CabView
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
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/
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
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
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
Multiresolution Signal Decomposition: Transforms, Subbands, 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
BIAC
A bijective arithmetic compressor written in Java. Includes all source code, seems to be free.
http://www.mandala.co.uk/biac/index.html
BIRLE
A bijective RLE compressor written in Java. Includes all source code, seems to be free.
http://www.mandala.co.uk/birle/index.html
Real-Time Low Bit Rate H.263 Video Codec Project
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/
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
Digital Image Compression Techniques (Tutorial Texts in Optical Engineering, Vol 7)
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
Vector Quantization and Signal Compression
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
ZipIt 2.0
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.
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/
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
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
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
SmartZip
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
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
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
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
How File Compression Works
An article pitched to the layman on how compression works.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/file-compression.htm
All About ZIP Files
Your basic tutorial about dealing with zip files. Targeted at the beginner.
http://www.eurekais.com/brock/aazip.htm
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
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
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/
Google’s Data Compression Algorithm Directory
A selection of pointers to web sites that have something to do with data compression algorithms.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Algorithms/Compression/
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..
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/