HTTP Tunneling

If you are forced through a web proxy at work or school you know that many of your applications that connect to the internet may not work. The reason is because there is something that is blocking all non HTTP or port 80 traffic. So how do you get around this? Well you could "Tunnel" all of your non port 80 traffic through port 80, thus HTTP Tunneling. The quick and dirty is that you have a program on your computer that redirects all non port 80 traffic through port 80 out to a box that you have setup in the outside world (like at home). The box in the outside world then redirects that traffic back to it's original port and sends it on, thus allowing you to use things like Remote Desktop, Telnet, and P2P through a web proxy connection. There are a couple of programs I ran into that will help you with this.

HTTPORT is a free program that will allow HTTP Tunneling along with HTTHost (The other end of the tunnel)
http://www.htthost.com/

Also HTTP2IPJ is a personal gateway that will also allow you to do HTTP Tunneling but is free only for personal use.
http://www.totalrc.net/main_ref.jsp?menu=19

Linux FTP Client How To

Linux:
Found a great mini How To on using the standard Linux FTP client.
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/FTP.html

Forget slide shows!

Have you ever had several photos you wanted/needed to put together in a slide show? Maybe you wanted to add some music put in a few transitions? It can quickly become overwhelming and take way longer then you planned (and still turn out pretty sad looking). Along comes Animoto. Animoto is an online service that allows you to upload your photos, choose music to accompany, and blends them all together automatically to create a really nice looking video. All of the transitions are automatic and synced to the music making for a really interesting and fun video. It's still in Beta so it might be a little rough around the edges. The little playing I have done it looks spot on.

http://animoto.com/