ARM sees dual-core Cortex-A15 phones, tablets at end of 2012

ARM's US mobile division head James Bruce said in a conversation late Tuesday that the first phones and tablets using the Cortex-A15 architecture should be available by the end of 2012 or early into 2013. The much improved chip design will start out cautiously with dual-core designs before moving on to quad-core later on. The performance leap over the A9 was such that he predicted to PCWorld that phones like the Motorola Atrix were part of a larger trend towards mobile devices used for desktop-level tasks....

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Opening new Terminal window from Finder

I use the Terminal and Midnight Commander quite often. However, opening a new terminal window and then changing to the directory location where I need to use the command line takes time. The Toolbar Dragpoints hint brought me to an idea to create a short AppleScript that opens a new terminal window in the folder active in Finder:
on ApplicationIsRunning(appName)   tell application "System Events" to set appNameIsRunning to exists (processes where name is appName)   return appNameIsRunning end ApplicationIsRunning  tell application "Finder"   try     set winLoc to target of the front window as text   on error     set winLoc to home as text   end try   set pth to POSIX path of winLoc end tell  if ApplicationIsRunning("Terminal") th ...

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