What is a ZipIt?

Question

What exactly is it? What does it do? What are the pros and cons?

10 points for Best Answer.

Answer 1

I think you were referring the the Zipit Wireless Messenger found at www.zipitwireless.com.  If that's the case, it lets you IM and text friends while you are connected to a wireless Internet connection.  You can also listen to music and store photos, but the main selling point is the IMing and texting.

Pros - If you share a computer with anyone, this lets you get online to IM friends without getting on the computer.  It also lets you text friends at a MUCH cheaper cost than texting them on a cell phone.

Cons - It only really works when you are in a place that has a wireless Internet or Wi-Fi connection.  So if you are in the car riding with the fam it prob. won't work.

Answer 2

ZipIt is a Macintosh program that zips and unzips archives in a format fully compatible with PKZip for the IBM and zip implementations on other systems

pros

ZipIt is fully compatible with all versions of PKZip on the IBM, Info-ZIP on Unix, and zip implementations on other platforms

ZipIt allows you to store Macintosh files without losing any information, by encoding them in a standard format called MacBinary. If you select this option, then ZipIt will add special information that allows it to reconstruct everything the Macintosh needs to know about a file. However, this extra information will confuse other unzipping programs, so if you intend for your zip archive to be transmitted to a PC, Unix, or other machine, you should not use MacBinary.

cons

ZipIt is $20 shareware