If, like me you spend most of your life rooting around in your downloads folder looking for that tar ball or zip file you recently downloaded then maybe this app if for you?
From the makers of the popular file compression software Stuffit comes the latest in their arsenal of applications. Stuffit Expander 2011 - designed to handle over 30 different file compression types including split and segmented archives.
Not only is it powerful enough to expand just about anything an the click of your mouse, it can also be configured to ‘watch’ a folder such as your downloads folder, and automatically expand a compressed file as soon as it’s finished downloading.
But wait – it doesn’t end there.. It’s also capable of monitoring your email for compressed attachments.. An guess what, it automatically expands those too!
“StuffIt Expander opens files created with WinZip®, 7zX, iShrink, SimplyRAR, Rarify, Rucksack (formerly iArchiver), BetterZip, RarMachine, GUI Tar, CleanArchiver, Springy, TarPit, RAR, Ez7z, Keka, and the compression utilities built into recent versions of Windows and Mac OS X.”
Stuffit Expander is available for Max OS X 10.5 or higher or for Windows XP, Vista and 7 It’s features can also be found in the Stuffit Deluxe package
EDIT: This post is very old, and some\all of the information may now be out of date
For all of you Windows to Mac converts who are missing Windows Media, player here’s something you may be pleased to know. Windows Media Player 9 has been tested and proved fully functional in Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard).
You can download Windows Media Player 9 for Mac from Microsoft’s download site, however if you do so you will also need to download ‘Stuffit‘ as the download is an SITX archive file.
If you would rather just download the installer and not mess around downloading Stuffit, check out the link in my Downloads section.
However, this is a fairly minimalistic version of Windows Media Player, in that you don’t get any of the library functionality which you find in the Windows version. In fact, all you do actually get is a small video playback window with fairly limited menu options.
I suppose it’s still handy if you use webbed media sources that only provide Windows Media Player compatible links. Or if you really do miss the Windows logo that much..
