Web Directory

» 1StepUnzip
   Easy to use shareware tool for unzipping and installing your downloaded Internet files.
   http://1stepunzip.com/

» 7-Zip
   Open source Windows utility for manipulating archives. Formats 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR are supported fully, other formats can be unpacked.
   http://www.7-zip.org/

» 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/

» Automatic File Archiver by JSPayne
   Does automatic archiving and backup of recently modified.
   http://www.jspayne.com/filearchiver/

» BitJazz Inc.
   Lossless compression for photoquality images. Cross-platform. SDK. Free reader.
   http://www.bitjazz.com/

» 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.camunzip.com

» 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/

» 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/

» 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/

» Hifn Inc.
   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).
   http://www.hifn.com/

» Info-ZIP
   Free, portable compression and extraction utilities for archives compressed in .zip format. Discussion forum, source code, and binaries for several platforms.
   http://www.info-zip.org/

» JET-Software
   Software house in Germany, with compression products for mainframe, midrange and mini systems.
   http://www.jet-software.com/

» Maximum Compression
   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 compre
   http://www.maximumcompression.com/

» P7ZIP
   A command line port of the 7zip utility to Unix, Mac OS X and BeOS.
   http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/

» QccPack
   Quantization, Compression, and Coding Library. C source code freely available.
   http://qccpack.sourceforge.net/

» 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

» RAR/WinRAR support site
   A support site for RAR and WinRAR archivers.
   http://www.rarlab.com/

» RICAZip
   High performance lossless image compression applications, utilities and libraries.
   http://www.ricazip.com/

» Rarissimo
   Companion tool for WinRAR for preserving NTFS alternate streams.
   http://peccatte.karefil.com/Software/Rarissimo/RarissimoEN.htm

» 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

» SolutionSoft Systems, Inc.
   E-Space, compression software for online archiving and disk space management.
   http://www.solution-soft.com/

» StuffIt
   Create and access email attachments and downloads, protect data, and transfer files.
   http://www.stuffit.com/

» USENET 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/

» Video Compression Components
   Third-party video compression software components for programmers.
   http://www.imaging-components.com/

» WinAce
   Shareware utility. When compared to WinZip the most important advantage of WinAce is better compression.
   http://www.winace.com/

» Xceed Software Inc.
   Makers of Zip and Unzip data compression controls for Windows developers that use ActiveX, OCX, VBX and DLLs.
   http://xceed.com

» ZBit Inc.
   COM objects to Zip and Unzip files.
   http://www.zbitinc.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/

» 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

» 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.
   http://damiendebin.net/archives/zzip/

» ncompress
   Free LZW file compressor mainly used for creating tar.Z archives, released as source code. For UNIX systems.
   http://ncompress.sourceforge.net/

» rzip
   Open source utility for Unix, similar in functionality to gzip or bzip2, but able to take advantage of long distance redundancies in files, which can sometimes produce better compression.
   http://rzip.samba.org/

» 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/public/solutions/xpress/xpress.htm

» zlib
   A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.
   http://www.zlib.net