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Having a naming convention for your work files is always good practice, and Limagito makes it easy for you. Designed to automate the process of moving, copying and renaming of files, it’s your personal file manager that works constantly.

Limagito works with “threads” which are copy, move, or delete rules that tell the software what to do with certain files. Setting up different rules can range from being easy to moderately complex as it utilizes regular expressions. By default, Limagito scans the input directory every 5 seconds to check for any file changes or additions. Once a rule is triggered, it automates the move or copy process of the file. You can move files on another local directory, an FTP directory or if you are using a paid version, send it via email. With Limagito, you can rename files as they are moved. This feature is very useful for backup purposes as system time and date stamps are available. The lack of an extensive documentation is offset by the online basic tutorial available that can get you started with the basics easily.

The free copy of Limagito allows for a single moving rule but with all options available. The paid copy will allow for unlimited rules and the option to move the file via email. Limagito is a Windows application.

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Uploading and sharing videos in YouTube just became easier. Free YouTube Uploader is a stand-alone application. It is ideal for moving large files to YouTube, because these tend to time out or hang when using a web browser. And best of all, your videos won’t be rejected by YouTube due to incompatibility, guaranteed.

Installing the program is just a matter of clicks. Once installed, you are then asked for your YouTube account information. This information is then stored and automatically retrieved each time you start the program. And just like the web counterpart, you now have to specify the location of the video you want to upload. Specify the title, description and tags for the video and press “Next.” It will now try to upload the video in YouTube under your account. While being uploaded, it converts your videos to YouTube friendly format with optimal size and quality, making sure that your video is accepted with open arms.

The Free YouTube Uploader also has a built-in video trimmer, perfect for those videos that exceed the limitations of YouTube. The lack of an upload progress bar and control for the newer features of YouTube won’t be much of a hindrance if your target is an easier way to upload videos.

Free YouTube Uploader is compatible with Windows 98/ME/2000/XP and requires a YouTube account to use.

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There are times when knowledge of a domain’s specifics can be an advantage. However, the old method of running a WHOIS query is cumbersome, requiring a command line interface. Now, there are applications that perform the WHOIS query easily, and one of those is the WhoisThisDomain.

WhoisThisDomain is a freeware application that simplifies WHOIS queries. Just enter the domain’s URL and information about the domain is returned if it’s registered. Depending on the WHOIS server used, it can show the registrant’s name or company, contact information as well as country of origin. It must be noted that different WHOIS servers provide different kinds of information, from giving basic information to detailed ones.

Knowing a domain’s background is also a protection for users against hacks and scams. Suspicious sites can be traced now whether they do come from the real source just by running a WhoisThisDomain check on the given domain. Want to check if a certain domain is already registered? A simple query can tell you easily if the given domain is already taken and who the registrant is. Multiple queries allows you to check multiple sites simultaneously. With WhoisThisDomain, checking information on a given domain is now just a click away.

WhoisThisDomain is compatible with Windows 98/ME/2000/XP.

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Just when you thought you’ve seen everything that could adopt the drag and drop concept, along comes FTPWanderer. Patterned after Windows Explorer, it is an FTP client that utilizes the drag and drop as well as the right-click menus. There is no need to install FTPWanderer. The downloaded zip file contains the executable file for the client. To ease the process even more, FTPWanderer also has a wizard to help you manage your favorite FTP sites.

If you’re used to transferring and downloading files one at a time using FTP clients, then you’re in for a surprise with FTPWanderer. Now you can download multiple files simultaneously without any hitch. Internet connection went down? Not a problem. FTPWanderer offers resume support when downloading and uploading. No more wasted bandwidth especially when dealing with large files.

This useful software can also download whole directories from FTP sites instead of the usual single file download, saving you even more time. Because of its drag and drop capability, file manipulation in FTPWanderer just became as easy as transferring files from one folder to another. Whether you’re a web developer, a blogger, or just a simple surfer, FTPWanderer will revolutionize the way you do file transfers.

FTPWanderer is a Windows application and works with Windows 98 and above.

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For people that deal with site building like bloggers and web developers, having bugs is a common occurrence – especially for pages with complex structures. The traditional debugging method would be to scan the lines of codes, checking if everything is in order. If the traditional method isn’t your cup of tea, then there is the Web Developer Extension (WDE) for Firefox.

Designed to ease site development and debugging, the Web Developer Extension integrates vital functions of web developing in your browser. Analyzing the whole structure of a page takes only a few clicks. Need to check the CSS file? Clicking the CSS button would generate your style sheet in another browser tab. The forms, scripts, images and other elements are easily checked as the extension offers an extensive toolbar for you to work with. The best feature is the ability to edit the source code, load it and see the results in real time. Now you can edit your pages and see changes instantly, making it easier to achieve your desired look and feel for your site. The WDE gives a whole new meaning to what web developing and debugging is. With this extension, what you see is what you really get.

The Web Developer Extension works on Firefox only and on a Windows 2000/XP system.

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It’s quite a headache to find out that after spending a lot of time deciding what your site’s colors will be, that they may not show properly on some systems. This happens when the system does not recognize the color value and can often result into undesired dithering. So how can you be sure then that your chosen color will be displayed correctly on different systems? That’s where WebMaster Toolkit’s free Websafe Colour Tool comes in.

The tool allows you to get the nearest match of your chosen color using the 216 websafe color palette. With this tool, you can check whether your chosen color will display correctly on computers running a 256 color palette. It ensures that the colors you have chosen or would choose for your site will be consistent when displayed on any browser or system. Using it is as simple as keying in your chosen color value. If the chosen color is a websafe color, it will return the same value. If not, it provides you with the color value of its nearest match.

By knowing what colors are considered web safe, you are sure that your web pages will show off their true colors.

Knowledge of the hexadecimal values of colors is needed to make use of the tool. Basic HTML is also needed to apply the colors provided by the tool to your web pages.

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Let’s go back to the basics. In order to publish a website, one usually works on an HTML editor and a separate FTP program to upload files onto a web server. This system works great for some, but not for others. The keywords here are simplicity and convergence. With a program called Planarchy, you can compose your pages and upload your files on a single platform.

Planarchy enables anyone to publish text and images onto a server with ease. No HTML background or external FTP client is needed – everything is taken cared of by Planarchy in the background. Just enter your newest post and click Publish. In a minute, you’ll be able to see your new entry on your web site. Before uploading the pages, the files are saved on a specified directory on your computer. This feature means you’ll always have an up-to-the-minute local mirror. In case something goes wrong, you’ll have a backup ready on your computer. The output pages are highly configurable. Choose how you’d like your entries to appear: a single page, spread across numerous pages, or specified by an entries-per-page value.

Consider it an alternative all-in-one blogging engine. Development and support for this software has stopped, with the latest version being Planarchy 2. However, it’s simple enough to use, and if you’re feeling adventurous, you might want to try it out. Planarchy 2 is compatible with Windows and requires Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 or higher.

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If you manage a lot of web sites, I’m sure you’ve run into this problem: you type the best domain names you can think of, and all of them are already taken. So you do this over and over until you find an unregistered domain, but not before spending a few hours doing whois lookups. Here’s a program to end all of that trial and error – Domain Name Analyzer by Softnik Technologies.

With Domain Name Analyzer, the search becomes automated so it’s faster and easier. Just type the list of keywords you’d like in your domain name and it will mix and match all of them, as well as initiating a whois lookup for each. In a few minutes, you’ll know which are taken and which are still free, giving you a handy list to choose from.

You can also use Domain Name Analyzer to manage your existing domains. Add all of your domains in the main window and do a lookup on these. Then you can print their details with a single click, to store your information for safe keeping. Don’t worry about getting your IP address banned by registrars because of the persistent lookups. Unlike other domain lookup software, Domain Name Analyzer ensures that there’s sufficient time between queries so you won’t run into any trouble.

Domain Name Analyzer is compatible with all versions of Windows, including Vista, as well as Mac OS X.

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Sometimes your web site grows so fast that you’ve lost track of the simplest things, including its links. If you want to check whether all your links are working, you can click on every single one of them for testing. If you’re running a big website with over 20 pages, you better clear a few hours of your time for that.

Or you could just use Dead Links.

Dead Links is a free online tool that makes it easier for web masters to check for broken links within their site, whether these links point to other pages within the site, or to other domains altogether. All you have to do is enter your site URL into a text box, and the Dead Links spider will crawl your site. You’ll get a full report within a few minutes.

As a free tool, Dead Links can only crawl up to 25 pages per domain and 150 external documents. However, if the spider finds a link to the Dead Links homepage, the page limit extends to 150, and the external document limit upgrades to 500.

If you need to understand the results or if Dead Links doesn’t work for you, you simply go to the FAQ page to find out more. The explanations are very brief and easy to understand. The tool page is straightforward, making it usable even for novice web masters.

Dead Links works on most browsers, including Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera.

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Pickpockets are no longer confined to the streets. If your web site is engaged in affiliate programs, some smart Alex might actually be stealing from you. This is a growing concern by those who are dependent on this source of revenue.

Good thing someone came up a program called Affiliate Link Masking Tool, which does exactly what its name implies. Pickpockets can only rob you if they know your affiliate link, and this program denies them that knowledge. Just paste your affiliate link in the tool and specify whatever dummy link you like – this is what the visitors will see in the status bar when they mouse over them, effectively hiding and protecting your real affiliate link. The tool will then generate an HTML code for you to paste back for your banners or text links.

Two things are prevented by this measure. One of them is hijacking. This is when a person discovers your affiliate link, and replaces it with his own affiliate link. Buying a product in this manner, he robs you of your commission and gets himself a discount. Another way that he can hurt you is thru bypassing. In this case, the person simply chops off your affiliate link extension in the address bar and buys from the site as if he stumbled upon it by himself. Thus you lose more money, even though you were responsible for placing that ad on your site so he would know about it.

With these scenarios, you need to be vigilant in ensuring that all those hard-earned dollars actually trickle down to you.

Affiliate Link Masking Tool is compatible with Windows 98 up to Windows XP.

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