Archives for June 2006

FileZilla - Zero-Price GPL FTP Client

Downloaded, tried out, and immediately switched to FileZilla. It queues! Where have you been hiding? Or have I been Googling the wrong keywords this whole time?
Before this I used AceFTP 3 Freeware. It has a small advertisement tucked away at a corner and it nags you to buy the commercial version every time you close […]

29 June 2006 | Applications | No Comments

Windows XP Command-Line Network Configuration

There are times when you need to switch between using DHCP and a fixed IP address for your notebook’s wireless or LAN cable connection. Having to click Start –> Connect To –> Show all connections –> (right-click) Local Area Connection –> Properties –> (double-click) Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) can become cumbersome - or just impossible if […]

21 June 2006 | Windows XP | No Comments

Two Cool Tools

Over the past week I came across Notepad2 and SQLyog.
Notepad had always been good enough for me to write ASP and JSP … until one of our clients required a web application in Simplified Chinese. The problem is that Notepad writes an extra character called the BOM mark at the beginning of the […]

20 June 2006 | Applications | No Comments