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CabView

Published in Source Code, Archiving

A Microsoft sample that demonstrates how you can parse and extract component files from a cabinet file.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdn-files/026/000/017/CabView_dnld.exe

         

Posted in August 12th, 2001

Delphi Zip

Delphi Zip is a set of libraries for Delphi based on the Info-zip library releases.

http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/network/2114/

         

Posted in August 12th, 2001

Data Compression Newsletter #18 - Bijective Coding

This issue of the DDJ newsletter talks about bijective coding, a coding technique that is fearlessly promoted by David Scott, a regular presence in comp.compression.

http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1539/ddj0105cm/0105cm001.htm

         

Posted in August 11th, 2001

Data Compression Newsletter #20 - Randomness and Complexity

This issue of the newsletter talks about randomness, complexity, and a long-time favorite, recursive compression.

http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1539/ddj0107cm/0107cm001.htm

         

Posted in August 11th, 2001

Information Theory

by Robert B. Ash. This book gets a couple of five star ratings on Amazon.com. If you’re the type to pay close attention to your budget, you’ll like the fact that it sells for under $10!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486665216/theinterdatac

         

Posted in August 11th, 2001

Multiresolution Signal Decomposition: Transforms, Subbands, Wavelets

Published in Books, Wavelets

by Ali N. Akansu, Richard A. Haddad. This book covers the areas you need to know in order to understand much of modern singal compression techniques. The second edition was issued in January, 2001.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0120471418/theinternetdatac

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Posted in August 11th, 2001

BIAC

A bijective arithmetic compressor written in Java. Includes all source code, seems to be free.

http://www.mandala.co.uk/biac/index.html

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Posted in August 11th, 2001

BIRLE

A bijective RLE compressor written in Java. Includes all source code, seems to be free.

http://www.mandala.co.uk/birle/index.html

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Posted in August 11th, 2001

Real-Time Low Bit Rate H.263 Video Codec Project

Published in Source Code, Video

Some software from the folks at CMU. Software appears to be free and unfettered, includes a reasonable amount of documentation, and is purported to run on a variety of platforms, including Windows.

http://amp.ece.cmu.edu/projects/H263VideoCodec/

         

Posted in August 11th, 2001

Video Clipstream

Clipstream has a java applet that enables streaming video in most web browsers with no additional plugins or downloads.

http://www.clipstream.com/products/video/index_skycap.shtml

         

Posted in August 10th, 2001

Digital Image Compression Techniques (Tutorial Texts in Optical Engineering, Vol 7)

Published in Books, Image Compression

by Majid Rabbani and Paul W. Jones. This book shows up in at least one bibiblography, I would appreciate reviews from a reader.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0819406481/theinternetdatac

         

Posted in August 5th, 2001

Vector Quantization and Signal Compression

Published in Books, Quantization

by Allen Gersho and Robert M. Gray. This book shows up in at least one bibiblography, I would appreciate reviews from a reader.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0792391810/theinternetdatac

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Posted in August 5th, 2001

ZipIt 2.0

Published in Commercial Programs, Zip

ZipIt is a Macintosh program that zips and unzips archives in a format fully compatible with PKZip for the IBM and zip implementations on other systems.

http://www.maczipit.com/

         

Posted in July 25th, 2001

MacBzip2 Home Page

A port of Julan Seward’s bzip2 program to the Mac. It’s free and full source is included if you are the adventurous type.

http://persephone.cps.unizar.es/~spd/bzip2/

         

Posted in July 25th, 2001

Easy-GZ

Easy-GZ is a compression tool which allows extremely tight compression and quick decompression. Based on the GZip standard and optimized for the Macintosh platform, an easy-to-use, effective GZ compressor has finally been brought to the Mac OS. Is this software free or not? I’m putting it in the free category - if you find out otherwise please send me an email.

http://www.komkon.org/~stiles/easy-gz/index.html

         

Posted in July 25th, 2001

Pack Up & Go

Shareware compressor for the Mac. Web site claims it handles universally standard archives, a bit vague for my taste.

http://www.stone.com/PackUpAndGo/PackUpAndGo.html

         

Posted in July 25th, 2001

OpenUp

OpenUp allows you to double-click on compressed and archived files and have them open in the Workspace without having to resort to the command-line tools gnutar and gunzip. It also supports opening many other common, and uncommon formats. Appears to be free, with source available.

http://www.stepwise.com/Software/OpenUp/index.html

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Posted in July 25th, 2001

SmartZip

Published in Commercial Programs, Zip

SmartZip is a MacOS application designed to be the simplest and most efficient way to manage ZIP files. You can automatically compress files (or entire folders) by dragging them onto SmartZip and in the same way you can easily expand ZIP files.

http://www.vampiresoft.com/Products/MacOS/SmartZip.html

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Posted in July 25th, 2001

Compact Pro

Compact Pro is a shareware file compression and archival utility for the Mac. It compresses and stores files in “archives” which may span multiple diskettes. Compact Pro supports data encryption (US and Canadian users only) and self-extracting archives.

http://www.cyclos.com/compactpro.htm

         

Posted in July 25th, 2001

Mind Expander

Archive expander for the Mac and Windows. Whether you’re using Mac or a PC, MindExpander will expand ZIP, SIT, SEA, HQX, and other popular compression formats. Free software.

http://www.mindvision.com/Consumer/products/ME/Default.asp

         

Posted in July 25th, 2001

Zipper

Free zip program - zip and unzip utility for windows by Ken Ward. This free program can be downloaded and freely used and distributed.

http://www.trans4mind.com/personal_development/zipper/index.html

         

Posted in July 25th, 2001

How File Compression Works

An article pitched to the layman on how compression works.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/file-compression.htm

         

Posted in July 25th, 2001

All About ZIP Files

Your basic tutorial about dealing with zip files. Targeted at the beginner.

http://www.eurekais.com/brock/aazip.htm

         

Posted in July 25th, 2001

CAM UnZip

A freeware unzipper.

http://www.camdevelopment.com/cuz.htm

         

Posted in July 25th, 2001

Spirit Corp

Spirit has a wide variety of speech codecs for sale, including standard G.711, G.729 and so on, all the way down to proprietary 1200 bps coders.

http://www.spiritcorp.com/vocoders.html

         

Posted in July 25th, 2001

ZipALot

With ZipALot you can extract (unace, unrar and unzip) multiple files at once! ZipALot takes all the archives from one directory and extracts them to another one. ZipALot can currently handle ZIP, RAR and ACE (V.2) archives.

http://www.ractive.ch/gpl/zipalot.html

         

Posted in July 25th, 2001

1StepUnzip

Published in Commercial Programs, Zip

A shareware unzipper for Win32.

http://1stepunzip.com/

         

Posted in July 25th, 2001

Google’s Data Compression Software Directory

I think Google’s directory comes from the DMOZ directory, but I could be wrong. This page mostly has pointers to companies that sell software.

http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Data_Compression/

         

Posted in July 24th, 2001

Google’s Data Compression Algorithm Directory

Published in Links, Data Compression

A selection of pointers to web sites that have something to do with data compression algorithms.

http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Algorithms/Compression/

         

Posted in July 24th, 2001

TurboZip

TurboZIP is an Archive, E-Mail Manager and Auto Backup tool. It opens major archive and E-mail formats. It offers the unique capabilities to internally view, print, copy, launch, and virus
scan files within ZIP and E-mails without unzipping; unique ZIP Set and Multi-threading operation for simultaneous zipping, unzipping, auto backups.
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TurboZip 5.1 appears to have been released sometime around January, 2003. Unfortunately, the FileStream web site doesn’t provide any sort of release history for this product, so it’s impossible to determine exactly when the release shipped and what features were added in 5.1.

http://www.filestream.com/turbozip/

         

Posted in July 23rd, 2001