Oh wow, who saw that coming. In 2009, it just seemed the browser I met with the same dull logo would stay with it forever. Well, lucky us, our docks and task bars will stop being poluted with the crappy red O logo starting Opera 10.

I really like the new O. It still stands out like a sore thumb my Mac’s dock crowd of icons for its rash color and lack of complexities, but alass, a bit like that new Firefox logo nobody saw (yup, they actually changed the colors and depth a bit since 3.5), it’s better, only in this case, way better.

Not withstanding the browser itself, the designers (Ian Hickson I think) at Opera Software are doing a good job with Opera 10. It’s coming out as a neat browser, although the lack of native looks is truly exasperating. Mind you, Apple does a so so job at making its components follow a real standard look, but the delicious generation style is at least more thourough on OS X apps than it is for its Windows XP counterparts.

You know the Quick Connect thing on FileZilla? Is it clogged up? Do you wish you didn’t have to start over and erase everything? Your wish has come true. Follow the instructions bellow. All you need to know is a bit of XML, but it’s so easy it’s not very complicated to figure out.

Windows XP

1. Go to C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_name
2. Click in the address bar and append the following to the current URL: \Application Data
3. It should look like this: C:\Documents and Settings\Pacoup\Application Data
4. Double-click on the folder named FileZilla
5. Open recentservers.xml with a raw text editor (e.g. Notepad)
6. Head over to the XML Step of this guide

Windows Vista & Windows 7

1. Go to C:\Users\your_user_name
2. Click in the address bar to activate the URL field and append the following to the current URL: \AppData
3. It should look like this: C:\Documents and Settings\Pacoup\AppData
4. Double-click on the folder named FileZilla
5. Open recentservers.xml with a raw text editor (e.g. Notepad)
6. Head over to the XML Step of this guide

The XML Step

It’s only a matter of editing the right tags. Simply follow this before and after and you should figure it out. If not, ask your local geek or search Google for some very basic XML tutorials.

Before:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<FileZilla3>
    <RecentServers>
        <Server>
            <Host>your_ftp_host.com</Host>
            <Port>21</Port>
            <Protocol>0</Protocol>
            <Type>0</Type>
            <User>your_user_name</User>
            <Pass>xxxxxxx</Pass>
            <Logontype>1</Logontype>
            <TimezoneOffset>0</TimezoneOffset>
            <PasvMode>MODE_DEFAULT</PasvMode>
            <MaximumMultipleConnections>0</MaximumMultipleConnections>
            <EncodingType>Auto</EncodingType>
            <BypassProxy>0</BypassProxy>
        </Server>
    </RecentServers>
</FileZilla3>

After:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<FileZilla3>
    <RecentServers>
        <Server>
            <Host>your_ftp_host.com</Host>
            <Port>21</Port>
            <Protocol>0</Protocol>
            <Type>0</Type>
            <User>your_user_name</User>
            <Pass>xxxxxxx</Pass>
            <Logontype>1</Logontype>
            <TimezoneOffset>0</TimezoneOffset>
            <PasvMode>MODE_DEFAULT</PasvMode>
            <MaximumMultipleConnections>0</MaximumMultipleConnections>
            <EncodingType>Auto</EncodingType>
            <BypassProxy>0</BypassProxy>
        </Server>
        <Server>
            <Host>your_2nd_ftp_host.com</Host>
            <Port>21</Port>
            <Protocol>0</Protocol>
            <Type>0</Type>
            <User>your_user_name</User>
            <Pass>xxxxxxx</Pass>
            <Logontype>1</Logontype>
            <TimezoneOffset>0</TimezoneOffset>
            <PasvMode>MODE_DEFAULT</PasvMode>
            <MaximumMultipleConnections>0</MaximumMultipleConnections>
            <EncodingType>Auto</EncodingType>
            <BypassProxy>0</BypassProxy>
        </Server>
    </RecentServers>
</FileZilla3>

“A” and “An” are often confusing for writers of the English language. In terms of meaning, you can rest by knowing both have the exact same meaning, so no one will mistaken what you say or write because you used it wrong. The only thing it is really useful for is ease of pronunciation. It’s made so that the language flows better.

Just pronounce it out loud and you’ll know it looks weird:
- A flower
or
- An flower

Pronouncing the N and then the F feels awkward and unlinked. Just remember this simple rule: there can never be two consonants or vowels one after the other.

An flower and a alligator don’t work because there’s N and F following each other (2 consonants in a row) and A and A following each other (2 vowels in a row).

There’s also the plural trick. Look at the following:
1. “The flowers like the Sun.”
2. “The flower likes the Sun.”
That’s correct.

However, the following isn’t:
3. “The flower like the Sun.”
4. “The flowers likes the Sun.”

Case 3 is actually particular in that it is an incomplete sentence, however not an incorrect form. If the intent was to say the the flower likes (as in loving) the Sun light, then the grammar is wrong, however, by completing the sentence as follows it could be right: “The flower, like the Sun, has a nice yellow color.” A few punctuation differences and voila, it makes sense.

See how without the S at the end of like, the verb becomes the word like (as likeness, likely, likewise, alike). That’s why the S is there.

Case 4 is a major mistake, and an easy one to make because it doesn’t sound entirely wrong. Make sure to never put an S to the verb when the noun is plural.

If you have to have a trick to remember, think that there’s always only one S if it’s a verb.