Aladdin introduces StuffIt Deluxe 8.0

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[MrMacMan]

What's NEW in StuffIt Deluxe 8.0?





Access Anything
Effortlessly access just about any compressed or encoded file; StuffIt, Zip and over 20 formats supported.
Browse StuffIt, Zip files and Tar files. Support for .cab and .yenc files.

StuffIt Integration
The power of StuffIt is at your fingertips. StuffIt is fully-integrated so you can work the way you want. Create, access, and mail right from inside applications or the OS.
StuffIt Plugins for Adobe® Photoshop® and Illustrator® and Microsoft® Word.

Just StuffIt
Shrink files up to 98% smaller to cut transfer times. It's easy to save time and money when using email or the Internet, just:
Select archive types and encryption from DropStuff
Use filters to selectively add files
Access compression levels
Select encryption methods

Easy Backup
Don't let disaster wipe you out. System crashes, theft, power outages, and other dangers can wipe out your important data. Backup archives make sure you always have the files you need. StuffIt makes it easy to:
Backup only the files you want- select files based on file type, name, modification date, & more!
Schedule backups to occur when you want; days, weekends, or evenings
Burn backups to cd/dvd without any additional software
Segment large archives across multiple cd/dvd

Ultimate Access. StuffIt eliminates hassles commonly experienced with other backup utilities. Powerful search and retrieve features give you access to your data whenever you need it:
ArchiveSearch™ find files fast- even those on cd/dvd, external hard disks, or networks
Easily restore only the files you want from your backup archive

Is anything there really new?

I thought it had most of those features already...

 

[CMillerERAU]

Doesn't look too appealing to me. My only biff is that Stuffit doesn't support multi-processing. Every time I do serious compressing my 1st processor is going full blast and my second just sits there. I guess its nice that I have the whole second processor so I can do other stuff while stuffit is working but seriously! How long have MP macs been around? I wouldn't think it would be too hard to enable, you could maybe have multiple compression jobs running at the same time.

 

[BWhaler]

The Queen is Dead. Long live the Queen.

Seriously, Stuffit is done. It's a zip world nowadays, and with zip being built into Panther, the sun will set on the empire soon.

Personally, I think Alladin had this coming. Stuffit is slow, not multi-threaded, and has a quirky UI. Plus, the new file format while having better compression and encryption is not broadly used.

They rested on their laurels, I suspect, and I foresee their place in the Mac trivia books as a utility whose days are long gone by.

 

[MrMacMan]

My Test.

I want to compress a 4 MB file.

This is a PDF file.

I will use various (popular) compression methods, if I missed one please ask me to test it.

Compressed using SitX -- 1.8 MB
Compressed using GZip -- 3.1 MB
Compressed using ZIP -- 3.1 MB
Compressed using Sit -- 3.1 MB
Compressed using Disk Copy (to DMG) -- 3.2 MB

All Hail SitX?