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Transmit 4 does lots of things well, but I couldn’t resist linking to it. I’ve been using the application since the late ’90s, when it was called Transit and ran on my first ‘modern’ Mac—a Bondi Blue iMac with a huge 4GB hard drive and new-fangled USB port—where I used it to upload my first ever home page to the web. Panic have pared down Transmit’s interface to the bare essentials, and introduced some very simple, useful features: Expandrive-style disks, which you can keep mounted even when Transmit isn’t running (thanks to MacFUSE). You can have two different remote locations open, and move files between them. ‘Places’, which are essentially bookmarks for directories in remote and local locations. File transfers are insanely fast.

Transmit 4 does lots of things well, but I couldn’t resist linking to it.

I’ve been using the application since the late ’90s, when it was called Transit and ran on my first ‘modern’ Mac—a Bondi Blue iMac with a huge 4GB hard drive and new-fangled USB port—where I used it to upload my first ever home page to the web.

Panic have pared down Transmit’s interface to the bare essentials, and introduced some very simple, useful features:

  • Expandrive-style disks, which you can keep mounted even when Transmit isn’t running (thanks to MacFUSE).
  • You can have two different remote locations open, and move files between them.
  • ‘Places’, which are essentially bookmarks for directories in remote and local locations.
  • File transfers are insanely fast.