Dockdrop Released
March 2nd, 2008After several months of hard development, I’ve finally released Dockdrop. You can find out more about it and grab a copy at http://dockdropx.com
There are many more features I plan on adding including support for even more protocols, Quicksilver integration, Adium/iChat/Mail integration and a whole bunch of other stuff that will have to wait for future releases.
Meanwhile, enjoy version 1 and let me know what you think of it.
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Would be cool if you could make it quit automatically after uploading files. Since it’s such a lightweight application it doesn’t matter if you have to upload another file, it takes no time to start up.
Thanks!
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Found it on MacUpdate and gave it a whirl.
Typed in my Photobucket FTP details, threw a JPG at the dock, and it was up there in no time
Lookin’ good. I can really see myself using this.
Cheers.
james.
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Hi,
it´s a cool Application, thanks.
I´d like to be able to define more than one FTP server
Regards
// Jph
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Very cool app! It will be great if it supports more than one scp sites. Maybe allow me put several icons on the dock which correspond to different sites.
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Looks very cool, but I’m missing the possibility to add more then one SCP/FTP servers
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Used it for Flickr and worked great. Only suggestion is to be able to upload more than one image or even a whole folder at a time.
Love the sleekness of it. Great work.
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Very cool. An interesting additino would be an option for parsing date/time formatting codes in the destination path. I usually upload files in a datestamped directory, ie ~/public_html/2008/03/03/. Would be neat if Dockdrop accepted ~/public_html/%Y/%m/%d/ as a destination, creating parent directories as necessary.
Thanks for the tool.
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Very handy app!
Just my two cents: I’d like to see a widget with the same functionality, because there’s no more space in my Dock 
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Hjalti-
This feature will definitely be in the next release as a configuration option.
John
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:27 pm
James-
Awesome, thanks James! I’m glad you’re finding it useful. I didn’t know Photobucket did
FTP.John
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Kai-
Thanks!
I will consider that feature for the next release.
John
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Jan-
Absolutely - and a lot of other people have mentioned that this is something they would like also. I will look at adding this ability.
John
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Aaron-
I’m so glad you like it! Thanks for the feedback. I am definitely going to allow folders with multiple files inside to be uploaded to Flickr in the next release so keep an eye out.
John
March 4th, 2008 at 3:44 am
Adam-
That’s a really great idea, and someone else suggested something similar so I might have to add this to my feature list for the next version. It’s really tricky working out what to implement and what to leave out as I have received so many feature request!
Thanks for the feedback.
John
March 4th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Thanks GK. I will give that some thought.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Just another idea: Amazon S3 support.
March 4th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Congratulations to a very nice little program
One thing that would make it even better is to have some history like Jing has its history.
Often i need to post a link from yesterday or something like that.. and to be able to bring up a history list and get that url would be perfect.
Thanks
March 4th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Kevin-
I’d love to add S3 support, and the underlying framework Dockdrop uses does support it so you may see this feature added in the not to distant future.
John
March 4th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Jakerlund-
I love the history idea, I really do. This is something I will keep in mind for future releases.
John
March 5th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Awesome app! A solid 1.0 release. Nice job!
I’ll through in my vote for multiple ftp configurations as well. Another great feature would be the ability to zip the files automatically.
March 5th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Paul-
Thanks! I’m glad you like it.
Dockdrop currently does have the ability to zip files automatically. If you drop a folder on the icon it will zip it up and upload for FTP, WebDAV and SCP.
John
March 5th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Great app! Cheers.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Thanks Brenda!
March 11th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I might be daft, but all I’m getting is an error “Filename not Allowed”
Trying the FTP connection. It says there’s a successful connection, I created an upload folder in the root, chmodded it to 777.
What am I doing wrong?
March 11th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Bob-
That error tends to indicate that the path field is set wrong. Double check that your path is setup correctly.
John
March 29th, 2008 at 6:13 am
Thanks John for making it and sharing it with everyone. I like the auto zipping, nice touch. Having multiple sites would be a nice feature.
I do have one problem and I’ve heard of it from one other person - the url never shows up in the clipboard.
I’m stumped as to what it could be, I have a very new macbook and a very current and clean install of leopard.
Any ideas?
Tony
March 30th, 2008 at 4:47 am
Tony-
No problems! I’m glad you like the app. To have the URL show up on the clipboard you have to fill in the Web URL field when configuring the upload method. Did you do this?
John