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News: Spring 1.3 Released - Mac OS X Archive Utility

Submitted by jcost on Wed, 07/18/2007 - 05:57.

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.
* Modify the contents of an existing archive or disk image on the fly: add, overwrite, delete and rename files in the archive or disk image.
* Full Drag & Drop support for archiving and extracting from and into Mac OS X Finder.
* Preview any file in an archive or disk image by double click.
* Archiving and extracting tasks may be accomplished quickly and efficiently using Finder contextual menu.
* Support for all most widely used archiving and compression formats: ZIP, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, Unix Compress, RAR, SIT, JAR and DMG and ISO disk images.