When it comes to file transfer software, I have been using WinSCP for the past years. But there have been other applications that I looked at and evaluated. Cyberduck is one of them. Back in March I published a guide on how to upload multiple documents to Google Docs from the desktop and Cyberduck was [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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How To Extract Images From Office Documents
Office documents may contain images and other media besides text. I sometimes get article suggestions by email in Microsoft Word format. These articles often contain one or multiple images that I need to extract, since it is not possible to copy and paste them into the article on the Internet as it is with text [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 1
DragonDisk, An Amazon S3 File Management Client
Amazon S3, which stands for Amazon Simple Storage Service, is an online storage service by Amazon that gives web developers access to a scalable and fast infrastructure. Webmasters and services may come into contact with Amazon S3 in various ways, for instance when setting up a content delivery network (cdn) or during new product launches [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 10
Download Pandora Radio To Your PC
I have not looked at Pandora Radio ever since the service closed down its international access. Before that, I published two guides on saving Pandora music. That was back in 2006; Five years later and the situation has not changed a lot. Pandora is still only available for US Internet users and those who use [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
- Comments: 10
Jet Audio, A Versatile Music Player For Windows
In the world of media players, it often seems the sun doesn’t shine on anything new. Between Windows Media Player, Winamp, RealPlayer, VLC, and iTunes, it seems as though everybody has maximum market penetration and saturation. Enter the not-so-quiet contender, JetAudio. You can get JetAudio at this link: http://www.jetaudio.com/download/ Installation is easy. Click through the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
Checksum Control, Verify Files In Windows
File verification software can be used to verify the integrity of files. This is for instance helpful when verifying the integrity of data backups, or files on a web server to make sure that attackers did not modify them. All programs that offer the functionality work alike. They process a list of files, create checksums [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 6
USB Manager, Manage USB Device Types
USB is currently the most popular way of connecting external devices to the computer. The majority of external storage devices, printers, scanners, audio devices with built in sound chips and other peripherals are connected via USB to the PC. You sometimes may want to prevent that other people connect USB devices to your PC, for [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
PC Information Tool Speccy Updated, Better SSD Detection
Piriform, company behind popular programs such as CCleaner, Defraggler and Speccy, is currently producing and releasing updates for all their applications to improve SSD detection among other things. Speccy, which has been updated yesterday, is the latest to receive that treatment. And since the last review dates two years back, I thought it is as [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
Photo Event Organizer, Image Organizer
Have you ever worked with a folder full of photos? I’m talking hundreds or even thousands of photos taken with different camera models and in different years and locations. It is pretty difficulty to find specific photos or events in a folder filled with such an amount of photos. The free software Photo Event Organizer [...]