Android: If you’d like easy wireless access to files on your Android phone SwiFTP is a simple open-source application that turns your phone into an FTP server.
SPGrab is an efficient screen grabber utility that uploads screenshots to a selected FTP server of your choice and copies the URL to your clipboard for easy sharing.
Mac only: Previously mentioned open source FTP client Cyberduck has just released a new major version, featuring Google Docs uploading and downloading, image-to-Google-Doc conversion, and a Reduced Redundancy Storage option for Amazon S3 storage.
Mac OS X only: Free utility OneWay puts an “Upload to” item in your right-click/Ctrl+click context menu for quick, easy uploads to commonly used FTP and SFTP servers.
Windows: Tweaking program 7plus allows you to create shortcuts for Windows 7 to streamline your efficiency. After a little setup, you can create files, paste text and images as files, or even upload a file to a server with the right keystroke.
Windows only: If you need to automate local and remote backups, sync folders, or update remote files or websites automatically, Fling is a free and effective solution for those tasks and more.
Windows only: Tiny utility Rightload makes short work of uploading files to almost any server, whether you have your own FTP or just want to quickly send images to Flickr. Once installed, take a trip over to Tools -> Manage Servers to configure your accounts. Rightload supports FTP, SFTP and Flickr out of the box, but you can get more plugins from the download page, including Imageshack, Rapidshare, and Tinypic. After configuring, you can upload files by dragging them into the window, or simply use the Rightload options from the context menu—once the files are uploaded it can even generate links or image tags. The context menu options don’t work in Vista 64-bit, but they have a set of Send To shortcuts for you that do the same thing. Rightload has been around a while, but they’ve recently added support for HTTP upload sites and custom plugins, making this a must-have utility for anybody sharing files online with friends or embedding images into a forum. Rightload is a free download for Windows only. For more on powering up your context menu, be sure and check out our top 10 right-click tools.
RightloadWindows/Mac/Linux: Single Wrench, a secure file-sharing tool, intends to replace FTP transfers as a more secure, and user-friendly, way to transfer files between co-workers, clients, and anyone else for whom an insecure FTP connection might be a problem. Single Wrench installs as a Java applet from your browser, and opens a toolbar that provides drag-and-drop functionality for uploading files to Single Wrench’s server. After that, the tool’s web site allows you to set permissions and sharing on individual files. You pay to share files through Single Wrench, about $5 per GB, and there are minimum monthly storage fees. For a small business or IT department looking for a way around FTP and more complicated file sharing, however, Single Wrench could be worth a look. Hit the “via” link below for the How-To Geek’s detailed walk-through of the service. Single Wrench [via The How-To Geek]
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Firefox Universal Uploader extension (aka fireuploader) uploads and downloads files to and from popular web sites through a simple dual-pane interface. In essence, the Universal Uploader acts very much like previously mentioned FireFTP—the extension that turns Firefox into an FTP client—but it uploads directly to popular web sites like Flickr, Facebook, Google Docs, Picasa, Box.net, and YouTube. So rather than require you to log in to those sites to upload photos, videos, documents, or other files, you can fire up this extension and simply drag and drop files to the webapp you want to upload to. The extension is a little rough around the edges, but it’s a great idea and works as advertised.
Firefox Universal Uploader [Firefox Add-ons]
