Re: [muglo] Freeware/Shareware

The only one I'm familiar with is StuffIt Expander, which is the
giveaway part of SmithMicro's powerhouse
compression/decompression/encryption/decryption program StuffIt Deluxe.
It lets you open files that have been compressed in Stuffit (but not
encrypted ones, unless the encrypter has told you the password). 
For years, StuffIt was the reigning program in this field for Mac
users. PC people mostly used Zipit. When StuffIit Deluxe came along, it
incorporated the Zipit format and a host of others as well. 
There's probably going to be less need for StuffIt in the near future,
because OSX 10.5 incorporates its own alternative ? not quite as
effective, but good enough for most purposes. But stuffed files and
zipped files are still going to be showing up every so often, and
StuffIt Expander is what you need to deal with them. 
As you've found, it's available for free. SmithMicro gives it away for
the same reason Adobe gives away Acrobat Reader.
It's very good, very stable software. And so is the full program,
StuffIt Deluxe. If privacy is a serious concern, I highly recommend
buying the latter. It's far better compression than Apple's, squeezing
even JPEGs into significantly less disk space, and the decryption is
bullet-proof. (Apple does have FileVault, of course, but let's not go
there if we can help it.)
 
--- David Comiskey <d.comiskey@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am thinking of trying out some freeware/shareware apps . . .
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