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.
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 It already works better than MacFusion (no longer maintained?)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!).
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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)
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".
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 104 ms ] threadPanic does it again.
http://github.com/nall/MacFusion2
This can probably be done with RAW FTP commands, but having it built in is great.
Great job, Panic. +1 Purchase.
However, that is one beautiful-looking app and one beautiful website.
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.
It looks great and the attention to detail these guys have is pretty amazing.
https://panic.com/transmit/releasenotes.html
Watch the Transmit 4 text, it shines from time to time.
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.
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.
Not just when a plugin like Flash has focus? (You do use it for Hulu)
Still a bug, it works on Safari.