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St. Clair Software has released the update to their exceptional Open/Save dialog enhancement Default Folder X. The new release offers a slick new interface and brand new Quick Look feature that should've been built into the Finder to begin with. If you haven't used DFX before, be sure to give this one a try. It's one of my favorite applications and highly recommended by us.

Download Version 4.0

Price is $34.95, and people that purchased before June 1, 2007 will require an upgrade fee of $14.95

Mac OS X comes with a built-in ZIP archive utility. However, functionality is very limited. When you create an archive, by default it's named 'archive.zip'. Also, you can't simply peek into an archived file and see what the contents are.

If you are as frustrated as I am with this... check out ' Springy .

Version 1.3 features

* Open and browse the contents of an archive or disk image without being forced to extract any file from it.
* Quickly extract all files or only files of choice from an archive or disk image. READ MORE »