Recipe for a major headache: needing to FTP 1.5 GB of image files using a seriously crappy Internet connection. (Notoriously bad in Argentina.) I would have pulled my hair out this morning, realizing that my efforts of last night had led to nothing (”disconnected”), but, um, I have no hair.
To reduce my 1.5 GB by about 10% I was using the nifty “Compress” zipping functionality of my Mac computer. But today I thought, “Maybe I can do better with StuffIt.” I was desperate, but not so desperate as to pay $79.95 (gulp!) or even to try the “free” trial (not so free, image below) without doing a little research.
I started to search around the Web, hoping that a reliable source would say, “StuffIt rocks! It reduces file size so dang much, and has offers other values worth way more than 50 bucks!”
What I found, on the StuffIt Delux 2010 User Reviews forum at MacUpdate was not encouraging, as in: “No thank you, just… Stuff It,” and, “Oh God… Here we go again with the freaking upgrades. I can set my calendar/clock to this company and their ridiculous upgrades,” and, “Stuffit is way outdated. And their current policies of asking for a credit card number for a demo are joke.”
Any Value to StuffIt?
So is there anybody who has anything good to say about StuffIt, or should we all say “Stuff it, StuffIt!”?