14 DAY TRIAL // Fetch is a full featured FTP client for Mac OS X made by Fetch Softworks. Its beginning is dated way back in 1989's summer, when Jim Matthews - an employee of Dartmouth College - created it, primarily for internal college use. In the meantime, Fetch was carefully maintained and got regular updates as a Dartmouth software project, and after being released as a shareware program, became a very popular application in the Macintosh community.
The modern days of the program start in late 2000, when Jim Matthews entered Who Wants To Be A Millionaire contest and used the winnings to purchase the Fetch name and source code, creating Fetch Softworks afterwards.
Yesterday, Fetch Softworks announced that Fetch 5.2 is available, and this new version introduces WebView, a new feature that allows you to view files in a Web browser, as well as giving you the ability to copy Web addresses from Fetch. This update also adds support for FTP with TLS/SSL (FTPS), and the consequence is that Fetch now supports all major secure file transfer standards - SSL, SFTP and Kerberos. The additions to the new version don't end here, since support for creating droplet shortcuts has been added too, along with easy drag and drop uploading.
Fetch 5.2 is available as a Universal Binary application fully compatible with PowerPC and Intel-based Macs, and if you want to try it first, a 15 days trial version is available. This program requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later to run properly, and its price is 25$. At last, if you want to visit the company at Macworld, you should know that they can be found at booth 4014-42, in the Digital Media & Multimedia special interest pavilion of Moscone Center's North Hall, right behind the John Lennon Tour Bus.