How many times have you had to go through your phone to delete old photos or uninstall apps? How many times have you had to split a file into multiple parts or find an alternative way to send a file ...

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 ...

Large files are difficult to share via email or through any other media without first compressing them. Windows makes it easy to compress large files through a zip process. Alternative services also ...

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 ...

Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an IT veteran turned stay-at-home-dad of two girls. He focuses on Android devices and applications while maintaining a review blog ...

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 ...

We all know that we need to compress a large file if we want to transfer or send it to someone. But have you ever thought about what happens to a file when it is compressed? How does the size of a ...

How to use the zip and bzip2 macOS file compression commands Your email has been sent A variety of Mac applications compress files, but two simple commands native to ...

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 ...