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Old-school FTP gets souped up: Interarchy 9
Interarchy 9, Nolobe's FTP application, is out Friday 1/11 with over 100 new features. We've covered Interarchy in the past, in part because of its old-school cred, but this release has some new-school polish.
In addition to the existing support for the usual protocols and Amazon S3 transfers, version 9 adds a new protocol built on SSH that offers security, speed and flexibility beyond the limitations of SFTP. The protocol is perl-based and should work with any server running perl v4 or later. I'm also happy to see the addition of a Finder-style path bar which accepts dropped files on any part of the path. Some other highlights from the extensive release notes include:
- Major upgrades to tab functionality
- A multi-function sidebar for easy access to, well, everything
- "Copy Public URL"
- "Preview in Safari" support added
- Path Finder support
- Sparkle updates
Of course, if Interarchy is your current solution, upgrades are $29 and free for anyone who purchased Interarchy on or after February 1st, 2007.
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Praveen said 3:27PM on 1-11-2008
Does anyone have an opinion on how this compares with Panic's Transmit? I use FTP every day at work (web development) so I'm curious if this will really offer that much more than Transmit.
Sure I could just download it and test it - but I'd like to hear any opinions.
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Brett Terpstra said 4:33PM on 1-11-2008
Within the realm of ftp apps, Interarchy v. Transmit is a little bit of apples to oranges. They pretty much accomplish the same thing but with different user interfaces. The features match up pretty well, so you'd have to take it for a test run and see if it's worth more to you than Transmit. I took the SSH feature for a test spin in Interarchy, and it's a little faster, especially on folders full of files. That might be a consideration.
Personally, if Yummy FTP would smooth out a few kinks in the new version, I'd be pretty psyched.
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