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How to rename a file in Mac OS X

Silly bugger, doesn’t he know Macs are easy to use? Well, yes they are but it’s not obvious how you can rename a file or folder in Finder. I had to look it up in a book to find out. (Thanks Barry for “The Missing Manual”!)

It is rather simple to rename a file actually, although not obvious.

In Finder, open the folder with your file in it.
See all those pretty icons? Don’t click on them. Find the icon for your file. Click once on that icon then click and hold the mouse button down on the filename below it.
After about a second of holding down the mouse button the text will become editable and you can type over the filename. Be careful you don’t change the extension because bad things will happen!

Simple when you know how.

Meanwhile, Mark is documenting his own experiences with a Mac Mini. Must try X-Chat Aqua.

No Béarla in this country

Is it possible to travel the length and breath of Ireland by only speaking in Irish? Evidentally yes if the following video clip is anything to go by. TG4 broadcaster Manchán Magan did it and this is his story. Here he buys condoms in a chemist, chats up some girls at a disco and finishes the night off by, well, watch the clip. It’s a bit funny. (via TCAL)

The strangest invoice ever

Just moments ago I received the following in an email. Searching for the companies mentioned doesn’t return anything useful or suspicious so I thought I’d post it here in case anyone else got it too.

**Electronic Invoice** Date: January 5, 2007

To: From:

Massimo Ferranti AllWebCo

Delfo Italiana Srl 180 Juniper Avenue

Via Varese 9 Satsuma, AL 36572

Muggio, MI 20053 Italy

Item Description Rate Amount
———————————————————————–
Annual Hosting denav.com $599.40/year $599.40
————————————————————————
Tax (0%) 0.00
– Balance Due when rendered – Total $599.40

Total Paid $599.40
Balance Due $ 0.00

********************************************
AllWebCo
To change the credit card we bill for your account:
https://plus40.safe-order.net/allwebco/cc_change.shtml
–=============–
To pay through PayPal:
http://allwebco.com/paypal-payment.htm
–=============–
To pay by electronic check, please use the following secure url:
http://www.allwebco.com/icheckpay.shtml
–=============–
Please make any checks payable to AllWebCo, and mail to:
AllWebCo
180 Juniper Ave.
Satsuma, AL. 36572
–=============–
If you have any questions regarding your billing, please
email Billing@AllWebCo.com

********************************************

Moments later I received a thank you email in response to payment of the invoice. The mind boggles.

Hi,

Thank you!

We have received your new billing information and have renewed the annual
hosting for denav.com.

Total cost $599.40.

Have a wonderful day,

Kendra
AllWebCo

Airtricity – switch now?

Airtricity are running an advertising campaign on the radio currently in an effort to get businesses to switch to them from the semi-state monopoly electricity generator, ESB. They offer to save you 10% off ESB prices and they’ll freeze your energy prices until 2010. That’s very attractive considering that the ESB is getting yet another price increase this month from the rubber stamping regulator. Unfortunately when you click “Switch now” on their site all you get is an error message:

XSLTransform Error

XSLTransform: Unmatched end tag.
File: VCFile(N/E:0:[website]::/ireland/switch_to_airtricity/switch_now/index.xml)
Line: 288, column: 18
Context:

Oops. That’s a pity because I wonder if I qualify as a small business being a self-employed person working at home. I’ll have to check back later.

Body of Joseph Mullally found

Twenty year old Joseph Mullally went missing last December 14th after he was last seen outside The Brog on Oliver Plunkett Street. An extensive search for the last several weeks went on involving volunteers and emergency personnel turned up nothing until this morning at 10am when 4 of the searchers found his body at the quayside in Tivoli, downstream of the city.

More on PRC, Breaking News, and RTE News.

Ar dheis De go raibh a anam.

Irish traffic to drive on right

The Irish Government will start the process of converting our traffic system to a right hand drive one in the next few months. The current system of driving on the left is a legacy of British rule in this country but now that we’re part of the EU this change is finally taking place. Grandad has more details on his blog.

I expect this will be a welcome change for tourists and foreign travelers to our shores, especially Polish people who will no doubt start businesses teaching people to drive on the ~~wrong~~ other side of the road.

Initially, all buses and articulated vehicles will move to the right to allow for a period of adjustment. Car owners may opt to make the switch themselves on an individual basis, depending on their level of confidence.

Starting on the 1st of August, all motorists outside city limits will be required to drive on the right. And finally on the 1st September, all city traffic will make the transition.

Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration.

A friend recently had a problem configuring a new server. He installed PHP, Apache, MySQL and phpMyAdmin but when he launched it he got the following error:

phpMyAdmin – Error
Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration.

If you’ve installed all of the above more than once you’ll know what is more than likely wrong. The MySQL PHP module isn’t loaded. First of all, you must find your php.ini. It could be anywhere but if you create a small php file with the phpinfo(); command it will tell you where it is. Common places include /etc/apache/, /etc/php4/apache2/php.ini, /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini or even /usr/local/lib/php.ini

Edit your server’s php.ini and look for the following line. Remove the ‘;’ from the start of the line and restart Apache. Things should work fine now!

;extension=mysql.so

should become

extension=mysql.so

Irish Blog Awards on March 3rd

The second Irish Blog Awards will take place on the 3rd of March in Dublin. Damien wants to know if you’re going so leave a comment on his post if you’re interested. I have yet to make up my mind but there’s already a number of comments left and it will probably be even bigger than last year!

If your company is looking for exposure in the blogging community, there are a number of sponsorship slots still left to fill. More details on the page linked above.

Videojug – life explained on film

Videojug explains how to do the most common things in life but also a few things you may not have thought about such as passionate kissing and how to ask a woman on a date. How to be the perfect boyfriend is hilarious! In just over three minutes you too can have a blissfull relationship! Of course, for the girls, there’s how to be the perfect girlfriend too. Ladies, be sure to watch it! (via Ray D’Arcy’s show)

Besides the above videos, there are also more practical videos on changing a tire, how to unblock a toilet and where would we be without how to suck an egg into a bottle.

If that’s not enough, there’s also Expert Village. Phew.

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