I just went and downloaded Stuffit Deluxe from MacUpdate and it was downloaded as a .stix How helpful...

Quote: Originally Posted by Geobunny While it does handle resource forks, I don't trust it. Last time I used Panther's Finder to zip up some Quark XPress jobs, the printer I se…

It looks like OS X will now natively extract tarballs too, and I believe gzipped/bzipped files too... nice

Yeah, only the built in .zip stuff in OS X will put the resource forks back properly. Sending a file to an OS 9 or below user would still need .sit.

Quote: Originally Posted by Drakino Tiger and Panther both have built in .zip compression/decompression. This is the preferred way now, as it also handles resource forks if nee…

Drakino, that's what I would have thought, but I swear, after clean installing Tiger, double clicking on both .sit and .zip files (and there were lots since I was reinstalling eve…

Tiger and Panther both have built in .zip compression/decompression. This is the preferred way now, as it also handles resource forks if needed. To make a .zip right/context clic…

whoops. thanks, Geo. I'm confused, though, now. Moose, what program are you using to unstuff zips and sits? Believe me, I'm no fan of Stuffit, would love to Dumpit, but what are y…

Quote: Originally Posted by z0ne81 I think they are trying to phase out stuffit and move to zip. I noticed that all the new widgets I downloaded were zipped so maybe they have t…

Quote: Originally Posted by tuqqer It IS odd that it didn't come with Tiger. You say odd. I say welcome. Between disk images and native support for ZIP, tar, gzip, and bz…

I think they are trying to phase out stuffit and move to zip. I noticed that all the new widgets I downloaded were zipped so maybe they have told developers to use this format to c…

Tugger, that address is ever so slightly wrong. Try again, without the s! www.macupdate.com

It IS odd that it didn't come with Tiger. For what it's worth, don't try to find it on Stuffit's site, they make you go through way too many steps to get to their free download. In…

In help search for "Using Windows files on a Mac". Yes, I know SIT is NOT a win format but the info is found on THIS page nonetheless. I took this to mean it would expand the sit …

Quote: Originally Posted by neverwind I was installing some software into tiger when I came across a .sit file that the finder would not expand natively. It asked to be pointed …

I was installing some software into tiger when I came across a .sit file that the finder would not expand natively. It asked to be pointed to an application... .zip files seem to b…

dealmac.com has great deals daily for BT heads. About $30. Most of them get about 5-10 Meters of range, which is good. My Headset gets about 20 feet of open air range. Works fi…

Anything is possible, but easily accomplished? I doubt it. The boot image itself is just a pdf, of course, and while there are some ways to animate pdfs (make a postscript file t…

Well, Ive come up with a pretty good idea of how I want to mod the Mac OS X boot / login screen. What I want to do is implement a image that will animate when the user sucessfully …

Quote: Originally Posted by Zimphire Apple can see who is downloading files VIA Bit Torrent without said server belonging to them. Yeah good point.... I was thinking he men…

Stranger things have happened… Not sure what they are, but they doubtlessly have

Yeah... But come on! It's still chicken crap... R

Quote: Originally Posted by deermatt haha, didnt notice that, someone sent me the torrent , but i didnt want to try it incase it would ruin my system, so i guess i was sorta own…

You know that little white part that you can see on chicken poop? Well, its chicken poop too... Just thought you would want to know, Deermatt. R

haha, didnt notice that, someone sent me the torrent , but i didnt want to try it incase it would ruin my system, so i guess i was sorta owned