Flow 1.0, a Leopard-Friendly FTP Client

With all the free FTP clients available out there, who'd want to actually buy one? You would, the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard user, as Extendmac has "extended" its internet utility software to version 1.0, adding QuickLook support from within the application, a built-in editor and droplets for an even quicker upload. A 15-day trial version is also available.

According to Extendmac, Flow has been built exclusively for Mac OS X Leopard. The FPT client streamlines both transferring and editing files by leveraging your high-speed connection, the developer claims, using this sleek UI (user interface) and "integrating the latest and greatest of OS X technology."

The company is so proud of how its FTP client looks that it had this to say in relation to the user interface: "We have an obsession with pixels. As a side effect, every pixel in Flow is simply lickable. Go ahead, lick away. Just be sure to clean the screen afterwards."

Flow's strong points are presented as follows:

Solid Connections - Support for FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, .Mac, and Local Connections, concurrently to allow multiple transfers and editing sessions to take place at the same time; Editing - Edit in the sleek internal editor (with tabs, syntax coloring, live previewing, and code sense), or with another editor of your choice; URL Copying - URLs to your remote files can be copied instantly, even automatically after uploading; QuickLook - Just like the Finder, Flow can QuickLook pretty much any file - images, movies, music, PDFs, text documents and even web-pages!

Boom: Instant Droplet, another note-worthy feature of Flow, allows you to drop a file on its icon and watch as your file is quickly uploaded in Finder-like copy-window.

"We promise that once you use this, you'll never be able to live without it again," says Extendmac.

Go ahead, try out the free trial and see if they're right!