In StuffIt Deluxe 2010, the image compressor can now further compress TIFF and PNG files losslessly. Also new is improved compression of WAV audio files. StuffIt Deluxe 2010 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or ...

StuffIt Deluxe has been shrinking and expanding files on the Mac for more than a decade, which makes it ancient by most digital standards. And as with many old structures, sometimes it’s better ...

After Stuffit Expander, the best-known expander ... Keka (also in the Mac App Store) is a delightful extractor/compressor with a lovable UI and lots of options. Dozens of archive formats are ...

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 ...

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.

Registration number error Several readers (but obviously not all) report that, when trying to upgrade to StuffIt Deluxe 6.0, an error appeared saying: "The ...

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 ...

Thomas Tempelmann writes: "StuffIt Expander 6.5 does not support file names longer than 31 characters, although Mac OS X file names can be as long as 255 characters. Some cross-platform archives ...

So is StuffIt still worth it? The answer is no, despite the improvements made in how StuffIt compresses files. It could do this because JPEG compression is a two-step process. First, the picture ...

To decompress a .zip file you need software, such as WinZip. To decompress a .sit file, you need the Stuffit Expander program. WinZip does not decompress .sit files, but one version of StuffIt ...

EDIT: While I have now several old versions of Stuffit Expander sitting on my PC, and also have access to tools for unextracting game installer archives outside of the Mac environment, it seems ...

Astute Tiger users may have noticed that StuffIt is no longer included in a clean install of OS X. Previous to 10.3, OS X relied completely on StuffIt to decompress archives from the Finder.