There was a time when WinZip was the king of all the archiving tools for Windows PC. It was a must to have tool for all the computers in late 90s. But times have changed since then and now other software like 7-Zip and WinRAR are the most installed Windows compression software in the world. Read More …
When you are sending a file to someone as an attachment with an email message, you should ensure that it is smallest possible in file size. This is because of two reasons – first, the recipients of the email message will be annoyed when they see that they had to download a big file after Read More …
There is nothing more annoying then visiting a website to download an important document containing only a few pages and having to wait for a really huge file to be downloaded. This happens a lot on government run websites and happens because the website administrators did not bother to reduce the file size of that Read More …
JPEG files are the most popular image files on the internet. Even the digital cameras save the pictures in the JPEG format. The reason for this is that JPEG images can have a very impressive quality while keeping a relatively small file size. But even though the the pictures captured by your digital camera are Read More …
Everybody is upgrading to the faster solid state drives (SSD) that give you much better performance than even the fastest hard disk drives (HDD). But SSD are expensive and often come with a smaller storage space compared to the hard disk drives. Typically a 120 GB SSD costs the same as a 1 TB HDD. Read More …
When you download files from the internet, they are usually compressed into what we call archives. This is done to reduce the download file size, the time it takes to download them and obviously to bandnwidth used to download them. These archives can be of many different types – ZIP, RAR, 7Z, CAB and so Read More …
Many of the backup software keep the backups in zipped archives. And if those zip archive files get damaged or corrupted in any way, then you can lose the data that you tried to backup in the first place. But you do not have to lose any data even if a zip file gets damaged. Read More …
WinRAR is one of the most powerful archiving utility available for the Windows computers. The software comes in the form of shareware which means that you can use WinRAR for as long as you want albeit it will show a nag window every time you use it. Like me, if you like the software very Read More …
Back in the 90’s, WinZIP used to be the most popular file archiving utility for Windows users. But WinRAR has now become the most installed archiving tool for Windows computers and is enjoying the same popularity as once WinZip did. There are many reasons for this change – better and faster compression algorithms, support for Read More …
Not many people know but the main reason behind the immense popularity of the MP3 file format was the expensive storage space back in the 90’s. In those days, hard disks had smaller storage capacities (20 GB HDD was considered a disk with huge capacity) and were very expensive. Nobody had heard of cloud storage Read More …