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Why Use CuteFTP?
Why would anyone bother using a separate FTP client when a modern Web browser can do the job? Well, you might have noticed that the Web can be just a tad bit slow at times. With an FTP address you can access useful files (such as .dat file virus updates) while avoiding the time-consuming delay of loading multiple Web pages just to get to a download link. Updating a Hewlett-Packard printer driver for instance (ftp.hp.com/pub/printers/software) can take less than a minute using CuteFTP; if you sic your browser on the vast contents of the FTP directory, you just might crash. And if you've ever tried to stop a file transfer either from within a browser or from within a Unix shell, you'll appreciate the smoothness of CuteFTP's Stop and Resume buttons.
Sure, basic FTP functionality may be built into all of today's browsers, and more advanced file transfer options are built into the majority of HTML editors. But if you know exactly what you want, if you find yourself performing nearly identical file transfers on a daily basis, or if you're just looking for a good way to speed up your online activities, then you'll want to get a copy of CuteFTP.
The program may in fact be cute, but make no mistake: CuteFTP is as powerful a client as the FTP protocol itself. According to the marketing gentleman I e-badgered for info, it was "written by a Russian who couldn't think of anything else to name it."
