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How to backup your files and automate them on your PC
Software & Programs It is already blogged many times that blogger must backup his blog files and databases. So I’m not going to go in there, instead I’m going to blog about how to backup your files and documents on your PC. I’m sure it is as critical to you as backing up your blog files. For this purpose I’m introducing you to Mozy for those who haven’t heard about it – they are offering online storage as backup media. Mozy gives ...
Continue readingWordPress Alternatives
Software & Programs WordPress is a fantastic piece of software and is hugely popular. However, its popularity sometimes makes bloggers forget that there are other great blogging scripts and services out there. Here is a quicklist of wordpress alternatives that you might be interested at looking into if you want something different : Blog Software b2evolution boastMachine Dotclear Eggblog LifeType Loudblog Nucleus CMS sBlog Serendipity SimplePHPBlog Simplog ...
Continue readingUltimate compressing tool!
Software & Programs 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 ...
Continue readingTake better screenshots!
Software & Programs 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 ...
Continue readingSlimStat
Software & Programs 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 ...
Continue readingMy favourite File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Software & Programs 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 ...
Continue readingMy favourite Text Editor
Software & Programs 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, ...
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