I’ve blogged recently about taking better screenshots, now I’m gonna blog about a great tool, 7zip, to help you with compressing needs. This application is a must have in your blogging tools list!

Every blogger sooner or later faces problems extracting various kinds of files. The most popular compressing method is zip, you will most probably be able to work with zip files.

But how about others? Especially if you are using open source softwares, many softwares provide their source codes, installation files etc in different compressed files. There are paid applications…

While blogging we come across many nice and useful websites and softwares, being bloggers we want to write about them. Most of us still using Print Screen and then going to either Paintbrush or Photoshop to copy the screenshot, edit it and save it.

Using Photoshop is good, the images come out the quality you want but you must be willing to deal with the slow response of the applications, since Photoshop requires a lot of resources. It also takes a while to do just getting screenshot and editing - resizing or drawing…

If your using cpanel then you’ll already have some good stat programs which you can use to monitor your traffic, most notably awstats and webalizer.

Stat programs rarely seem to agree with each other which is why i like to use 1 or 2 more stat programs to give me a more balanced and realistic impression of what traffic to my site is really like. Im particularly a big fan of seeing where referrals are coming from ie. what sites and what search engines.

One of the programs i have started…

In order to transfer files from your pc to your website you need to either use an online file manager (not practical for a lot of files) or an ftp. There are a lot of ftps out there.

Before i told you about my favourite text editor so now ill tell you about my favourite ftp.

Over the years i had used a lot of ftps but the ones i used most often was leech ftp and netfile ftp. Leech is a decent ftp but its extremely basic and profiles etc cant be saved. The one one i used a lot was netfile ftp. They used to have a free version which had spyware on it but you could remove the ads buy paying for a license….which i did. Less than a year later they started offering…

Text editors are a web developers best friend

I know there are hundreds out there but my personal favourite is Textpad. Its easy to use, has loads of features and best of all is free!

Features 

Huge files can be edited, up to the limits of virtual memory. See Specifications for the actual limits.
Supports Universal Naming Convention (UNC) style names, and long file names with spaces.
CUA compliant keyboard commands.
English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish user interfaces.
A spelling checker with dictionaries in 10 languages.
Multiple files can be simultaneously edited, with up to 2 views per file.
Warm Start feature lets you restart exactly where…