You already know how to access shared files on the PCs on your home network from your Mac, but what about any old file server on the internet via SSH? Earlier this year, a few Google engineers released a new software package that enables Mac OS X to mount remote file systems using a variety of methods, including SSH.
This software, called MacFUSE, lets you drag and drop files to an SSH-connected folder right in Finder, as if it were a regular network drive. Because it's SSH, the file transfers are encrypted, and because it's implemented as a Mac network folder, you don't need other software like Fugu or Transmit to work with it: the remote drive is accessible like any local drive.
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