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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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 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/

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 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

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 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 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 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

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

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

An article pitched to the layman on how compression works.

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

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

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

A freeware unzipper.

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

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

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

A shareware unzipper for Win32.

http://1stepunzip.com/

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/

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 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/