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ExpanDrive 2.0 Enhances GUI, Speed, and Connectivity Options

Written on April 24, 2009 by Bob Rudis and 1 person has commented

Building on the success of their initial offering, ExpanDrive has released version 2.0 of their Mac client for accessing a wide array of online storage systems.
ExpanDrive is built on MacFUSE, an open-source project that provides the base functionality and SDK for connecting to remote and alternative filesystems. The ExpanDrive developer-alchemists have mixed in a bit [...]

ExpanDrive 1.3 Beta – Funnest Version Yet!

Written on October 08, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 9 people have commented

Fans of Magnetk’s ExpanDrive — a great SFTP client for OS X — should definitely go out and grab the latest beta (1.3) of this fine application. For starters, they support plain-ol’ FTP (and FTP/SSL) which, though insecure, is still used in many, many hosting outfits. The developers also tapped into the magic of OS [...]

Using Droplets With Transmit

Written on October 07, 2008 by David Appleyard and 6 people have commented

For those of us who don’t have an iDisk up in the MobileMe cloud, it can be very useful to have a way of easily moving files to an FTP server without opening up your FTP client and moving the file manually. Maybe you want to share a photo folder, send a colleague a set [...]

Why Text Editors & FTP Clients?

Written on June 19, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 30 people have commented

Anyone who’s been using a Mac for a few months has probably noticed that there is a glut of text editors available for the OS X platform. If you’re in the web/design category, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the similar situation of too many FTP client options. What gives?
I’ll take the latter issue first. [...]