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Best file transfer client Filezilla FTP or SCP - client or server
Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:58
     Filezilla is by far the best file transfer program out there.  You can use it for scp or ftp and is very robust.  Filezilla is a open source program that has been in production for years.  It finally went production a few years back and is still coming out with new versions.  Not only is it a client but filezilla also comes with a server too. 
Here are some excerps from there website. 

FileZilla Features

Overview

FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.

Features

Among others, the features of FileZilla include the following:

  • Easy to use
  • Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
  • Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more
  • IPv6 support
  • Available in many languages
  • Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
  • Tabbed user interface
  • Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
  • Bookmarks
  • Drag & drop support
  • Configurable transfer speed limits
  • Filename filters
  • Directory comparison
  • Network configuration wizard
  • Remote file editing
  • Keep-alive
  • HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support
  • Logging to file
  • Synchronized directory browsing
  • Remote file search
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Firefox Collections
Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:50
This is something I just found the other day while looking for some new add-ons.  Firefox offers collections which provide add-ons for a specific type of user.  There is a social collection, web developer collection and so on.  Something i never noticed before and something to look at the next time your adding things to your firefox browser. 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/editors_picks



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Speed up the Internet with faster DNS
Wednesday, 16 December 2009 16:30
With Google Opendns and Ultradns all having free available DNS servers, you can pick and choose which is the fastest.  I ran this tool at work and at home and it was 35 to 40% faster.  At my home it found a different verizon DNS server, at work it found openDNS to be faster then my office's public DNS server.  I run that dns server, so i guess i should get crackin at speeding that thing up.  It was the second faster DSN server though, eh whatever.  I noticed a difference almost immediately while cruising the interwebs, Domain lookups are much faster. 


Here is the definition of DNS for everyone there
Domain Name System: A database system that translates an IP address into a domain name. For example, a
numeric IP address like 207.219.116.4 is converted into netlingo.com. ...

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QuickTime alternative
Monday, 14 December 2009 11:31
I found something really cool today.  I hate apple software, its bloated and I'd rather not use it.  I don't own an Ipod and i don't purchase music through itunes so i don't use the itunes software.  I use Firefox so i don't use safari.  The only thing i can't get around is Quicktime, some websites still use it.  Until today i found a piece software named QT lite.  It works flawlessly and implements easier with Firefox and other browsers.  You can download it from a variety of sources just follow a search for Qt lite, quicktime alternative.  Mostly from codec providers.  Not that i really hate quicktime but its difficult to find the install without itunes and it installs apple updater which tries to install everything i don't need.  So if your like me and don't want the bloatware of itunes and all its friends on your computer try the Quicktime alternative called qt lite. 



found here: http://www.codecguide.com/qt_lite.htm
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Instant Messaging
Monday, 07 December 2009 09:49

Pidgin Instant Messaging


www.pigdin.im

Instant messaging has been evolving throughout the years.  From ICM to AIM to facebook and hopefully skype.  If your antyhing like me, it seems everyone I know perfers something different.  Although 90% of my friends like to chat either using AIM, facebook, or google.  I hate opeing 2 programs when 1 will do.  That's why I use Pidgin instant messenger.  This is an open source product that combines almost every chat service into 1 familar tool.  You may remember an older program named GAIM that started in Linux, this is the same tool just evolved a bit.  It looks and feels a lot like the old AIM client which i liked the best.  I currently use it for yahoo, AIM, google and facebook chat, but it also includes all of the chat interfaces listed below.  I enable facebook chat through a third party plugin: http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/.  Because the software is open source there are tons of features, much like the facebook plugin.  There are logging plugins or smiley plugins and a whole lot more.  This is a highly recommended software if you do a lot of chatting online and especially if you want to use multiple services. 
  • AIM
  • Bonjour
  • Gadu-Gadu
  • Google Talk
  • Groupwise
  • ICQ
  • IRC
  • MSN
  • MySpaceIM
  • QQ
  • SILC
  • SIMPLE
  • Sametime
  • XMPP
  • Yahoo!
  • Zephyr
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