Wednesday, 12 September 2007

FTP software for Mac OS…

Since I decided to have my own personal site, where I write about my family and the developments of my little girl, I learned some things about publishing on the net, and there are a lot of protocols, but the most used is the FTP (file transfer protocol).

As I use iWeb (Publish to folder) for my personal site, I tried the Easy iWeb Publisher that is donation-ware. Simple, easy and minimal. But you don’t get to see a list of the files, neither local nor remote server.

Specific for iWeb, we also have found these:
iWeb Uploader (freeware – site in French)
w2w (freeware) when we use iWeb Publish To Folder, the application re-writes all the files with a new date, and this little app claims that you’re not going to re-write all files in remote server, because it recognizes the changes in files, but I didn’t try.

If you are more into FTP, and need to visualize your local files and your uploaded files, you can try these:
• FTP on Mac OS X (Connect to server)
Cyberduck (freeware - donation) Nice and easy to use app, but I was having problems as it was re-connecting every 3 minutes or so and when saved location to favourites, the login didn’t work.
Transmit (commercial $30 with full working demo 15 day) I must say that I’m still in demo version, with doesn’t allow you to save your favourites but keeps running and works fine.
FileZilla (freeware – platform independent)
One Button FTP (freeware – donation)
• Yummy FTP (commercial $25 with demo 30 day)
• Fetch (commercial $25 with demo 15 day)
CrossFTP (freeware, commercial if you want PRO features) This one is platform independent, as I understood, it’s java-based.

And there are these ones too. I think all apps have their demo, just didn’t try them.
• FTP Client (commercial)
• Captain FTP (commercial)
• Crush FTP (commercial)
• Cute FTP for Mac (commercial)
• FTP Portal (commercial)
• Interarchy (commercial)
• Simple FTP (commercial)

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