Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an IT veteran turned stay-at-home-dad of two girls. He focuses on Android devices and applications while maintaining a review blog ...

What's the best file compression tool out there? According to a recent Lifehacker poll, it's not even close: 7-Zip blew away a crowded field to take home a majority of the votes. Though 7-Zip only ...

What is known as ZIP to most of us, is actually the DEFLATE algorithm, and Google has made it slightly better. The search giant announced Zopli today, which is a new compression algorithm that is ...

Windows/Linux (Thunderbird): The Auto Zip Attachments Thunderbird extension does just what its name suggests: automatically zips your email attachments for easy sending. This handy little extension ...

I'm always on the lookout for new apps (especially FREE ones) that can accomplish more than one task. Once again our wonderful forum community turned me on to an amazing application called Rock File ...

There is an interesting utility out there for Windows 11/10 called ZipLock, and it is designed to compress your files. Not only that, but you can use it to backup and secure your files on a USB stick.

New in version ’08 Release 2 are: * Upgrade to Xar version 1.5.2. * Crypted zip files now uses AES-256. * Improved AppleScript dictionary to let automate also Email and Archive actions. * Added ...

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We often work with compressed file formats, but are not always sure how they work and which format is better. By default, we mostly use an archive file format like ZIP or RAR. These formats squeeze ...

We all know that we need to compress a large file if we want to transfer or send it to someone. But have you ever thought about what happens to a file when it is compressed? How does the size of a ...