Thursday, February 12, 2009

Stuffit Droplets among new features in Stuffit Deluxe 2009 by Smith Micro

Thanks to Evie Smith of FortyThree PR, I got my hands on Stuffit Deluxe 2009 by Smith Micro Software (NASDAQ: SMSI)

First of all, I must admit that my experience with compression software is limited, so I represent any average consumer who buys the product.
Once I downloaded the software and went through the introduction, I noticed one of the highlights was the drag-and-drop shortcut. For rookies like me, this was a lifesaver.
Within a few minutes, I transferred and compressed two folders with approximately 25 jpgs, and all I had to do was drop them in the Stuffit Shortcut on the desktop.
New features in the 2009 edition include:

• New Archive Wizard
• Compress and Email Wizard
• Compress and FTP Wizard
• Compress and Burn Wizard
• StuffIt Droplets: Allows you to create unique compression and destination settings, and assign them to a Droplet. Dragging files and folders to that Droplet will create an archive using the settings from the profile you specified. You can make as many unique Droplets as you wish. Also, you can use Droplets even if StuffIt is not already running, just save your Droplet to the Desktop, or any convenient place on your system and then drag files and folders to the Droplet icon anytime. StuffIt will process the files without launching the full StuffIt application.

• Contextual Menu enhancements:
  • Your recent and most frequent commands now appear at the top-level of theStuffIt Contextual Menu for quick access.
  • Schedule backups right from the StuffIt Contextual Menu.
• Simplified User Interface.
  
  • StuffIt's Start Page now provides easy access to all of the wizards and tools as well as tutorials and news from smith micro.
  • StuffIt's Quick Tools page provides drag-and-drop targets for easy archive creation, expansion, or browsing.
  • StuffIt's Archive Manager page now presents more archive types.
• Encoded archives (ie: foo.zip.uu) are now browsable
• Support for more formats:
• Major SEA Builder enhancements including: 
  • Make smaller SEAs by storing the Payload on a Remote FTP server
• StuffIt Plugins for Adobe Photoshop now support CS4. 

I have yet to utilize all of these features, but my first task was so simple that I look forward to using more of the valuable tools Smith Micro implemented.

By Matt O'Hern at 10:42 AM | Comments (0)

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