Schwie’s Pad

I’m planning to replace my the LUKS MR11C 20 degree spot 6 volt 15 watt (7 H) bulb in my discontinued NiteRider Evolution Smart with one of these bulbs. It appears the new one could be a flood bulb, but its a fraction of the price of a spot bulb, so I’m willing to roll with it and report back.  Also, I was a little confused with the entire lighting system when the bulb was dead.  The NiteRider system still flashed the the first red LED and the third overall LED (green) from the right when the bulb was dead, but none of this was documented in the manual that shipped with the system.  The previous bulb was only about a year old, so I was skeptical the bulb was in fact broken…

If you’re like me and need to access file paths for files and folders and prefer to do it via a contextual menu item in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, these directions and screenshots should show you the essentials to get it working:

“Services” have taken over in Snow Leopard and you have complete control of them via System Preferences->Keyboard. If you want to add a new Service to allow you to right click on a file in the Finder and place its file path to the clipboard, fire up Automator and configure it as this screen shot shows and save it as a “Service”. Here’s the code for copying and pasting into Automator:

set itemPath to “”
set uPath to “”
tell application “Finder”
activate
set itemPath to selection as string
set uPath to POSIX path of itemPath
set the clipboard to uPath
end tell