Being a Filipino, with many friends and relatives in the Philippines, I sometimes need to call someone in the Philippines to their landline of mobile phone. And in some cases, the person I need to contact may not be near a computer or may not even know how to use the computer well like my mother. So I am going to exclude talking about Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, MSN/Live/Windows Messenger and others.

Now based in San Diego, California, Every now and then, I receive a random call from a telemarketer promoting some service to call the Philippines saying they have an extremely low rate to call the Philippines. Cheapest than most overseas long distance calls.

Not being rude and also being open-minded to listen to the various options I may have to call the Philippines, I often entertain these people and I just always ask the bottomline. How much? And not a single time has any one of these telemarketers matched the prices of what I was currently paying to call the Philippines

And to share what I have been using and why, I am sharing my review in comparing several companies that you can use to call the Philippines.

• Directoph
• Skype
• PinOnSale
• Vonage
• Packet8

See who wins the review! Download the comparison table document here.

If you find this helpful and you know people that need to call the Philippines, or if you are in the Philippines and have relatives abroad that need to call you, feel free to pass this blog post to them so we all get to save some money and use the money to save for more important things like sending money to the Philippines.

Uploading files to a web server for whatever purpose can be done in several ways.

• FTP
• SSH
• Web-Based Upload

Although each method has an advantage and disadvantage in using them, for many content management systems (CMS), often these are all web-based user interfaces where when required to upload some assets such as images, software binary files for downloading, PDF files and other files, they are all done within the CMS interface that will rely on server-side scripting languages such as PHP, ASP, JSP or others to handle the file uploading. And each time a file is going to be uploaded, it will use plain HTML on the frontend for the form where each uploaded file is entered by hitting the browse button to be able to navigate your local computer and choose the files you need to upload.

With the use of Java, applets can be created where drag and drop files from the local computer folders to the web server are possible for file uploading.

All file uploading methods are not that user-friendly to the non-technical user

I personally know many people that love Multiply mainly because of their Photo Gallery. And personally, I like iFoto, Plogger and ZenPhoto way better than Multiply. My wife is one of the users that loves the Multiply photo gallery and they main reason is the convenience of running the Java powered file uploader.

They simply use a web-based interface and there is no need to press any browse button and navigate to where the files are and you have to do this 1 by 1 and they just drag the images into the webpage that is running the Java applet.

Upload using Drag and Drop JUpload Java Web Applet

Upload by dragging and dropping files into your own web server or any web hosting account using JUpload. With JUpload, you can turn a webpage into a drag and drop FTP page. This gives you the great convenience of multiple file selection for uploading as opposed to one by one uploading of files.