File compression on the Mac has been around since nearly as long has the line itself has. Here are our top picks for squeezing files down as small as they can go on macOS and iOS. In 1987 - just a few ...

Sharing large files with friends, families, and even business associates over the web is no easy task. Yes, you could use a cloud storage platform, but who wants to waste time downloading large files ...

Thanks to ever-growing hard-drive capacities and ever-faster network connections, compressing files isn’t quite the vital and frequent task it used to be. Still, it’s useful in certain situations; for ...

The compression and decompression of files is one the most useful inventions in the history of computing, but the lack of portable and open tools poses a major obstacle to making the process as useful ...

Though a tech disciple for many years, Gavin only recently saw the light and converted to Android. Since then, he has put his decades of journalistic experience to work, writing for such publications ...

If you want to compress and reduce the size of a large EPUB file in Windows 11/10, this post will interest you. How do I make an EPUB file smaller? To make an EPUB file smaller in size, you need to ...

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them. There ...

A high-resolution video appeals to everyone for the details it contains. However, as smartphones continue to gain support for high-resolution video recording, storing and sharing large video files is ...

In a world with finite storage and an infinite need for more storage space, data compression becomes a very necessary problem. Several algorithms for data compression may be more familiar – Huffman ...

PDF files have become an essential part of our daily lives. From business documents to personal records, PDFs are widely used for their versatility and compatibility across various platforms. However, ...

You can easily compress a PowerPoint file's size, which makes it easier to share and save. When you compress your PowerPoint, you'll have to reduce the quality of any music, videos, or pictures you ...

Using compression software such as WinZip or WinRAR shrinks files so they take up less space. This makes zip and rar files ideal for sharing over email or by USB drive. However, some types of files, ...