| Best Free File Archiver - ZIP Utility |
 Disk space and connection speed are rarely an issue today. But way back with the first PCs we discussed whether to a 10 mb hard drive would suffice and a 20 mb hard drive just might be too luxurious? Also Internet was not available let alone any fancy DSL or cable connection, and so we bought a dial up modem with the ginormous speed of 1200 bps. Portable media could be found as floppy disks starting with a capacity of 160 Kilobytes and slowly evolving to 1.4 Megabyte. So it comes with no surprise that clever people very soon thought of ways to decrease the size of their files in order to save expensive hard disk space, transfer time, or getting as much out of a floppy as possible. The Zipper was invented. What is a Zipper – Packer – File ArchiverA Zipper is a program that compresses a given file via applied engineering intelligence into a hopefully much smaller one, a so called archive, and there are many formats around: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM – just to name a few. In the Windows World 7z, ZIP and RAR are probably the best known and mostly used, while Linux users are well acquainted with the “TAR-Ball” and the TAR.GZ format.So why use a Zipper or Archiver today?Well, think of that large report you have to email to your colleague. You might easily see it shrink from 300 Kilobyte to some 50 Kilobyte, which will be a hell of a difference when sending by email. Another obvious use is the capability of those zippers to combine many single files into one large file. Say, you want to mail your children your latest holiday pictures, poems and reports. If you do that via email attachment, you will be attaching a lot of files. With a packer utility you simply pack them together and send this one single file.EncryptionYou can use a file archiver to encrypt a private message. Write the message with your word processor and simply add a password while packing and send the now also encrypted document by email. The recipient only needs the password and of course, the archiver. This is a basic and very good encryption method as the archiver recommended supports the AES256 encryption algorithm which is supposed to be safe (Used by the US-Governemnt)7-Zip
Although there are numerous freeware packing utilities available we recommend only one. 7-Zip. It is virtually all you need and it integrates after installation seamlessly into the context menu of your file manager, so usage is as easy as it gets. |
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http://www.7-zip.org/ http://www.7-zip.org/download.html |
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