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CoffeeZip For Windows Offers Impressive Archive Format Support

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7-zip’s reputation in the file archive genre speaks for itself. The open-source tool wins over various paid file compression utilities including WinRAR and WinZip. While the number of features it offers might not be on par with its paid counterparts, this is actually an advantage for most users who don't require those advanced features. Though 7-zip isn't the only free file archiving utility out there; Recently when we reviewed KuaiZip for Windows, we were impressed by its compression algorithm, and even added it to our top Windows applications of 2012 list. Today, we’re bringing you another promising file archiving tool called CoffeeZip. Even though it’s not the most feature-rich app from its genre, its extensive format support - especially for file extraction - seems great. It allows you to compress and extract ZIP, WIM, TAR and 7z files. In addition, you can extract (but not compress) ARJ, ALZ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, EGG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z files. Read More

Free Archiving Tool KuaiZip Boasts Better Compression Than 7-Zip

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There’s an umpteen number of file compression utilities out there but 7-Zip easily wins hands-down for most users due to its open-source nature, light memory footprint, wide range of compressed archive format support, and price tag of free. Most archive utilities that we come across nowadays tend to support various archive formats irrespective of their default extension. Though usually, a file archiver works best with its native format for the best overall compression ratio. KuaiZip is a Windows file compression utility that recently crossed my way and left me utterly impressed, to say the least. Not only does it seem to be more powerful than 7-Zip, but its intuitive UI makes it extremely easy to use, even for novices. The tool allows extracting most of the popular archive formats including ZIP, 7Z, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZH, TAR, UUE, Z, as well as KuaiZip's own KZ format. Read More

Explzh: An Excellent File Compression Alternative To 7Zip & WinRAR

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For file archiving and data compression, WinRAR is among the most popular tools. However, WinRAR is paid. 7-zip, an open source utility, is also a handy and powerful solution, which, due to its robust compression ratio, has won many accolades. Although both WinRAR and 7-Zip don't seem to be lacking in features and functionality, you can try Explzh as well, should you need an alternate solution (I still can't figure out how to pronounce it, though). Albeit simple in design (well, that’s how most file archivers are, anyway), Explzh seems to be one of the best in the business. It supports a multitude of formats, including LHA, JAR, RAR, ZIP, ISO-9660/ISO-13346, just to name a few, and can easily extract files to target locations, including FTP support. It also includes an integrated file splitter to easily split large files into your desired-sized fragments. Furthermore, it can be used to compress and encrypt files using AES (Advance Encryption Standard). Additional features include tabbed windows, thumbnail view of archived files, search for in-archive content, file editing within the archives, OLE2 drag & drop support, incremental search, AutoComplete, Batch compression, and much more. Read More

FreeVimager: View, Edit & Convert Images, Audio & Video, All In One Place

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Not stylish but certainly usable to a good degree; these words just about sum up FreeVimager. FreeVimager is a 3-in-1 application that can display, edit and convert images, videos and audio files. It’s basically a viewer and editor geared towards camera related applications. It supports BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF (both still and animated), TIFF, PCX and EMF image extensions; for audio it supports AIF, WAV, MP3, WMA, AU, MID and CDA file extensions, and AVI files for video as well as ZIP files for archiving.

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HaoZip: Yet Another Tool For Compressing Files And Converting Images

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When it comes to compressing files and folders, many people tend to avoid using the Windows built-in compression functionality as several third-party application like WinRAR and 7Zip provide much better compression. While these applications are considered as the primary choice for most users (i proudly belongs to that user base), sometimes, a few relatively-unknown programs end up providing more features and better options (worry not! you will find out in a minute). We earlier reviewed one such application known as PeaZip that provides the functionality of many compression formats within one integrated application. This time, we found another great compression application that boasts many great features, known as HaoZip, supporting decompression from 49 different formats including ZIP, 7ZIP, TAR and more. It also provides some handy built-in features for performing a variety of functions such as Batch Picture Conversion, checking of MD5 Checksum, image viewing, password protection of archives, etc. Read More

Bandizip: Preview Files Inside An Archive From Right-Click Context Menu

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Here at AddictiveTips, we have reviewed plenty of software, which include many feature-rich archive managers as well, but one feature that we've rarely seen an an archive manager is the option to create self-extracting EXE file archives. More importantly we've never come across one that shows the contents of an archive in its right-click context menu before extracting. Until now, that is. Bandizip is an archive manager which allows you to preview the list of files inside an archive from within its right-click context menu, supports popular archiving formats and also provides an option to create a self-extracting EXE file from various files and folders. In addition, the application supports Unicode file system which displays non-English characters properly and does not break international characters of archived files. Other features which make BandiZip useful include drag and drop support and high speed archiving. The archiver achieves the latter by skipping files that cannot be compressed. Read More

PeaZip – Compress & Extract Archives (All Formats) In Windows & Ubuntu

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PeaZip is an open source application for Windows and Linux to create and extract multiple compressed archives simultaneously. Once you have installed PeaZip, you will no longer require installing another standalone compression program to extract or compress archives. It is not just a cross-platform application, but also supports compression across formats which are normally associated with operating system (e.g. .GZ for Linux). PeaZip provides full support for the following formats: 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, *PAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, and ZIP, whereas, “extraction only” support is available for ACE, ARJ, CAB, CHM,  Java (JAR, EAR, WAR), Linux (DEB, PET/PUP, RPM, SLP), Mac (DMG/HFS), PAK/PK3/PK4, RAR, UDF, WIM and lot more. Read More

PowerArchiver 2010 Is Free Compression And Archiving Utility

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PowerArchiver is one of the best compression utility out there developed by ConeXware. They’ve recently changed tracks and are offering their eminent product free for personal use, which is a stripped-down version of standard PowerArchiver yet provides many feature and options to make the most of it. For those who don't know, it supports a huge list of features and formats ranging from famous Zip, ZIPX to CAB, open source 7-Zip, to ISO, BIN , including Nero’s NRG. Read More