A Cyberduck in the FTP world

Cyberduck FTP client

Cyberduck is one of the greatest and most powerful FTP (file transfer protocol) application I have ever seen.

It is full of features and supports all important and commonly used standards like SFTP, WebDav, MobileMe, S3 Amazon and Mosso Cloud.

This easy to use FTP client enables you to manage a huge amount of connections by a bookmark manager.

With drag and drop it is so easy to download and upload files or directories. If a large transfer broke down, you may resume and do need to shift all data, again. Of course, you are even able to overwrite the old files and directories.

For quick web-development I love to edit files instantly on the server. Cyberduck enables you to open any file with any installed editor and when you save it, it will automatically be uploaded, even if the editor has absolutely no FTP capability.

In former times I was used to take TextWrangler, which is really powerful, but anyhow I do not feel home with it and now I am now using Smultron.

Another cool feature is to make duplicates of selected files and folders. This creates a copy and renames the new ones with the current datestamp added. With that you can try changing files, but still keeps a copy of the original.

If you need doing backups, the syncronization feature will help you out. It compares the local data against the server side stored files and syncronizes them in the direction you prefer. That is useful if there is a large data amount and only some things changed. Only the changes are transfered and may save you tons of traffic and time.