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Panic updates Transmit for Leopard
If you're a fan of Panic's very excellent file-transfer client Transmit, you're probably been anticipating a new version after Panic's update roadmap we linked to last week. Thankfully, the waiting is over, as Panic have released a minor update to bring Transmit to version 3.6.2.The update "adds full support for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), fixing all known Leopard issues and polishing the interface. It also includes fixes for other users, 10.3.9 or higher." and is a free update for Transmit 3 customers.
[Via Leanda Ryan's Twitter]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
sergio.delagarza said 4:48PM on 10-31-2007
i cant login to my sftp servers, it says invalid password/key while in interarchy i can login with no problems
anyone knows why?
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Zack said 5:29PM on 10-31-2007
#1 read the roadmap. From tuaw's last post.
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davidb1224 said 5:42PM on 10-31-2007
Hey, wasn't there going to be a Halloween costume gallery today?
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Collin Allen said 5:51PM on 10-31-2007
Panic rocks!
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Chris Johnson said 5:56PM on 10-31-2007
It still seems weird to me that we're expected to pay FTP clients on the Mac. Why are all the freeware alternatives so sucky? Can't someone just reskin one of the good Linux versions? :-)
FileZilla is actually decent since the last update. I suggest trying it out, but I don't know if it works with Leopard.
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Nik Fletcher said 6:05PM on 10-31-2007
Chris,
I'm intruiged! What is it that makes you object to paying for FTP software? Perhaps the reason the free alternatives are so sucky is because they don't have the incentive to make them better (i.e. there's no money behind the development or perhaps support too)?
I used to use Cyberduck all the time, but the speed of Transmit and the love that Panic puts into the app more than justifies the cost in my humble opinion.
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wififun said 6:15PM on 10-31-2007
@Chris and with Nik,
Do you really think skinning some existing app is the solution here? I would pay 100% of the time for a great quality truly "Mac" app over some skinned tool no matter how much that "tool" offered. Granted, there would have to be some feature parity, but really skinning is not the way to go. Now several Mac apps are based on a proven opensource library wrapped with some Cocoa loving UI, and that is fine, but to many things are not given the care an attention that Panic and others have. This is worth the money, especially as a tool I use every day. OSS is great, but so are small independent mac development outfits. They are the ones who help make this platform what it is.
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lookmark said 6:15PM on 10-31-2007
Cyberduck is a free FTP program for OS X and isn't sucky at all. It's quite good. Check it out.
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Frank said 6:24PM on 10-31-2007
i use both cyberduck and transmit, and i have to say, i like transmit better.
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jus10 said 6:32PM on 10-31-2007
@5 Chris
Filezilla works beautifully on Leopard. I'm a big fan of the "two panels" view so while Cyberduck is also nice, Filezilla fits my niche.
I chose Filezilla because regardless of cost, I've never had a ftp client I liked as much.
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henrrrik said 6:35PM on 10-31-2007
The latest Cyberduck nightly fixes some Leopard problems too:
http://update.cyberduck.ch/nightly/Cyberduck-3268.tar.gz
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Jon Niola said 8:52PM on 10-31-2007
I use Fugu for SFTP. I like it and it is free :)
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LotusEliseBlog said 11:36PM on 10-31-2007
3.6.2 still isn't working for me, the prior version actually worked better IMO. It starts to initiate a transfer but the app freezes and crashes a couple of seconds later. Anyone else have a similar issue?
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aptmunich said 12:27PM on 11-01-2007
They've also added a huge and detailed version of the truck icon - definitely worth checking out in Cover Flow!
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