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PentaZip
PentaZip has a very nice feature set, supports advanced encryption, large archives, Windows shell integration, and all the other good stuff you’ve come to expect. Also supports a wide variety of languages.
Release 6.0.1.190 shipped in November, 2003
DropLHA for Mac OS/X
A site that has a port of a drag and drop version of LHA to Mac OS X. My Japanese referrer tells me this version does not support MacBinary so resource forks will be lost by this program.
WinGzip
WinGZip is an small freeware utility for working with files produced by gzip utility (usually it’s files with .gz or .tgz extension) and also create such files. Main features include the compressing, decompressing and testing the integrity of gzip files.
WinBZip2
WinBZip2 is an small freeware utility for working with files produced by bzip2 utility (usually it’s files with .bz2 extension) and also create such files. Main features include the compressing, decompressing and testing the integrity of bzip2 files.
MacLHA support
This web site is run by the author of MacLHA, a drag and drop version of LHA for Mac OS. You can also get access to a drag and drop LHA expander for Mac OS here.
imageEnhance
This product from Teranex removes DCT blocking artifacts from MPEG streams. It also features a few other neat details such as adding the “film look” to digital video.
SNG
SNG (Scriptable Network Graphics) is a minilanguage designed specifically to represent the entire contents of a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file in an editable form. Thus, SNGs representing elaborate graphics images and ancillary chunk data can be readily generated or modified using only text tools.
Version 1.0.2 shipped in November, 2003.
QuickZip
The software reviewer at the SlaughterHouse speculated that commercial developers of zip programs ought to just pack it in when they see how good QuickZip is. If you agree or disagree, why not post an evaluation here so we can benefit from your experience? It seems to be free, plus has support for Chinese and […]
i-Sound WMA/MP3 Recorder Professional
This app from AbyssMedia is advertised as being able to turn your computer into complete audio recording studio. That means you have the ability to record from external inputs directly to MP3, OGG, WMA, or WAV format. Includes niceties such as MP3 and OGG tag editors, Voice Activated recording, skin support, and more.
Version 6.05 is […]
1st Choice Zip
A shareware program that uses the look and feel of Windows Explorer to navigate Zip files.
Version 4.7 of this program is shipping as of November, 2003.
SmartZip
Ahmed Ismaiel Zakaria has created a Win32 Zip program that supports Zip files, and is promising to soon support JAR, CAB, ARJ, RAR, ACE, and so on. Yes, there are many other programs just like it, but SmartZip appears to be free and the author is promising to release the source code. (Of course, […]
Tugzip
This free Zip manager program supports a raft of archiver formats, has full shell integration, and includes support for the Zip64 extensions.
Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) Compression
A good description of LZW, along with some specific information about TIFF’s implemenation of this compression algorithm.
Zipserver
Zipserver is a little HTTP server that serves up static documents from inside Zip files. Great way to put manuals or archived documents on line, don’t you think?
Transform
Transform is a BWT compressor written by Michael Bone. It supports a number of very interesting features, such as automatic Base 64 representation and image output. Shareware.
Version 1.02 shipped in October, 2003.
S3TC-BOXEN: A simple S3TC texture compression tool
This product advertises itself as a simple S3TC texture compression
tool. The description says that it loads an image file into your video card’s RAM, then instructs the video card to compress it.
ReaCompressor
ReaCompressor is an image compression tool that is designed to assist you in preparing images for the web, emailing, etc. It lets you choose from various formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, and TIFF, and shows you the results of the compression on screen.
Version 1.8 shipped in October, 2003, and added support for JPG region specific compression […]
MPEG Menu System
A menuing system for playing MPEG movies under Linux. I’m not able to determine exactly what it does, it’s hard to find a good overview. It was originally designed to work with a specific MPEG card, but has apparently grown beyond that.
MngZilla
The project to maintain a version of Mozilla that supports MNG format animated graphics.
Arcsoft Mobile Media Codecs
Arcsoft has a line of mobile media codecs that includes support for MIDI, JPEG, PNG, GIF, and speech.
Mplayer OS X
A port of the ever popular Mplayer media player to Apple’s O/S.
MG4J: Managing Gigabytes for Java™
A Java implementation of the inverted-index compression systems described in the book Managing Gigaybtes. This GPLed effort doesn’t appear to have any connection with Witten, Moffat, or Bell.
Version 0.8.2 is shipping in October, 2003.
PDFCompress
A Mac OS X utility to shrink the huge PDF files created by the Mac Quartz rendering engine.
HTML-Optimizer
This program is designed to optimize your HTML source files by removing unnecessary characters, duplicated tags, and so on. Yes, this counts as Data Compression! Note that this link points to the Windows version of the program, but there are also two different Mac versions which you can easily find.
Version 7.82 was shipping in october […]
libhuffman - Huffman encoder/decoder library
libhuffman is a Huffman encoder/decoder library and a command line interface to the library. The encoder is a 2 pass encoder. The first pass generates a huffman tree and the second pass encodes the file. The decoder is one pass and uses a huffman code table at the beginning of the compressed file to decode […]
MP3 File Structure
This reference page breaks down the structure of an MP3 file quite nicely. Covers all the stuff you’ve wanted to know in detail.
LightNZip
LightNzip is a PalmOS system compression and decompression utility.
NSF I/U Center for Next Generation Video
The Center for Next Generation Video is working on a number of research projects dealing with advanced video coding.
PAQ4 Archiver
The latest in the series of multi-model compressors from Matt Mahoney. This improves on PAQ3n’s remarkable Calgary corpus performance by an additional 12K, at some expense in speed. Takes a whopping 84MB at runtime!
4Zip Zip Manager
This Zip file manager seems to be making its claim to commercial success on two factors. First, it’s 10 bucks cheaper than the big two, PKZip and WinZip. Second, it automatically fixes corrupt archives. (Although I’d love to see a discussion of just how well it does this.)
