The macosxhints Rating:
[Score: 8 out of 10]
- Developer: Panic / Product Page
- Price: $29.95
The original Transmit was a Pick of the Week way back in 2002 (in what must have been one of my shorter writeups ever!). Since then, Transmit has progressed greatly, and version 3 is, in my opinion, the best yet. This is especially true if you're running 10.4, as there are many Tiger-specific new features, such as Automator support, a Dashboard widget (watch it in action), support for Sync Services, and Spotlight favorites (i.e. access favorites via a Spotlight search). In addition, there are some other great UI additions in version 3 -- column view browsing mode, a sidebar for often-visited locations (both local and remote), spring loaded folders, auto-zooming previews, SFTP and other secure transfer methods, and (hooray!) tabs, for multiple transfer sessions in one window.
I really like the Automator support; with a very simple two-action script, I can create an "upload these files to this directory" action for my most-used directories (the 'dlfiles' downloads directory on Hints, for example). So now uploading files is as simple as control-clicking on the file(s) in question and choosing the appropriate action from the Automator menu.
Unlike Transmit 1, I didn't give version 3 a perfect score this time out. Though I haven't had any issues with it, I have friends who have reported problems with high-ascii filenames, sync services not working on some servers, and some random quits. However, in my experience, it's been quite stable (no quits), and has been working great, especially since the 3.2.1 update came out. I love its very Mac-like interface and its extensive feature set. Note that there are quite a few free/cheap FTP apps out there, but if your job requires heavy FTP usage, as does mine, Transmit is well worth checking out.

