Hefty FTP v1.5 is Out & Bundled with Monica

From Black Diamond's Kevin Brett, "Black Diamond Products announces the release of version 1.5 of its Macintosh FTP client Hefty FTP. Hefty FTP is a modern queue based FTP client that:

* Automatically retries connections
* Automatically retries downloads and uploads
* Automatically resumes transfers if possible
* Can be transferring queued files to/from FOUR FTP servers simultaneously while browsing a fifth
* Can download files off the Web using HTTP, with full reconnection/resumption capabilities
* Gives you extensive control over your FTP sessions and transfers

Hefty FTP is shareware, and as a result of the substantial support for the product we are pleased to announce a reduction in price to $20. To read more, or to download the trial version, go to this web site."

"Simultaneous with the release of Hefty FTP 1.5, Black Diamond is offering a Hefty FTP/Monica bundle for $30 through its online purchasing page at: http://order.kagi.com/?UYJ Monica is Black Diamond's extremely popular download manager for the Mac. Features include:

* HTTP, FTP and Hotline protocols supported
* Automatically retries downloads
* Automatically resumes downloads if possible
* Queue based
* Drag-and-drop of URLs
* Queue scheduling
* Comprehensive set of user-selectable download parameters
* Bonus set of helper applications for loading files into the queue

If any program is going to get that elusive file down onto your hard disk, it is Monica!"

-- Weekend, November 11-12 --

[9:00a 11/12] More--Netscape 6: MacUpdate.Com has posted a Netscape 6 mirror. [Joel Mueller] If you visit Netscape's ftp site, you can see the Netscape6 folder with the time stamp that it was last modified Friday 11/10 at 12:42am, presumably to remove the Netscape6 installer files, after we posted its location. Use it at your own risk since we found a few bugs as noted below.

[11:00p 11/10] Netscape 6 Final Probably Not: As noted Friday (actually Thursday night) in our exclusive report, we found what might have been a final version of Netscape 6. However, Dana Baggett has had a lot of trouble with the Mail component: "I just wrote you a fairly lengthy report using Netscape 6 on my success in optimizing my hard drive with TTPro 3.0.1 after TTPro 3.0.2 stalled with about 250 disk space frags remaining. I had put Netscape 6 into Work Off-line mode and when I finished writing and went to Send, the Spell Checker worked and then... my message disappeared. Gone." I have had no problems with the browser component. Despite appearances to the contrary, we suspect that what we found is not a completely final version. However, it may signal that a final version of Netscape 6 is near. Here is a screenshot: