Xceed Software Inc.:
Makers of Zip and Unzip data compression controls for Windows
developers that use ActiveX, OCX, VBX and DLLs.
http://www.xceedsoft.com
WinZip:
WinZip is a windows data compression utility that focuses on the Zip
data compression format for windows users. It took the lead from
PKZIP when windows was introduced.
http://www.winzip.com
RemoteZip Zip File Manager:
A ZIP File Manager that runs on a Web server and has a browser based
interface.
http://www.stonebroom.com/remzip.htm
WarpZip:
Data compression utility for the OS/2 family of operating systems.
Extensive drag and drop implementation and speech enabled utility
that deals with "zip" and OS/2 "packed" archive formats.
http://www.pillarsoft.net/
Official RAR archiver site:
Downloads, Support, Tips, Tricks and Tools. The RAR format, like the
other newer formats (bZip, and SIT) compresses files better than the
popular, but older Zip algorithm.
http://www.rarsoft.net/
WIS Technologies, Inc:
Developing and marketing compression technologies for audio, video
and images by using wavelet, multirate DSP and WIS innovations. Demo
of images compressed with WIS wavelet techniques and audio streams
compressed with WISmp3.
http://www.wis-tech.com/
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.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/
SolutionSoft Systems, Inc.:
E-Space, compression software for online archiving and disk space
management.
http://www.solution-soft.com/
x-PRESS:
Delivers cross-platform data compression for data transfer,
archiving, and retrieval.Part of the CoSORT family of sort and data
manipulation solutions.
http://www.iri.com/external/products/xpress/xpress.html
zlib:
A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.
http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
7-Zip:
Command-line and Windows shell utility for manipulating ZIP
archives. Supported formats: ZIP, CAB, RAR, GZIP and TAR.
http://www.7-zip.com
GZIPSite Website Compression:
Tool that can help you make static HTML websites run 50% faster and
save 50-80% of the bandwidth.
http://www.applet.dk/
SHCODEC:
A efficient static huffman coder. The package contains source code,
test program and documentation..
http://webcenter.ru/~xander/
LSPack for CW:
Programmers toolkit for Clarion for Windows developers who want to
use compression and decompression functions from within their CW
applications without having to 'shell' to a DOS session. Shareware.
http://www.alberts.com/authorpages/00013316/prod_474.htm
QuikCAT Technologies:
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.
http://www.quikcat.com
Archive Comparison Test:
A set of benchmarks designed to show the state of the art in
lossless data compression, by Jeff Gilchrist.
http://www.compression.ca/
1StepUnzip:
Easy to use shareware tool for unzipping and installing your
downloaded Internet files.
http://1stepunzip.com/
QccPack:
Quantization, Compression, and Coding Library. C source code freely
available.
http://qccpack.sourceforge.net/
CAM Development - CAM UnZip:
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.
http://www.camdevelopment.com/cuz.htm
ZipALot:
Takes all the ZIP archives from one directory and extracts them to
another one, allows you to handle more than one ZIP archive at once.
Free open-source software for Win32.
http://www.ractive.ch/gpl/zipalot.html
FilZip 2000:
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)
http://www.filzip.com/
Spirit Corp:
Offers MP3 codecs and voice compression algorithms.
http://www.spiritcorp.com/vocoders.html
Smacker Video Technology:
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.
http://www.radgametools.com/smkmain.htm
XMill:
Compressor for XML data, available as source code and binaries for
Windows and Linux. [Freeware]
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/xmill/
WinAce:
Relative new though already used on many sites. When compared to
WinZip the most important advantage of WinAce is better compression.
http://www.winace.com
RARReg:
Offers downloads, support forums and registration for RAR
compression tools.
http://www.rarreg.com/
DCP Research Corp.:
Develops data compression products including Genetic Compression
Algorithm (GCA) and DCP816 products. Online data sheet, evaluation
schematics, compression comparisons and principles of operation.
http://www.datacompression.com/
JET-Software:
Software house in Germany, with compression products for mainframe,
midrange and mini systems.
http://www.jet-software.com/
Rarissimo:
Companion tool for WinRAR for preserving NTFS alternate streams.
http://peccatte.karefil.com/Software/Rarissimo/RarissimoEN.htm
RICAZip from CAPTEC:
High performance lossless image compression applications, utilities
and libraries.
http://www.ricazip.com
ZipMail:
Compression for Lotus Notes, that automatically compresses attached
files into ZIP files or self-extracting files. Features full
integration with the Lotus Notes email client software.
http://www.notes-compression.com/
Tomeraidit:
Creates compressed TomeRaider files, allows unsurpassed text
compression (45%-60%), plus TR files are portable between platforms
of Windows, PDA (palm, pocket PC or psion)
http://www.tomeraidit.com/
ExpressZIP:
ZIP and UNZIP Management complete with built-in Wizards to walk you
through creating ZIP and EXE (self extracting) archives.
http://www.avantrix.com/exzip.htm
Zipsearch:
Zipsearch is shareware to search compressed zip archives for files
inside archives. The program finds text strings within the files for
viewing and changes.
http://www.filehunter.com/ZipsearchDetails.htm
CoffeeCup Free 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.
http://www.coffeecup.com/zip-wizard/
Maximum Compression:
The goal of Maximum Compression is to show the maximum achievable
compression ratio for several filetypes (text, executable etc). The
best 80-100 programs for every filetype are shown in a table
indicating compression ratio and switches/options used to achieve
that compression.
http://www.maximumcompression.com/
Impact Labs Inc.:
Develops Windows based compression and encryption software used for
still images, documents, and streaming video.
http://www.impactlabs.com
Cabextract:
Portable UNIX decompressor for the Microsoft Cabinet (.CAB) format.
http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php3
Zzip:
A compression tool under GPL. Zzip compression algorithm is mainly
based on the Burrows-Wheeler Transform method developped by Mike
Burrows and David Wheeler.
http://debin.org/zzip/
Zipbit:
Works with popular archive types and has skin support.
http://www.zipbit.com/
