FTP client software is normally used to connect to FTP servers for transferring files to the remote server. There is quite a lot of free FTP client software available to choose from but one of the most popular, if not the most popular is FileZilla. It is a fully fledged FTP client available in both installer and portable versions and is frequently updated and released under the GPL license which is not just free, but staying that way too.

However there are times when we need to quickly access an FTP server from another computer to upload a file without going through the hassle of downloading, installing, configuring a full FTP client software such as FileZilla and uninstalling the program after we’ve finished using it.

Here are 5 free and easy ways to do it.
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mIRC is a very popular software that is used to connect to IRC servers and chat anonymously with other users. The overall usage of IRC has declined a lot over the past few years with users jumping ship to instant messengers such as Windows Live Messenger, and now to mobile chatting applications such as WhatsApp, Viber, Skype, WeChat, etc. Although IRC is not commonly being used these days, there are still some small and independent companies that uses IRC as a channel to offer free chat support. Downloading and installing an IRC client software such as mIRC just for a quick use may seem a bit overkill. Other than that, it is also possible that a firewall in a company or educational facility may be blocking port 6660-6669 and 7000 (SSL) used by IRC.

An easier solution to avoid installing unnecessary software and bypassing your firewall restriction is to use a web-based IRC client. All you need is a modern web browser and an Internet connection. Since a web based IRC client uses port 80 instead of 6667-7000, it is able to bypass most firewalls because firewall policies normally allow port 80 for their users to access websites. Here we have a total of 6 ways for you to quickly get connected to IRC servers without relying on installing third party software.
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Surfing the Internet seems easy by first connecting to the Internet through your ISP, running your favorite web browser software, typing in the URL to the address bar and hitting the Enter key to start loading the website. It is very straight forward and user friendly if everything goes well but could be frustrating if one of your favorite websites that you visit a few times a day suddenly does not load while other sites are working fine.

Other than instantly ruling out that the website is temporarily inaccessible, there are many other reasons that can be causing this which is your Internet Service Provider is blocking the website, your DNS server is not resolving to the updated IP address, or even your computer is quietly blocking it through HOSTS file. The first step is to make sure that the website is completely inaccessible by everyone and not you alone. A logical way to confirm it is by asking your friends or relatives if they are experiencing the same problem but that wouldn’t be appropriate if it’s in the middle of the night and can get annoying if you’re doing that too often.

Here are 5 online services that you can use to check and confirm if the website is down for everyone or just you alone without bothering other people.
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Using the latest version of software is very important as it contains new features and bug fixes. Some software comes with an update checker where it is capable of notifying the user if they are running the latest version or an older version that requires an update. If the software doesn’t come with an update checking feature, you can visit the official website or software download portals such as CNET Download.com or Softpedia where the version number or date of release is stated on the website so you’ll know if you need to update it.

However, there are some coders that creates really great software but don’t care about publicity at all. Hence they don’t have a website that contains all the information to show when it was last updated nor the file is submitted to download portal websites. It seems like the only way to know if the software has been updated or not is by manually downloading it to your computer and check the version number of the software.

Here we have 5 ways for you to check whether a file in a website has been updated or not without downloading it to your computer to save your time and Internet bandwidth.
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Everyone seems to love Google’s Gmail and it has been hailed as one of the best free web-mail services by many tech people. It can considered as one of the most secure email service that is free which allows you to enable 2-step verification to prevent from your Gmail account from being hacked. I personally love to use Gmail because it supports POP3 and IMAP for free and the email space available has grown up to a huge 10GB!

I’ve configured my email client The Bat to download Gmail inbox emails ever since I registered for a Gmail account. Many times I signed up in forums, social networking sites etc but never received any welcome emails to active my account. One day, just out of curiosity, I logged in to Gmail.com to check my emails and saw a huge amount of spams in the Spam folder.

I was quite surprised to find so many legitimate emails being identified as spam which were automatically moved straight into spam folder. The problem with using regular or portable email clients to download POP3 emails from Gmail is they don’t download emails from the spam folder. I logged in to Gmail again and tried to look for any spam settings but couldn’t find any. It looks like Gmail doesn’t allow us to configure the sensitivity of their spam filter.

After many months of testing, my Gmail spam filter is now perfect because it is possible to train Gmail spam filter.
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A website can consist many types of files such as images, text, cascading style sheets, javascripts and etc to construct the website’s layout. Any experienced users will be able to identify the items being requested when a website is loaded using Firebug and viewing the Net tab. If you’re trying to analyze a website especially a malware infected one, you wouldn’t want to do that because it would mean that the malware is already downloaded onto your computer.

One of a good and safe way to list all the files from a URL is by using File2HD, a free web service where it can list every single file that is pulled from the link that you entered and you can conveniently download it to your computer by clicking on the result. Other than that, it also offers premium service to help you download thousands of MP3 from Myspace even if they are disabled and not available to download.
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What if I was to ask you “What is your favorite search engine?”. I think the vast majority of you would say “Google” without too much hesitation, and probably rightly so, it’s a very good search engine. Looking at some of the more recent statistics, the giant that is Google has around 90% share of the whole search engine market. The next highest is Microsoft’s Bing with a tiny 4% by comparison. Of course, there may be some slight differences of opinion over a favorite search engine as opposed to the one that gets used most often. Because Google is the default choice in popular web browsers like Firefox and Chrome, most users just use whatever the default is and don’t bother, or don’t know how to change it.

I have to say, my favorite web search engine is definitely Google and I’ve been using it for many years, way back to before it became really well known. If I can’t find anything that I’m looking for in Google, I’d usually just give up. Sometimes it’s probably just simple laziness on my part to not bother searching in other search engines for the same thing, the results would probably be the same anyway, right? But on average, if you did a Google search and then a Yahoo or Bing search using the same search words, they will actually not be the same! It is said that 70% of the first 100 results you get from each engine you try will be different. If you think about it, this makes sense because each company will use different code and search algorithms as well as differing in their ways at filtering useless or undesirable content etc.

What could be of use sometimes then, is physically performing a search in more than one search engine, there might just be that one website that shows up in one and not the others which could make the difference. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do this by using more than one search engine at once? Well fortunately, there is a way that you can! I found a way that can save my time (and yours) and get more results in less time.
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Email is the most common method used to communicate on the Internet and is still widely being used today. One of the most annoying problems that a user can face when using their email is the received email shows that it arrived with incorrect date or time.

Emails are normally sorted by the received date & time for you to easily view the latest new emails as they are shown at the top of the list. You would most likely miss an email that is dated earlier since it’s automatically moved down the list, while an email dated later would cause it to constantly appear at the top of the list.

Hence, making sure that the emails you receive have a correct time stamp is very important. Many years ago you’d need to identify if you’re experiencing this problem in webmail or email client software because both use a timestamp from different sources. Webmail would get it from your online account settings while the email client software would read it from your operating system clock. Things have certainly changed today with most (but not all) webmail services able to use the date and time setting from Windows.

If you are receiving emails that are few hours ahead or behind, here is how to fix it.
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With hundreds of millions websites on the Internet today, there are tons of information that can be found using search engine such as Google and Bing. New websites are being created every day, thanks to the free blog publishing services such as Blogger/Blogspot and WordPress that allows anyone to have their own website live on the Internet within minutes without any technical webhosting knowledge. All of these websites are not necessarily in English and some of the really good articles are written and published in other languages such as Chinese, German, French and etc. Sometimes when we searched for something that is so rarely being published or discussed on the Internet, it is possible that we find some results that aren’t in English.

The first step in trying to get the webpage with unrecognizable foreign language properly translated is to find out what is the language being used. It is nearly impossible to make a wild guess because there are thousands of main languages, but thankfully here are 8 ways that you can use to automatically identify the language on any text written on the webpage.
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Sometimes you might have a need to send an email to somebody but you don’t want it to remain on their computer, for security or personal reasons. Unfortunately, it just isn’t possible using the normal emailing system to send an email to somebody and have it auto delete itself after they have read it or after a certain period of time, just think of the kinds of security issues that would bring.

Although you can’t do it with your normal emails, there is an alternative which is basically the next best option. That is to use a secure web service where you can leave your message, then you email and send a unique link for the message to the other user and they can visit the webpage and view what’s written. The link and the message both expire after viewing or a set period of time meaning your message never existed.

Here we have found a selection of online services that can help you send a secure private message that will self destruct afterwards. It’s not left on a server somewhere, not in another users mail application, can’t be accidentally forwarded and it can’t be read by anyone else apart from who you sent it to.
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Something you might need to do now and again is convert a document or a type of text file to the Portable Document Format (PDF). Although there are several tools that can handle this task including freeware, quite often they need to install some sort of driver files and set themselves up as printer devices which might not be something you really want to add to your computer if you’re only going to use it once in a while.

An obvious solution is to turn to the internet because there is a wealth of options available for you to upload your file, get it converted, and then download it. This means you don’t have to install a piece of software or any of the drivers or devices they keeping your computer clean from unneeded extra’s. Here’s a selection of 7 free online services that will let you convert a multitude of different formats to PDF quickly and easily.
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It’s pretty much the case these days that for the majority of things you do on the internet, you are required to create some form of account which asks for email addresses and names, even for the most innocuous of things. You might click on a link to read a newspaper or magazine or website article and it asks you to create an account to be able to read it fully. Similarly several eCommerce sites want a full name, address and email account before they will even give you an idea of the item’s shipping cost.

The list of sites that want your details even if you’re going to be visiting only for a minute or two is endless, but of course private or invite only sites and those which offer paid services such as movie streaming you can fully understand needing an account. Quite often an easy way is to use fake personal name and address details, then use a temporary disposable email address so you don’t get spammed but you have somewhere your account activation emails can be sent to temporarily.

A simpler way to get around not having to register on a website yourself with real or fake details, is to use someone else’s details that they have willingly shared with you. Just enter the supplied user name and password and off you go. Here’s some useful sites that do just that and offer shared login details that someone else has created for a website but you are free to use as well.
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The amount of traffic being used on BiTTorrent is more than half of all the Internet traffic even after many ISP tried to disrupt the user downloading experience by blocking or throttling the download speed. This restriction placed by ISP can be easily bypassed using VPN or an online service such as Boxopus that helps you to download BitTorrent and then offers it to you as HTTP download. There are other parties that also tries to do their part in fighting BitTorrent such as uploading fake torrents that the downloaders will connect to fake trackers and revealing their identity, or uploading contaminated files that may allow the uploader to gain access to the downloader’s computer.

It is important to make sure that you’re download a verified torrent and not the fake ones. The problem is most BitTorrent users doesn’t know how BitTorrent works other than waiting for a couple of days, the download will complete and they get what they want. Here we offer a few tips on how to detect and avoid downloading fake torrents to keep you safe.
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The reason why Google being one of the best search engine today is because of their smart robot that is programmed to crawl and index tons of pages together with their excellent algorithm in returning relevant search results to searchers. Googlebot is well known for indexing whatever it finds unless it is specifically blocked using robots.txt or the meta noindex tag on the webpage. Even though Google.com only shows a box where you can type the keywords that you want to search and Google will try its best to determine what are you looking for, you can actually use search operator commands to have more control over the results that will be displayed on your browser.

The search commands are definitely useful especially if you’re trying to check the linkbacks to your website, to have an idea if Google has completely removed a website from their search engine probably due to violation of their guidelines and etc. It can get a little dangerous because a specially crafted search command would reveal a list of websites with live streaming webcam, serial numbers or even password files.

In this article we will show you a few methods on how to easily search for MP3 since the Gnutella network is pretty much dead after LimeWire being shut down and FrostWire became a BitTorrent client.
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With applications such as WhatsApp, Viber, Skype and etc for smartphones, many people get to save a lot of money because the messages sent and received from the apps are virtually free. However these applications rely on the data plan and not the mobile network. If there is no Internet connection on the smartphone, the messages cannot be sent nor received which could result in the delay of receiving the message.

Although SMS are more reliable compared to the messaging apps for smartphones, there are times when the SMS gateway server cannot cope up with the load such as on Christmas. It is important not to pass urgent messages via SMS or messaging apps but you should call them instead to relay the message yourself.

As previously said that the SMS are sometimes more reliable than messaging apps, but it cost money to send a single message to a contact. There used to be a method where you can send SMS using your email but most of the mobile providers has disabled that feature due to abuse. You can find a lot of websites that claims to offer free SMS service but unfortunately most of them don’t work.

You can try sending a test SMS message to yourself and you probably won’t get it which makes you think if they’re collecting mobile numbers for spamming purposes. After testing a bunch of websites, we finally found one that is able to send SMS for free!
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