The ISP I use, Brighthouse Networks, dropped their personal home pages service (which they called PHP, not to be confused with the scripting language of the same name) in late 2010; that meant no more web space, meaning no more free FTP. Verizon internet, amazingly, was still offering free FTP access to their personal home page service all this while but not...

For a while now it’s been possible to map an internet FTP shortcut in Windows Explorer, with emphasis on shortcut and not drive letter. Most of you out there are very familiar with the "Map Network Drive" feature of Windows, but when mapping an FTP location as a shortcut, the steps to take are slightly different. Here’s how to do it in...

If you run your own web site and run Perl, PHP scripts or the like, there will be instances where you have to edit some files from time to time. The long way to do it is to download the file you need to edit, modify it, then upload it back. The short way is to edit the file "live" on the server directly. Using Notepad++ this is easy to do with...

If you have your own web site you most likely transfer files via FTP every so often. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could store your documents, spreadsheets or anything else OpenOffice can make there? You can. Note before continuing: I have only tried this with the Windows version of OpenOffice, but it’s assumed this will work on the Linux or Mac OS X...

Have you ever needed to quickly connect to an FTP site to either upload or download a file, but you don’t have an FTP client handy? If so, then net2ftp is site you will find helpful. When you visit the site, the usage is obvious: you enter the server and login information and then you can do all your FTP’ing from within your browser. net2ftp does...

I am constantly having to do work on client systems and many times this requires me to transfer large files to and from my computer and theirs. While FTP works great, many times there are firewall/IT restrictions which can make this more trouble than it is worth. Additionally, emailing files to myself usually has a limit on the file size. The solution I have...

KeePass Password Safe is a free password manager utility program that I’ve written about before. One question that came about is "Okay, so you can save a password file locally. But how about backing it up to a server?" KeePass does in fact have the ability to do this via FTP. Using the latest version 2.06 beta, you open your database and click...

Sometimes there is a need to login via FTP from the command line in Windows. Maybe you just need to login to make a quick upload or download. This tutorial will show you how to make a quick login script that will login you into your FTP server without having to type it in. To do this, we write two text files (one script, one batch) and place both of them in the...

If you’ve ever delved into the world of having your own web site, you will inevitably have a need to send and retrieve files from your server via FTP. FTP is really (and I mean really) old and still widely used. While it’s true you can send or receive files from the command line in any OS, the GUI way of doing it is much easier because you get things...

Foxmarks is a freely available add-on for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Normally what you would do to send/retrieve your bookmarks is use the Foxmarks servers to store this information, however if you host your own web site (or just use free FTP space provided by your ISP) you can store your own bookmarks privately via FTP. See video below for...