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.

SteerMouse

First I tried SteerMouse from Plentycom-Systems. It’s a solid and stable piece of Software with a fair price of $20. You can easily reassign mouse buttons, fine-tune tracking speed and much more. But there is a major drawback: the mouse sensibility can no longer be changed on the device. Because I like this feature very much, the search went on.

USB Overdrive

The second tool was USB Overdrive by Alessandro Levi Montalcini, also priced at $20. This tool is equally easy to use, offers reassignment of mouse buttons, but without disabling the sensibility adjustments. So that’s the way I go.

Summary

Both tools, SteerMouse and USB Overdrive let you reassign buttons on the Logitech G5. They work equally stable (that’s at least my impression) and cost exactly the same. While SteerMouse has the nicer interface and was updated more recently, USB Overdrive let’s you still change the sensibility on the mouse. So it really depends if you want to use the later feature or not. If so, you have to use USB Overdrive, choose SteerMouse otherwise.

Update: USB Overdrive also works in Snow Leopard, even without updating to version 3.0

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.

Open in Textmate

Textmate is my favorite text editor. I use it a lot and so the Open in Textmate script comes in handy. It allows you to open the selected file directly in Textmate or if none is selected, open the whole directory for tabbed browsing.

Enhanced Open in Terminal Here

This script opens a Terminal window and changes to the directory shown in Finder. Very useful, but because it’s enhanced, it can do even more. Holding the Command-Key while clicking on the button opens a new tab instead of a new Terminal window. The Option-Key tries to recylcle an already running Terminal session and just changes to the directory. However, if this fails because the session is busy executing a program, a new window is created instead.

LSelect

Last but not least: LSelect. This script opens a dialog box where you can enter a globbing pattern like “*.jpg” and hitting enter selects all files with extension JPG. I think, you got the idea. It’s extremely useful for moving or deleting multiple files.

These were my top 3 Finder toolbar scripts making my daily work so much easier. If you happen to know scripts worth mentioning, then please leave a comment.

Imagine you’re at work an realise that you need some files at home. No problem at all, just log in at dropbox’s web interface, upload the data. At home, dropbox automatically downloads it to your local folder. Could it be any easier? 

You might say now, you don’t need it at all because you always keep an USB stick in your pocket just in case of emergency. And that’s not only faster but also does not need an Internet connection. Well, keep reading! It gets even better.

Using dropbox, you can easily share files with other people like friends or family. There are 2 prossibilities. Your dropbox folder has a special folder named Public. Anything that goes in there can be shared with other people. Just right-click on the file and select Dropbox - Copy public link. As the name suggests,  a link is copied to your clipboard heading to the file. Anybody can access the file via that link, even without being a dropbox user at all.

If you often share file with the same people, always copying public link is annoying. Luckily, there’s a second possibility. Just create a new directory somewhere in you local dropbox folder, right-click on it an select Dropbox – Share. You’re headed to a website where you enter mail addresses of other dropbox users. After accepting your invitation, the folder appears in their dopbox as well. Anybody in that group can add or remove content and changes are immediately reflected in all the other user’s dropboxes. How cool is that.

People quite often ask me for help with their computer problems. Dropbox in combination with Sktich makes this a lot easier. If you want them to have a screenshot, just fire up skitch, take the screenshot and drag it in the shared dropbox folder.

If you’re not yet a dropbox user, create an account right now! It’s easy and it’s free. It would be very nice if you would use this link for registration, containing a referral that offers extra 250MB for both of us. Now happy dropboxing.

It also let’s you store the letter in a proprietary format for later editing, as well as exporting it to PDF or Latex format.

Although it’s an early alpha version, it’s quite usable with one major drawback: it’s only available in German so far, because the Latex-template used doen’t support other languages. I hope this will change in the near future and it supports at least English as additional language.

For more information visit the project’s page.