Existing users, 
StuffIt Deluxe
Compress, send, and share large files online.
Version: 2010
Does the wrath puzzle you?
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: Mr Reynolds--2008 Saturday, November 24 2007 @ 02:25 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Have Not Tried
Recommend Product: NO
Some of us who have been using Stuffit Deluxe since the brilliant young developer was still in school, and who have not yet recovered from paying for the upgrade to v. 11, and who have never really found a use for all the bells and whistles anyway but upgraded perhaps for sentimental reasons, and who feel that a product should be upgraded for FREE until it is in a "marketable" state, are probably through throwing money at Smith Micro. But perhaps you wouldn't understand, as Smith Micro seems not to. Milk the cow by all means. See you again someday maybe. Best wishes!
Comments
Does the wrath puzzle you? - Siskel & Ebert
Mr. Reynolds-- BULL'S EYE commentary!I've been using Apple's built-in ZIP (BOM archiving ability) Since SI 11 came out. I stopped paying to upgrade after 10. A couple of hundreds spent on SI deluxe. No need anymore. SI turned into a messy processor-hog. The archives are not small enough to warrant wasting the extra time to compress/decompress in this proprietary format. Today's ISP throughput makes the compression savings pointless.
Saturday, November 24 2007 @ 09:36 AM PST
Does the wrath puzzle you? - eric.c.brown
It is possible that you have never had to transfer xxx Gigabytes of data from California to New York or even Europe or even China. Do this once and you will be very happy to spend the CPU time compressing.Or maybe you don't have to pay the bills for download bandwidth, or your upload bandwidth is capped.
Friday, June 20 2008 @ 01:30 PM PDT
Does the wrath puzzle you? - charlieartist
And to add to Siskels,Adobe may take some of the credit. I am in design--and many vendors now specify PDF workflows. What used to sizable collected bundles of files are now PDFs that require no compression or protection when transferred electronically. Looks like technology may have passed them StuffIt by...
Saturday, November 24 2007 @ 03:40 PM PST
Does the wrath puzzle you? - eric.c.brown
PDFs are usually NOT compressed when they are made. However, PDF 1.2 and beyond can use ZIP compression in addition to LZW. (*usually* sitx is better than zip and sitx is always better than LZW). You can fire a PDF through Stuffit and it will (*usually*) compress down even further.How does Adobe's compression work? Or even Apple's Quartz Filter Compression? It is LOSSY!!!!!! It uses LOSSY jpeg compression. You LOSE INFORMATION!!!!!! High-fidelity graphic designers DO NOT USE this compression method.
Stuffit is LOSSLESS. All of the information is still there when you decompress.
Friday, June 20 2008 @ 01:27 PM PDT
Does the wrath puzzle you? - lauridsen
Mr. Reynolds, you speak my mind -- thank you. :-)Reply to This
Saturday, November 24 2007 @ 03:36 AM PST