A page full of links to data compression resources for Delphi Programmers. Mostly libraries.

http://www.delphipages.com/skunkworks/swcompress.html

Byte looks back at the amazing compression claims of a company named Web Technlogies.

http://www.byte.com/art/9511/sec3/art12.htm

A freeware archiver that claims high compression ratios. The hypermart web site includes two additional experimental versions of this archiver called BIX and 777.

http://compression.hypermart.net/ufa/index.html

Colin Mummery has created this product which has zip/unzip capability, plus the ability to create self-extracting JAR files. It’s free.

http://www.kagi.com/equitysoft/se.html

A free H.263 library.

http://spmg.ece.ubc.ca/h263plus/h263plus.html

A free JBIG-2 coder.

http://spmg.ece.ubc.ca/jbig2/software/main.html

A free implementation of the upcoming JPEG-LS compression standard.

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~jakulin/jpeg-ls/mirror.htm

Charles Bloom puts the noggin to work on this question. It’s not as foolish as the title might make it sound.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/nullsize.html

Charles Bloom thinks out loud about complexity.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/bio_complexity.html

Charles Bloom works up a quick coder that will compress random bytes down to about 6 bits per byte. Quite a feat, but it doesn’t stand up to close scrutiny.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/radpack.c

Charles Bloom talks about this encoder, along with a comment from the author of the algorithm.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/macm.html

Charles Bloom with his take on the work of Our Founder.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/entropy.html

Charles Bloom explains why there is no Santa Claus.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/nomagic.html

Charles Bloom discusses just what Minimum Entroyp should mean to you.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/minent.html

Charles Bloom applies the taste test to two different arithmetic coders.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/rm_dcc95.html

More thoughts about entropy shared with us from Charles Bloom.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/blockent.html

A basic priniciple of coding.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/kraft.html

A post from Leonid A. Broukhis discussing the mysterious ACB compressor by George Buynovksy.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/leoacb.html

ACB is poorly understood. The author, George Buynovsky, has only made a few public comments on the algorithm. This is one of them.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/bygeorge.html

Part of a conversation between Peter Fenwick and Charles Bloom.

http://www.cbloom.com/papers/fenlzp.html

Parts of an email conversation between Charles Bloom and Mark Carrol.

http://www.cbloom.com/algs/arinotes.html

Some thoughts on modeling from Charles Bloom.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/predict.html

Ramblings from a true believer.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/compgod.html

I believe this is the US sales home for the product Squeez, which makes its home in Germany.

http://www.squeez.com/

Charles Bloom gives a short bit of thought about just what the title says.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/wave_video.html

Charles Bloom thinks out loud about audio coding.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/audiocoding.html

Charles Bloom thinks out loud about the canonical model + encoder of contemporary data compression.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/fallacy.html

Charles Bloom thinks about quantum information theory.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/qucoder.html

Charles Bloom puts that physics background into play in the world of information theory.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/2nd_law.html

Charles Bloom discusses the hopelessness of thinking you can get something for nothing.

http://www.cbloom.com/news/moreinfo.html