Fades into the background and facilitates work.

Forklift is the best kind of tool. It blends in with OS X, for all intents and purposes a finder window, and allows you to interact with remote files in an elegant manner. It remembers workspaces for different remote connections, so you can always continueworkign where you left off.

It supports making remote edits with text editors such as Sublime Text/TextMate/CodeRunner, so it feels like it brings your remote server to you locally.

It’s a beautiful, supremely complex (simple), native cocoa app. For me, it replaces Cyberduck, which is far less refined and requires you to install java.

One Feature Request. Notifications when new clients with relevant services being broadcast join your network. EG, an sftp endpoint connects, or a vnc client joins your network. Opt-in toggle, ofcourse.

***Update: Also -would be great to be able to change the local destination folder for synching from a remote folder. (I may be missing something)

Foolio about ForkLift - File Manager and FTP/SFTP/WebDAV/Amazon S3 client