In the '80s and early '90s, compression was king. As you struggled to connect to a BBS (bulletin board system) with the latest Amiga utilities on, you dreamed of when things would be faster and not ...

Despite this modern age of 100-plus gigabyte hard drives and speedy Internet connections, file compression utilities still maintain a useful place. And among such utilities, PowerArchiver is an ...

I've been using 7-zip for a while, but the UI is shit. I tried TugZip, but the shell integration was crashy. I mostly create zip files. I honestly don't know the last time I compressed to anything BUT ...

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 ...

The compression and decompression of files is one the most useful inventions in the history of computing, but the lack of portable and open tools poses a major obstacle to making the process as useful ...

As the name implies, anything that's compressed is SMALLER than it was originally. In the kitchen, some of us still use compacters that compress our garbage so we can cram more of it into the same ...

SYDNEY, Sept. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Simon King's Utilities Group claims MagicRAR has been cyber-bullied and censored for the past three quarters at DonationCoder. The company alleges DonationCoder ...