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Zevrix Deliver now supports FTP-SSL for secure file transfers

Posted by | Mar 3, 2017 | , |

Zevrix Solutions has announced Deliver 2.6, a feature update to the company’s file transfer solution with automatic email notifications.

The tool lets users send files to FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3, WebDAV and other remote and local servers. Deliver notifies recipients about delivered files automatically, eliminating the need to compose and send confirmation emails for each transfer. Version 2.6 introduces support for FTP over SSL (FTPS) connection for secure encrypted file transfers to FTP servers.

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iFinance for macOS upgraded to version 4.2.1

iFinance for macOS upgraded to version 4.2.1

Posted by | Mar 3, 2017 | , |

Synium Software has released iFinance 4.2.1, an update of the financial tracking app for macOS (10.10 and higher). It’s a maintenance update.

iFinance supports several different banking file formats like CSV, QIF, OFX, or mt940. You can import your data by using one of these formats or retrieve your bank account transactions via OFX direct connect. (Note that not all banks support OFX direct connect).

iFinance 4.2.1 is available for $29.99, a 25% discount, until March 19. A demo is available at the Synium Software website (http://tinyurl.com/nobsrjd).

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The Cloud just had a thunderstorm … now what?

Posted by | Mar 3, 2017 | , |

By Denis Goodwin

We’ve all heard about and likely experienced the impact of the most recent Amazon S3 outage, and while it’s easy to pick on Amazon for the wide-spread fallout this outage caused, that’s not the point. Whether your business critical apps are hosted on AWS, Azure, GCP, or any other cloud or hosting platform, you need to be monitoring those apps. The impact of the AWS outage shows us how much companies rely on cloud and hosting providers, like AWS, for the critical applications their customers and employees use every day.

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Bare Bones to retire TextWrangler

Bare Bones to retire TextWrangler

Posted by | Mar 2, 2017 | , |

Bare Bones (www.barebones.com), the company behind the BBEdit and TextWrangler text editors, will retire the latter and make BBEdit free for basic features.

In a note to customers (http://tinyurl.com/gv848lv) the company has this to say: “What you may not know is that last July, we released BBEdit 11.6. You can use this version unlicensed, forever, for free. Without a license, BBEdit now includes all of the features that TextWrangler offers, plus quite a few others. That’s right. You no longer have to pick between them.”

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