WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

* Using WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression by consistently making smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs.
* WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives.
* WinRAR offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface.
* When you purchase WinRAR license you are buying a license to the complete technology, no need to purchase add-ons to create self-extracting files, it’s all included. One price, one payment, once.
* You also receive the benefit of a life-time use of the WinRAR archiver. No upgrade fee to pay. When a new release is made, simply download and install, your license is valid for life.
* WinRAR is easier to use than many other archivers with the inclusion of a special “Wizard” mode which allows instant access to the basic archiving functions through a simple question and answer procedure. This avoids confusion in the early stages of use.
* WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits.
* WinRAR supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. The number of archived files is, for all practical purposes, unlimited.
* WinRAR offers the ability to create selfextracting and multivolume archives.
* Recovery record and recovery volumes allow to reconstruct even physically damaged archives.
* WinRAR features are constantly being developed to keep WinRAR ahead of the pack.

Developer: RARLAB
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 1.2 MB
Download WinRAR 3.80 beta 5 link

The JPEG image format is inherently lossy. Because of this, each edit and subsequent recompression of JPEG images in general purpose image editors, such as Adobe Photoshop, results in a progressive degradation of image quality.

Fortunately there is, in most cases, a way to avoid this unnecessary recompression. If you just need to quickly process a group of JPEG photos from your latest vacation - rotate, crop, remove red-eye, imprint date or comments - you do not need to compromise on image quality. Better JPEG is a batch JPEG editor that can do all of this without loss of image quality.

Get the best from your JPEG photos, with no compromises!

Main Program Features:
* Lossless Transformations - Rotation, Flip
* Lossless Crop (free, fixed aspect, fixed size, predefined and user-defined aspects and sizes), composition guidelines (diagonals, golden mean, rule of thirds)
* Lossless Canvas Enlargement
* Lossless Brightness correction
* Lossless Color correction
* Highly Customizable Lossless Date/EXIF Info/Text insertion (position, font, size, color, background, language, format, etc.)
* Advanced Lossless Red Eye Removal (anti-aliasing, adjustable size, sensitivity, darkening)
* Copy/Paste to and from an external editor for local retouching without full recompression (lossless)
* Resize JPEG photos
* Batch image processing
* Multi-level Undo/Redo
* Metadata preservation
* Compression optimization

Developer: Better JPEG Team
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 0.7 MB
Download Better JPEG 2.0.0.3 link

Blaze Media Pro is a powerhouse all-in-one multimedia software offering conversion, ripping, editing, recording, burning, playback, and much more. Powerful, yet easy to use audio, video (VCD/SVCD/DVD), and data CD/DVD burning are all fully supported. Other advanced features include video capture, video creation/combining/extraction, video editing, copy music CDs, media management, audio merge, MusicID audio recognition, lyrics search, audio tag editing, FreeDB/FreeDB2/FreeDB support, and more. The audio content of video files can be extracted and saved to sound files, and frames can also be extracted to images files in batch mode. Video files can also be created from still frame images and/or other videos.

Supported conversions include: CD to WAV, MP3, WMA, and OGG; MP3/WMA/OGG/WAV/AIF/VOX/MP2/MPC/G.72x/AU/RAW to MP3/WMA/OGG/WAV; WAV/MP3/WMA/OGG to CD burning, WAV/MP3 Compression, and two-way conversions among MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, and ASF for video. MPEG options are available for VCD, SVCD, and DVD compliant output. DVD shrink functionality is also present. When converting from audio CD, track information can be dynamically downloaded from the FreeDB and used to automatically name saved files.

Developer: Mystik Media
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 19.0 MB
Download Blaze Media Pro 8.02 link

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. 7-Zip is open source software. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don’t need to register or pay for 7-Zip.

The main features of 7-Zip:
* High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
* Supported formats:
o Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
o Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
* For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
* Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
* Self-extracting capability for 7z format
* Integration with Windows Shell
* Powerful File Manager
* Powerful command line version
* Plugin for FAR Manager
* Localizations for 69 languages

Developer: 7-Zip
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 0,9 MB
Download 7-Zip 4.59 Alpha 3 link

MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time and at this moment, it already has millions of users from 170+ countries all over the planet.

MediaCoder Features In Brief
* Convert to and from many audio and video compression formats and re-multiplex into various container formats in batches
* Full control over transcoding parameters, you can learn about audio/video encoding and play with various codecs
* Strong decoding capability for partial or corrupted contents
* Simplified UI for popular mobile devices (e.g. PSP, iPhone/iPod)
* Fully standalone, no dependance on system codecs/splitters
* Extension (scripting language) infrastructure to expand user interfaces and improve user experience

MediaCoder Typical Applications
* Improving compression / reducing size for audio/video files
* Converting for audio/video playback devices (digital audio player, MP4 player, mobile phone, PDA, PSP, VCD/DVD player etc.)
* Extracting audio tracks from video files
* Ripping audio/video discs
* Reparing corrupted or partial downloaded video files

Developer: Stanley Huang
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 16.4 MB
Download MediaCoder 0.6.1.4116 link

WinZip, the original and most popular compression utility for Windows, is a powerful and easy-to-use tool that quickly zips and unzips your files to conserve disk space and greatly reduce e-mail transmission time. WinZip 11.1 is available as Standard or Pro.

WinZip 11.1 is an updated version of our most recent major release—WinZip 11.0—that supports Windows Vista™.

WinZip 11.1 offers a thumbnail image view and automatic compression selection, plus improved compression for audio files (WAV) and the ability to open .BZ2 and .RAR files.

WinZip 11.1 Pro adds expanded data backup functionality and includes a new internal image viewer that allows you to browse through multiple images within the Zip file.

Now you can:

Allow WinZip to Select “Best Compression” Automatically
Make the most of the improved compression methods introduced with WinZip 10.0 by letting WinZip decide for you.

Starting with WinZip 10.0, WinZip supports two additional and more powerful compression methods within the Zip file format; PPMd and bzip2. Although this made the product more powerful, user feedback suggests that selecting the proper compression method can be intimidating. Now WinZip can automatically select which compression method to use for each file you add to your Zip file, to create the smallest Zip file possible, helping you to save both data transmission time and valuable disk space.

Note: Extracting files compressed with PPMd or bzip2 requires a compatible Zip file utility. Currently WinZip 9.0 or newer will process Zip files compressed using the bzip2 method. WinZip 10.0 or newer is required to process PPMd-compressed files.

Zip .wav Music Files
When you select our Best Compression Method, we use a new compression algorithm for lossless compression of .wav files. A must-have for music lovers who don’t want to compromise the file integrity or sound quality.

.BZ2 and .RAR File Support (Extract Only)
Extract from .BZ2 and .RAR files without opening a separate application.

Developer: WinZip
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 12.1 MB
Download WinZip 11.2 link

PowerArchiver 2007 is popular archive programm for the Windows. PowerArchiver offers hundreds of features, yet remains easy to use, small and fast.

A completely revamped user interface in PowerArchiver 2007 makes it easier to access the wealth of features that PowerArchiver has. This task-based interface utilizes the same “Ribbon” design found in Microsoft Office 2007, and ensures you qick access to the most used features while not hidding others under layers of menus.

Full PowerArchiver 2007 Feature List

* Complete built-in support for 7-ZIP, ZIP, CAB, LHA (LZH), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, BH, RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, GZ, and BZIP2 file formats
* Support for reading and extracting disc image formats: ISO, BIN, IMG and NRG
* Built-in support for XXE, UUE, and yENC encoded files and full MIME (Base 64) support
* Creating ZIP, 7-Zip, CAB and PAE encrypted self-extracting archives using a Wizard interface
* Support for unlimited size ZIP archives, with improved performance when working with 100,000+ files
* Support for Deflate64, providing improved compression results (both size and speed)
* Complete support for PKZIP 4.0 and PKZIP 4.5 disk spanning
* Compression Profiles to store frequently used compression settings
* Full support for ZIP AES encryption, 128-bit/192-bit/256-bit (supports: PKZip 5.1 (full), Secure Zip 8.0 and WinZip 9.0 AE-1 & AE-2) and proprietary PAE format using 5 different methods: Blowfish (128-bit), DES (64-bit), Triple DES (128-bit), AES 128-bit, and AES 256-bit
* Support for AES encrypted 7-Zip archives and multivolume 7-Zip archives
* Support for transparently updating 7-Zip archives
* Uploading archives or backups directly to FTP or SFTP (SSH) sites with multiple profiles supported and timeout option
* Password manager for saving frequently used passwords
* Tool for creating PBS backup scripts and running automated backups
* Internal viewer that supports TXT, RTF, GIF, PNG, BMP, ICO, TIFF, GFI, SGI, EMF, WMF, PPM, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk, Truevision, ZSoft Paintbrush, Kodak Photo-CD, JASC PaintShop Pro, and Dr. Halo file formats
* Many powerful archive operations (including: renaming files in archive, spanning archives, testing archives, viewing and writing comments, installing archives, and checking archives for viruses)
* Drag and Drop from/to Windows Explorer and the Desktop
* Two ways of viewing archives (Classic - all files in the same listing; Explorer - browsing through an archive like folders in Windows Explorer)
* Complete integration with Windows (extracting archives and creating archives directly from Windows Explorer using powerful “Explorer Shell Extensions”)
* Ability to edit files within an archive using one single operation
* Printing file listing to text file or HTML document
* Tool for repairing corrupted ZIP archives
* Converting between file formats (for example: changing a ZIP archive to CAB archive, or LHA archive to ZIP archive)
* Extracting multiple archives at the same time
* Batch Zip function to create multiple different archives at once
* Favorite Folders to quickly locate archives
* Powerful Find function for searching within an archive
* Auto Update to automatically download and install new versions of PowerArchiver
* Powerful help in HTML and a tutorial with pictures for beginners
* Full skinning support via PSF files - includes interface skins, toolbar skins, icons and customizable application settings
* Windows XP Theme and ClearType support
* Full support for Windows Vista, including UAC and Vista’s new dialog windows
* Modern user interface that utilizes the “Ribbon” licensed from Microsoft Office
* Queue System for automating add, extract and backup functions in PowerArchiver
* PowerArchiver Starter - system tray application for speeding up tasks
* Plug-in System that enables users to add support for more file formats by downloading and installing plug-ins

Developer: ConeXware, Inc.
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 4.6 MB
Download PowerArchiver 2007 10.22 link