Dare to be creative Archive is a software used for compressing files to save Hard Drive spaces and save time as well in sending large files through e-mails. This software can support famous archive formats such as RAR, 7zip, zip, Apple disk img, Tar, Tar Gzip, Tar Bzip2, Tar z, CPIO, ARJ, CAB, LhA, BinHex, Macbinary, Linux RPM, PAX , Amiga DMX, Amiga Lhf, Amiga LZX, Amiga DCS, Amiga Packdev, Amiga Zoom disk Archive and Ha Archive. This archiver can split and can also combine large files to be able to fit in one disk or to be uploaded in an e-mail. This software is a must for those users who a precious or confidential files. It is able to encrypt file and put secure password for the file so may keep the confidentiality of the file. This software runs on Mac OS Snow Leopard 10.6, Lion 10.7, Mountain Lion 10.8 and lower version such as Leopard 10.5.
Equipped with a high compression ratio (as high as 7z format via LMZA and LMZA2), 7-Zip is an open-source ZIP archiver software that is usable on any computer regardless of operating system installed from the latest to the earlier versions and without any charge at all. Majority of the source codes used by this program are on the list of GNU LGPL License. These include unRar, RAR,ZIP, ARJ, XZ, Z, TAR, WIM, BZIP2, GZIP, CAB, HFS, LZMA, NSIS, CPIO, RPM, VHD, DEB, CHM, LZH, MBR, FAT, NTFS, XAR, DMG, CramFS, ISO, MSI, SquashFS, and UDF. Technically, formats ZIP and GZIP have a ratio of 2 to 10%, 7z has high ratio from 30 to 70% plus this same format has self extracting capability while both ZIP and 7z has AES 256 encryption. Other features include windows shell, file manager, command line version, FAR manager plug-in and localizations for languages up to 79.