I got a call from one of my clients on this last night, so I thought I’d post the recommendation. I’m also adding a category “Software Recommendations” so that it’s easy to get a list by clicking on the category in the right sidebar.
For FTP I recommend FileZilla. I only started using it recently, but it works well, and fulfills my needs.
Note to self: Always remember that your Adobe Creative Suite apps work together. Don’t do it all in Photoshop when you like InDesign better for layout and can then edit graphics with Photoshop in the layout. Or overlays for video in Premiere Pro. (This is an observation and neither a paid promo nor an affiliate…
Well, MediaMax is a service I was contemplating recommending to some of my clients, but based on this (where there is also a link to a google search for “mediamax sucks” producing a large number of hits), I think I won’t. Off to look for another service. As a note, I have found that numerous…
With Norton Anti-Virus and Internet Security 2006 I reluctantly quit recommending Norton for everything. It was using too much in the way of resources, and it was too expensive for the value provided. In a number of cases internet providers were offering free services that were less obtrusive and worked, at least for home clients….
Choosing an e-mail client is a pain, because if you make the wrong choice, it’s often a nightmare to export your files and accounts and then import them into a new account. Thus reviews such as this comparison of five cross-platform clients on nixCraft are very valuable.
Since I’ve switched to Ubuntu for my main desktop machine, I was interested in this article in Linux Mag which compares the features of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon with Leopard (Apple). Since I haven’t used an Apple since the Apple II, I have no opinion on Leopard, but there are many interesting points there about what…
You can read about it here or just go and download it here. Netbeans has become my editor of choice for working with PHP. At first I found it a bit clumsy due to the many things I was not used to having. But over time I have found it very helpful in preventing those…
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