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Transmit turns 10, we Panic
Milestones come and go, but the big milestone of the day was 10 years in the making. Panic's Co-founder, Steven Frank, noted on his personal website that their flagship product, Transmit turned 10 years old.Transmit, originally called "Transit," was released on September 8, 1998. Who knows, without the success of Transmit we might not have the other beautiful applications from Panic. If you want to relive the old days of Transmit, Panic offers up a free version (you must be running a pre-OS X Mac, or have a classic mode enabled Mac) for your downloading pleasure.
Join TUAW in saying, "Congratulations, Panic." We cannot wait to see what is next!
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Tony said 9:08PM on 9-08-2008
The article neglected to say what this app was. For similarly confused people here's a link with the description: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16683
It's an FTP client, presumably from before the days when osx had this kind of stuff bult in.
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Bender Bending Rodriguez said 9:13PM on 9-08-2008
It might be built in but FTP in Finder in 10.5.4 freezes and quits. Not that care much, I still prefer to use Transmit for large file grabbing and dropping.
Brady J. Frey said 11:27AM on 9-09-2008
That's like calling BBEdit a 'writing application' before Textedit came out... it doesn't stop with the simple SFTP, FTP, and webDAV protocols. It also has drop from the dock capabilities, syncing and editing uploades in real time, preview of files, lots of configuration goodness for on the fly web designers, and permissions control with ease. That's just the basics - and as they already pointed out, much more stable than the OS X attempt.
Blake said 9:29PM on 9-08-2008
Transmit rocks! If you are a serious FTP user it's a must. We site licensed it and it's been a dream to support. Happy 10 Transmit!
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john said 11:02PM on 9-08-2008
Transmit and Coda are go-to apps for me.
Transmit is the best FTP/SFTP client I've used on any platform. Works great, looks great.
Coda is my HTML editor of choice. It can't do a lot of the things that Dreamweaver does, but Dreamweaver does a lot that I don't need. Coda reminds me of Allaire's Homesite, which was my favorite (Windows) HTML editor back in the day before Allaire was acquired by Macromedia, which then get swallowed by Adobe.
CandyBar is pretty cool, too, though not being the kind of person who messes much with the GUI I don't use it very often.
On another note, Panic has one of the slickest web sites out there. Those guys do so much right it's ridiculous. Too bad there aren't many more companies like them.
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Aaron Davies said 11:27PM on 9-08-2008
Anybody else remember their awesome old website, the one that implemented an OS 9 GUI (draggable Finder windows, double-clickable icons, etc.) in Javascript?
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SubGenius said 12:33AM on 9-09-2008
Congratulations guys!
You guys ROCK!
I have been a Transmit user for probably about 9 of those 10 years. It does what it does so well without excessive bloat.
I've ditched Dreamweaver and now use Coda (also from Panic) for my web development needs.
I look forward to where Coda will be in 10 years.
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Frank said 12:59AM on 9-09-2008
happy birthday, transmit, and congratulations to everyone at panic!
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YunusT said 3:05AM on 9-09-2008
Happy 10th, thank you for being there doing the best for us :) You give us trendsetter applications and websites all the time..
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dkoder said 6:26AM on 9-09-2008
happy birthday transmit!
my all time choice for ftp....
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logicwest said 11:20PM on 9-24-2008
I love Transmit and Coda - definitely the future for professional web tools. Adobe stuff is getting way too bulky and expensive. I would love to see Panic create a sister application for web imaging!
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