file compression

Windows 10 comes fully equipped to deal with files compressed using the ZIP archiving format. You can easily preview and extract the contents inside them using File Explorer. But occasionally, you may come across RAR archives, and that’s where

Apple’s macOS is highly regarded for offering stellar features, a bevy of customizations, and a myriad library of apps on Mac App Store. You’ll rarely hear someone say, “My Mac seems a bit slow. How do I have so less space left?&#82

Earlier, Google Drive either used to stop the download or throw an error if the download size exceeded 2GB. Later, Google added the functionality where files were divided into 2GB zip folders automatically. However, that didn’t solve the issue of z

I recollect receiving an urgent batch of zipped documents while I was away from my computer. I frantically scrambled around the App Store on shoddy Wi-Fi for a file extractor that would just work. While I did manage to extract them before crunch time

Recently my boss asked me to lend him my external hard disk (for reasons which can’t be explained). I was little uneasy as it contained some personal stuff which I was not comfortable sharing.

The easiest and quickest way to encrypt a file is to create a zip folder and add a password to it. Well, you might have a zipping utility on your system but what if you got to work on a completely new system that doesn’t have Winzip or Winrar. Also

Let’s be honest, it’s not like we’re going to stop taking photos or even slow down. No, as time goes, we’re going to take more and more photos. But the problem is that your phone’s storage will stay the same.

A great way to spot an Android geek is to see if they have ES File Explorer installed. According to Google Play Store stats, apparently there are more than 50 million of them out there. Which is great. But I have a feeling that not all of them are aw

For a long time, Chrome on iOS and Android has had a data saver feature. When enabled, all the pages that you download on your web browser first go through Google’s own servers and are then compressed and delivered to you. This process is real

The rules of internet bandwidth and donuts are the same really, you can always have more. In the case of internet bandwidth, the situation can get pretty dire.

Adobe PDF was developed in the early 1990s and if you ask me, that is where it belongs. Unlike other file and text sharing formats like HTML, ePub and Markdown, it is heavy, rigid and most importantly, not open-source. As much as I’d like to see th

If you have a website or work for one, you know how important it is for images to be small in size. Page loading times, which can sometimes even influence a visitor’s decision to stay on the page, can depend on how well images are optimized.

With the iPhone being the most portable computer some of us carry, it has become a convenient device to carry our most important files and documents too.

No matter how powerful your computer is and how much room there is on your hard drive, be sure you still need an archiver.

Winzip and Winrar are best known tools for compressing and zipping files. But none of them is free. And who wants to pay a whopping $29 if there are various free and efficient alternatives available.

No doubt WinRAR is a useful desktop tool to extract compressed files which have extensions as .rar, .zip and other such formats.