Downloads: Internet Tools

IMPORTANT: most files (apart from VERY small, or hard to find ones) are marked as (external). That means when you click the link, instead of starting the download, a popup will open, with the external webpage where you can find the file at. Either you live with it and start downloading, or you read further to see why I did this and to find answers to some of the answers that may be popping inside your head.
1) Software authors/big software providers deserve visits to their webpages
2) Visiting the software homepage/main distribution channel, you will be sure you will find the latest version
3) Free webhost (why do you think I am referring to XOOM? I never speaked about it...) are FUX0RING PISSING and delete accounts because you host 50+MB worth of FREEWARE, and you also happen to receive 500+ daily visitors as a lucky chance
4) It isn't pointless to have such external download system from inside my pages, since even if the files are not materially here, you may be looking for a software needed for a guide published on this site, and you could also notice "that other software you may need but you didn't know it existed"

Free FTP server, installs and configures easily, can interact with mIRC (great if you want to set a banner on an IRC channel to share songs, pictures, or everything else on your HD), has a nice graphic interface.

This mIRC script, younger brother of GuildFTPd, is an FTP server which runs in mIRC (!) through a script for this chat program. It is obviously usable only if you plan to run an FTP for an IRC channel, and should use less memory of the proper application, since is "embedded" in mIRC (obviously it's not as user friendly as the main app).

Maybe the leading free FTP server for the Windows environment, quite spartan to configure, if compared to GuildFTP, but simply the most powerful.

May not be useful to many, but if you need a fast and small executable to dirtily terminate every open dialup connection at runtime, download this one. For example, I used it to script a disconnection fom my ISP at 8:00 am.

ZDLabs utility to constantly monitor the download/upload speed. What is simply too cool about this one is that it shows itself in the system tray with a small graphic to see in real time the speed (too bad under Windows 2k it needs to be restarted if you disconnect/reconnect, because it behaves randomly...)

Used to send your current IP to free alias services like dyndns.org, cjb.net and hn.org, so you can associate an alias like mynick.hn.org to your computer, always pointing to your updated IP (more explained in the HowTo's section).

"l33t" download tool that you may never use at all, but that will come really really handy in peculiar situations. For example, if you downloaded a 700MB movie from a friend of yours and it contains errors, and you don't want to unfreeze it because of the mosaic effects, just send your friend this utility, and tell him to run it as server, specifying the filename of his movie. Then run it on your side, in client mode, and specify your downloaded movie file (the local and remote files must be equal in size). This utility will then proceed with the download of only the pieces that cointained errors, after calculating the CRC for each segment of the files. Cool eh?

FTP client that supports queues, has a much nicer (XP-like) dialog interface than WSFTPLE, possibility of FXP (transfers from a server to another), a very nice download speed panel, folder-recursive capabilities in upload/download/delete, and, briefly, anything that usually has a commercial tool. Only thing: this is a bit buggy, but you will notice this only when you'll become a power user.

Very similar to Rsync, but it works mostly offline. It means that you create a CRC table of the big file you downloaded, send it (via mail, IRC DCC, ICQ, whatever) to the guy who has the original file, who uses the same program and the CRC table you sent, to create a "patch", which he later sends you (again, via FTP, DCC, or whatever), and which you use with the same program to fix your file which will be exactly the same of the original one. It's better since you can use any method you prefer to send the data, without needing to setup server/client (see: firewall probs and so on).