Dave was right in saying it could be done via AppleScript, and of course, it has been done (and done very well I might add). There's an excellent AppleScript for it here

http://www.entropy.ch/software/applescript/

called "Open Terminal Here." It even comes with a spiffy icon that looks right at home in the toolbar of your Finder on Tiger. Just drag the script to the toolbar of any Finder window and presto you have a new button. There is an updated version for Leopard that has a new icon to match the new look of Finder toolbar buttons in Leopard, and new features related to the availability of tabs in the Terminal. That copy is here:

http://jo.irisson.free.fr/?p=59

Finally, command shell warriors will also be interested in the Finder toolbar add-on called lselect:

http://anoved.net/lselect.html

This lets you select files in the Finder using shell-style wild cards like * and ? (a.k.a. "glob patterns").

Your podcast is great I find it very useful. I always look forward to the next show.

Goodness. I've clicked on Services before, but when it was "greyed out" and I didn't want to use Chinese, I just unclicked and forgot about it.

TODAY, after your mention of it, I had a finder window open to a folder in which I had a large number of PDF files. I clicked on one, then clicked on Services, and, amazing, a wealth of options appeared. Just for fun, I clicked Text Edit, then NEW WINDOW and the URL to my PDF file appeared in Text Editor. I suspect there's a lot under the hood here! Delve deeper!

I also note Mac Observer has OWC as a sponsor. Your caller with the suspect battery might need a new one, and I was happy with the one I bought there. Road warriors might want the Battery Charger/Reconditioner, but as I am not at war with the road (and have three different models of Mac laptop), I just filed the knowledge it exists into the drawer marked, "you know where it is if you discover you need it."

iSight? Haven't I learned that the USBus is processor controlled and Firewire400 controlled by a 1394 chip Apple hasn't upgraded? Meaning with new Macs and fast Intel processors, USB flies right by FW400? So that's why the built in iSights are USB, and possibly why any attachment device will also be USB, not FW?

Finally, the caller with the 2.5 GHZ MacBook Pro who didn't want to do a clean reinstall? That machine is SO new he can't have the sort of huge pile of stuff many of us have installed and don't want to lose. Back up your data, guy, and do the install. I recommend backing up the actual data to a USB external drive, then checking to see it is really there and loads from the drive, and NOT using any kind of backup program, especially Apple Backup 3.1.2 or Time Machine. Keep it simple and just drag the data to an external hard drive, and drop it there.