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CHAPTER 21 WORKING WITH REMOTE SERVERS AND NETWORKS<br />

Figure 21-4. Connecting to an FTP server with Transmit<br />

Other features in Transmit include directory synchronization, bookmarks, and remote viewing<br />

and editing. What really makes it worth the price is the level of integration it has with<br />

<strong>Mac</strong> <strong>OS</strong> X, including the Dock, iDisk, Bonjour, Dashboard, AppleScript, and Automator. It also<br />

works with .<strong>Mac</strong>’s syncing feature so your bookmarks are always backed up and in sync.<br />

Transmit is available for $29.95. You can download it from Panic’s web site and try it free<br />

for 15 days, after which time certain features are limited.<br />

BBEdit<br />

NOTE Several free and open source FTP clients are also available for the <strong>Mac</strong>, such as NcFTP<br />

(www.ncftp.com) and CyberDuck (http://cyberduck.ch/).<br />

One of the most common uses of FTP and other file transfer protocols is for uploading content<br />

to a web server. Some applications have file transfer capabilities built in to streamline your workflow.<br />

Bare Bones’ BBEdit (http://barebones.com/products/bbedit/) is probably one of the oldest<br />

and most respected text editor on the <strong>Mac</strong>. It has the kind of understated interface over tremendous<br />

power beloved by veteran users of the great UNIX text editors Emacs and Vi. But it also has<br />

the convenience and easy approachability of a graphical application, as shown in Figure 21-5.<br />

BBEdit’s features are too numerous to enumerate, but suffice it to say it’s not only a great<br />

text editor but also a great web page editor. Germane to the subject at hand, BBEdit can open<br />

and save files to a remote server via FTP or SFTP, eliminating the need for a separate file transfer<br />

protocol.<br />

BBEdit is $125 but has a demo mode and significant discounts for students and users of previous<br />

versions. Bare Bones also makes a free “lite” version called TextWrangler. Although it<br />

lacks the most advanced features of BBEdit, TextWrangler has BBEdit’s best features, including<br />

the FTP functionality.

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