Cyberduck

There is another compelling reason to upgrade to the latest 3.2 release of Cyberduck besides the usual enhancements and bug fixes the update provides. As a contributor to Cyberduck you receive a donation key that disables the donation prompt which is displayed periodically when quitting the application. Enter Cyberduck Premium Edition sort of.

When contributing money using Paypal, a key is automatically emailed to you. Contributors of localizations, icon design or similar should request a donation key from me. Also if you sent me a DVD from Amazon please contact me as I do not receive your address from Amazon.

If you have donated previously to Cyberduck via Paypal and have not received a donation key, you can recover your key.

The news and blog coverage of the 3.1 release of Cyberduck was broad and welcoming. Some excerpts here:

• Featured in the Amazon Web Services CloudFront Management Tool Roundup:
  

  Amazon CloudFront was designed to make it really easy to distribute content to users at high speed with low latency. Here are some new tools which provide a nice end-user interface to CloudFront.

• In a versiontracker.com comment:
  

  There was a German commercial for the old VW Beatle, many years ago: “Er läuft und läuft und läuft…”, which means it’s reliable and robust. The same applies to Cyberduck. (…)
  

• Mosso from Rackspace welcomes Cyberduck as the first tool to natively support Cloud Files:

  That’s right! Now you can access your Cloud Files data (even your CDN-enabled data!)

• Cyberduck is among the candidates for the best Amazon S3 File Manager Utility at stackoverflow.com.
  

  Best Amazon S3 File Manager Utility?

• Lindsey Kirkbride just discovered Quick Look in Cyberduck:
  

  This. Changes. Everything.

Version 3.1 has been released into the wild today! Read about all the new features and enhancements in the changelog.

Update: A bugfix release is available for a crashing bug affecting some users and restoring compatiblity with MobileMe iDisk and other WebDAV server implementations. Use the ‘Check for Update…’ feature in Cyberduck to automatically update your already installed version. If your 3.1 installation crashes immediately on launch, open Terminal.app from the Utilities folder in your Applications and paste the command exactly as below
defaults write ch.sudo.cyberduck connection.login.name myusername
This will set a default username that was previously empty and caused version 3.1 to crash. Relaunch Cyberduck and install the automatic update.

A new previously requested feature will make it into the upcoming 3.1 release: On the server side archive creation and expanding for TARs and ZIPs with a click of a button.

Note: This feature does only work for SFTP connections.

Try it out yourself using the latest available nightly build of Cyberduck.

Previously, it was only possible to send custom commands to a server when connected over FTP. As of the latest 3.1 nightly builds, you can choose Go → Send Command… for SFTP connections which allows you to execute an arbitrary command on the server.

It is nevertheless still possible to conviniently open a proper shell with Terminal.app for the current working directory. Use View → Customize Toolbar… to add the Terminal.app button to your browser windows.

In the screenshot below a ps command has been executed:

Note: This feature is meant for advanced users who are familiar with UNIX shells.

Try it out yourself using the latest available nightly build of Cyberduck.

As we are speaking of the cloud distribution features in the last posts, Cyberduck 3.1 will also have a pre-configured protocol setting for MobileMe iDisk. You are no more required to enter the WebDAV protocol connection parameters manually.

Try it out yourself using the latest available nightly build of Cyberduck.

In addition to the previous post. A screenshot speaks a thousand words.

Try it out yourself using the latest available nightly build of Cyberduck. Make sure to sign up for Mosso CloudFiles first.

In addition to the previous post. A screenshot speaks a thousand words.

Try it out yourself using the latest available nightly build of Cyberduck. Make sure to sign up for Amazon CloudFront first.

What follows is a newsflash of the current roadmap for features targeted in the 3.1 release. The latest 3.0.3 release improved stability and performance. We now look ahead for new features which complement the existing functionality already available: The next release is all about integration with recently announced cloud services. In particular, this means first class support for Amazon CloudFront and Mosso Cloud Files. Both services offer hosting solutions to deliver content at network edge locations nearest to the customer on a payment-per-use basis. Both are innovative solutions but implement proprietary protocols which lack support in commonly used client applications.

Cyberduck will try to facilitate the use of both content-delivery network (CDN), making them available for the rest of us. It greatly simplifies the configuration of your distributions for both providers. In practice, the workflow in Cyberduck is as follows:

• Access your remote storage using the familiar Cyberduck browser interface creating containers (in Mosso Cloud Files) or buckets (in the Amazon S3 terminology) as you would create folders on a FTP server. Upload your original content using drag and drop.
• Create a distribution to register that container with Amazon CloudFront or the Limelight Networks Content Distribution Network through a simple API call by a single click in the Info panel of the browser. When end users thereafter request a file, they are automatically routed to the nearest edge location for the fastest possible delivery of your content. Distribution can be toggled on or off at any time.

Try it out yourself using the latest available nightly build of Cyberduck. Feedback most appreciated!

The 3.0.2 milestone has been completed. I welcome anybody to test the latest nightly build which is considered stable. The update has many bug fixes and enhancements plus includes a Greek localization.