When you "zip" a file, you'll compress its data and reduce how much space it takes up on your computer or phone.

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 ...

What's the best file compression tool out there? According to a recent Lifehacker poll, it's not even close: 7-Zip blew away a crowded field to take home a majority of the votes. Though 7-Zip only ...

What is known as ZIP to most of us, is actually the DEFLATE algorithm, and Google has made it slightly better. The search giant announced Zopli today, which is a new compression algorithm that is ...

New in version ’08 Release 2 are: * Upgrade to Xar version 1.5.2. * Crypted zip files now uses AES-256. * Improved AppleScript dictionary to let automate also Email and Archive actions. * Added ...

People compress electronic files for different reasons – to make them easier to transport electronically, to organize their backups, or to save device storage space, for example. That's why Apple's ...

Windows/Linux (Thunderbird): The Auto Zip Attachments Thunderbird extension does just what its name suggests: automatically zips your email attachments for easy sending. This handy little extension ...

Apimac has released Compress Files 2.0, an update to their file compression utility for Mac OS X. Compress Files costs $9.95 for a single-user license. Compress Files is used to archive, compress, ...