I’m proud to announce the official release of my first Wordpress plugin: SyntaxHL-Editor.
It offers an easy to use graphical user interface for Syntax Highlighter and Code Colorizer for Wordpress. You can easily enter and modify source-code highlighted in your posts as well as specify options for every single snippet.
The plugin is also hosted at the Wordpress plugin database. More information as well as the download can be found on the project specific site. If you discover a bug, then please report it in the comments.
I wish you a lot of fun with the plugin and hope you like it as much as I do. If you’ve got some feedback, please write it in the comments on this or the project page.
Time Machine is a great backup application shipped with Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard. You can either restore single files in your running OS X or do a full system restore by booting the OS X install DVD. Using the latter method, it would be nice to boot directly from your backup drive and not to be dependent on the install DVD. Here is a short guide how to achieve this.
We will first create a new partition on the backup drive, then clone the install DVD to this partition and finally boot from the external hard disk.
Redirection is a Wordpress plugin that let’s you add URL redirections to your blog. This is very useful if the addess of some or even all of your blog posts changed. The setup is straight forward: just enter source and target URL and the redirection is set up. The more advanced users can even add redirections based on regular expressions.
I (mis)used this plugin to setup short URLs to my profiles on social networks. I own the domain frommknecht.net, which happens to be my surname followed by the .net extension. So I thought it would be a great idea to forward frommknecht.net/fb to my Facebook profile, frommknecht.net/twitter to my Twitter page and so on. With Redirection, that’s very easy. Just go to the Redirection-settings, enter e.g. /twitter as “Source URL” and the link to your Twitter page as target. That’s all. After adding the redirection, your Twitter page will be available via http://<your-blog-url>/twitter.
This way, you could even use Wordpress as your private short-URL service ala bit.ly.
You have other cool tipps for Redirection? Then please leave a comment.
I recently bought Logitech’s G5 Laser mouse. It’s meant to be a gamer mouse but is also great for daily work. The only problem for us OSX users is that Logitech in contrast to most of its devices doesn’t offer drivers. The mouse works just fine out of the box without any proprietary driver, but you can’t reassign buttons. Luckily, there is third party software addressing this issue.
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With Leopard’s Finder, you can not only add applications to the toolbar, but also scripts. That’s an extremely useful feature I use every day and so I put together an introduction to my favorite three.
But let’s first talk about the installation. That’s pretty easy. Just extract the downloaded archive, copy the script to an arbitrary location and then drag it to Finder’s toolbar. That’s all. Now let the fun begin.
Did you ever have to rename a lot of files using a similar pattern? And did you end up sitting in front of Finder or whatever your favorite file manager is and stripped of a certain prefix from the file-name or changed the extension? Well, I did. But as long as you have a terminal at hand, you can do better. Here is how.
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Tweetie is the most hyped twitter client for Mac OS X at the moment. It offers a bookmarklet for simple tweeting of websites opening its quick post dialog and showing the URL.
But the usual format of my tweets when posting websites is the title of the page, followed by the URL in parenthesis. So I adjusted the bookmarklet to use this format.
Just drag this link Post with Tweetie to your bookmarks bar. Tested with Safari 4 Beta and Firefox 3.0.7.
If you’re like me, then you’ve got lots of different mail accounts. As nice as this may be to reduce spam and to always have the right address for any opportunity, as annoying it is when it comes to checking your mail “on the road”. It results in visiting several webmail sites which is really time consuming, especially if you check your mail regulary.
To solve this problem, I decided to use GMail as my one and only mail inbox. In this post, I show you how I set it up.
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