May 7, 2013
If you've ever done any sort of web management, then you've probably used FTP at some point or another. Most web hosts will have a primitive file uploader than you can use straight from your browser, but those are often a pain in the butt to use. The truly powerful FTP clients tend to be desktop-only, but FireFTP is a client that plugs into Firefox and makes the whole process easy. What is FTP?
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March 22, 2013
How about a way to embed a connection to your own hosting account - whether it's just a file hosting service or a web hosting account - directly within the Windows file explorer system? Wouldn't it be cool to essentially "mount" your hosting account to your computer? Well, we can with a really cool free app called Swish.
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January 31, 2013
A large number of FTP clients of old had hiccups when it came to large file transfers. The apps experienced the usual timeouts that you would expect when the computer sits there for 15 to 30 minutes, transferring massive files. More recently, noticing so many positive reviews around the web for FileZila, I decided to take a closer look at what the latest iteration of the software had to offer. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised.
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January 17, 2013
Have a license for an old Adobe product, but can't find your disk? Not an issue. So long as you've got your serial number you've got a legal way to download and run the software you paid for, thanks to a not-so-secret FTP server containing every version of pretty much every program Adobe's ever offered.
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November 8, 2012
Around ten years ago I got hold of my first mobile device, a HP Pocket PC that enabled me – wireless networks provided – to get online and browse the web in a very basic version of Internet Explorer. It wasn’t long before I was more interested in accessing the backend of websites rather than [...]
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April 15, 2012
If you've jailbroken your iPad, there are many ways to transfer files to and fro between your trusty tablet and your computer. However, most of them require you to open some kind of application on the iPad-side. If you're willing to invest some little time in initial preparations, SFTP is one hard to beat candidate for iOS file transfers.
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October 19, 2011
If there is one thing that really annoys me about working with a remote web server is the fact that it is still a bit inconvenient to explore and edit those files remotely. Commercial servers offer a much more user-friendly, graphical interface to remotely access your web files. So, it's high time you start upgrading those servers with a few bells and whistles.
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August 4, 2011
Use rsync, the ultimate syncing tool, without having to install Linux or learn the command line. That's the appeal of Grsync, a GUI version of the popular Unix/Linux command line program rsync. Grsync isn't just for Linux, though. It can run on Mac and Windows computers as well.
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August 3, 2011
Having an FTP server available, whether it's one associated with your web hosting account, or a standalone server you've set up at home, is a nice convenience. When people started getting excited about "cloud" apps like DropBox or SkyDrive, I couldn't help but wonder how different it all really is from simply having an FTP server available.
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June 30, 2011
One of the biggest complaints from iOS users is how tied up their devices are to their computer and iTunes. A user has to cable-connect their iDevice(s) to a computer and sync with iTunes to get files in and out of the device. Apple has already addressed this issue in the upcoming iOS 5, but we have to wait until the autumn. In the meantime, there is FileApp.
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June 16, 2011
There are a lot of important reasons why people need to take screenshots and then upload them to the web for online publication. We've covered many screenshot apps before but believe it or not, there is another tool that you may want to consider if you want to shave even more time off your screen capturing efforts. You can cut four or five steps from the typical screenshot process by using UpScreen.
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May 19, 2011
One of the coolest things about being an independent journalist is that you’re almost always on top of current events within your field. On the flip side, there’s also a lot of demand on you to get the latest information and news out on the web before anyone else does. One approach that I’ve seen [...]
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March 11, 2011
There is one thing that I do almost constantly during my day job that I realized I don’t really do at home. That is creating an FTP server where you can retrieve files from within one sub-network while you’re anywhere on a LAN, or in the case of a home FTP server, accessing files from [...]
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November 16, 2010
FTP and SSH are both network protocols that run on top of the TCP/IP layer, just like HTTP. In plain English, it’s a certain way for devices to communicate with each other over a network. Different ways of communication are used in different circumstances. There are different uses and different strengths. But exactly how SSH [...]
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September 21, 2010
Most of the time, when you need to transfer files to your web hosting account or any other remote server, you might be at home on your laptop where you’ve got your favorite desktop FTP client installed. However, when you’re on the road or using a friend’s computer, a desktop FTP client may not be [...]
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