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http://www.7-zip.org/ - http://www.7-zip.org/
Open source Windows utility for manipulating archives. Formats 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR are supported fully, other formats can be unpacked. |
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Info-ZIP - http://www.info-zip.org/
Free, portable compression and extraction utilities for archives compressed in .zip format. Discussion forum, source code, and binaries for several platforms. |
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RAR/WinRAR support site - http://www.rarlab.com/
A support site for RAR and WinRAR archivers. |
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http://www.zlib.net - http://www.zlib.net
A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library. |
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USENET Compression FAQ - http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/
This URL takes you to a compression FAQ that explains compression to technical people as well as describing the various programs, and what they do to users. |
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CoffeeCup Free Zip Wizard - http://www.coffeecup.com/zip-wizard/
Free Zip/Unzip utility. CoffeeCup Free Zip Wizard has built-in E-mail and FTP functions, so you can Zip and send your files in one easy step. |
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http://www.winace.com/ - http://www.winace.com/
Shareware utility. When compared to WinZip the most important advantage of WinAce is better compression. |
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http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ - http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/
A command line port of the 7zip utility to Unix, Mac OS X and BeOS. |
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FilZip 2000 - http://www.filzip.com/
Free application to handle a variety of archive file formats, including .ace, .arc. arj, .cab, .gz, .lha, .jar, .rar, .tar and of course .zip. (Win 9x/NT/2000/Me) |
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BitJazz Inc. - http://www.bitjazz.com
Lossless compression for photoquality images. Cross-platform. SDK. Free reader. |
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Hifn Inc. - http://www.hifn.com/
Designs, develops, and markets compression processors, encryption/compression processors, and software which provide alternatives for the implementation of high performance networks and tape storage devices. (Nasdaq: HIFN). |
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http://qccpack.sourceforge.net/ - http://qccpack.sourceforge.net/
Quantization, Compression, and Coding Library. C source code freely available. |
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Maximum Compression - http://www.maximumcompression.com/
Aims to show the maximum achievable lossless data compression ratio for several filetypes (text, executable, bmp). The best 150+ programs for every filetype are shown in a table indicating compression ratio and switches/options used to achieve that compression. |
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SolutionSoft Systems, Inc. - http://www.solution-soft.com/
E-Space, compression software for online archiving and disk space management. |
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Archive Comparison Test - http://www.compression.ca/
A set of benchmarks designed to show the state of the art in lossless data compression, by Jeff Gilchrist. |
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Xceed Software Inc. - http://xceed.com/
Makers of Zip and Unzip data compression controls for Windows developers that use ActiveX, OCX, VBX and DLLs. |
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CAM Development - CAM UnZip - http://www.camunzip.com
Free zip file utility, which allows you to quickly, open, create, and modify ZIP archives. In addition, CAM Unzip supports password protection, and can run an archive's Setup file automatically after it is unzipped. |
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Smacker Video Technology - http://www.radgametools.com/smkmain.htm
A compressor for video, animation and sound data includes video compression with twice the video quality and now uses the Bink audio codec for perceptually lossless 8 to 1 compression. |
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http://debin.net/zzip/ - http://debin.net/zzip/
A compression tool under GPL. Zzip compression algorithm is mainly based on the Burrows-Wheeler Transform method developed by Mike Burrows and David Wheeler. |
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ZBit Inc. - http://www.zbitinc.com
COM objects to Zip and Unzip files. |
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QuikCAT Technologies - http://www.quikcat.com
Specializing in data compression software technologies for wireless transmission, Internet acceleration, Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes E-mail acceleration, and PDA video conferencing, using cellular automata transforms. |
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Rarissimo - http://peccatte.karefil.com/Software/Rarissimo/RarissimoEN.htm
Companion tool for WinRAR for preserving NTFS alternate streams. |
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JET-Software - http://www.jet-software.com/
Software house in Germany, with compression products for mainframe, midrange and mini systems. |
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http://www.iri.com/public/solutions/xpress/xpress.htm - http://www.iri.com/public/solutions/xpress/xpress.htm
Delivers cross-platform data compression for data transfer, archiving, and retrieval.Part of the CoSORT family of sort and data manipulation solutions. |
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GZIPSite Website Compression - http://www.applet.dk/
Tool that can help you make static HTML websites run 50% faster and save 50-80% of the bandwidth. |