In 1999, ALZip is originally developed as an internal application at South Korean software company EST soft. It is an archive and compression utility designed for Microsoft Windows to address their employees frustration with using English interface in WinZip. It can unzip 40 different file archives and can ZIP into eight different file archives like TAR, EGG, ZIP and many others. It runs in Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista with 32/64 bit, and Windows 7 with 32/64 bit. ALZip has the ability to set password using AES-128 bit or AES-256 bit encryption; span a ZIP file into ZIP files; merge spanned files in one, restore corrupted files; check for virus using your anti-virus software; create self-extracting archive (EXE) that enables users to open the archive without installing file compression program; check errors in ZIP files; and command line functions for expert users. ALZip is a shareware and is available in English, Korean and Japanese language.
Eugene Roshal developed an application that can create RAR archives called WinRAR. It is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility released by Ron Dwight in 1993, while Alexander Roshal, Eugene Roshal's brother runs the business. WinRAR provides the complete support for RAR, which is WinRAR's original format in compression, ZIP archives, and unpacking of 7z, EXE, ISO, JAR, BZ2, UUE, ACE, GZ, TAR, LZH, ARJ and Z archives. It has multithreaded compression and can create archive with multi-volume and self-extracting. Damaged archives are provided with date redundancy through recovery record and recovery volumes for reconstruction. It also supports in the advancement in file names of Unicode and file system of NTFS. It has also AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) 128-bit key to be used optionally in archive encryption. The software is available in forty seven languages. It is written in C++ and runs with Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 Mac OS X, FreeBSD, LInux (Wine required for GUI), and OS/2.
Compressing files frees up space in the hard disk, and Corel Win Zip 16 Pro can compress files into different formats. This software allows users to choose the level of compression and the compression method that they want to integrate into their files and folders. All Major compressed formats can be extracted by this application, and this compression and decompression software runs in Microsoft Windows XP, Vista And window 7. Internet connectivity is needed for activating this program. Corel WinZip 16 Pro can provide users with access to Zipsend, which is use to compress and send large files through email. This software may also provide users with access to Zipshare, which is use to upload compressed files to various social Websites. Backups are necessary for the important data of the user, and Corel WinZip 16 Pro provides an automated process for backing up files. Users can burn backups directly unto a CD/DVD or Blu-ray disc, or send the compressed files to the user’s email address for virtual backups.
Corel WinZip was originally for Microsoft operating system, and Corel Corporation made this software for Macintosh. And this will work with various versions such as Mac OS X 10.5X or 10.6X. Internet will be needed to activate the product. This will help the users to save up spaces where they store their files. This program offers file encryption which secures the file upon sharing. The files won’t be accessed by unauthorized personnel. Corel Winzip also provides security such as protecting email attachments. This application provides a viewing functionality that is well suited for Mac operating system. It also includes editing of files inside the zipped folder without unzipping the folder. The zip file would be manageable, safer, and smaller by the use of WinZip Mac Edition. This works with the email tool of Mac which is built for the user’s convenience. While organizing the files, the reduced size of the attachments will make it faster to be uploading once it is compressed.