Highlight: Convert Source Code Into Formatted, Syntax Highlighted Text

Highlight is a powerful source code formatter and highlighter that supports more than 150 programming languages, and provides multiple color themes to export code modules into HTML, RTF, XML, LaTeX and TeX format. Since software IDE and development platforms offer support for only a few programming languages, you can use this application to highlight and understand the syntax of any language, and share the code files with highlighted syntax with others to help them understand the programming language code structure. Apart from applying syntax highlighting, it has the ability to convert the source code into formatted text with proper & clear indentation. Highlight is an extensible application, and allows adding plugins, written in LUA framework, to extend the built-in functions, as well as add new features. Read More

FormatMatch Removes Formatting From Text Copied To Clipboard [Mac]

Copying and pasting text from web pages is something we all do, but what is often a source of annoyance is that the copied text retains its original formatting, and you have to remove it before pasting the text in an email or a word processor. Removing formatting from text isn’t exactly a complicated process, but is a redundant one, nevertheless, and it can get more than frustrating at times. FormatMatch is a Mac app that runs in the system menu bar, and automatically cleans formatting from any text that you’ve copied, so you can paste it anywhere without any intermediary functions for cleaning text. Read More

BatchFormat – Remove Unused ‘Usings’ And Format Visual Studio Document

Do you often find it challenging to clean code file from unnecessary statements, imported snippets, functions, etc., and also to indent code, sort or remove unused Using directives in Visual Studio document? Visual Studio, just like many other software development IDEs, doesn’t provide features to clean the code file from such superfluous content, which makes it hard to not only dry run the code but visually scanning the important code modules present in document a tiresome task as well. What you probably need is a plugin which can automate the process of formatting documents without requiring you to find code format irregularities. BatchFormat is Visual Studio 2010 add-in to format document by removing and sorting different elements of any code file in current solution. Read More

Apply Alternating Line Color Formatting In Visual Studio 2010 Code Editor

Do you find it difficult to find certain code modules from an ever-growing source code file? Since Visual Studio 2010 code editor doesn’t provide options to customize the background in order to make code lines look more prominent, users generally try out different themes to get their focus straight on code editor. Alternating Line Color provides a simple yet effective solution. Just like what Format Painter can do with Excel sheets, it applies alternating color to each line of code, so that users can easily differentiate line breaks and code modules. Additionally, it doesn’t require configuring any settings to bring the alternating colored lines formatting. Read More

SpeedOut Checks USB & External HDD Read/Write Speed

Do you want to know the exact rate at which your USB or external hard drive transfers the data? SpeedOut is a simple program that can be used to find the exact data transfer rate and also check which USB or external hard drive provides you better performance. It has a simple interface which shows the results in bar chart along with numerical test results. Read More