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Oct 8 2009
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ACCOUNTCLOSED  A product with potential, but it seems to have been abandoned by its developer, with no upgrades in nearly a year and a half. Despite a unique interace, Dragster is missing some obvious features, including a list of shortcuts accessible through its menu bar icon, the option to customize the roll-over menu in the dock icon (e.g., remove iDisk or change icons for default pre-set items (Remote Server, Local Folder, iDisk, Email)—and the program can choke during transfer of large file. The creation of shortcuts is counterintuitive and clumsy, with no simple "Add Shortcut" option in the shortcut list window, only Delete and Edit buttons—an odd and careless omission that hurts workflow. Apart from the lack of developer attention to details and seeming abandonment of this utility, the app has promise. Ambrosia ought to pick it up again and bring it up to speed, at which point it would deserve to be considered seriously—but not until.  
(Version 1.0.6)

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Aug 1 2008
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PATOCHE  Very usefull... I use it many times during the day, time saver.

good job, thanks.

Take the time to make many shortcut and your workflow will inprove a lot.  
(Version 1.0.6)

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Aug 2 2007
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FOTO555  This is one of those rare utilities that adds such time-savings, that one wishes Apple could offer the same in their OS.  
(Version 1.0.3)

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Feb 20 2007
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PIXELJUNKEY  Works OK for smaller files. Chokes on anything over 20MB on our systems. It gets 3/4 through an upload to our .Mac folder and then freezes with an "unknown error". Happens consistently and repeatably on 3 different systems, none of which have any other connection problems. Probably worth $10 at most IMO, even once they fix the connection problems. It's just a prettier face on your .Mac account or FTP account basically.  
(Version 1.0.2)

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Feb 13 2007
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DCT  I've come to expect high quality applications from Ambrosia Software with applications like SnapzPro X and WireTap Pro to their credit but this is simply garbage. Save your money. Okay, maybe I can live with an application that falls short of innovation but it hangs, crashes, and introduces the spinning beach ball from hell. Using a Dual 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5 with 4 GB SDRAM. Stick with Transmit or Fetch.  
(Version 1.0.2)

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Feb 6 2007

BLUEPOLO  This would be soooo much more useful if you could also download, especially using SCP. Its ironic that OSX doesn't have a really good SCP GUI agent  
(Version 1.0.2)

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Feb 1 2007
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HENRIKTEKNIK  Very difficult to send a file in a normal LAN via Bonjour. I think there should had been some clear documentation of this (Bonjour transfers, that is) in the built-in Help documentation, just for this feature alone, since I believe that many (with me) are looking for an easy way of tossing files around in their local network.

Maybe it's me being dumb, or maybe it didn't work. For all I know, I spent 20 minutes without managing to send a simple widget.wdgt file over Bonjour. I ended up getting various error messages and eventually gave it all up. If it's me, missing something that is supposed to be 'obvious' (then I apologize for my somewhat sceptical review), or if it's the app that is actually falling short in terms of Bonjour transfers; I'm still left with the task undone.

I was hoping for this application to be *the* file transfering hub that I was looking for. I'm returning to the free and quite capable alternative, Übertragen (widget application).  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Feb 1 2007

ADINB  Try DropCopy, it's really simple and free for small networks.  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Nov 7 2006

JAZZADDICT  Will dragster put a file on idisk/ftp and create a new email message containing the link to the file on the server? Similar to how Filechute does it.  
(Version 1.0)

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Nov 16 2006

ELECTROLITE  Not yet :)  
(Version 1.0)

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Nov 17 2006

JAZZADDICT  Thanks for the response. Are there any options to quickly get the URL of a uploaded file? Like an option to copy the url of the uploaded file directly to the clipboard, or some other way to quickly grab the URL so I can email it to someone, or give to someone I'm on ichat with. Let me know. I put it on my watchlist so I can track its progress. I'm definitly interested. :-)  
(Version 1.0)

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Nov 2 2006

MOKI  Actually, there is documentation in Dragster. Choose "Dragster Help" from the HELP menu in Dragster... and you should be good to go!  
(Version 1.0)

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Nov 2 2006

GRUMPYTICO  No documentation (I know they are intentionally doing this to brag about its simplicity), but I have yet to figure out how to add my own shortcuts, dragging has not worked.  
(Version 1.0)

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Nov 2 2006
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REDMOUSE  Very nice interface. Great job!  
(Version 1.0)

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