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TUAW Review: StuffIt Deluxe 2010
If there's one Mac application that has seemingly been around forever, it's StuffIt. This compression and archiving utility was the tool to use for compressing files years ago, and I'll still occasionally run into a .sit file extension when pulling up old files. The original application was the source of a bit of Mac folklore, as it was developed and supported for quite a while by a young student by the name of Raymond Lau. Mac OS X did its best to kill off StuffIt by adding built-in support for Zip compression, but the utility has continued to flourish over the years. During the last week, Smith Micro released the newest version of the application, StuffIt Deluxe 2010 (US$79.95, with an introductory price of US$29.95 through October 15, 2009).
Since compression has been part of Mac OS X for quite a while, you might think that this application would have limited usefulness. Smith Micro is spinning StuffIt Deluxe 2010 as a better way to share large files over the Internet. How does it work? Read on, my friends...
Even though OS X includes a handy contextual menu for zipping and unzipping files, the decompression chores (handled by the 
Allume Systems has
finally cranked out a (beta) Universal Binary of their 'hate it but gotta have it lying around' free Stuffit Expander.
It seems they were going for bonus points with this release, as they removed some of the 'hate it' factor by finally
doing away with an installer; it is now a DnD .app from a mounted disk image.
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