Transmit 4.0 has been Released
I'm a big fan of the software the Panic crew creates. In my opinion, it's a list of the very best in style, function, and usability for any platform - I'm just tickled pink it's for the Mac. Today they released Transmit 4, the latest update to their file transfer client, and Holy Cow! What an update!
Following their recent update to Unison, it makes sense that they do a completely new UI with much better features, much more usable screen real estate, and a few new GUI "extras" that make it a joy to watch working. Really. But what I didn't expect is the complete transformation of the "connected" GUI to be exactly what I've been wanting them to do: minimal footprint.
The new "connected" GUI looks wonderfully like a simple Finder window:
I've been hoping for this for a very, very long time. It's wonderful.
The connection parameters are very easy to define - but that's no news. What is news in the engine is that they claim to have made it 25% faster than Transmit 3. That's something. Very nice.
One of the other nice features is the menu bar component that allows you to mount any of the connections as a disk in Finder. This means that you can have an SFTP site or WebDAV look like any other disk drive in the system and all the applications of that system see it as a disk drive. No need to have SFTP or WebDAV in any application - with this, it's all there for everyone. Amazingly cool!
I continue to believe that these guys create some of the very best software I've ever seen. Incredible.