An implementation of BWT designed with the goal of minimizing memory usage. Source code and a documentation page.

http://www.iahu.ca:8080/bwt.html

Real is making their client software available in an Open Source program. Download this software and you can develop your own MP3 player! Free of royalties if you are distributing it for free - commercial products pay a royalty.

https://www.helixcommunity.org/2002/intro/client

A full-featured release of a Win32 Zip program. Version 3.0 was released in October, 2002. Trial version available.

http://www.integsoft.com/sz.htm

ArchiveExpert supports the standard Zip format, as well as CAB, LHA, LZH, plus extraction support for ARJ, ARC, PAK, RAR, as well as other formats. The 2.02 release shipped in August of 2002.

http://www.c4fsoft.com/products/archivexpert/

Andy McFadden was nice enough to post a series of a dozen lessons on Data Compression. It looks as though these were posts to the now-forgotten GEnie information service, once a pretender to the CompuServe popularity crown.

http://www.fadden.com/techmisc/hdc/

Sax.net Streaming Compression helps you keep your data small and fast. Use high-performance compression and data compression code, using a class library that was designed from the ground up for integration with the Microsoft .NET framework.

In addition to being able to specify whether to prefer speed over size, Sax.net Compression offers you a choice of two compression algorithms: Industry-standard Deflate (ZIP) compression, and the newer Burrows-Wheeler (BZip2) transform, which generates especially great results when compressing XML data.

http://www.sax.net/dotnet/compression/

The cwenc utility is primarily a tool for musicians working with Cakewalk music production software, such as Home Studio and Sonar. cwenc enables you to export your original music to a compressed audio file format, such as MP3 or Ogg Vorbis, from within the mentioned Cakewalk products. cwenc is a direct replacement for the time-limited demo-version of Cakewalk’s commercial MP3 encoder program, which is packaged with both Home Studio and Sonar.

http://cwenc.sourceforge.net/

The MP3elf is a low-cost Ethernet connected MP3 player that receives a MP3 stream from a local area network server and delivers it to amplified speakers or a Hi-Fi system. You can have a single source of MP3 files in your home or office, and browse through playlists from any MP3elf. The Universal IR receiver allows the MP3elf to respond to one of your existing Remote Controls (or use the on-board pushbuttons) and the LCD interface can display your very own choice of information. The elfServer software design allows compatibility with a range of different front-end options. As it is Java based, it can run on Windows, Macintosh, or Linux machines.

http://mp3elf.net/

A Java library released under the LGPL license for extracting text and images from pdf files, with full source code and examples. It also provides a rasterizer.

A commercial product called WinPedal is also available. WinPedal is an EXE that has grouping functionality that converts PDF text into XML.

http://www.jpedal.org/

There are many Zip compression components in the marketplace. This web page is a summary of the most popular Zip components available and provides a side-by-side comparison of the features and pricing of each. This review focuses on components used by Microsoft developers in Visual Basic, ASP, Visual C++, and Visual FoxPro applications.

http://componentreview.tripod.com/

Falk Hueffner created a dictionary program that was to be used for a Scrabble-type word game. The source can be found at this link under the name dawg.tar.gz.

http://people.debian.org/~falk/

This paper describes a method which creates minimal acyclic deterministic FSAs. These can be used to create an efficient representation of a dictionary of words by merging identical subtrees.

http://www-zo.iinf.polsl.gliwice.pl/~sdeor/pub/cd00abs.htm

Links to scads of papers, web sites, software, etc., all related to the MPEG-4 standard.

http://www.m4if.org/resources.php

A C++ implementation of the LZSS / LZ77 algorithm. Also contains a description of the LZSS algorithm and my implementations of it as I learned more about it (hashing, lazy evaluation, etc.) All the code from my first attempt to the current version is included.

An anonymous visitor to Jonathan’s page said it was “Pertinent, very useful, relevant, just what I needed.”

http://www.hiddensoft.com/cgi-bin/countdown.pl?code/LZSS.zip

FileStream makes quite a few compression-related programs, including TurboZip and TurboSFX. Release 5.,1 appears to have shipped sometime in the latter part of 2002.

http://www.turbozip.com

Karl has created a complete BWT package, and has posted the source on this site. He also has an adaptation of N. Jesper Larsson’s
Burrows-Wheeler Suffix Sorting for your perusal.

http://www.geocities.com/malbrain

Helger Lipmaa created a BWT transformer in PHP, and can demo it to you right on the net at this page.

http://www.tcs.hut.fi/~helger/bwt/index.php

WebWrap is a small 3-in-1 utility program to compress and/or code your HTML web files. It uses either a modified LZSS algorithm or the URL encryption procedure, and can reduce the size of your files by more than 50%. It also renders the source of any HTML pages you have created, your design features and your scripts for example, inaccessible to easy viewing or simple clip and paste procedures. The “WebWrapped” files you create are self-extracting and do not require any third-party software. In addition to compressing and coding your HTML files, you also have the opportunity to add automatically a password protection script.

http://www.tac-soft.com/WebWrap/webwrap.html

Freeware program written in VB5 that automates system backup, using Zip format.

http://jupiter.drw.net/matpie/PBSystems/products/taskzip/TZip.html

This free tool can be used to extract information about an AVI file, including resolution, bit-rate, video codec, etc. Full source available for download.

http://isengrim.rotegruetze.net/index.php?main=4&id=1&german=

The compression-related papers seem to concentrate on LZ and other lossless methods.

http://www.csr.uvic.ca/~nigelh/pubs.html

At the time of its addition to the database, this project appears to be in a very early alpha state. Looks as though volunteers are needed!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ac3encode/

This product is designed to optimize, compress, and encrypt your HTML pages, which makes them load more quickly and protects them from casual copying.

http://www.raysion.com/htmlcoder/index.html

This instructive program creates a wide variety of 16 and 32 bit CRCs, many of which are commonly used in archiving programs. View the README in the same directory of the ftp server.

ftp://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/dev/c/GetCRC.lha

The jp2IE control is an extension of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and allows the display of JPEG/JPEG2000 compressed files. It is based on the IJG implementation of the JPEG Standard Part 1/2 (ISO/IEC 10918-1/2) and the JASPER implementation of the JPEG2000 Standards Part 1 (ISO/IEC 15444-1).

http://www.jp2tools.de/English/

A Zip compressor for the C64, and by extension, the C128, VIC20, C16, and Plus/4. If you have to ask what a C64 is, don’t bother!

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~albert/Dev/puzip/

DMSDOS is a loadable module for the Linux kernel. It provides read and write access to compressed FAT filesystems, such as Microsoft’s Doublespace/ Drivespace and Stac’s Stacker.

http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa/dmsdos/

jpg2html converts JPEG images into HTML. A series of jpg2html procedures are being written to explore different means and different effects.

http://home.pacific.net.sg/~jnz/jpg2html/

This site collects information, links, and review on Windows Media 9. Includes some detailed information on the codecs that are part of the new package.

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/wm9series.asp

This Microsoft Security Bulletin details a bug in the code that implements compressed folders in the Windows 9X product line.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-
054.asp