If you have a blog or a web site you will be regularly updating it with content such as images, files, videos etc. There are various ways in which you can update your web site. Here are 5 utilities which make uploading content easy for you and best of all these utilities are free.

The utilities are of two different types one which supports the regular File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and another which supports Secure Copy (SCP) which is more secure than transferring files using FTP. The list also includes two command line tools.

FileZilla

FileZilla is one of the most popular FTP clients around and I started using it around 5 years ago. FileZilla works on Windows NT4, 2000 and XP. It is a light weight client and can be used to manage all of your web sites from one client.

You can easily set up a new web site with FileZilla. To add a new web site go to the File -> Site Manager option

In that add your site hostname and any special port if required. Choose the server type, by default it should be FTP. In the logon type if the server allows Anonymous access then do not change logon type or else choose the other options available. I choose normal where I enter and store the username and password.

You also have an option to specify a default directory where FileZilla local file browser should point to when connecting to a web site. To do this go to advanced options and key in the path to your directory in default local directory box, you can also specify the default directory remote directory that should be opened up when a connection is made to a site.

That’s it you are all set now you can simply drag and drop your files to your FTP directory directly from your computer. It also supports several features such as ability to resume uploads/downloads, firewall support, drag and drop support etc

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I have used a couple of cool windows explorer replacements that adds tabs to to the regular explorer navigation. If you want to switch to a tabbed windows explorer experience then I recommend you one of these below.

QTTabbar

If you are one who opens more than a couple of windows to work with files from different folders then QTTabBar is the right software for you.

xplorer²

xplorer² lite is a very good alternative for your regular Explorer windows and performs better than QTTabBar. It is a lightweight version of xplorer² software which is available for commercial usage. It is free for personal and academic use.

ExplorerXP

ExplorerXP is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non - commercial use) file manager for Windows 2000/XP. Unlike the regular Windows Explorer, it displays the total size of each folder and allows you to browse multiple folders from a tabbed interface.

Xplorer

XPlorer is a substitute for the Windows Explorer, adding multi tabbed features. So it is possible to have lots of locations opened at the same time, while we can manage them in an easy and eficient way.

All of the above softwares help you add tabs and make your navigation easiers I am currently using xplorer² but have loved QTTabbar which is a awesome replacement for explorer, try out these and let me know how these work for you.

Do let me know your experiences with these softwares. If you have not used these then I definitely recommend you start using it.

As you may already know by now that I am big cricket fan, I love watching the game but since I am in the US and do not have the cable channels I have to watch the matches online.

BCCI IPL T20 has started and I was trying to find links like always to watch it online. Here are the websites from which you can watch the BCCI IPL T20 cricket live online.

IPL T20 Live Link 1
IPL T20 Live Link 2
IPL T20 Live Link 3
IPL T20 Live Link 4
IPL T20 Live Link 5

T20 is the shortest version of the popular game and is played in 3 hours which is less than half the time taken to play a normal 50 overs one day match. In T20 each side gets to play for 20 overs and there is a innings break of 10 minutes. The format is popular because of the slam bang action and the short duration of the matches.

Designing and coding CSS based templates is not the easiest thing for many people. To top it many designers do not have much time to spare from their complex design work to learn it.

For many designers Photoshop is the ultimate tool and they can create numerous design using it, every design they create results in a PSD file which is a format in which Photoshop stores the design. The problem arises when a designer needs to convert the final PSD file into a valid XHTML / CSS template.

Twitter as many of you may already is a service that lets you send updates about what you are doing to your friends and followers. Twittering in itself has turned out to be a huge experience and can also be termed as a type of micro blogging.

The one feature that Twitter lacked was sending twitter in the futures which means adding twitters that will be displayed in the future to your friends and followers. That gap too has been plugged in with the launch of the service TwitResponse which allows you to twitter into the future.

Web2Wave

Web2Wave is a alternative system for the traditional bookmarks system. You can store find and organize all your favorite web content into live surflets, organize all your surflets within customized tabs and rummage through your favorite sites at your leisure through a 3D coverflow of all your surflets.

Check out the demo of Web2Wave which I recon is quite a interesting service to make its entry into the web2.0 market.

Syncplicity

The latest entrant into the file sync market, syncplicity allows you to easily sync files between multiple computers. Syncplicity offers you with unlimited storage and allows you to work with folders and also exclude them from the lists to be synced.

The Internet in itself is not a very safe place to be in with viruses, torjans, adware and malware all waiting to attack your computer. You can stay safe from these using Antivirus softwares or Anti spyware softwares. To top that list there are tons of sites which popup unwanted ads on you to make your surfing experience a horrible one.

To overcome that there are several softwares and addons to block those ads but those solutions are rather limited to a single browser and the next time you change your PC you will have to reinstall those softwares.

Instead of using multiple softwares for multiple programs to block advertisements you can use a simple trick that will block those ads out without the need for installing any softwares.