This is a web proxy that compresses pages using standard gzip compression, making them a lot smaller for serving up over low-speed connections. Not only does it convert text to gzip encoding, it also converts images to low-quality JPEGs for maximum space savings.

Version 1.3b is shipping as of November, 2003.

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A compressor that is designed to create the smallest possible deflate-compatible Zip files.

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PentaZip has a very nice feature set, supports advanced encryption, large archives, Windows shell integration, and all the other good stuff you’ve come to expect. Also supports a wide variety of languages.

Release 6.0.1.190 shipped in November, 2003

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A site that has a port of a drag and drop version of LHA to Mac OS X. My Japanese referrer tells me this version does not support MacBinary so resource forks will be lost by this program.

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WinGZip is an small freeware utility for working with files produced by gzip utility (usually it’s files with .gz or .tgz extension) and also create such files. Main features include the compressing, decompressing and testing the integrity of gzip files.

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WinBZip2 is an small freeware utility for working with files produced by bzip2 utility (usually it’s files with .bz2 extension) and also create such files. Main features include the compressing, decompressing and testing the integrity of bzip2 files.

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This web site is run by the author of MacLHA, a drag and drop version of LHA for Mac OS. You can also get access to a drag and drop LHA expander for Mac OS here.

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This product from Teranex removes DCT blocking artifacts from MPEG streams. It also features a few other neat details such as adding the “film look” to digital video.

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SNG (Scriptable Network Graphics) is a minilanguage designed specifically to represent the entire contents of a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file in an editable form. Thus, SNGs representing elaborate graphics images and ancillary chunk data can be readily generated or modified using only text tools.

Version 1.0.2 shipped in November, 2003.

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The software reviewer at the SlaughterHouse speculated that commercial developers of zip programs ought to just pack it in when they see how good QuickZip is. If you agree or disagree, why not post an evaluation here so we can benefit from your experience? It seems to be free, plus has support for Chinese and […]

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This app from AbyssMedia is advertised as being able to turn your computer into complete audio recording studio. That means you have the ability to record from external inputs directly to MP3, OGG, WMA, or WAV format. Includes niceties such as MP3 and OGG tag editors, Voice Activated recording, skin support, and more.

Version 6.05 is […]

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A shareware program that uses the look and feel of Windows Explorer to navigate Zip files.

Version 4.7 of this program is shipping as of November, 2003.

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Ahmed Ismaiel Zakaria has created a Win32 Zip program that supports Zip files, and is promising to soon support JAR, CAB, ARJ, RAR, ACE, and so on. Yes, there are many other programs just like it, but SmartZip appears to be free and the author is promising to release the source code. (Of course, […]

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This free Zip manager program supports a raft of archiver formats, has full shell integration, and includes support for the Zip64 extensions.

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A good description of LZW, along with some specific information about TIFF’s implemenation of this compression algorithm.

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Zipserver is a little HTTP server that serves up static documents from inside Zip files. Great way to put manuals or archived documents on line, don’t you think?

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Transform is a BWT compressor written by Michael Bone. It supports a number of very interesting features, such as automatic Base 64 representation and image output. Shareware.

Version 1.02 shipped in October, 2003.

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This product advertises itself as a simple S3TC texture compression
tool. The description says that it loads an image file into your video card’s RAM, then instructs the video card to compress it.

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ReaCompressor is an image compression tool that is designed to assist you in preparing images for the web, emailing, etc. It lets you choose from various formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, and TIFF, and shows you the results of the compression on screen.

Version 1.8 shipped in October, 2003, and added support for JPG region specific compression […]

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A menuing system for playing MPEG movies under Linux. I’m not able to determine exactly what it does, it’s hard to find a good overview. It was originally designed to work with a specific MPEG card, but has apparently grown beyond that.

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The project to maintain a version of Mozilla that supports MNG format animated graphics.

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