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Transmit 4 is Released

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I never liked Transmit 3 for some reason and feel it doesn't worth $29.95 when I can do pretty much the same with Cyberduck for cheaper—free! But now I tried Transmit 4, and fall it love with it within 10 minutes. WebDAV is fast even on my faulty connection (listing over 3000 files, which Cadaver never seems to finish) and Disks pretty much replaced ExpanDrive for me.

Great job, Panic. +1 Purchase.

Even if you're not a Mac/Transmit user you should check our their product page for this: http://panic.com/transmit/

It looks great and the attention to detail these guys have is pretty amazing.

Their release notes are pretty good too. ;)

https://panic.com/transmit/releasenotes.html

Yes, what a demo! All pure web technologies, too.

Also just found this: http://www.panic.com/

Watch the Transmit 4 text, it shines from time to time.

This is the reason why I prefer a Mac over a Windows PC: the attention to detail in Mac-only applications, such as Transmit, is unmatched on the PC.

Everything from the subtle animated transitions to the product's website radiates love for the work they're doing.

The only thing that can come close on Windows, in my opinion, is Google Chrome.

I've never used Chrome on Windows, but I must say I'm a bit disappointed using it on the Mac. I do like the technical side of it so I use it often for watching Hulu, but the polish is not there. Often times, keyboard shortcuts stop working completely for me and I'm pretty sure that the silent update roll borked my copy of the app once. Also, having the close buttons on the wrong side of the tab is really annoying and, similarly, they reversed the order of "open in new window" and "open in new tab" on the contextual menus for links.

Chrome on Mac does look a bit weird, yes.

But I feel that on Windows, this "non-nativeness" actually works to its advantage. As an example, by avoiding window chrome, the UI becomes more compact, taking over almost the entire screen for browsing.

> keyboard shortcuts stop working completely for me

Not just when a plugin like Flash has focus? (You do use it for Hulu)

Wow, you are exactly right! It is mostly the Cmd-L shortcut I notice going missing. I wonder why that one is getting eaten but Cmd-N, T, W, and Q all work?

Still a bug, it works on Safari.

I'm glad that happens to you too. I thought I was going insane.

I've got to say, I've been playing with it for a while, and it's absolutely beautiful in every way: snappy, pretty, useful, intuitive & feature-packed.

Panic does it again.

Personally I'm a scp/ssh command-line user. The last time I used FTP as part of my regular workflow was many years ago.

However, that is one beautiful-looking app and one beautiful website.

I have always wondered whats the overhead of scp over ftp ? Especially when copying file locally, it's most of the time easier than ftp (activated by default on most OS).

I can't comment on scp, but sftp is much faster then ftp. It's a completely differen't protocol then ftp (not to be confused with ftps which is ssl'd ftp). It's basically a tunneled connection via ssh and does everything you'd expect ftp to do including, file listing, resume support and extended attributes. It's got some advantages over ftp such as multiple streams in one connection, and ssh level security (sftp itself provides no security it's all over ssh).

According to wikipedia, the overhead of scp is the same due to both using ssh, but scp can transfer a little faster by not waiting for packet conformations before sending data. This means unfortunately that transfers cant be stopped and resumed because packets aren't guaranteed to arrive in order.

Sure is fast. That finder integration is sweet as well. Bought. (45% discount for those who own T3)

This is great -- I'm upgrading now for the Disks feature alone. It already works better than MacFusion (no longer maintained?) and ExpanDrive (which is actually $5 more expensive than Transmit!).

MacFusion seems to be maintained to some extent. I just downloaded a version that works on 10.6.3.

http://github.com/nall/MacFusion2

Thanks for the link. Glad to see someone moving it forward.

This functionality inside Transmit actually depends on MacFuse, it asks you to install it when you select you want to enable the function when you first load it.

I've never been so excited about FTP in my life.

I love the new two-in-one progressbar, showing overall progress and progress of current file in a single progressbar.

I agree - it is very Tufte-esque.

Website looks ... interesting in my chrome on OSX. All the text in the main panel with the flashing dots is displayed as a mirror image.

Works great for me. (5.0.342.9)

That happened for a moment for me too in Chrome on OSX, but it switched back to normal after a few seconds. Weird.

It's an effect of "-webkit-transform: rotateY(-180deg);" They have a nice flip effect for WebKit browsers: see it in action by clicking "See all new features".

Does Transmit 4 have the ability to unpack a ZIP archive on the server? YummyFTP has it built in and it saves so much time being able to upload the wordpress.zip file and then select 'Unpack archive'.

This can probably be done with RAW FTP commands, but having it built in is great.

It is able to send SSH commands, so you could unzip via that. I don't know for sure if it also works via RAW FTP commands.

yes, it does have this. 'File > Send SSH Command' brings up a dialog where you can type any SSH command, but also has a pulldown where you can select 'Zip Selection' or 'Unzip Selection'

I've been beta testing this for a few months now, and I have to say it's just a joy to use. Beautifully designed and unbelievably functional.

Very cool and about time! I've been using Transmit 3.x for what seems like ages now. I've mostly switched to using Cyberduck for the last couple years, as it's matured quite a bit since the time I purchased Transmit, and remote editing over SFTP seems to work a whole lot better. From the look of it, that should be fixed now and I might just switch back to Transmit full time.

I'm a little disappointed there aren't more Amazon AWS features supported. It claims to support Cloudfront yet when I look at my S3 buckets, my CloudFront private repositories aren't showing up at all. It's sad that the best AWS/S3 client is Windows only (CloudBerry S3 Explorer)

Apple Design Award, let me introduce you to your new best friend, Transmit 4 :)

Strike that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1301503 :(

Wonder if there will be an upgrade for Coda to implement the new T4 engine?

How does the Disks feature, using Amazon S3 as storage, compare to DropBox? It seems like it would do something similar, with the added complexity of setting up an Amazon S3 account.

There is a big difference, actually, that is better/worse depending on your needs. Dropbox (at least right now) automatically syncs all files to the local disk of all linked accounts. This is often advantageous (the files are ready right when you need them), but for some things, such as a large MP3 collection, is unnecessary and wasteful. For that use case, S3 or one of the other synching services would be a smarter choice.

From Panic's website i can see these guys have fun at work!

I've been beta testing this for a few weeks now and it's pure awesome. It's worth every penny.

Looking at the features...I will upgrade when I get home.

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