7-Zip 9.20 continues in the tradition of being one of the best free file archiving utilities that exists. However you may notice that the default settings 7-Zip uses may use a ridiculous amount of memory. If when 7-Zip is archiving you see something like this:…this can be easily adjusted. When going to create an archive, 7-Zip will tell you up front how...

A type of information that’s not the easiest to come across is finding where postal, i.e. ZIP code boundaries actually are. You would think that as vast as the internet is, that information would be readily available. True, you can use sites like this one to get ZIP boundary information, but what it lacks is the ability to mark spots on the map. Google...

A small bit of computer history to start this one off: In the B.I. (Before Internet) computer era, the way people uploaded and downloaded files over long distances was via their local BBS. Being that file transfers were mind numbingly slow (the download of a 1MB file over a 14.4kbit/s connection took 10 minutes), compressed archive files were very popular, with...

If you have some sensitive information on your computer which are ‘for your eyes only’, it is important to make sure they are adequately protected. While you can apply broad security such as Windows permissions or through drive encryption (TrueCrypt, etc.), a simple and effective method is to compress them in a password protected zip file. Any zip...

7-Zip is a file archiving application. Remember WinZIP or PKZIP? Think of 7-Zip like that. This app is not pretty but it sure is easy. In fact, it’s so easy that it sometimes confuses people. When you install it, all you have to do to create a ZIP or 7z file is just right-click a file, a selection of files or a folder, choose 7-Zip from the context menu...