![]() That took an unusually long amount of time, and when I was finally able to use my machine again, iStat Menu showed that my dual-core CPU was pegged at 100%. The second attempt was successful, but required that I log out of my current Mac session and log back in. First, the installer crashed during the initial installation with no error message in sight, leaving me to try to figure out what had happened. At least if you don't need StuffIt Connect, you can always just purchase the regular StuffIt 2010, which is still overpriced at US$49.99 (US$19.99 for upgrades from earlier versions).Īs you can probably surmise, StuffIt Deluxe 2010 started off on the wrong foot with me. ![]() When I'm working on a book, sending and receiving the multiple edited versions could easily throw me over that amount when I add some of my other work in. If I go over that amount in any particular month, I'm cut off from the service until the first day of the next month. What's worse is that StuffIt Connect has a monthly bandwidth limit of 4 GB. So, why should I pay US$50 for 2 GB of online storage when I get 20 GB with a MobileMe account that I can purchase on for US$74 (including an email address, syncing, and more)? My free DropBox account gives me 2 GB of storage to use, and there are other bargain & pro options. StuffIt now includes MacFUSE and Growl support as well. StuffIt SmartSend - someone at Smith Micro must have spent months coming up with these names - will not only compress a file and send it to StuffIt Connect, MobileMe, or an FTP server, but send a message with an embedded link to the recipient(s). This is a "box in the cloud" where you can store up to 2 GB of files for sharing with others. Part of the high price of StuffIt Deluxe 2010 is a US$49.99 annual subscription (first year is included) to StuffIt Connect. Of course, if your images are in JPEG instead of RAW or TIFF formats, they're already compressed. Since exporting photos from any of these apps can create huge files, it's nice to know that you can crunch 'em before sending them to a folder or mailing them off to a friend or client. One feature that is unique is the integration into Aperture, iPhoto, and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. ![]() zip file is going to expand automatically on any Mac OS X machine. sea self-extracting archive file, but who cares - the Mac can open my disk images with a double-click, and any. Yes, I do have to zap off a short email to the recipient to tell 'em where to go, but I usually have other things to tell them anyway, so I don't mind spending a few seconds jotting a note.Īnother set of new features: "Create Disk Images or self-extracting archives." Hmmm.I can go into Disk Utility, part of the Mac OS X standard utility set, and create a. For example, Smith Micro touts that you can "Use StuffIt SmartSend to automatically redirect large files to StuffIt Connect, an FTP location or MobileMe." If I want to send someone a large file, I will compress it using the built-in Mac OS X command and throw it into either my public Dropbox folder or MobileMe public folder. The new features in the application are useful, but in many cases simply parrot functionality that's available for free in other applications and services. Smith Micro is spinning StuffIt Deluxe 2010 as a better way to share large files over the Internet. Since compression has been part of Mac OS X for quite a while, you might think that this application would have limited usefulness. During the last week, Smith Micro released the newest version of the application, StuffIt Deluxe 2010 (US$79.95, with an introductory price of US$29.95 through October 15, 2009). Mac OS X did its best to kill off StuffIt by adding built-in support for Zip compression, but the utility has continued to flourish over the years. The original application was the source of a bit of Mac folklore, as it was developed and supported for quite a while by a young student by the name of Raymond Lau. sit file extension when pulling up old files. This compression and archiving utility was the tool to use for compressing files years ago, and I'll still occasionally run into a. If there's one Mac application that has seemingly been around forever, it's StuffIt.
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