While in the Finder, hit Shift+Command+Delete to empty the Trash. If there are locked files in the trash, you can get rid of those by holding Shift+Option+Command+Delete.

One thing genre of software that Macs aren’t scarce in are FTP clients. We have Transmit, Cyberduck, if you’re a little more geeky than you can rock out on the Terminal, however another great is Forklift.

Forklift is a fairly new player on the block, however in a short amount of time it has acquired quite a lot of punch. Forklift’s site shows all of the following features:

The best thing is how fast Forklift really is, it was recently updated and currently has a public Beta so go check it out here, and download link.

Yesterday, I wrote about AppDelete, which is a simple drag and drop application uninstaller. Today, I am writing for those who desire a little more functionality than is provided in AppDelete.

AppCleaner compiles all your applications and widgets into two respective lists and lets you choose which ones you want to delete by marking them with checks. Once you have marked all the apps which you want to be deleted, hit the magnifying glass in the bottom-right corner of the window, which brings up this window:

This shows all the applications and files/folders that are related to that application. Again, check the items that need deleting, then hit the button in the bottom right corner again to move the selected items into the Trash

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As I’ve mentioned earlier, Clips in Coda work nearly flawlessly. One of the great ways to take advantage of Clips is by using tab triggers.

Tab triggers are essentially keyboard shortcuts–they make it so that when you enter some predefined text and then press Tab, a pre-saved clip will replace the original text. TextMate has a very similar feature called Snippets.

To add a tab trigger to a clip, enter the edit mode for the clip by pressing on the italicized “i” at the right side of any clip in the Clips window. Then, click in the area near the bottom of the Clips window where it says “Click to add tab trigger”. Now just enter the text that you’d like to type instead of the full clip, and press save.

Now whenever you are editing a file in Coda, you can type your new tab trigger and then hit “Tab,” and the full clip will appear.

AppDelete is a mini-app that packs a huge punch. You may not know this, but when you delete apps by just tossing them in the trash, dozens of other documents, plugins, etc that are related to the deleted app may remain on your hard drive. AppDelete makes it so that all these little pieces of bloat get deleted along with the application

To use it, open the app, and drag the dead-app-to-be into the wooden trash can icon, then click okay.

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I’ve recently been working more and more with Panic’s “One-Window Web Development” application Coda, and loving it more and more. One of the cool things I’ve discovered that can be done in Coda is Clips.Clips make it possible for you to insert big chunks of text or code easily instead of manually entering it repeatedly. Like with all of Coda, everything in Clips just works. Panic has really thought about everything with Clips–there are a few ways to open it, menus, and a sexy interface.To launch Clips, either click on the icon for it in the bottom bar, or press Control-Command-C.

This will bring up an Inspector-like window with a list of all the clips already saved in Coda. To insert one, simply double-click on it, and it will pop up in Coda’s text editor.To make full use of Clips, you’ll want to create your own, of course. To make a new one, simply click on the “plus” icon at the bottom left of the Clips window. This will make the Clips window rotate around, leaving you with a place to put in text and a title.

Linking files together have a lot of different uses. Here are some examples:

In my case I use MacVim and a lot of different programming languages. However I do frequently use the regular terminal Vim. The problem is you either stick with using the outdated built-in Vim version or you have to update through source. But you have MacPorts, so why go through all that trouble when 2 commands will do it? First just install the Vim through MacPorts (
see previous post
) then to make sure that you use the newer Vim all the time just use a symbolic link. To do this do
sudo ln -Ffhinsv /opt/local/bin/vim /usr/bin/vim
and there you go from now on any time that your computer goes to look for the Vim at /usr/bin it automatically is forwarded to the MacPorts installation.

Now, not only is this convenient and useful for Vim, but also programming languages. For example TextMate has a lot of bundles that make use of Ruby installed at /usr/bin/ruby, it would be tedious to manually change all them to /opt/local/bin/ruby so you use a symbolic link:
sudo ln -Ffhinsv /opt/local/bun/ruby /usr/bin/ruby


And it automatically knows to look at the MacPorts installation.
So there you go, try it out and enjoy!

We’re proud to announce our very first contest here at MacTips–a T-Shirt Idea Contest.

We’re in the process of designing some Mac T-shirts and thought we would ask you for ideas. Let us have your best/worst/funny/strange/obscure T-shirt ideas and you could win a free t-shirt.

Here are some guidelines:

1. You can submit as many ideas as you can think of
2. Don’t copy t-shirt ideas, we’re looking for original ideas here
3. You don’t have to design a mock-up of your idea–just present it as clearly as possible
4. If your idea is picked, you win a free t-shirt. You get to choose the t-shirt from the final group
5. Deadline for ideas is the end of January
6. Ideas can be submitted below in the comments. Please include your e-mail address on the form so we may contact you if you win. Please note your e-mail address is never shown publicly
7. By submitting the idea you allow us permission to use it on T-shirts
8. Your idea should be Apple/Mac/iPod/OS X/etc… related in someway.

Please submit your ideas below. Any questions/comments can also be submitted below. Good luck!