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Coda 1.0 (Panic Software)

My bread & butter application for file transfers on Mac OS X has always been Panic Software’s “Transmit“. It’s a great dual-pane SCP/FTP client and lets me live-edit my files on the server and view them in real time. Anyways, I stopped by their site the other day and noticed there latest app, Coda 1.0. Coda’s a mash-up of Transmit, CSSedit, terminal, with a few eBooks thrown in the mix. Aside from the CoreImage eye candy on the site page (reference the image provided) it’s actually pretty nice. I don’t know if I’m willing to stray from my current workflow (TextMate & CSSEdit 2.5) but its definitely a contender in the web publishing world.

From Panic:
So, we code web sites by hand. And one day, it hit us: our web workflow was wonky. We’d have our text editor open, with Transmit open to save files to the server. We’d be previewing in Safari, running queries in Terminal, using a CSS editor, and reading references on the web. “This could be easier,” we realized. “And much cooler.”

Mozy Backup

Just stumbled across the latest online backup option for Mac users, and it’s cheap too! At 5.00 a month for unlimited backups, Mozy is a silent background process that runs independantly of its menu bar icon. A free account will get you 2 gigs of storage, and for just under 60.00 a year you can get unlimited backups of all your data. What’s more, Mozy does realtime blowfish file encryption before establishing a 128 bit SSL tunnel to thier servers in the sky. Initial backup times can be pretty lengthy but afterwards they utilize a differential backup scheme — and since it is running in the background anyways, just set it and forget it.

I currently backup everything weekly to my terabyte array anyways, but its nice to have an affordable off-site solution. In the event of catestrophic loss, they’ll even send you a series of DVD’s with all your files on it — for a small fee.


Update: While Mozy seems like it’s a great deal up-front, I’m a little leary now after almost 10 days of uploading. I wanted to upload all the contents of my home drive (190GB) but with all the connection resets and restarts I’m getting NOWHERE fast…