2. Freelance iPhone Development and the Retainer –> Never Leave Home Without It!
3. Freelance iPhone Development – You’re probably Undercharging!