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 ...

The tar command on Linux is used to create and extract TAR archive files. Run "tar -czvf archive-name.tar.gz /path/to/file” in the Terminal to compress a file or ...

PowerArchiver is a feature-rich yet easy-to-use file compression utility, catering for all users up to the enterprise level. The free trial version, which lets you take the package for a 40-day spin, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Utility software close utility softwareSoftware that performs a specific and useful task, for example compressing files, defragmenting the hard disk helps maintain the system. Utility software is used ...

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 ...

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 ...