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- ROFLance, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15"MacAppADay is over. Rated a complete waste of time."
MacAppADay is overrated; a complete waste of time. - bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I use CyberDuck, which is open source and free. It's just as good as Transmit in my opinion, and much better looking than FileZilla.
- percussionlab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i got a few apps - missed out on a couple.
did anyone actually check every day? jeeze - i'd forget a lot so i never noticed missing apps.
the finale DID suck though... I'm sure future MAADs will be better. - acrambler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Half the time the website was down or they just told us that they would have new apps the next day, and the next day they said it would be another day
- Donut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i got every app offered (except for EarthDesk, that seemed useless) , havent installed the majority of apps though. i did like YummyFTP, that seemed to be the best and most useful app offered. TuneX was nice but its still a beta, the thing is so buggy.
i was hoping thered be some Unsanity apps offered. - t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, Cyberduck's great, and GPL'D so it's free.
- kevdotbadger, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6For me it wasn't a complete waste of time. I definitely got hold of a few decent free apps.
- heinous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cyberduck sucks at performance. I installed it on 45 G5s in my labs and all kinds of people were having problems with it crashing while typing in form fields, hanging during transfers, and mucking up keychain passwords. I would not recommend Cyberduck on a production machine. Fetch is a better alternative, although the GUI with its puppies makes me want to kill myself. It replaces the beach ball with a running puppy. Why do FTP programs have to have such over-the-top cutesy icon sets?
Transmit is ok, but I can't seem to shrink the window below 425 pixels vertically which is really stupid if you're trying to conserve screen real estate. I know, I know, expose… But sometimes I want to see a list of files without command-tabbing or F9ing. In fact, this seems to be a large problem (pun intended) with all of the FTP programs for OS X, except Cyberduck, which sucks for many other reasons.
I guess Yummy is close to being small enough but why do they all have such huge status bars at the bottom? Do you really need 100 vertical pixels of interface to tell you that your connection is idle or that you are downloading index.html? I like how Cyberduck does this... Single text line (20 pixels) with status indicator and transfers in a separate Mozilla-like download window. Maybe I should just read man ftp and use that… - hoyaman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5There were some flaws in the execution, but can you tell me one promotion that's come form the ground up that hasn't had a few flaws?
MacHeist and MacZot, to name two that come immediately to mind, had their share of flaws as well. The difference is that with MAAd, all you did was got the URL and click soemthing if you wanted an app - then you dealt with some server issues (the "digg effect"), and got things resolved.
Significantly less effort than required for the others (and no money involved).
Great idea - and we can hope that MAAD 2.0 will have the kinks ironed out. - martypal2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is there really nothing equivalent to filezilla or do mac users actually have to use YummyFTP?
- ntnwwnet, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I should also note that MacAppADay changed it's "welcome note" adding "(where possible, we can't be held responsible for developers who go on holiday and then cancel)" a few days before the end of the promotion.
An excellent "recap" comment @ http://macappaday.com/permalinks/2006/12/31/happy-new-year/#comment-4355 - fungusbear, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Nope, most of us use Transmit. http://panic.com/transmit/
Not sure "equivalent to Filezilla" is something to be striven for, though, from the looks of those screenshots. Yikes. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It doesn't take any longer than that to make up to $1,000
- TH3W1R3D, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2http://www.duggmirror.com
- soothsayer, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5An excellent idea, sadly let down by 1. trolls and whiners, 2. developers who canceled (because of 1) and 3. more trolls and whiners
Admittedly, the MAAD team did make some silly mistakes, like switching servers half way through the event, but some excellent software WAS given away for FREE!:
TuneX
Mail Steward Lite
Cookie Assassin
Yummy FTP
Shoebox Express
Shadow Clipboard
DEVONagent
Xslimmer
mira
DEVONnote
thrupp
Earth Desk
Overflow
ShadowBurn
PTHPasteboard PRO
MacPilot
Desktop Magic
Translation Service
Typinator
PhotoPresenter
Alarm Clock Pro
CastCount
Pzizz
The pick of the bunch and absolute star of the show, for me at least, was Yummy FTP : www.yummysoftware.com - martypal2005, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Why are the looks so important to you guys?
To me all that matters is functionality and usability.
In my opinion there is nothing bad about the way filezilla looks - and since when do people care about the looks of an ftp client? Oh, the buttons are not pretty enough so you can't use it?
Imagine this:
- "Hey boss, I think we can't use this app. It doesn't look good. It has all the features you want and it supports all the protocols, but its disconnect button makes me depressed."
Oh, I forgot, this is the kind of people that buy Apple computers. - imagistic, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Agreed.
- lastberserker, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Ok, I take it as a "no" then :-)
- lastberserker, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Did they get any MacOS viruses yet?
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