Compress Files
If you work on a Mac and make zip files to share with Windows users, you’ll know what a nuisance it can be when invisible files from Mac OS X find their way in.
Resource forks and ._DS_Store files (which store data such as icons, associations and view preferences) are redundant and visible in other systems, and not only confuse users but inflate the zip file with unnecessary data. It becomes a manual task (on a Windows PC) to remove these files.
So I thought I’d share a little app I discovered the other day: Compress Files by Apimac. Two little checkboxes instruct it to remove these files and you have a nice clean zip ready to send. The $9.95 asking price is nothing compared to how much time it will save you.
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December 13th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
This looks to be a really clean and simple app which is well designed, I’ll certainly try it out as you’ve hit on something there which I encounter a great deal. The price is excellent too.
One thing I will say as a Mac user, this is going to sound terrible but if an app has a poor front end (even down to how good the icon looks) I won’t use it. If it looks like a proper Mac program then that’s half the requirement for me regardless of fucitonality. Call me shallow and superficial but that’s the way I roll.
December 13th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Never fear, the Amora set from Iconfactory has a very nice “Stuffit” icon, which I have already put in place.