Sometimes you may need to send a file to a friend, colleague or family, or upload it to the Internet, that is just to large to go through without errors. Most email providers for instance limit the maximum attachment size so that you may end up with error messages when trying to send that 200 [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

The right archiving software may sometimes be out of reach to unpack an archive. This can be the case when using a public computer in an Internet Cafe or library for instance. Users who need to extract an archive but cannot do so locally can resort to online services to do so. WobZip is one [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Many files on the Internet are compressed to reduce the time it takes to transfer the files to users requesting them and to cut down on the monthly bandwidth bill. A negative aspect of this is that the files need to be decompressed on the user’s computer system before they can be used. Standard unpackers [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Compression is compression is compression. Right? Wrong. There are some compression utilities that eek out every drop of space possible. On the Linux operating system the standard is gzip or bunzip2. But if you’re looking for one of the highest compression ratios to be found you might want to turn your sites to 7-Zip.  7-Zip [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Security, Software, Tutorials Basic

How many times have you come across a .tar, .tgz, or .bz2 file in Linux and had no idea what to do with it? Or what it was? Most users of computers know what the .zip file is. Simple, it’s a compressed file. And to uncompress you generally double click it or right click and [...]

Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

There are a number of reasons you would need to an archive. You might need to create backup archives of files, or you might want to be able to store project files together. Whatever your reason, the GNOME File Roller tool makes creating archives simple. File Roller is the Winzip of Linux. Of course you [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tools, Tutorials Basic

Have you ever asked yourself if a certain file is inside an archive on a website ? Did you download the archive from that website only to find out that the file was not included ? Worry no more; The Firefox add-on ArchView (thanks Archer for the tip) adds a function to Firefox that makes [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

I usually do not zip attachments that I send with Thunderbird, it is normally just to much work to zip the files locally and attach them to the mail afterwards. It happens sometimes that I do not zip a php file and send it to someone who gets only garbage because of the way the attachment is processed. I did find an extension for Thunderbird that is perfect for lazy people like me who do not want to go the extra mile just to zip attachments.

Categories: Email, Tools