Do we still need Stuffit? OS X can generate .zip archives. Gmail can handle attachments up to 20MB. Dropbox allows you to share up to 2GB. The real issue is that bandwidth is readily available. Storage is cheap. You get a high-speed connection with your cup of coffee. And while we once had to compress all our JPGs on to a diskette and contend with 1 MB file transfer restrictions, I regularly email print-quality photos and just assume Google will store them forever, for free.

Apimac has just released new versions of its Compress Files utility, which allows compressing, archiving, and encryption of files. Along with some of the other features, a notable addition is support for AES-256 encryption for zip files. Compress Files allows users to create a compressed file in any of the following formats: Zip, TAR, Gzip, more »