* : If you spend much time in Terminal, and navigate into deeply-buried folders, the path that shows as part of the prompt can get really long. This hint explains how to limit its length. Note the instructions are a bit out of date--you'll be editing .profile, not .bash_profile, but the rest should work as described.

* : A couple fun examples of completely non-productive things you can do in Terminal. If you want even more Terminal fun, how about a ?

* : Old school as in nothing but monospaced text. This hint forces Mail to ignore all formatting commands in e-mails and display them in plain text...the way all us old fogies prefer to read our e-mail.