Cool Program Recommendation
Here’s a program that might help you bloggers out there: It’s called “Send to FTP.”
(For the benefit of the uninitiated, FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol; programs called FTP clients use FTP to send files around over the internet. It’s the best way to add files to web servers like the one that hosts Blog Jones.)
I don’t know about you guys, but there are a lot of times when I’ll want to upload one or two files to Blog Jones; say I want to add a picture or a new plugin for WordPress. Before I found this program, I would have to go find my FTP client (either LeechFTP, which works well, but was last updated in 1999 and was poorly translated from the original German, or the File Manager on cPanel, which was pretty, but slow) connect it to my server, locate the folder on the server I wanted the file to go to, upload it, and close the program; a lot of steps.
Now, I can just right click on the selected file or group of files, highlight “Send To” and click “Send to FTP.”
It’ll prompt you for the name of the server, your username, and your FTP password, and then you hit OK. Seconds later, the file arrives on your server, ready to be shown to the world.
The software is simple, efficient, and best of all, completely free. Definitely worth a download!
March 15th, 2005 at 4:55 pm
If you’re looking for a high quality free stand-alone FTP client, I recommend FileZilla. I tried many FTP clients, both freeware and shareware, and FileZilla is excellent. (SmartFTP has a little better interface, but it’s not free.)
BTW, what is the OS X Dock look-alike you’re running in that screenshot?
March 18th, 2005 at 6:33 pm
I’ll have to look at FileZilla. Looks pretty good.
The Dock program is called ObjectDock. It’s very nice software; I’ll have to devote an entire post to it sometime.
March 20th, 2005 at 10:13 pm
Hey, to Give an Answer: Thank you so much for introducing me to FileZilla. It’s soooo much better than LeechFTP. I love it.