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FTP in FireFox, Nice!

Iron Wil — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:43:33 +0000

In reading IBAM, this morning Spencer Scott posted an article about 4 FTP clients for the Mac. I think he missed one from his list.

I love Filezilla on a WinBox, but for the Mac I have to agree with Spencer, it needs work. CyberDuck was not very impressive, it worked; but I always had trouble getting it to work. Transmit, is very nice – but I didn’t want to spend the 30$. The price is reasonable; but I wanted something for free. I don’t know anything about Fetch.

FireFTP, a FireFox plug-in that is cross platform compatible. It has a simple and easy to use interface. It opens a tab right in FireFox and it has become my favorite FTP client.

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A Small [8gig] Pleasure

Iron Wil — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:19:24 +0000

About a year ago, friend and reader, Technolust bought an 8gig Flash Drive. I was quite envious of the acquisition; however I was not willing to part with the 80$ for a new drive. I decided that I would have to wait until the prices came down enough that I felt it was a worth while purchase. Last week, thanks to NewEgg, I bought the Patriot Xporter for about 35$.

I have to say it is nice to have enough room to carry software packages I recommend and install on my clients computers. i even have all the Apple “Get a Mac” ads and half a dozen of the Heroes Graphic Novels. However, Technolust filled up her flash drive in about 2 weeks. I don’t have any idea what she has on that thing; but I am sure it is important.

If you hit my mac/pc pics pages you will get an idea of what I am carrying around on my flash drive.

Thunderbird & FireFox, ClamXav, AVG Free, TrueCrypt [Win & Mac], Filezilla, 7-Zip . . . etc.
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John Welch’s 22 Lesser Mac Apps

Iron Wil — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:06:21 +0000

Information Week’s Apple expert John Welch posted 22 Mac Apps that he recommends for every Mac user. In reading his post and looking at the Apps he suggested I have found some I will be testing. I am testing Transmit 3, which is an FTP client from Panic Software. I tried the previous version, but I didn’t stick with it because it didn’t ‘remember’ my sites correctly. It was a pain. So far Transmit 3 has done well, I have 2 more sites to test before I can render a decision.

He also features Microsoft’s Entourage, Microsoft’s RDP Client, TypeIt4Me [which I plan to test], Parallels Desktop for Mac [which is cheaper than Mac Office], Boot Camp, SnapZ Pro X, and many more. I will warn you that some of them have a hefty price tag, like Apple Remote Desktop [299$ for 10 machines], while other’s are free, Microsoft’s RDP Client for the Mac. I have used the RDP Client for remote access and it worked rather well – I am impressed with it.

Check them out, John did a good job putting this list together.

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