David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

One of the easiest ways to download content from the internet to your Mac or Windows PC is to use a web browser. Or, if you want more control over your downloads, use a dedicated download manager that ...

File Transfer Protocol is an older networking protocol for transferring files to network servers. Here's how to use it on your Mac. We previously covered the Terminal-based SCP protocol, which allows ...

Despite its age, FTP is still an effective protocol for moving files between devices on the same Wi-Fi network. Material Files is an alternative file manager for Android with built-in FTP support. Use ...

An FTP server is a computer system that uses File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to store and share files. It allows users to upload, download, and manage files over a network. To access the server, users ...

Have you ever used Secure Shell to access a remote machine, only to find yourself needing to download a file from a remote location? What do you do? Since you only have terminal window access to that ...