Fetch Softworks

Want to make a quick edit to that graphic on your webpage in Photoshop or Acorn with just one click? With Fetch 5.5, now you can.

I think of Fetch as a reliable FTP client.

For twenty years we’ve tuned and tweaked its code to handle new situations, and users regularly tell us that Fetch has worked when other alternatives didn’t. Nonetheless, from time to time we have received a particular and troubling sort of user report.

Etna, NH — Fetch Softworks is delighted to announce Fetch 5.5, the new version of the original Macintosh file transfer program. Fetch 5.5’s improved editing support lets you edit any sort of remote file using any application.

Like Oprah Winfrey and Roland Hedley, Fetch is now on Twitter. Follow the fetchftp account for a steady diet of Fetch news and tips, and feel free to reply with your (short!) file transfer questions.

Fetch 5.3.1 is now available. This is a minor update that fixes a few bugs in the check for update and purchasing code.

At the same time we’re reducing the price for upgrading to Fetch 5 from Fetch 4 to $10 (it was $15). So if you are still running Fetch 4, it’s a great time to move up to Fetch 5!

As of March 1, 2009 we are no longer offering telephone support for Fetch.

UPDATE: We have closed beta testing for the next release, so we no longer need new testers. Thanks to all who volunteered!

Greetings from Fetch Central!

We’re putting the finishing touches on the next Fetch release, and we’re looking for beta testers to help us nail down any remaining bugs. This release has some great stuff that we’re eager to get out, and beta testers will get an early look. Plus we’ll give a free Fetch license to any beta tester who sends us feedback.

The sad fact is, FTP and firewalls just weren’t meant to go together.

Copy and paste dates back to the first Mac OS release in the 1980s, and Fetch is one of a handful of applications from that era that is still actively developed. So it’s about time that the two got together!

“On the Internet,” explains the famous New Yorker cartoon, “nobody knows you’re a dog.” Being able to pass yourself off as someone else may be handy for dogs in chat rooms, but unfortunately it’s also exploited by rogue servers that take on the identity of trusted machines. The risks of such impersonation have been high-profile news lately, with reports about a security vulnerability in DNS, and the security weaknesses of Apple’s new MobileMe service. The DNS vulnerability, in particular, is something that may concern Fetch users, because you wouldn’t want to send your username and password to a machine that was only pretending to be your server.