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Here’s a clever little piece of software, and it really works well at what it does.

Have you ever got a wireless router for your Internet connection? Most Internet Service Providers give them out these days, but you can still buy slightly-better-than-average ones from electronics shops. And most laptops include wireless these days, so almost everyone uses it.

But one of the first things they recommend you do is to give your wireless network a secure passcode. Which is fine – unless you make it so secure you forget. So what happens when a friend comes to visit from out of town and wants to use your Internet conection on their laptop – and you’ve forgotten your network key? …read more »

You’re a busy administrator. You run a small office – say a dozen people. And they all need email. What do you do? Well, Microsoft Exchange is very expensive – and it doesn’t support the peculiar way your ISP sends all the email to a single POP3 address, regardless of who it’s for, or maybe you’re already running a full NetWare setup.

Enter Mercury. …read more »

If you use a hosting service to host your website (such as 1 and 1, which we use here), you will probably find that the access they provide is via ftp, a protocol originally defined in 1971. Hard-core ftp users can make like it’s 1976 and use the command line, but the rest of us mere mortals need something a little more human friendly…

Filezilla is a friendly graphical FTP client. The local filesystem is presented on the left, and the remote site (or sites, in tabs) on the right. Transfers are added to the queue at the bottom …read more »