{"id":6,"date":"2014-03-24T09:04:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T17:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/best-compression-software\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T23:11:10","slug":"best-compression-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/best-compression-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Compression Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For any old timers out there or someone looking for an easy-to-use compression software application I would have to go with <a href=http:\/\/www.myzips.com\/software\/WinZip.phtml>WinZip<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><br \/>\nI &#8220;grew up&#8221; with the WinZip interface and I still find it to be one of the easiest compression tools around.  With its built in compressed-file manager and extractor and simple GUI it&#8217;s a good place to start if you are new to file compression and just want to pack up some files. At under $30 bucks you can&#8217;t go wrong with Winzip.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are several other very viable options including:<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.myzips.com\/software\/WinRAR.phtml>WinRAR<\/a> &#8211; Complete RAR and ZIP support.  Can create self-extracting and multi-volume archives. Optional archive encryption is also available.<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.myzips.com\/software\/StuffIt-Standard-Edition-for-Window.phtml>StuffIT<\/a> &#8211; StuffIT is available for MAC, Windows, and Linux.  Create, manage, browse .zip, .tar, .sit archives.<br \/>\n7-Zip &#8211; Creates 7z archives using LZMA compression. Relatively new format that achieves a very high compression ration.<\/p>\n<p>For a complete listing:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myzips.com\/listings\/Compression\/Utilities\/33\/\">Compression Utilities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For any old timers out there or someone looking for an easy-to-use compression software application I would have to go with WinZip. I &#8220;grew up&#8221; with the WinZip interface and I still find it to be one of the easiest compression tools around. With its built in compressed-file manager and extractor and simple GUI it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}