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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 [...]

Quick & Secure Network Filesystem Access With ExpanDrive

Written on February 26, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 7 people have commented

Magnetk – makers of SftpDrive for Windows – have brought their secure, remote filesystem magic to OS X with version 1.0 of ExpanDrive.
If you have a blog/site hosted on any flavor of Linux or BSD (including OS X) or do any amount of cross-platform management or development then you know how useful ssh is for speedy [...]