In an article called “StuffIt enters the cloud”, Brian Lawler first talks about the history of Stuffit. Stuffit was originally written by Raymond Lau, a high school student from New York City in 1987.
It quickly became the standard for Macintosh users. Over the years, it was developed and sold by a number of companies. However it lost its prominence when Apple developed it own ZIP format utility for MacOS X.
The current version of Stuffit Deluxe does better compression with less loss than a number of popular formats as explained in the article.
Now Micro Smith has “put it in the cloud.”
The author says: “With a new menu bar the company calls the Magic Menu, you can select a file or a folder, and compress-and-mail the selection to a storage archive in the cloud. Files up to 5MB are e-mailed using your default e-mail application; larger files are sent to a server (somewhere), and then they can be downloaded from the cloud by the recipient (or by you) at any time.”
When you purchase or upgrade to the latest version of StuffIt software, you get a year’s subscription to their storage cloud, and you can post files with a total volume up to 2GB on their server to be downloaded by anyone you designate. Larger files, or more files can be accommodated at a higher price.
For approximately $30 a year, you get the subscription to the on-line service and the latest version of Stuffit. Not bad.
Read the full article here.
