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Fortune reports on a new research note from Oppenhiemer & Co.’s Yair Reiner claiming that Apple in January began high-level talks with major phone manufacturers expressing its displeasure with what it con…

Crazy Mike’s Apps today announced a iPod touch 8GB giveaway tied to March Madness and the release of the new iPhone app, PocketBracket. PocketBracket: College Basketball Tournament is an iPhone app that easily allows people to keep track of their College Basketball Brackets. PocketBracket allows anyone to create unlimited NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament brackets. Full contest details are located online. Winners for the contest will be announced on April 11 on the contest website.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday announced that it had obtained a copy of Apple’s iPhone Developer Program License Agreement and published it for public consumption. While the contents of the license agreement, which govern…

Apple today released iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 4 via the iPhone Dev Center, offering developers updated tools for building applications for the iPad. The last update to the SDK was issued two weeks ago, continuing a trend of biweekly revisions.<br…

Salt Lake City based Avantar announces today the release of the Yellow Pages app for Android mobile devices. The release marks Avantar’s first offering in the Android Marketplace and follows the success of the company’s much-downloaded Yellow Pages app for the iPhone and iPod touch. New to the Yellow Pages app for Android is a visual mosaic of the most popular used searched terms, which can also be accessed with a simple tap of the finger.

A few times a year, MacRumors partners with MacHeist to promote their Mac application bundle deal. Their latest bundle delivers at least eight Mac applications for $19.95 (over $280 value if all purchased separately) including:

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Frequently we need to clean a directory before zipping it or copying it to an external USB drive to be used by Windows or Linux users.

Apple Finder has the custom of populating directories with those unavoidable .DS_Store files, volumes with .Trashes, and some files (especially pictures) with ._resources. The following interactive script will safely remove these files prior to copying.

#!/bin/sh

# bash script to clean (delete) Finder .DS_Store, .Trashes and ._resources

# Use cleandsstores.sh

# juanfc 2010-03-06

if [ $# != 1 ]

then

  echo "ERROR:  use\n\t`basename $0` dirtoclean"

  exit 1

fi
res=`find "$@" \( -name ".DS_Store" -or -name ".Trashes" -or -name "._*" \) -print`
if [[ -z $res ]]; then

  echo "nothing to delete"

  exit 0

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