Through February 2008 Interarchy 9 is available at an introductory price of US$39, with a suggested retail price of $59, effective March 1, 2008. For more information on Interarchy, or to download a fully functional trial version, please visit the Nolobe’s website. Interarchy 9 requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later. No longer will we be shackled by the limitations of SFTP or FTP.” “Better yet, SSH puts us in the driving seat. We are talking seconds versus minutes for large websites. “Interarchy’s SSH protocol offers significant speed improvements, especially when mirroring. Not only is it faster than SFTP but it offers much greater flexibility. SSH provides a number of advantages over incumbent protocols such as FTP and SFTP. The new SSH protocol is a major addition to Interarchy’s already comprehensive set of supported protocols. “Interarchy 9 builds on this by adding a number of exciting new features to enhance our customers’ productivity.” “For close to 15 years Interarchy has led the way with its advanced file transfer capabilities,” said Matthew Drayton, founder and CEO of Nolobe, in the press release. You can see the full set a bit larger on the Nolobe Blog here.īy the way, Nolobe (makers of Interarchy) are having an awesome Fire Sale right now, which is worth checking out.Nolobe today introduced Interarchy 9, a major update to the award-winning file transfer application for Mac OS X.Ĭontinuing to raise the bar in file transfer technology Interarchy 9 introduces over one hundred new and improved features, including a brand new protocol built upon SSH, numerous enhancements to the product’s interface, plus much more. Matthew was awesome to work with, and we were both very happy with how the icons turned out. In the end we settled with the current, beautiful yet unassuming icon for the application, and with a few revisions and emails back and forth we arrived at an equally satisfying set of supporting icons for the application itself. And how about a cabinet resembling a Mac Pro? ![]() I did mockups of a thin-edge ‘full black’ cabinet and a pure aluminium one. I won’t bore you too much with the process of all the icons, but some of the concepts of the application icon are interesting to see. Interarchy is a powerful and feature-rich application, and making the icons beautiful, but also appealing to the target user base is a great bonus. This makes the icons appear very modern and advanced, very much in line with what we wanted to represent with the Interarchy icons. It’s also the set of colors and materials we consider typical of Apple’s latest generation of hardware. I think this could be a great theme: not too outspoken like icons that are bright blue and black, but a subtle kind of consistency that gives the icons an extra quality when used together. ![]() While I am not a huge fan of outspoken themes in icons for an application, the stylistic direction Matthew envisioned of aluminium / silver, black, and perhaps subtle desaturated colors summoned beautiful visions of icons in my head. Changing the icon now would mean neglecting its long history and evolution. ![]() Matthew also expressed his desire to maintain the filing cabinet metaphor in the application icon, and I agreed. Like several other FTP clients, Interarchy has always been known and discerned by its icon. This was no small release, so it had to be worth it. Matthew contacted me with a request for new icons for the big upcoming version 10. Interarchy is a Mac app that’s almost as old as I am: it was first created in 1993 as one of the first FTP clients for the Mac, and in 2007 it was sold to its current owner and long-time developer of Interarchy, Matthew Drayton of Nolobe.
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