These updates feature overhauled windows, new app icons for compatibility with Tahoe, and have been rebuilt. LogUI gets a minor tweak that should improve its window controls in Tahoe.
AppleArchive
Raymond Lau’s hugely successful Stuffit dominated Mac compression utilities from introduction in 1987 until Mac OS X in 2001. Also a NuBus card, and most recently AppleArchive.
If you’re wondering how to store snippets of private info, sensitive files, or folders full of secrets, here’s how to use the right features in macOS.
Virtual Machines for lightweight virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs rely on sparse files. Here are tips to ensure they stay small and don’t explode to full size.
Explains how Huffman code works, how it’s used for compressed files, and how other techniques including LZ, LZW and LZFSE differ.
Lossy and non-lossy compression explained, with examples and an outline of how JPEG compression is performed.
Now has three presets to control speed and energy consumption of compression and decompression, together with complete custom control.
How to work out how many threads and which cores are needed to achieve a compression rate up to 1.7 GB/s, and how to estimate power and energy.
Provided in Archive Utility and three command tools, its LZFSE compression even supports APFS special files like clones and sparse files.
How can you compress and decompress small files faster? In AppleArchive, just send more of them for processing at the same time.
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