My Computer Back in Service

I come across quite a few programs, applications and features almost every day in the course of normal work-a-day research trying to find the right tools to use in the Computer Consulting Business.

As a result, I often find some little known Free Downloadable or Online Features that could be of use to almost anyone to make their computing experience a little bit better and more productive.

This is just such a find…

Last week we featured WampServer for creating Blogs and Websites Offline, but how do you upload them to your server?

FileZilla is, in my opinion, one of the best ways to upload any type of Blog, Website, Shopping Cart or any kind of Web Presence you build offline to your WebHost.

It’s fairly easy to use FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Solution if you have a little knowledge of how Hosting works, but then again, if you can build your own site you already know enough to get it done uploading one file at a time.

FileZilla just makes it much easier by giving you the capacity to upload Everything at once.

I hope you find this tool to be something useful in your daily computing experience.

If you find something you think should be included, please use the comments below or use my Contact Form to let me know and I will be sure to check it out for inclusion in a future article.

I just wanted to share a short video I made about my feelings on Pamela for Skype.

My biggest complaint is that I wanted to use it to do Two Way Video Interviews, but it doesn’t work. Apparently, I am not alone in my frustration.
 

Have you tried Pamela for Skype? What was your experience?

If you Blog, you know that most of the time spent writing a post is online. If you are on a dedicated server with one of the High Speed Providers it is usually not a problem.

But if you still use Dial-up (why would you?) or need to post using Wi-Fi it can get expensive pretty quickly. Sometimes you just don’t have access to the internet for whatever reason, but still want to get an article ready for when you regain internet access.

What to do?

I personally, just started using Windows Live Writer. It seems to fit the bill for most times when I am not online but need to get something written. (This post is written on Live Writer.)

What it does:

• It is compatible with Blogging Services like WordPress, Blogger, TypePad and Movable Type and most other platforms.
• It uses WYSIWYG so you can see what your Article will look like before it is published.
• You can insert pictures, tables, videos, hyperlinks, just about anything you can do on your blog online. It even spell checks as you’re typing.
• Best of all once you are satisfied and can get online, you can publish it directly, save as a draft online or save as  a draft and continue editing online.
• You can even set categories and a date to pre-publish a post (al least using WordPress I don’t know about the others).

What is Doesn’t:

• If you have a recurring series of posts that the lead paragraph/ending are always the same, you Can Not save it as a local draft and reuse it. It will automatically pick up whatever the end published document contains.
• For some reason, when you publish a post containing pictures or .jpg .gif .jpeg .png or similar, it will automatically add it to the default upload as a new pic. If you delete it from the upload file, you will lose the picture or whatever graphic you added to a previous post.

All in all, Windows Live Writer is a very effective and powerful publishing tool for writing Blog Posts when you aren’t online.