SmithMicro’s StuffIt Deluxe 12 is a file-compression utility on steroids: it can archive and compress files of all types (to the Stuffit format and even to ZIP itself). The real question is ...

File compression on the Mac has been around since nearly as long has the line itself has. Here are our top picks for squeezing files down as small as they can go on macOS and iOS. In 1987 - just a ...

In moving to version 6.0, the venerable StuffIt Deluxe compression and archiving package has received a significant update from Aladdin Systems. Most notable among StuffIt Deluxe’s new features is ...

With compression now built into Mac OS X 10.3 in the form of the Finder’s Archive command, has Aladdin’s StuffIt Deluxe outlived its usefulness? For remedial compression chores, perhaps.

On the Macintosh side, the most popular compression scheme is called Stuffit and uses .sit after the filename. To unzip or unstuff a file, you need to download one of the many free utilities to do so.

“Now a lot of people take compression for granted,” said David Schargel, president of Aladdin Systems in Watsonville, Calif., whose StuffIt compression utility rules the roost in the Macintosh ...

But lo-and-behold, SmithMicro is apparently still cranking away on new versions of its oldschool, proprietary StuffIt compression product. In fact, the software is now on version 12, but we bet ...

“StuffIt’s ability to compress JPEG images and photos — without reducing image quality — represents a significant innovation in the field of data compression,” said Matthew Covington, Director of ...

Few programs have as long a history as StuffIt Deluxe, the venerable compression and archiving utility now developed by Smith Micro, and the latest version, StuffIt Deluxe 2010, brings to the program ...

These days, cross-platform .zip compression is built into Mac OS X, our networks are faster and storage space is cheaper. So is StuffIt still worth it? The answer is no, despite the improvements ...

Allume Systems, based in California, US, says the new version of its StuffIt compression technology can reduce JPEG files by a further 28% without loss of quality. The company says this could save ...