WordPress Plugin SyntaxHL-Editor officially released
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 [...]
Make Time Machine backups bootable
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 [...]
Using WordPress as URL redirection service
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 [...]
Logitech G5 Laser mouse on Mac OS X (updated)
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 [...]
My Top 3 Finder Toolbar Scripts
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 [...]
Batch renaming files in shell
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 [...]
Launchbar: Dialing phone numbers with Fritz!Box (Applescript)
Update: The script on this page no longer works. Please refer to this one. Launchbar is a very convenient application launcher for Mac OS X. Among other great features like instant send, it can execute a script when invoking a phone number from your address book. I own a Fritz!Box 7170, which is one of [...]
Include website’s title in Tweetie’s bookmarklet
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 [...]
Using GMail as one and only Inbox
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 [...]
Create RSS feeds with PHP
RSS is a format for publishing frequently changing content like news, a list of blog posts or directories. Using RSS readers like Google Reader or Apple Mail, you can read all your daily information at one place, offering a much better overview and faster processing than visiting every single website. An RSS feed from the [...]