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I've been using SecureCRT for almost one year now and I must say it's a great tool. I was a heavy PuTTY user for ages and never found anything better. But then I found SecureCRT which had everything I always missed. Session organization is very nice, tabs are great and the toolbars are very useful. You can even create buttons and scripts to automatize stuff. I STRONGLY recommend you give it a chance (if you are a PuTTY user).

Unfortunately nothing is perfect and I still needed a decent file transfer tool. I use FileZilla which is lightweight and cool.

Today I developed an integration application. It basically processes all my SecureCRT sessions and exports them into a single xml file. This file uses the format FileZilla can import from. For that end, I present you scrt2fz. This is the first beta. It currently creates only a basic file/folder structure. It still doesn't support subfolders. Hopefully, one day it will.

So, here are some important facts about it:

- Handles session name, hostname (domain name or IP address), username, port (21, 22 or custom), protocol (ssh or telnet);
- Automatically translates Telnet sessions into FTP sessions;
- If no username is provided, a default "user" username is added;
- If you use subfolders, you will have to rearrange them inside FileZilla;
- Still beta;
- Feedback, please!

Download link: http://rapidshare.com/files/272846778/scrt2fz.rar.html

They are now approaching the final release of Opera 10. Here we have got our updates to all WinVista skins. I must warn you, it's far from perfection. So, more updates will come. Just be patient.

The brand new MSO2010 Silver skin was created to be used not only to match Microsoft Office 2010 but also Windows 7 users. I'm looking forward for your feedback to improve it. Please let me know what you think. Unfortunately, it's also compatible with Opera thumbnail in tabs feature. But this is something that will show up sooner or later.

UPDATED: 2009-07-09

Changelog:
- "MSO2007 Silver" is now called "MSO2010 Silver" & received a major upgrade (check below)
- Added main menu icons (when using alternate menu layout)
- Opera Turbo icons
- Opera Unite & Unite Panel icons (almost all)
- New bookmarks panel icon (finally)
- Misc button fixes
- MSO2010 Silver: New improved scrollbar
- MSO2010 Silver: New white-ish tabs & pagebar background
- MSO2010 Silver: New checkbox
- MSO2010 Silver: New push buttons
- MSO2010 Silver: Wider tabs

Pending:
- "Thumbnails in tabs" feature (still looking for a simpler solution)


Bugs:
- Unite panel button is invisible
- Addressbar Padding bug
- Show main menu icon bug
- Animated Opera Link Sync icon

And don't forget the address bar contains a larger set of Back, Forward, Rewind, Fast Forward buttons you can activate on-the-fly.

- Take the 20,000-foot look at your to-dos
- Clean up and organize your (computer) files and folders
- Do some distraction-free, actual work
- Use your phone as a stand-in
- Clean out your desk

Very nice and helpful article:
http://lifehacker.com/5210286/what-you-should-do-when-your-internets-out