Use your browser when ports are blocked.

Since being back on campus, I have been doing a lot of my work on the school’s LAN and WiFi networks, as well as their computers. While usually I can get my work done without problems, sometimes I run into blocked ports or computers I cannot download. To fix the problem, I have been doing things like FTPing and IMing via the broswer, on some very powerful web apps. Here are a couple of resources I have been using.

Meebo is a great web app that allows for IMing on a number of different clients including AIM, Yahoo, Jabber and MSN. Once logged in you have your buddy list and moveable IM windows, as if you were working on the desktop within your browser. You can view profiles, set away messages, etc. MUCH better than AIM express.

The second website I have been using while on campus is an FTP Client called FTP Live. It’s a little slow and as far as I know you can’t upload multiple files. But when you need something in the clinch, It’s a good site to use.

I have not found an SSH/Telnet program within browser yet, so if you know of one, let me know in the comments! Later!