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 ...

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 ...

A good compression utility shrinks big files down to size making them manageable enough to send efficiently over the Web or copied quickly to any storage medium. 7-Zip comes with its own graphical ...

Even a couple of years ago, 40 megabytes of storage seemed like Santa’s sack: a bottomless repository. Today, thanks to color graphics, sound and byte-spewing engines like Windows and OS/2, some PC ...

New versions of software based on a popular file-compression technology could create headaches for users through their use of incompatible formats. For more than a decade, Zip has been the most common ...

One of my favorite aspects of macOS is the endless supply of great utilities for doing anything you can imagine. If there’s ...

I have about 22GB of data involving about 350,000 fairly small files that I am migrating between datacenters during a downtime window. Transfer time between the two datacenters is acceptable if we ...

Back when Windows Vista was but a twinkle in Bill Gates’s eye, Microsoft had some extremely ambitious plans to rid computer users of an outmoded concept called “files.” But alas, WinFS (as the company ...