We are familiar with the idea of compressing images to reduce the storage space required and make them faster to display. Here compression is applied to database tables and indexes to improve query ...

Smith Micro Software has updated StuffIt, its powerful archive utility. All three versions of the compression tool have received improvements, all of which are listed below, followed by download links ...

Windows has a number of good file archiving and unarchiving utilities, and which one you use generally depends on what you'll be using it for. For most users, we recommend the simple, fast, and ...

"7z is the new archive format, providing high compression ratio. The main features of 7z format: Open architecture. High compression ratio. Strong AES-256 encryption. Ability of using any compression, ...

A family of compression utilities for DOS, Windows, OS/2, OpenVMS and Unix from PKWARE Inc., Milwaukee, WI. In 1986, Phil Katz (the PK in PKWARE) developed the ZIP standard that is widely used ...

For more than a decade, Zip has been the most common format for shrinking files in order to more easily store them or transmit them over the Internet. Dozen of software programs, including tools built ...

When people talk about file compression, they usually mean ZIP. In fact, they often make it into a verb–much like we “Google” things on the Internet, we “zip” files before sending them over email. But ...