gHacks technology news » izarc http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 PeaZip an alternative to IZarc ? http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/30/peazip-an-alternative-to-izarc/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/30/peazip-an-alternative-to-izarc/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:28:41 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/30/peazip-an-alternative-to-izarc/ PeaZip is a Open Source packer that supports many formats, much like any other packer out there. The most command formats like zip, rar, ace, 7z are handled but also many lesser used ones like bz2, upx and cab. The user is asked during installation which context menu items he wants to add which is very user friendly. Most packers simply add their entries to the context menu even if the user would never use some of the options.

Once integrated users can right-click files and unpack them and create files as well using the main program interface. The user can choose between three options on how the progress is displayed for him. Two are graphical representations while one uses the command line. File checks can be performed as well displaying checksums / hash information of various algorithms which is great for verification purposes.

Peazip does have one problem though which makes it unusable for me. Peazip extracts selected archives at once. This means that if I select two archives they are unpacked at the same time which in turn means that the unpacking processes takes longer than in tools that unpack files after each other.

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A quick benchmark with two rar archives had the result that PeaZip needed about twice as much time as IZarc to unpack those archives. Peazip was a little bit faster though when only one rar archive was unpacked.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/30/peazip-an-alternative-to-izarc/feed/ 3 IZArc a great universal archiv software http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/09/izarc-a-great-universal-archiv-software/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/09/izarc-a-great-universal-archiv-software/#comments Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:08:52 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/09/izarc-a-great-universal-archiv-software/ If you are looking for a universal archiv software other than 7-zip you should take a closer look at IZArc which lately replaced WinRar on my computer. The real beauty of IZArc is of course it’s support of most known archiv formats such as zip, rar, 7-zip, gz, ace, tar and dozens others including formats such as iso, bin and nrg.

What I really like about IZArc is that it opens really quickly and seems to unpack files at least as fast as WinRar. I did not benchmark anything here so this is just my opinion. IZArc offers all the usual features that archive programs offer these days such as shell integration, drag and drop support, self-extracting archives and multi-volume archives.

IZArc can also be downloaded as a mobile version called IZArc2Go and a command line add-on for the main program that supports batch processing is also available at the official website. I don’t think the users that already use 7-zip will make the switch because of their program offering basically the same features.

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