Even if your email provider allows you to send massive attachments, email recipients with slow Internet connections may prefer that you didn't. One way to make files smaller without editing them is to ...

Cloud drive services like Google Drive and OneDrive are handy and all, but sometimes you just need to wrap up a few files to send out in an email. Conversely, you’ll sometimes come across those ZIP ...

Compressing files in Windows has several advantages. One, in particular, is the ability to share large files online in a smaller package, which also helps save bandwidth. There are several free file ...

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 ...

Ashampoo Zip Free is free file compression and decompression software for the Windows operating system. The free version provides users with a wide variety of functions. It can open archive files in ...

There are two common ways of squeezing large files into smaller sizes: ZIP and RAR. The ZIP format is much more common, but there are times when RAR works better, especially when the file is ...

In the world of Unix-based operating systems like Linux, file packaging and compression utilities play a pivotal role. One such utility is the zip command, an effective tool for compressing files to ...

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 ...

I remember back in the olden, pre-OS X days, when you’d need to use a utility like Stuffit to compress a bunch of files together into one archive, shedding excess data and making it easier to get ...

Apimac has released Compress Files 2.0, an update to their file compression utility for Mac OS X. Compress Files costs $9.95 for a single-user license. Compress Files is used to archive, compress, ...

(1) A file stored on a Zip cartridge (see Zip disk). (2) A file that contains one or more files compressed into the ZIP format. Also called a "ZIP archive," "zipped file" or "zipped archive," the ZIP ...