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Indispensable and portable free stuff
I was listening listening to one of the old Geek Brief podcasts, and was reminded of a website with portable versions of applications that are very useful when supporting computers that aren’t your own, or running from several different PCs. Of particular note are the Development apps available. Notepad++ is an excellent text editor based…
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SmartFTP is no longer free
Considering my web hosts do not provide shell access, a solid FTP client was invaluable for me in making updates and changing websites, since windows “web-based” ftp client is less useful than their console client for me (web-based does not work consistently with directories above user home). I thought I had found a solid FTP…
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.htaccess redirect guide
My favorite tip: Changed file extension? This example is perfect if you’ve decided to switch to .php from .html pages. It will look for any .html page and redirect it to .php (ie http://www.example.com/yourpage.html and redirect it to http://www.example.com/yourpage.php). Now, be careful with this, it does mean any html page. I did this on one…