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January 31, 2006
Last Chance: Free Webinar
There are still a handful of seats available for the free FTP webinar that is being held tomorrow (Feb. 1) at 2pm.
For more info and to register, click here.
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Organizing Photos
Is your collection too big to find photos fast simply by browsing thumbnails? Want to find those special photos in your big collection faster than ever before, without spending ages meticulously organizing all your photos with unique file names, descriptions and a well-thought-out folder structure? Who doesn't, right? Read more...
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January 30, 2006
Home vs. Pro
What's the difference between WS_FTP Home and WS_FTP Professional?
Check out this chart to find out.
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January 27, 2006
WS_FTP Getting Started Guide
Here's a handy guide to getting started with WS_FTP (in PDF format).
This quick guide covers everything from system requirements to explaining the WS_FTP interface to getting started.
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January 25, 2006
Free FTP Webinar
FTPplanet would like to invite you to a free "Introduction to WS_FTP Professional" webinar. This webinar provides an overview of WS_FTP and focuses on these four things:
- New user interface
- Easily transfer files
- Valuable automation features
- Best-in-class security capabilities
The webinar is limited to the first 75 people, so sign up quickly if you'd like to attend.
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January 24, 2006
How FTP Works
I was browsing through some old WS_FTP user guides and came across an excellent description of how FTP works:
"File Transfer Protocol uses the client-server model: one computer (the FTP Host) runs a server program "serving up" information to other computers. The other computers run client programs requesting information and receiving replies from the server.
WS_FTP Pro turns your PC into an FTP client, allowing it to communicate with virtually all types of FTP sites. When your PC is connected to the Internet (via a modem or local area network), WS_FTP Pro can connect to any system that has a valid Internet Address and contains an FTP server program. Once connected to an FTP site, you can download files, upload files, and copy files from one FTP site to another."
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January 23, 2006
Using Active Edit to Update Remote Files
WS_FTP Professional's Active Edit feature lets you easily update and edit files that are on a remote server.
FTPplanet has a tutorial that takes you through the steps to set-up and use Active Edit. Check it out here.
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January 20, 2006
The "Google Subpeona"
Has everyone heard about the news story they're calling the "Google Subpeona"? Here is ABC News' article on the story and CNet has a good Q&A on the topic.
I find the story very interesting and thought everyone else would too. What does everyone think about this?
Back to FTP-related items next time.
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January 18, 2006
FTP features
We all use FTP to transfer files, but what else do you use FTP for? What would be your most requested FTP feature?
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January 17, 2006
Refresh
If you've recently transferred files but don't see them showing up in the local or remote pane of your FTP client, try refreshing the view (in WS_FTP 2006, you can do this by pressing the 'Refresh' button in the local/remote toolbar or by pressing the F5 key).
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January 16, 2006
Featured Post: Limited to 2000 Matches?
Harris posted a question to the forums asking why he could only see 2000 matches when trying to list his files.
The answer is that the server being connected to has set up this limitation. Unfortunately, there's nothing that can be done on the client side. The best solution is to contact the FTP site administrator and ask them to remove this limitation.
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January 12, 2006
Moving Connection Tabs
In WS_FTP 2006, you can easily move the connection tabs by simply dragging and dropping them to where you want them.
The connection tabs show you which sites you have open at a given time. You can see them in this screenshot (click it to enlarge) labelled as "Ipswitch Public FTP Server" and "Internet Audio Archive"
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January 11, 2006
How do you buy software?
When you purchase software, do you typically purchase online or do you like to have a CD/box shipped to you?
I've always preferred downloadable software for utilities but really like to have the CD/box for games.
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January 10, 2006
New FTP user? Start here...
If you're new to FTP (and WS_FTP in particular), there's a KnowledgeBase article on ipswitch.com that is very helpful. It is located here in its entirety, but the important info is right here:
"When you first open WS_FTP Pro you will see a connection screen. Click on My Sites, then locate the single monitor screen above My sites and click on it (when you point to it will popup and say New Site).
You will need to fill in information about the FTP server you want to connect to.
Here you will be asked to give it:
1.) A name
2.) the IP address or hostname of the FTP server
3.) User ID
4.) Password
At this point you can click Finish because most servers do not require info for Account, Local Folder, Remote folder etc, and these can be set up later when you have a better idea of what folders you need to be in when you first connect, but for now they can be blank.
Now you are ready to sign in and start transferring files. Make sure that you are connected to the internet and press Connect."
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January 09, 2006
Customizing the Double-Click
In WS_FTP Professional and Home (versions 9 and later), you can change what the double-click action does. By default, the double-click will execute a file. You can easily change this to do nothing, to view a file or to transfer a file.
To change the double-click setting, click 'Tools' and then 'Options' and then select 'Display' in the left-hand column.
In the lower right corner of the display options screen is the double-click setting. Choose your prefence from the drop-down menu and click OK.
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January 06, 2006
New survey
If you could, please take a few minutes to take this new survey. It's just a few quick questions and all completed surveys will be entered into a drawing for an iPod Nano.
Click here to take the survey.
Thanks!
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January 05, 2006
Now that the holidays have settled down...
...what was the best gift you received this year (or bought for yourself)? Was a great little gadget? New computer? Digital camera? MP3 player? Copy of WS_FTP ;-)?
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January 04, 2006
Top Discussions of 2005
The three most viewed discussions in the FTPplanet forums were:
1. Free Image Hosts: A consistently popular thread containing links to a number of free image hosts.
2. FTP and Windows XP SP2: A number of people had problems with FTP after upgrading Windows XP. This thread helped out.
3. Tip for Contact Details: An older post, originally from 2003, this remains one of our most popular posts.
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January 03, 2006
Top Tips of 2005
The top three tips of 2005 were:
1. Zip Compression in WS_FTP: How to automatically compress your files before transfer.
2. Backing Up Your FTP Sites: How to make a backup of your FTP site profiles (usernames, passwords, site addresses, etc.)
3. Importing Sites into WS_FTP: Import sites from WS_FTP LE and other clients into the latest versions of WS_FTP Home and WS_FTP Professional.
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