November 12, 2008
Do you work with FTP sites on a daily basis for work or fun? If you don’t use FTP maybe you are an ImageShack junkie or a RapidShare addict? Do you have to open up a FTP client or use Internet Explorer to log-in and upload files? I sure do and I work with a [...]
August 14, 2008
I was recently away when my blog broke. A plug-in had somehow broken down, became corrupt and an embarrassing PHP error was seen on the top of every page. Worse yet the admin section wouldn’t work period. The solution was simple right? Log in via FTP and delete the corrupt plug-in. Unfortunately Murphy’s Law was [...]
July 23, 2008
I love Firefox and I love extensions! There I said it. I am an extension junkie! I did a clean install today on a new laptop and I decided to document some of my favorite Firefox extensions. But before we get into the list … I wanted to warn you that each additional extension you [...]
January 30, 2008
Hey MUO Readers have I got a sweet suite of free tools for you network admins and regular end users. Being in the networking world for so long I have loads of tools in my admin tool box (My USB Stick). But recently a fellow tech blogger Paul Bauer introduced me to a nifty program [...]
January 12, 2008
Bloggers, there are lots of things you’ve to keep an eye on, and most of the time, you’ll need the help of different programs for different needs. Sure, there are more web tools for the job, but nothing can get to give you the convenience and speed that desktop applications offer. So, here goes a [...]
December 20, 2007
I have recently begun to move all my photos from Flickr back to my own website. I was encouraged to begin this huge task when I was introduced to the freeware program Web Album Generator. I figured this would be a good time to introduce it to Make Use Of readers, what with the holidays [...]
October 24, 2007
WordPress Pluggins: Part One Last year it sounded all so easy and routine when I said to myself “let’s move my blog from Blogger to WordPress. Should be a piece of cake”. Famous last words. One year on and three attempts later, my blog is now finally on the WordPress platform. I now feel like [...]
September 25, 2007
Finally my hunt is over. Aibek, the main author of MakeUseOf told me when I first started being a guest writer that there is a “free version for everything”. So I sought out to replace any of the desktop applications that I used with free (and preferably open source) desktop only programs. I don’t feel [...]
August 20, 2007
If you have your own website, most likely you will be used to the regular task of transferring numerous files to the website from your computer. Whether it is an image, a document, a HTML page or a zipped attachment, it can be pretty tiring transferring them one by one if you are using a [...]
