Dear Zipeg User,

Here is some explanation of why yet another archive extractor?

I basically developed it for myself at first because I liked WinZip on Windows and lacked ease of archive browsing when I switched to OS X. Though there are many other archivers I needed something that reflects my un-archiver usage pattern.

I've noticed that I rarely create zip files myself but when friends send me photos from the last party I want to preview them before extracting all.

All modern digital JPEG photographs contains tiny EXIF header with a thumbnail in it. Zipeg extracts and shows this thumbnail, and let me decide which files I really want to unzip.

Frequently, when installing open source software, I usually unzip into the same directory first (namely e.g. /User/leo/tmp/<archive name>/) and than work from there.

And in some occasions, I want to navigate inside the archive and simply drag and drop single file or image to desktop without unzipping all 100,000 files from my svn-tar-ball.

I understand that in a way Zipeg is inferior to some of the Bigger Brothers - but I want to develop it further, add more formats and simple to use features.

I would love to hear your comments, critique and suggestions for further development. I enjoyed making it for you. Hope you will find it useful.

Enjoy.

Leo Kuznetsov