2011/10/14
by Alan Henry
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When you have a large file or group of large files that you want to send to someone, but you don’t want to clog up your Dropbox account and you don’t have time to just drive over to your friend’s house with a USB drive, Justbeamit is a new web service… Continue reading
2011/09/07
by whitson gordon
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If you need to transfer files, you have a lot of FTP choices on Windows. However, we’d have to choose the powerful, free FileZilla as the best on the platform.
FileZilla
Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux
Price: Free
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A highly configurable… Continue reading
2011/09/06
by adam dachis
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Mac OS X is, fortunately, blessed with a variety of really nice file transfer apps that support many services and protocols. Nonetheless, Transmit still manages to be
Transmit
Platform: Mac OS X
Price: $34
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Supports file transfers via … Continue reading
2011/07/13
by Alan Henry
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Mac: There are plenty of file conversion utilities for the Mac, but Smart Converter is probably the easiest. Simply drag your file onto the window, select the destination device, and click convert. Sm… Continue reading
2011/06/14
by whitson gordon
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Windows: Dragging stuff to the Recycle Bin can be annoying if it’s hidden amongst the clutter on your desktop, behind all your windows. MiniBin puts it in your system tray, making deleting files and em… Continue reading
2011/06/13
by Matthew Rogers
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URL Droplet is a simple webapp that allows you to paste in the download link for a file and have it download straight to your Dropbox, so you can deal with later. Using the webapp, a user could start a… Continue reading
2011/05/20
by whitson gordon
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Mac OS X only: If you’re tired of QuickTime X’s minimal approach to features or VLC’s clunky, not-so-pretty interface, free app MPlayerX brings a smooth, easy-to-use player to OS X with support for mul… Continue reading
2011/04/06
by Kevin Purdy
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Windows only: If you’ve managed to delete important photos, crush a partition, or otherwise go wiping out data where you weren’t supposed to, add MiniTool’s free data recovery app to your list of last … Continue reading
2011/03/30
by adam dachis
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If you download files from file sharing sites or services, sometimes they’re split into parts. Mac OS X has a few utilities for joining files together (or splitting them up), but Data Glue is the most… Continue reading
2011/02/10
by whitson gordon
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Mac OS X: While most users don’t have to deal with it, some of the hacks we feature here require permissions editing. Free app PropEdit takes out the pain by letting you edit all your permissions from … Continue reading