If you are writing CSS files using TextMate on Mac OS X here is a formatting tip that will benefit you. Press CMD + ALT + 0 to hide property values leaving just 1 line displaying the document selector. This is great especially if you need to quickly run through a long CSS file.

Removing directory from shell prompt (using Terminal on Mac) is easy. This is a very simple command and very useful. If you need to remove a directory with confirmation on each file. Command: rm -r directoryname This is useful espcially if you want to be double sure about the contents are going to delete. Command: rm -rf directoryname This command would remove directory recursively without a prompt. Be careful when using this command.

Winrar is for Windows. UnRarX is the mac alternative. Unrarx for Mac is free and is compatible with Both Tiger & Leopard OS X. Mac OS X doesn't come with the capability to unrar a file. I doubt if stuffit expander can do it. Now, I can accept all the rar files that I get from my windows friends. As the website describes:

UnRarX is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that allows you to expand rar archives and restore corrupted or missing archives using par2.

The best recipe for clutter free Mac desktop! My (real) desk is usually mess and my desktop (mac) gets equally messy later during the day. Exposé doesn't help the mess much. And little look around helped me discover the 'god sent' Sticky Window for Mac.

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A CRON is an Unix program that runs programs at scheduled times. On Mac OS X you could setup a crontab easily using a GUI tool called Crontooie. I am going to next find a script to make daily backups a breeze.