Tag: Tech

Because SmartFTP kept nagging me to register, I stopped using it and now use FileZilla, which is open-source (i.e. free to you and me) and just as good.It does all the things I need an FTP client to do, looks OK, easy to use. It probably does various clever things with multiple connections and so… Continue reading FileZilla

PSPad is a freeware text editing program, with lots of syntax higlighting and tidying features. I use it to edit and tidy Blosxom plugins (Perl), style sheets (CSS), ‘flavor’ files for Blosxom (XHTML fragments), as well as pure XHTML. I’ve tried various text editors, and I’ve settled on this one. For the moment.

WWW2FTP is an online FTP client. It allows all the usual FTP functions, in a simple web-based interface. The interface is in German, which isn’t a problem for me, and all the commands are pretty obvious anyway. In fact, here’s a quick rundown of the interface, with the various commands translated: As you can see,… Continue reading WWW2FTP.de

IrfanView is a fantastic freeware program for viewing, processing, filtering, organising and displaying images. It’s tiny, less than a meg in size, and it supports pretty much every image file format you can think of. It’s very fast, and is simple for beginners and powerful for professionals, supporting batch processing and renaming of images, HTML… Continue reading IrfanView – Multi-format Image Viewer and Processor

Tidy is a great little tool that checks the HTML or XHTML code you have written, and fixes any errors you have made, and also tidies up and ‘prettifies’ the code. It has a command-line interface, with myriad options, so it can get a bit bewildering (for me at least) That’s where Tidy UI comes… Continue reading Tidy and Tidy UI

SmartFTP is an FTP client that’s free for personal, educational or non-profit use. And that’s it really. It does most things I need an FTP client to do, looks OK, easy to use. It does various clever things with multiple connections and speed graphs, but I don’t use them.

Nvu is an Open Source (free!) web editing package to rival Dreamweaver or Frontpage. It’s really easy to use, enabling you to work directly in code, or in a WYSIWYG environment, and it generates standards-compliant code. It’s based on the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, and is currently at version 1.00PR, so there still bugs around.… Continue reading NVU – WYSIWYG Web Editor

The GIMP is a full featured, powerful and free image creation, photo retouching, painting, drawing and general image manipulation package. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP… Continue reading The GIMP – Open Source Image Editing