It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally gotten Click Archive to play nicely with Snow Leopard. Alongside this update is a swanky face lift, replacing the old look with a sleeker skin. Under the hood, it’s still the same user-friendly archival & encryption tool. Enjoy!
A few months back, we were quite heartened to learn that Manhour was mentioned by both Web Worker Daily and Nettuts+. Both sites brought in quite a fair bit of traffic but it spiked recently.
Sales for our little boxy app, Click Archive, suddenly increased, and lo’ and behold! It was a Macworld Review! Click Archive is now considered part of Macworld’s GemFest 2009 series. Jumping around with glee we were and that was not due to the mice scurrying around in our spartan dev-shack in the woods.
In all seriousness, it’s been a long and interesting journey till now, and it is gratifying to see a small tip of the hat in our direction. We appreciate all comments and feedback from you guys, and we’ll work towards making our apps as slick and snappy as we can, without foregoing on function. Have a great summer everyone!
As software developers, we’ve noticed we’re frequently taking archival ‘snapshots’ of files and folders. These snapshots aren’t backups, per se, so we don’t rely on Time Machine for archival purposes… each archive is simply the frozen ‘state’ of a file or folder, at a particular moment in time.
Now, there are ways to take these snapshots with existing tools already built into OS X- you could simply right-click in the Finder and select ‘Compress…’, in which case you get a .zip archive. Or you could use Disk Utilities to create a double-clickable Disk Image (.dmg).
Either option works fine if you’re infrequently making simple archives… but what if archival is something you do regularly… perhaps as often as several times a day? And wouldn’t it be nice if you could secure your archives with encryption, and maybe add timestamped notes to them (and to a history log of every note you’ve made)? How about timestamping the archive filenames themselves, so you can see at a glance when an archive was made, and order your archives chronologically by filename?
Enter Click Archive: the tool that makes streamlined archival as easy as a single mouse click. You add files or folders you want to archive regularly to Click Archive’s Palette, and it remembers them… and displays them as widget-like Panels through which you can easily configure and perform archival.
Instead of selecting encryption options and entering passwords every time you make an archive, enter your security options just once, and let Click Archive apply them for you automatically.
Want to add notes to archives? Just select the ‘Add Notes’ checkbox and Click Archive will prompt you for your notes during archival- all as a seamless part of the process. Click Archive makes frequent, secure, and organized archival astonishingly easy and quick.
