How it works:
1. Copy formatted text to the clipboard
2. Run ClipStrip (either by double-clicking the app or by pressing an assigned keyboard shortcut)
3. Paste - Voila! no formatting.

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Version 2 of Launch Pad is now available! This version can be customized. You can choose which icons you want to appear, you can customize the size of the icons and you can choose if you want the links to open in the same page or pop a new tab or window. To customize Google gadgets, click the icon in the upper right corner of the gadget and choose “Edit Settings”.

To make permanent aliases in the Mac OS X Terminal (shell) you will first need to VI (a Linux text editor) a file named .profile in your home directory. To do so, open Terminal (which goes to your home directory by default) and type:
vi .profile
Doing so opens .profile in the the VI editor. To start typing in the VI editor, press the “i” key (i as in eye). Then type the following:
alias la='ls -la'
Save the .profile file by pressing:
Esc and then Shift ZZ
Quit and re-run the Terminal. Once running type “la” at the command line and you should get a directory listing just as you would have had you typed “ls -la”.

Once you have proven that this is working for you, you can start adding other aliases to the .profile file. Here are some I like:
alias cls='clear' #old MS DOS
alias ..='cd ..' #up one level
alias ...='cd ../..' #up two levels
alias zap='rm -i' #remove file with warning

You can push new aliases into .profile without opening the file in VI. To do this, type the following at the command prompt:
echo alias e=\'exit\'>>.profile
# don't forget the \ characters before the single quotes.
# The \ escapes the quotes so that they are pushed into the file.


You don’t have to include the comments (i.e. #up one level).
Linux uses this same process but the aliases are stored in ~/.bashrc

To add Launch Pad to iGoogle, simply click the [+ Google] button below.

You can set any of the searches as the default simply by clicking the little down arrow icon and choosing “Edit Settings”. The search you set as default is the one the selection box will go to automatically.

To add PowerSearch to iGoogle, simply click the [+ Google] button below.

To add Case Changer to iGoogle, simply click the [+ Google] icon below

I found a good set of regular expressions for finding phone numbers in text files. In the interest of saving you from reinventing the wheel, here they are.

The “^” character means that it will find only phone numbers that begin at the first character of the line. If you don’t want that, remove the “^”.

For numbers formatted like ###-###-#### or ###.###.####
^[0-9]\{3\}[-.][0-9]\{3\}[-.][0-9]\{4\}
For numbers formatted like (###)###-#### or (###)###.####
^[(][0-9]\{3\}[)][0-9]\{3\}[-.][0-9]\{4\}
For numbers formatted like (###) ###-####
^[(][0-9]\{3\}[)][[:space:]][0-9]\{3\}[-.][0-9]\{4\}

PsPad is another great text editor. It has an FTP feature that allows you to work on files on a server in real-time. The regular expressions for PsPad are as follows:

For numbers formatted like ###-###-#### or ###.###.####
^[0-9]{3}[-.][0-9]{3}[-.][0-9]{4}
For numbers formatted like (###)###-#### or (###)###.####
^[\(][0-9]{3}[\)][0-9]{3}[-.][0-9]{4}

For what it is worth, TextPad is a better utility if you are trying to clean up text files. PsPad is better if you are working on files that are on a web server. I use PsPad for development and TextPad for things like regular expression finds.