There are quite a few FTP clients out there, but one stands out the most in my mind and that’s, Transmit. It’s the best ftp client I’ve ever used. When I started to work at a local ISP I was in a hurry to find a great client that could do SFTP. I looked around and found a few, but they didn’t have exactly what I was looking for. Then I saw Transmit and I knew I had found my tool.

The best feature in my mind would have to be the ability to use drag and drop. You can drag to the dock icon, download the dashboard widget, and even install the plugin for Quicksilver. Even if you aren’t connected to a server and you perform the drag and drop action, it uploads it to your most recent server you were connected to. Connection times are fast along with transferring of files to and from different servers. During my use of Transmit, I have yet to find any flaws. One other thing is that you can use whatever text editor you want when viewing remote files – BBEdit, TexMate, TextEdit, it doesn’t matter.

I use Transmit on a day to day basis for uploading php files and accessing my work’s servers. There are just so many features implemented into this one client. The only thing I don’t like about Transmit is it’s not free, but with everything that it can do and how well it’s made, the $30 price tag is not too bad.

You can download Transmit here.

If you’re broke you can get Fugu here, which is a nice replacement to Transmit.

Visor can do everything a normal terminal can and then some. One of the most useful features would have to be drag and drop. So if your friend sends you some bash code or anything of the sort, just start to drag then hit your keystroke to activate Visor and drop it right in. For the most part Visor is quite flawless, but there are some things you must to in order to get it run. The Terminal must be running for Visor to be triggered. Also you must install SIMBL, which might be a little confusing, but there is a nice howto on the Visor page. Just like some other people have said, If Visor were stand alone and did not require a plugin, it would be just right.

Download Visor and SIMBL

After taking OnyX for a test drive, I found that there are many cool features. In total there are eight menus; Parameters, Maintenance, Cleaning, Automation, Log FIles, Unix Utilities, Info, and Preferences. All of them have many sub menus, but we’ll just take a look at the main ones for now. Here’s a quick run down:

Parameters – Here you can change dock, dashboard, safari, login settings, and more. OnyX adds more features than in the normal menus of these applications. Among the features you get some new dock effects, you can speed up the loading times of safari and customize your login text.

Maintenance – Here you can mess around with the disk permissions, scripts, also optimize and reset OS X. I did have some problems on getting the disk list to load, but after some tinkering, I got it working.

Cleaning – This is where you can delete caches, history, temp files, and log files. This is one of the more used menus in OnyX.

Automation – It’s probably the most used menu in OnyX. As in the screenshot above, it lets you execute the most common tasks all in one menu. Got to love the simplicity.

Log Files – A really useful menu, here you can find and look at EVERY log file on your system, for every app, installation, and error, while even telling you the size of the log files. Although it can be a little tough to read, it can really come in handy for errors.

Unix Utilities; this menu shows you all the console commands and man pages. Man page are always great for me and these are very detailed, telling you what a command does, it’s usage, and variations.

Info; It’s just was it says, information about your system with many details, such as kernel version, Boot ROM ID and more.

So that concludes a short review on OnyX. Now some of you might be thinking, how much does it cost?, well that is one of the best parts. OnyX is 100% free, so give it a shot yourself.

Grab OnyX here.

This is probably one of the most simple Mac apps I’ve seen. It serves the full functionality of the del.icio.us bookmarks page, without the hefty loading times of a web page. Just login with your information and start adding your favorite pages.

There are a few things that stand out, the most noticable is you can see older bookmarks from your account. Another little feature is the Pukka bookmarklet, you add the link Pukka gives you to your web browser’s bookmarks. Click it on a certain web page you want to send to del.icio.us, it opens Pukka and fills in everything you need. A few other features include support for multiple logins, use over SSL, warnings on duplicates, and much more.

Pukka is available for $5, but there is a 14 free day trial. If you love del.icio.us, then I would say it’s worth the money.