Transmit is a file transfer client program for

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, Transmit is

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. After a seven-day trial period, the product can only be used for seven-minute sessions until it has been purchased. Originally built as an

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, it now supports a number of protocols ranging from the more traditional ones like SFTP and

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to cloud services like

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and

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. Transmit 4 includes a number of features, many of which take advantage of technologies Apple introduced in OS X 10.4, such as

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ing using a Dashboard (macOS), Dashboard widget or the

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, support for

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, FTP/WebDAV/S3 servers as disks in Finder (since v4.0),

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, 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. More than five years after the release of version 3.0. 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: *

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, 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), 2005MWSF: Best of show awards revealed
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References

;Reviews * Keith Martin
Transmit 3

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issue 21 7, Apr 2005 * Joe Muscara
Transmit 2.1

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 software Panic software {{network-software-stub

History

Awards

See also

References

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