Xceed Software Inc. Makers of Zip and Unzip data compression controls for Windows developers that use ActiveX, OCX, VBX and DLLs.
RemoteZip Zip File Manager A ZIP File Manager that runs on a Web server and has a browser based interface.
BitJazz Inc. Lossless compression for photoquality images. Cross-platform. SDK. Free reader.
WarpZip Data compression utility for the OS/2 family of operating systems. Extensive drag and drop implementation and speech enabled utility that deals with "zip" and OS/2 "packed" archive formats.
USENET Compression FAQ This URL takes you to a compression FAQ that explains compression to technical people as well as describing the various programs, and what they do to users.
SolutionSoft Systems, Inc. E-Space, compression software for online archiving and disk space management.
zlib A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.
GZIPSite Website Compression Tool that can help you make static HTML websites run 50% faster and save 50-80% of the bandwidth.
QuikCAT Technologies Specializing in data compression software technologies for wireless transmission, Internet acceleration, Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes E-mail acceleration, and PDA video conferencing, using cellular automata transforms.
Archive Comparison Test A set of benchmarks designed to show the state of the art in lossless data compression, by Jeff Gilchrist.
1StepUnzip Easy to use shareware tool for unzipping and installing your downloaded Internet files.
QccPack Quantization, Compression, and Coding Library. C source code freely available.
ZipALot Takes all the ZIP archives from one directory and extracts them to another one, allows you to handle more than one ZIP archive at once. Free open-source software for Win32.
FilZip 2000 Free application to handle a variety of archive file formats, including .ace, .arc. arj, .cab, .gz, .lha, .jar, .rar, .tar and of course .zip. (Win 9x/NT/2000/Me)
Spirit Corp Offers MP3 codecs and voice compression algorithms.
Smacker Video Technology A compressor for video, animation and sound data includes video compression with twice the video quality and now uses the Bink audio codec for perceptually lossless 8 to 1 compression.
WinAce Relative new though already used on many sites. When compared to WinZip the most important advantage of WinAce is better compression.
RARReg Offers downloads, support forums and registration for RAR compression tools.
JET-Software Software house in Germany, with compression products for mainframe, midrange and mini systems.
Rarissimo Companion tool for WinRAR for preserving NTFS alternate streams.
RICAZip High performance lossless image compression applications, utilities and libraries.
ZipMail Compression for Lotus Notes, that automatically compresses attached files into ZIP files or self-extracting files. Features full integration with the Lotus Notes email client software.
Tomeraidit Creates compressed TomeRaider files, allows unsurpassed text compression (45%-60%), plus TR files are portable between platforms of Windows, PDA (palm, pocket PC or psion)
ExpressZIP ZIP and UNZIP Management complete with built-in Wizards to walk you through creating ZIP and EXE (self extracting) archives.
Zipsearch Zipsearch is shareware to search compressed zip archives for files inside archives. The program finds text strings within the files for viewing and changes.
CoffeeCup Free Zip Wizard Free Zip/Unzip utility. CoffeeCup Free Zip Wizard has built-in E-mail and FTP functions, so you can Zip and send your files in one easy step.
Maximum Compression Aims to show the maximum achievable lossless data compression ratio for several filetypes (text, executable, bmp). The best 150+ programs for every filetype are shown in a table indicating compression ratio and switches/options used to achieve that compression.
Zipbit Works with popular archive types and has skin support.
7-Zip Command-line and Windows shell utility for manipulating ZIP archives. Supported formats: ZIP, CAB, RAR, GZIP and TAR.
x-PRESS Delivers cross-platform data compression for data transfer, archiving, and retrieval.Part of the CoSORT family of sort and data manipulation solutions.
Hifn Inc. Designs, develops, and markets compression processors, encryption/compression processors, and software which provide alternatives for the implementation of high performance networks and tape storage devices. (Nasdaq: HIFN).
Zzip A compression tool under GPL. Zzip compression algorithm is mainly based on the Burrows-Wheeler Transform method developped by Mike Burrows and David Wheeler.
ROG German reseller of WinRAR, with information in English and German. Prices in Euros.