Crystal FTP 1.0 is released in final form, including many updates and improvements over previous betas. These improvements make this FTP client one of the best. Useful features along with an easy to use interface will please any novice or power user.
Crystal FTP's interface is slick and sports all of the newest interface features. It includes dockable toolbars, right clicking pop-up menus and easy to navigate option menus. You can actually choose the way you'd like to see files. The three available interfaces are similar to those of some of the other most popular FTP Clients.
Each interface that Crystal FTP offers is very useful for each type of action you may perform. For example, if you are transferring files, you would most likely choose the interface that shows your computer on one side of the screen and the remote computer on the other side (similar to CuteFTP). This makes it easy to drag and drop files between the two computers.
Another interface helps to manage and view items waiting in queue, and Crystal FTP has the best available support for queueing files. With Crystal FTP, you can actually tell it to connect multiple times to retrieve multiple files, sometimes increasing download speed. Crystal FTP also lets you to cache a site, choose more files to download after you have already starting downloading, and compare remote and local directories.
The site manager is a great place to organize all of your sites. You can even import sites from WS_FTP. This program is the one and only with a quick launch toolbar to open an FTP site in just one click; this is very useful for those who go to the same sites frequently. The address toolbar is another timesaver that allows those who connect to many different FTP sites to easily input the address.
If all of these features aren't enough to convince you that this is a strong FTP Client, the speed should. It opens quickly and connects fast. Since it was programmed in Borland Delphi 3.0, you can rest assure that it is a solid program. The program also sports a generous price tag of only US $29 dollars and offers a free 30 day trial version. Time saving features along with a friendly user interface make this program one of the best of its kind.
