Transmit is a file transfer client program for

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developed by Panic Inc. Transmit is

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; after a seven-day trial period, the product can only be used for seven-minute sessions until it is purchased. Transmit was originally built as an FTP client and now supports a number of protocols including SFTP and

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and cloud services including

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and

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. Many of the features of Transmit 4 take advantage of technologies Apple introduced in OS X 10.4, such as

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ing using a

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widget or the

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, support for .Mac and iDisk/

, FTP/WebDAV/S3 servers as disks in Finder (since v4.0), Spotlight, Droplets, Amazon S3 support and Automator plugins. The app was called "Transit" at introduction in 1998, but had to be changed due to a conflict with an existing product. Transmit was originally developed for

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, but that version has been discontinued and made

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. Transmit for iOS was released in 2014 but removed and retired from the Apple app store in 2018.

History

On February 16, 2005, Transmit 3 was released. The app was previewed to attendees of Macworld Expo the month prior in January 2005. On April 27, 2010, Transmit 4 was released. The app was almost completely rewritten, had a brand new interface, over 45 new features, and was up to 25 times faster. On June 10, 2016, Panic began

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Transmit 5, touting improved performance and new features. Transmit 5 was released the following year on July 18, 2017.

Awards

Transmit is the recipient of a number of awards, including: * Apple Design Award, 2005 for "best Mac OS X Tiger technology adoption, for its use of features like Automator, Mac sync, Spotlight, Dashboard and more." *

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Best of Show (among 12 winners), 2005

References

;Reviews * Keith Martin
Transmit 3
MacUser issue 21 7, Apr 2005 * Joe Muscara
Transmit 2.1
MacUser issue 18 24, Nov 2002 * Rob Griffiths
Transmit 3 - Powerful file transfer app
macosxhints.com, Dec 28 2005, Pick of the Week

External links

* FTP clients SSH File Transfer Protocol clients Macintosh-only software MacOS-only proprietary software Panic software {{network-software-stub

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