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Holiday savings for designers with the Fusion Ads Holiday Bundle

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 20th, 2010)

The holidays have become rife with software bundles, bringing big savings to consumers (when there are enough apps in the bundle you don't already own). Fusion Ads is offering a bundle that will be of particular interest to designers. It's especially pertinent to web designers, but any designer who ...

ExpanDrive 2.0 expands to Amazon S3

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 27th, 2009)

I had to do some extensive testing before I got too excited, but after a conversation with the developers I'm pleased to announce that ExpanDrive 2.0 is out. We've mentioned it before, but to recap: ExpanDrive allows you to mount remote servers as drives directly accessible in Finder. With a ...

ExpanDrive 1.3 adds FTP support

by Brett Terpstra (Oct 9th, 2008)

It's been a while since we heard from the developers at Magnetk, but they've just released version 1.3 of Expandrive with some new functionality. They're calling it a beta to be safe, but it seems to just be cautious labeling; 1.3 has been very stable for me thus far. As a quick review, Expandrive ...

WWDC '08: Jeff Mancuso (Magnetk)

by Brett Terpstra (Jun 25th, 2008)

ExpanDrive made a pretty good stir when it was released. If you haven't seen it, it's an application that allows remote SFTP servers to be mounted (using MacFUSE) and used seamlessly as part of the filesystem. We've been following it as it develops and I wanted a chance to talk to its developers ...

ExpanDrive gets AppleScript support

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 11th, 2008)

Version 1.1 of ExpanDrive, the utility we reported on earlier that gives you SSH/SFTP server access that's transparent to the OS, hit the streets today. In addition to features like "Reconnect at Login" and several interface/usability tweaks, it now supports AppleScript. The AppleScript library is ...

ExpanDrive: transparent remote file access

by Brett Terpstra (Mar 4th, 2008)

I just got finished putting ExpanDrive by Magnetk through its paces. In fact, I've been using it all morning and I'm duly impressed. It's an application that allows you to mount SFTP filesystems as local drives. I've used other MacFUSE-based systems in the past and I'm pleasantly surprised to find ...