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Episode #57 of the GGP is out today, and with it the latest segment of the Mac Lab Rat.  Here’s the detailed show notes from the MLR segment… if a few hours late.

First up this week is a slick little FTP client called ClassicFTP from NCH Software.  It’s a fairly basic tool which provides all the usual suspects for features including stored credentials and SFTP compatibility.  What I really liked about this versus other popular tools like Cyberduck is the second pane for viewing files.  This helps to keep things easy to find, and is a feature I was used to having from Windows apps like CuteFTP.  ClassicFTP is available for Mac OS X 10.2+ and most Windows platforms.

The second app this week is an SSH manager called sshOpener.  This tool, written by Boris Penck, is a simple menubar application for OS X which allows you to open up a terminal session and connect to an SSH connection.  You will still need to enter your password, so the tool isn’t perfect, but it’s saving me time and energy already and has become indispensable over the week or so that I’ve had it installed.

Number 3 on the hit list this week is Dashalytics, a Google Analytics widget for your OS X dashboard.  This provides a look at your site’s Google Analytics stats from the comfort of your own dashboard.  Dashalytics shows the basic stats including the all important visitors graph to show general traffic to your site.  The only thing I’d like to see is the ability to switch the sites you’re monitoring from the main view, without switching back to the info screen, but maybe that’s just me.

Finally a tidbit of iPhone news.  (Yes, I’m sorry)  It now appears that someone has managed to crack open the SSH server on the iPhone.  It’s only a matter of time now until large suites of iPhone ready tools (and probably the first iPhone virus) will start to flow from the blogosphere to your phone.

Thats it for this week.  Download the latest copy of the Global Geek Podcast!

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