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 ...

All the power of 7-Zip, without the 2005 vibes.

Double-click the file to unzip it, decompress and compress from drag and drop, create a ZIP file with a password, repair a broken ZIP file, extract the inside file without mounting the virtual disk ...

When creating a Zip archive you can change the settings for compression method and compression level. Compression Method When you create Zip archives you can choose between two different compression ...

On VB columnist Joe Kunk shows you how to create and extract "almost" .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4 and standard .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4.5. The ability to compress multiple files from one or ...

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 ...

Facebook is open sourcing a new compression algorithm called Zstandard that aims to replace the common technology behind the Zip file format. The most common algorithm behind the Zip file format is ...