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As CES kicks off, one technology we’ve been hoping to hear more about is the status of the ARM Cortex A9 processor. Apple’s iPhone as well as many of its competitors including the just released Nexus One currently utilize ARM processors based on th…

Portland based excited pixel has released Chirp Flow 1.0, its free real time Twitter app for iPhone and iPod touch. Utilizing Twitter’s real time streaming API, Chirp Flow can be used to get real time updates at conferences, concerts, protests, meetings and any other event. Chirp Flow allows users to engage in a conversation that, when spoken, might be disruptive if articulated acoustically.

Google today announced the launch of its Nexus One smartphone, ushering in what the company calls the first of its “superphones” based on the Android operating system. The Nexus One, which offers an 800×480 screen, 5 megapixel camera with fl…

The Baltimore Sun yesterday dug up a relatively recent patent application from Apple describing the manipulation of three-dimensional images on a variety of devices, including such implementations as the iPhone or the company’s as-yet-unrelea…

SmileOnMyMac today announced that TextExpander touch is now integrated in the apps Pocket Informant, GarageSale, NoteStuff and Auteureist. Users of these apps can expand their TextExpander snippets while typing within these apps. TextExpander touch is the iPhone version of SmileOnMyMac’s customizable typing shortcut tool. To celebrate the integration, TextExpander touch is on sale for 60% off until through January 12, 2010.

Munich based Boinx Software today releases BoinxTV 1.5, a major update to its live-video production software that turns a Mac into a TV studio. The new version is optimized for Multicore-Macs and offers improved stability and performance. The update is free for all current BoinxTV users. With BoinxTV, you can create stunning studio shows, podcasts, sports events, concerts, interviews, sermons, lectures, seminars and more, using your Mac and multiple cameras.

Indie developer Marcus Roskosch today announces Quotes and sayings 1.03 for iPhone and iPod touch. Quotes and sayings features thousands of English quotes from hundreds of authors around the world. Impress friends and relatives just by asking if they know what Abraham Lincoln said about being rich or what Barack Obama recently said about bureaucracy. Using full text search it is possible to search for people or even for quotes.

Mobile advertising company Quattro Wireless confirms today that it has been acquired by Apple. The news follows a report late yesterday that the deal had been reached, with Apple agreeing to pay $275 million for Quattro.

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Generally, when files are dropped in your ~/Public/Drop Box you can only read them. You have to save a copy if you edit it. I wanted a script that would enable writing and that moved them to your desktop. So I wrote a Folder Action that let me do both things. If I could not enable them because of limitations, I want a sudo (SuperUser Do) to be used.

Here is my AppleScript to do this:

on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving theseItems -- create list of files & folders

  try -- in case you can't due to limitations

    repeat with thisItem in theseItems -- take a file to repeat with

      set thisPath to quoted form of POSIX path of thisItem -- puts the shell path in quotes for ease of use

      set thisCommand to "chmod u+w " & thisPath -- the command

      do shell script thisCommand...