If you already have the login credentials entered then Transmit provides an option to browse and select the desire entry point for the connection. Transmit makes entering the default path ridiculously easy. If you’re not using a custom domain with S3 then it should look like this: The real trick here is to define the URL in the settings. You’ll need your AWS Access Key and Secret which are pretty easy to generate. I created a new Transmit favorite for the S3 bucket. The files you put in S3 are now available on the Internet. Look in the “permissions” and click the “Edit Bucket Policy.” Here’s the most basic policy that does this: To make sure every file you upload to S3 is visible to the world, you’ll want to add a bucket policy. For example, I keep all my animated GIFs in one folder to make it easy to find them all. I have some specific folders in my S3 bucket. Whatever you choose, you’ll need to set the S3 bucket preference to enable static web hosting. ![]() I use custom domain redirection so it looks like my links are coming from but the bucket is actually named. It needs to be unique to AWS so I recommend a dot notation. Next, create an S3 bucket that makes sense to you. It’ll probably cost less than a dollar a month. Transmit also supports S3 so even if you don’t want to setup an FTP server, you can get a pretty darn cheap way to share links to files.įirst, go signup for an AWS S3 account. 1 Diversion: Setting Up S3 For File Sharing Turn on Panic Sync for iOS and all of the favorites are kept in sync across the iPhone and iPad. I selected the file and then used the sharing sheet to send the file to Transmit for iOS. I exported my Transmit favorites to Dropbox and then opened the Dropbox app for iOS. Setting up a source is simple and if you already use Transmit for Mac (why wouldn’t you) then it’s even easier. Here’s a full list of the connections available in Transmit: Transmit for iOS supports all of the connection types I care about. Even if I don’t love the effect, there’s no way I can knock Panic for attention to detail. It feels a bit too tedious to tap, hold and drag a file to perform an upload from the local file storage. The one unique design choice that I’m not such a fan of is the drag and drop. For example, file uploads present an animation reminiscent of the 80’s video game Tempest. The animations are well considered and appropriate but also unique and interesting. Transmit is a beautiful FTP client, which is a wonderfully unnecessary feature.Īs with every Panic product, the design is a hallmark of Transmit and they’ve gone the extra mile to make it all work intuitively. ![]() But it was always hard to manage this stuff from iOS. I have my own server through Webfaction and I’m familiar enough with using S3 that I’ve used it for sharing trivial stuff in the past. But I always felt like I wanted to own and control more of how I shared images, text and files. I’ve been a very happy customer of both CloudApp and Droplr in the past. Who’s not a fan of animated GIFs? But it’s a pain to collect, organize and get easy access to a URL when you need a cheeky reply to something benign on the Internet.
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