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With the growing evidence that Apple will be releasing some sort of Apple Tablet in the next 3-6 months, analysts and writers have started speculating about the potential success or failure of such a device.

Both Gizmodo and PC World h…

MacRumors has received word that Apple seeded OS X Leopard 10.5.8 Build 9L30 to developers last night, including only a single documented change related to an issue with external monitors and waking from sleep mode. There are reportedly no listed ou…

Apparent Corporation today released the Barcode Producer DataBar Plug-In and Barcode Producer 5.5, a major feature update. Barcode Producer 5.5 is Apparent’s award-winning, industry standard barcode creation suite for Mac OS X. The software features an easy-to-use design and powerful features. The new barcode standard for compact item identification and coupons, DataBar will come into heavy active use starting in January 2010. Barcode Producer supports all seven DataBar types.

When buying a new DVD burning unit, I didn’t waste a second on compatibility issues with Mac OS 10.5. Instead, I bought the first DVD burner available for around 20 Euros: A LG Electronics GH-22NP20. I attached it externally with an Delock Converter USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE.

First tests works quite well — DVD and CD reading, and even CD burning, works with Mac OS 10.5′s integrated software and drivers. But serious problems occurred when trying to burn a standard DVD: The burning software, Burn.app in my case, ends with an error stating the disk capacity is exceeded, regardless of the size of the files to burn. There are a lot of fine burning apps for free on the market,…

Sometimes I find the need to copy a file’s timestamp to another file. For example, when I do batch conversion of video files (e.g. via VisualHub), the converted files’ timestamps are all based on the current date. Subsequently when I import them in iMovie, I have to spend some effort to get them to show the correct date. It would be nicer if the converted files’ timestamps were exactly the same as the original ones.

So I created this shell script, which allows you to copy the timestamp from one file to another.

#!/bin/bashif [ $# -ne 2 ]; then  echo "Usage: `basename $0` timestamp_src dest_file";  exit 1;fifunction printtimestamp(){  stat -n -f "%Sm" -t "%Y%m%d%H%M" "$1"}SRC=$1DST=$2if [ ! -f "${SRC}" ]; then  echo "Error: ${SRC} does not exist.";  ex...