This category involves anything around accessing the internet. This includes different browsers, gadgets or customization features and specific tools found on the internet.
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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
Download from here
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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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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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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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Monday, 07 December 2009 09:49 |
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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