Update your Mac: new BBEdit, Transmit and Opera software
By Jenny • Apr 29th, 2010 • Category: Industry News
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This should make the Mac fans. Some popular Mac OS X apps saw an update Tuesday.These included BBEdit, the text editor, Transmit, a the FTP client, and Mac OS X’s version of Opera, the popular web browser.
Transmit 4
- Photo: Apple
A great new Mac update is Transmit 4, a major new version of Panic’s FTP software. Transmit 4 offers file transfer speed of up to 25 times quicker. The interface, Transmit, already good looking, has been overhauled. The upgrade includes new features like improved file browsing, better path access, and server to server transfers using drag and drop . The best new feature, though, might be the Transmit Disk feature. It will mount servers as disks, making direct file access possible, as well as and drag-and-drop transfers – even when the app is not running.
Better text editing
BBEdit 9 is quite a major upgrade of very popular software by Bare Bones. This new Mac update features live searching with extended scripting, archive browsing is now possible in .zip and .tar, and Objective-C2.0 property recognition are just some of the myriad new features. The update also has many bug fixes.
Opera
- Photo: Opera
Lastly, Opera has released an updated version of its hugely popular web browser. Opera 10.52 for Mac OS X (this the official version of the 10.5 beta) has quite a few improvements, including much better JavaScript performance (which Windows got early last month) thanks to the Caraken JavaScript engine.
It also boasts better speed, and complies with the latest version of Presto (the rendering engine), as well as an updated Vega graphics library. Opera 10.52 also offers better platform integration – particularly for the Mac OS X user – with more Cocoa frameworks leveraged. It’s also adopted a look and feel at home with other Mac apps.
If you can’t live without your Mac, you’ll be glad to know there’s a new Mac update for just about anything you do on your machine, with more yet to come.
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Isn’t this article just a rewrite of Ars Technica? Why weren’t they credited?