WinZip, one of the best and most popular file compression utility for Windows is now released for iOS devices. Surprisingly, the app specially designed for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is absolutely Free, available on the App store. WinZip for iPhone offers an easy-to-use interface to quickly open and manage compressed Zip files on your device. It even lets you view .zip file email attachments and open encrypted Zip files.

With WinZip, iPhone and iPad users can:

• Open Zip files and Zip attachments from email
• Browse and view Zip files, including multi-file attachments
• Open encrypted Zip files
• Copy the contents of Zip files to the clipboard
• View Zip file attachments from webmail (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc)

Zipped file formats supported include: .txt, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .rtf, .pdf, .key, .numbers, .pages, .htm, .htm, .jsp, .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .tif, .tiff, .png, .gif

Unfortunately, the app doesn’t offers the ability to open and view .rar files which is a standard and popular data compression format.

Download WinZip for iPhone [iTunes Link]

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Just got an email from balesio AG that FILEminimizer Pictures 3.0 has been released, the new version is completely Free and now offers integrated uploading of optimized images directly to Facebook. It is a great tool that helps in saving your time and bandwidth.

FILEminimizer Pictures 3.0 optimizes digital photos and images and achieves file size reductions by up to 98% without zipping. For example, a JPEG photo with a size of 5MB can be reduced to only 0.1MB. After compression, the images are still in their native file format and looks beautiful considering the vast deduction in their file size.

It is very easy-to-use with a simple interface, and is a boon for users who frequently upload their Digicam pictures on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter. For them, the Web/E-mail compression option serves the best purpose. Optimizing images saves your bandwidth and time as well as of the person who is seeing your uploads.

Features:

• Fast Image compression by up to 98%
• Supports JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG and EMF image formats
• Pack & Go: optimize your images and pictures and directly send them via email
• Facebook Integration: compress your photos and upload them directly to Facebook
• Search Wizard: find and compress pictures, images and photos on PCs and networks
• Choose the most adequate compression from 4 different compression levels
• Batch Process: compress whole digital photo albums at once
• Advanced settings for lossless compression, handling of EXIF information, etc.
• "Drag & Drop" files directly into program
• Multilingual interface – offered in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish.
• Fully compatible with Windows 7
• Free full version – No registration required, no strings attached.

Our Results on basis of different Compression settings:

• Web/E-mail compression – 2.80 MB sized Digital camera JPG photo (dimensions: 3264×2448) was reduced to JPG image sized 144 KB with dimension of 640×480.

• Standard compression – 2.73 MB sized Digital camera JPG photo (dimensions: 3264×2448) was reduced to JPG image sized 291 KB with dimension of 1024×768.

• Low/Print compression – 2.59 MB sized Digital camera JPG photo (dimensions: 3264×2448) was reduced to JPG image sized 612 KB with dimension of 1600×1200.

The results were good for all the 3 compressed images, their image quality was good and hardly any difference in quality was noticeable. However, ‘Upload to Facebook’ feature didn’t worked for me and also the ‘View files’ button wasn’t doing anything.

Download FILEminimizer Pictures 3.0  (4.7 MB)

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PowerArchiver Free is the latest version of the award winning compression utility. PowerArchiver 2010 Free is a free and powerful alternative to paid archive software like WinRAR and WinZip that cost $30. It was previously available in two versions: Standard and Professional which are both paid, but now a Free version is available too.

PowerArchiver Free is freeware version of PowerArchiver (Free for personal use). All of the core functions are still there and you can create and extract every archive as in full PowerArchiver, and quite few other things are there too:

Key Features:

• Our own ZIP/ZIPX engine with full support for ZIPX (LZMA, PPMD, JPEG, WavPack, BZ2). Fully supports ZIPX archives created by WinZip 12/13/14. Unicode support, full AES encryption support (both versions of AES spec), unlimited file/size support.
• Full 7-Zip support is still there together with unique support for updating solid archives via re-compression.
• Full format support: ZIP, RAR, 7-ZIP, CAB, ACE, LHA (LZH), TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, BH, XXE, UUE, yENC, and MIME (Base 64), ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO plus ISO, BIN, IMG and NRG, just as regular PowerArchiver.
• Plugin support (.wcx from Total Commander)
• Wonderful shell extensions are 100% in.
• Windows 7 support – jump lists, taskbar progress and taskbar icon overlays work beautifully.
• 7 different tools: Encrypt, Convert, Batch Zip, Multi Extract, SFX Wizard, Repair ZIP etc – all completely free.
• Explorer View mode which turns PA into File Manager
• PowerArchiver Backup with ability to create backup scripts compress them to zip format, encrypt, filter by: filename, folder, size, date.
• All of features that we take for granted like drag and drop, configurable interface, MRU’s everywhere…

Download PowerArchiver 2010 Free

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PKWARE is now providing “SecureZIP Express” as a Free download for non-commercial use only. SecureZIP lets you ZIP and UNZIP files to Save storage space up to 90%. It can also Encrypt and Decrypt Files to Protect the files you store or send.

Use SecureZIP Express to:

• Protect your important documents
• Save space on a thumb drive, CD/DVD, or hard drive
• Protect email attachments
• Save storage space on your computer
• Secure your photos

Download Free Copy of SecureZIP Express

Just click ‘Download Now’ button and enter your email address. You’ll then receive the download link to get your free software. Enjoy!

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RarZilla Free Unrar is a free tool for quickly unpacking RAR archives and provides password protected archives. It can easily extract compressed RAR files in Windows and supports normal and split archives.

Decompression can be started by drag ‘n’ drop, double click or from shell integrated context menu. To speed up the process, you can define a default output folder or a default password. It is easy to use and available in over 50 languages.

Download RarZilla Free Unrar

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WinZip and WinRar are the best file compression and archive utility but are not Free. WinZip has now introduced WinZip 14 Beta which supports the upcoming Windows 7.

This new version is mainly designed for Windows 7 and takes full advantage of its new features. It has enhanced security too, by automatically wiping any files that were temporarily extracted from your encrypted Zip files.

See All New features in WinZip 14 Beta here

Download WinZip 14 Beta  [45 days Trial]

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ImageOptim is a free utility for MAC OS X which makes the optimisation of PNG and JPEG images very simple using front-end (GUI) set of tools. It’s an excellent tool for publishing images on the web (easily shrinks images, Saved for Web, reduce size).

It makes files smaller (in terms of disk space) by finding optimal compression parameters and by removing unnecessary information, like file comments, EXIF tags and color profiles.

You just need to drag ‘n’ drop your images. There are various options which can be set in preferences section. ImageOptim uses: AdvPNG, OptiPNG, PngCrush, JpegOptim, jpegtran and optionally PNGOUT.

Download ImageOptim for MAC

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Nowadays, most of the software packages, installers and files comes in compressed formats to reduce their size. The compressed files in RAR and Zip formats can only be opened through software’s like WinRar or WinZip, which are not Free.

So, I’ve compiled a list of 10 Best Free Alternatives to WinRar and WinZip which are highly powerful and functional like them. Continue to check the list below: 

7-Zip

7-Zip is one of the simplest and best file archiver with a high compression ratio. It can compress to the .7z format, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR. It has the ability to decompress or unpack many formats like: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, UDF, MSI, DMG, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, etc..

It integrates with the Windows shell (explorer). It provides Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats. 7-Zip works on All Windows, Linux/Unix. Portable version also available.

PeaZip

PeaZip is available as portable and installable software for 32 and 64 bit Windows and Linux. It can create and extract multiple archives at once, create self-extracting archives. It has secure deletion feature, can verify file checksum and hash, and supports multiple strong encryption standards.

IZArc

IZArc can easily create achieves and allows to Add, Delete, Extract or Convert archives. You can drag and drop files from IZArc to extract them anywhere you want. IZArc can also open CD image files like ISO, BIN, CDI and NRG. It is also possible to convert such files from one type to another (BIN to ISO, NRG to ISO).

It integrates in Windows Explorer context menu. It has many useful features like Virus Scan, Zip encryption,Repair broken archive, Multilanguage support and more..

TUGZip

TUGZip is a powerful freeware archiving utility for Windows that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files. Encrypt archives using 6 different algorithms. Blowfish (128-bit), DES (56-bit), Triple DES (168-bit) and Rijndael (128-bit, 192-bit and 256-bit).

It can extract multiple archives at once and Repair corrupted ZIP and SQX archives.

ZipGenius

ZipGenius lets you compress files to almost any kind of archive. It supports more than 20 compressed archive formats, including CD/DVD-ROM image files. The famous formats supported are: ZIP, RAR, 7-zip, CAB. ACE, ARJ, LHA, RPM, TAR.

ZipGenius allows you to preview pictures in a compressed archives as thumbnails. You can change the look of ZipGenius sidebar, icons, etc using the integrated skins.

WobZip

WobZip is a free online service to unzip or uncompress a file on the fly. It can unzip the files from your computer or a URL. It doesn’t requires any installation to use.

ExtractNow

ExtractNow is a simple utility that allows you to extract multiple archives quickly and easily. It is not a complete archival solution. It supports 2 most popular compression formats, ZIP and RAR.

Zipeg

Zipeg is the easiest way to open RAR and ZIP files. Zip thru photo archives, see thumbnails, select and extract what you need. It opens formats like: ZIP, RAR, 7z, ARJ, LHA, TGZ, TAR and many many more. Supports Windows XP and Vista, Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard.

Universal Extractor

Universal Extractor is a program to extract files from any type of archive, whether it’s a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. It’s main function is to extract files from installation packages and it doesn’t replace WinRAR, 7-Zip, etc.

jZip

jZip is a powerful and reliable compression utility based on 7-Zip archiving technology. It can Create, open and extract Zip, TAR, GZip and 7-Zip. Open and extract from RAR and ISO.

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