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Stuffit Expander was indeed indispensable when it was included with all Mac OS installations. But at some point in the evolution of OS X, I don't remember when, the OS gained the ability to compress and uncompress zip archives. And self-decompressing dmg files became the most common disk image file format for transmitting Mac software and archiving files. Meanwhile, Disk Utility can create a variety of different image files. So Stuffit Expander gradually became less important than it once was - and the old Drop-Stuff went the way of the Dodo. Nevertheless, I still occasionally encounter archive files in a format that OS X cannot handle. On these occasions I find Expander quite indispensable. Smith Micro picked up the Stuffit franchise some years ago and has been striving to make the product relevant by expanding its capabilities. It includes some tools that a select clientele will find useful, but it no longer has broad appeal on the Mac. I give Smith Micro props, though, for making the effort to keep the product alive. Unfortunately they goofed a while back when they renamed it Stuffit Destinations. Rather than making it more appealing, they just created brand name confusion. I think they're back now with Stuffit Deluxe - though at $50 the price is daunting.
In 'the old days' the free Stuffit Expander was supposed to cultivate a market for the paid product Drop Stuff. Because hard drive space was severely constrained at the time, such a market did, indeed, exist. Surprisingly, however, you could use Drop Stuff indefinitely in demo mode - and it was fully functional. That market model was not really viable, though, so the trial period for Drop Stuff's successors is limited. Unfortunately for Smith Micro, the market is also limited. Be that as it may, to put it politely it's short-sighted to dismiss Stuffit Expander out of hand. Just because you don't need it doesn't mean that no one will. That Smith Micro continues to develop and support Stuffit Expander - and continues to offer it for free - should be evidence of its value to anyone with a half-way open mind.
StuffIt Expander is a free archive manipulating tool for extracting data from every modern compressing format on the market. It supports not only popular formats such as Zip and Rar, but also tar, gzip, bzip, and more. Considering all present features of StuffIt Expander, this program is definitely on par or better than any of its competitors (WinZip®, 7zX, iShrink, SimplyRAR, Rarify, Rucksack (formerly iArchiver), BetterZip, RarMachine, GUI Tar, CleanArchiver, Springy, TarPit, RAR, Ez7z and Keka).
Entire process of managing the tool is incredibly easy. Just drag and drop compressed archives to the StuffIt Expander’s dock icon or opened dashboard, and you will be able to instantly extract entire archive or select files to the destination of your choice. With this kind of setup, even complete novices will be able to manage their compressed archives and increase their productivity with ease. StuffIt Expander is free, and can be found in both standalone version or as a part of StuffIt Trial or StuffIt Deluxe Trial packages. Try the app now and see for yourself why this program is considered to be one of the best. If you chose to try StuffIt Deluxe or StuffIt, you will get access to creating compressed archives, converting image formats, and automatically send compressed files to either designation of your choice or to immediate disc burning. StuffIt Deluxe also has support for file backup, and integration into Finder, iPhoto, Aperture, Photoshop, MS Office and more. Note: Requires 64-bit processor. Stuffit Expander For Mac
May 29, 2012 Stuffit Expander is a free decompression utility that may still be of use to some users - especially, for example, when trying to decompress older Stuffit (.sit or.sitz) archives. StuffIt Expander is a decompression program for archive files. This version is destined for Mac. Its interface is well designed making it easier to handle. Animation programs for mac. Decompression: for this task, StuffIt Expander for Mac supports many archive formats such as. (There's no video for Stuffit Expander 2010 v14.0.1 for OSX 10.4 (Tiger) yet. Please contribute to MR and add a video now!) (There's no screenshot for Stuffit Expander 2010 v14.0.1 for OSX 10.4 (Tiger) yet.
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