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ZipGenius
Zipgenius is yet-another-archiver. Supports 21 different compression formats, plus a pretty long list of extras, such as FTP support, email, backup functions, and more. The long list of features might make you expect a price tag, but ZipGenius is in fact free!
Version 5.5.1.440 of ZipGenius is shipping as of June, 2004.
SimplyZip
There are two programs named SimplyZip. This is the free one from Germany. This program has an awesome list of supported archives formats.
Version 1.1 is shipping as of June, 2004
PKWAre Self Extractor (SFX) and Secure Data Distribution Licenses
PKWare lets you create secure SFX files for distributing data. However, they aren’t going to tell you how much you have to pay on this page - you have to fill out an inquiry form and send it to their sales team.
PECompact
PECompact compresses Windows executables significantly, while allowing them to be run as normal. You can compresses code, data, import/export table, and selected resources. Section merging and resource data restructuring are also supported. It trims, optimizes, and realigns the PE structure while preserving shell icons and version information, or any other resources you chose to leave […]
XMLPPM: XML-Conscious PPM Compression
An open source project that performs PPM compression on XML files. The advance knowledge of XML format helps give this algorithm somewhat better compressions ratios on XML data than universal compressors.
Version 0.98.1 was shipping as of June, 2004.
GraphicsMagick Image Processing System
GraphicsMagic is a branch off of the ImageMagick project. I suppose there are some interesting political machinations behind all that, but for right now you should just know that GraphicsMagick is attempting to provide a stable set of code that can be used in other free and proprietary products. This consists of a big batch […]
Petite Win32 Executable Compressor
Petite is a Win32 (Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP) executable (EXE/DLL/etc…) compressor. The compressed executables decompress themselves at run time, and can be used just like the original uncompressed versions. Petite also adds virus detection to the compressed executables - they will check themselves for infection every time they are executed.
JDPACK
This is reportedly a Win32 exe packer. However, this is a Chinese langauge site so even that is just a guess.
PeX home page
This is reputedly the home page of the PeX executable cracker. However, the fact that the page appears to be in Polish keeps me from saying more than that.
Yet Another Time Machine
When listening to recordings of human speech (like audio books, conference recordings, …) it can be useful to have the ability to adjust the playback speed without changing the pitch of the recording. This simple command line program can do this for you. Playing a audio book at 150% of its original tempo is still […]
Ent
This page describes a program, ent, which applies various tests to sequences of bytes stored in files and reports the results of those tests. The program is useful for those evaluating pseudorandom number generators for encryption and statistical sampling applications, compression algorithms, and other applications where the information density of a file is of interest
CoffeeCup Free Zip Wizard
Your basic free zip program. Includes the normal archiving functions, plus some search, email, and ftp options as well.
Version 2.5 is shipping as of June, 2004.
An Image Decoder Based on IImgCtx
This article shows how to decode images with IImgCtx interface provided by IE. In addition to the image types decoded with the IPictur einterface, IImgCtx also decodes TIFF and PNG.
PE Compression Test
A nice set of tests comparing a wide variety of executable packers.
flac2ogg
A perl script to convert FLAC or Shorten files to Ogg Vorbis.
MP3 To WAV Converter
MP3 To WAV Converter is designed for converting MP3 to WAV and converting WAV to MP3. It converts batches of MP3 to WAV or WAV to MP3 on-the-fly. Play MP3/WAV files, edit Mp3 file’s ID3 text, and search MP3 or WAV files from a folder or the whole disk.
Huffman Coding Class
This version of file encoder and decoder program is based on the Huffman coding method. It explicitly demonstrates the details of the files during the encoding and decoding. The algorithm is encapsulated in a class En_Decode in standard C++.
LZW Compression
An article that describes itself as showing how to implement LZW compression in MFC.
PowerZip
An archiver that manages the usual gamut of archive types. Wizards and stuff.
Release 7.02 was shipping in May of 2004.
unaceX
An ACE file extractor for OS X. Freeware.
Version 1.1 is shipping as of May, 2004.
A Generic, Reusable Diff Algorithm in C# - II
Another difference engine in C#.
Code to extract plain text from a PDF file
PDF documents are commonly used and their content is usually compressed. This article shows a simple C code that can be used to extract plain text from the PDF file.
PKWARE Developer Solutions
PKWare has created a couple of new SDKs that allow developers to create and manipulate ZIP files, as well as to take advantage of PKWares new security features.
JIMZip
JIMZip is an easy-to-use, yet powerful, zipping and unzipping interface for MacOS X. Using JIMZip you can compress your files with a simple drag to either the JIMZip dock icon, or dragging window. JIMZip is compatible with programs such as: WinZip, PowerArchiver, PKZip, ZipIt, Aladdin Expander, Stuffit DropZip, and more..
Version 1.42 is shipping as […]
ZipFusion
A free self-extractor bundler, it can take a standard Zip file and convert it into a self-extracting EXE, or take a self-extracting EXE and turn it into a Zip file. Free for non-commercial use, lots of nice new features in the 2.0 release.
Version 2.0 is shipping as of May, 2004.
Smile256!
A program by Andrew Frolov on a site dedicated to complete programs that are less than or equal to 256 bytes in length.
PNG (Portable Network Graphic)
About.com gives their explanation of what this is.
MoleBox
Pack all your files into a single executable with MoleBox or MoleBox Pro.
GNU Tar
The venerable archiving program.
Version 1.14 shipped in May, 2004.
Caliph and Emir
Java & MPEG-7 based tools for semantic annotation and retrieval of digital photos and images supporting graph like annotation and content based image retrieval.
