Ever since the iPhone was announced, I thought it would be really cool if it had a GPS receiver, or at the very least was able to find your general location via cell phone tower triangulation (technically trilateration). The obvious benefits of such a system would include automatic positioning of Google Maps to your location, [...]
A lot of times I find myself wanting to open another (Mac OS X) Terminal window in the same directory as my current one. This little shell script, which executes a little AppleScript, makes that trivial:
#!/bin/sh
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then PATHDIR=`pwd` else PATHDIR=$1 fi
osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\"" -e "do script \"cd $PATHDIR\"" -e "end tell"
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If you’re an Apple geek like myself, you might remember back in 1999 when WiFi was a brand new technology, and Phil Schiller demonstrated the new iBook’s Airport feature by jumping off a balcony holding an iBook with an attached accelerometer, which sent the accelerometer data wirelessly to Steve’s demo machine for display (see below).
Well, [...]