I’m excited to announce that Flow 1.1 is now officially available for download, for all users.

Flow 1.1 introduces a number of exciting new features:

Local Browsing in the Sidebar You can now browse your local disk from within the sidebar in Flow, eliminating the need to interface with the Finder for uploading and downloading. As the top-requested feature, we’re glad we were able to deliver this functionality in an intuitive way that doesn’t detract focus from your remote-files, or unnecessarily complicate the interface.

Custom External Editors You can now specify a specific external editor to be used for a particular extension when editing externally. If you always want to edit CSS files in CSSEdit, for example, you can now specify so easily from the “Editing” pane of Flow’s preferences.

Vastly better QuickLook Support We’ve refined Flow’s QuickLook support to act just like the Finder — you can now preview any file, and can do so with the click of the button (the spacebar). Previews are no longer automatically downloaded to simplify use.

Public iDisk Support If you’d like to access a user’s iDisk public storage, just leave the password blank!

More Secure WebDAV and iDisk We now use “digest authentication” to connect, instead of the insecure “basic authentication.”

Custom Public Keys for SFTP If you connect to an SFTP server without specifying a password, Flow will allow you to select a public keys it finds to connect with, as well as specify others.

Multi-touch Navigation If you have a Mac with a multi-touch trackpad, you can now use swipe-gestures (3 fingers) to navigate around in Flow. Swiping left and right will move you back and forward, respectively. Swiping up and down will navigate to the parent directory, or enter the selected directory, respectively.

Speed, stability, and error-handling All connections have an entirely new error-handling system, delivering stable behavior when servers act unexpectedly. WebDAV and iDisk have massively faster directory listings.

All that being said, I think it’s clear that Flow 1.1 is a colossal improvement. In fact, we’re so proud of the changes we’ve made that we have reset all previous trials of Flow. If your trial has expired, feel free to download the new release, and give Flow a try. We think you’ll find yourself pleasantly surprised by just how much progress we’ve made.

Until next time!, Brian Amerige