Outlook 2007 - Make flagged emails from a .PST show up on the To-Do Bar

Go into the .PST properties and enable "Display reminders and tasks from this folder in the To-Do Bar".  Then restart Outlook.

From this article:  Make that PST show up on the To-Do Bar

Erase Free Space on Mac OS X

In order to erase all free space on Mac OS X, use Disk Utility.

Secure Empty Trash on Mac OS X

Right-click on the Trash icon in the dock, hold down the command key, and then select "Secure Empty Trash". If you want to always securely delete files, you can enable this setting by going to Finder > Preferences and then selecting "Empty Trash Securely" under the Advanced tab.

Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 drivers for Mac

You can now use your Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 on a Macintosh.  Someone figured out that the S1500M drivers for Mac OSX will work with an S510:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4391068?tstart=0

Saving your eBay search as an RSS feed

eBay used to give you an orange RSS button on your search results.  That has disappeared recently.

The remedy is to add &_rss=1 to the end of your search URL.

From this article:  How to restore RSS functionality to your eBay searches

How to add an AppleTV radio station to favorites

While listening to the station, hold down the Select button on the remote.  It will ask you if you want to "Add Station to Favorites".

To remove from favorites, do the same thing again (hold down the Select button).


Outlook 2007 Remove Attachment From Email

Open the email.

On the ribbon, go to the Message tab. 

In the Actions section, select Other Actions->Edit Message.

In the body of the email (which is now editable) select the attachment. 

Press the Delete key.

From the Office menu, select Save.

How to add a Paste Special (Unformatted Text) keyboard shortcut to Microsoft Word

Pre-2007: Select Tools -> Macros.

2007:  Click Macros on the View ribbon.

Type PasteSpecialUnformattedText into the Macro Name box and click Create. This launches Microsoft Visual Basic.

Replace the auto-generated code with this.

Sub PasteSpecialUnformattedText()
   Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText
End Sub

File -> Save Normal

File -> Close and Return to Microsoft Word

Pre-2007: Select Tools -> Customize -> Keyboard…

2007: Select Office button (at the top left), then click Word Options.  Select Customize, then find Keyboard shortcuts and click the Customize button next to that.

In the Customize Keyboard window, select Macros.  Then under Macros, select PasteSpecialUnformatted Text.

Click in the "Press new shortcut key" field, and press your desired keyboard shortcut. I use Ctrl+Shift+V.

Click Assign.

Click Close.  This closes the Customize Keyboard window.

Then click OK to close the Word Options window.

(Originally found these instructions here.)

find xargs grep

Use the -print0 output option on find, and the -0 input option on xargs.  This delimits the find results with null characters, and tells xargs to expect the results in that format.  That way xargs can stomach path names containing spaces or other potentially troublesome characters in the paths.