ForkLift – the most advanced file manager and FTP & SFTP client for mac

Hello People,

We’re happy to announce that, while still at work on the new UI, we’re giving in to popular demand and are releasing a quick update to ForkLift.

So WebDAV support is now available, fully functional with remote preview and editing, etc.

The Edit menu was expanded to incorporate a Select Panel, where you can use a text input filter to select multple files in the active panel, or you can compare the two panels and select files with matching filenames.

Thanks for the bug reports you sent in – we’ve fixed some of these now, including the bug with using other than ASCII text encoding over SFTP, and some issues with deleting Amazon S3 buckets and folders.

Equally important – we’ve made a handful of changes to make ForkLift run on Leopard. 3 days 21 hours to go.

Most of these extra features and fixes were coded by Bela, maybe we should give him an employee of the month award or something.

Enjoy the release, and let us know if there’s anything else we can do for you.

-binarynights crew-

Hello People,

We’re back to let you know that news of an imminent release of Leopard did not escape our attention. So to answer your silent questions, here’s an update on what is going on at binarynights.com
Like we said earlier, we had this plan on reworking the UI, and combined with the migration to Leopard, this has turned into a major rewriting of ForkLift.

Actually, we found so many great stuff in Leopard, that it was easy to fall in with apple and adopt many things from the new UI.

So Mudi’s been busy reworking the sidebar and the new info panel. He says it’s a lot handier for previewing images and video now. He also says he has ideas for integrating a couple of additional UI functions here, but won’t say what, not to spoil the surprise. He sends me this screenshot:

(that’s mudi and his girlfriend in the picture, not models..:)

Attila recoded a great part of the core application, its now faster, better, prettier he says. I believe him.

You’ve been making feature requests for a single activity monitor, like in Finder, so we’ve done that. And you were right, it really is better this way:

Attila also coded a new Connections Panel to handle all types of connections in one place.

Also on your repeated request, he tidied up the menus and context menus.

In the process, the decision was made that the next release will run on Leopard only. Because we’ll be introducing WebDAV support with this next release (Bela says he’s almost ready), we decided to make a last intermediary release on the current 1.1 to give WebDAV support to users who want to stick to Tiger (is there really anyone?).

Well, that’s about all for the moment. As always, we’d be happy to know what you think.

binarynights crew