Zip Formats and Watchetsoft Limited Software for Windows

ACDZip
$19.95 - ACD Systems

ACDZip™ is a zipping and unzipping program that gives you the power to compress image, audio, video and document files. It includes fast image previews and is ideal for opening zip files, backing up files, saving hard disk space, preparing files for distribution and protecting them with encryption and passwords.

ACDZip has support for creating 8 archive types, including ZIP, CAB, GZ and UUE. Share your archives by e-mail. Make self-extracting archives with text messages, hyperlinked URLs and graphics. Plus, protect your archives with passwords and 256-bit encryption. All of these features give you serious advantages over other zip software.

With ACDZip you can view image thumbnail previews of image files within archives. These previewing features make it easy to ensure you're either archiving the right images, or choosing to open or share the right archive. Enjoy previewing support for 9 image formats: BMP, EMF, GIF, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF & WMF. Or, increase previewing support to 40+ image formats when you have ACDSee. In addition to previewing images when creating and opening zip files, ACDZip enables you to view, modify and convert archives without the lengthy process of extracting and recreating them.

The ACDZip file compression software enables you to save disk space, back up files and prepare them for e-mail sharing by compressing and grouping them in a single location (archive). With fast image previews during and after archive creation, you can ensure you're compressing the right digital images before you send them in an e-mail. Once you create your CAB files, ZIP files or other archive formats (LZH, TAR, UUE, MIME) you can share them by e-mail directly from ACDZip. ACDZip will automatically launch your e-mail application, open a message and attach your archive to that message. All you have to do is add a recipient.

ACDZip is the Zip software for digital images!

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7-Zip
$0 - Igor Pavlov

7-Zip is a file archiver with the highest compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, CPIO, RPM, DEB, GZIP, BZIP2, Z and TAR formats. Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format. Also 7-Zip compresses to ZIP 2-10% better than PKZip and WinZip. 7-Zip has additional powerful command line version and FAR Manager support.

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ZipItFast - Free
$0 - MicroSmarts LLC

ZipItFast! Zips and Unzips in over 20 formats. It does it all and best of all, it's free. It even has a password protection feature to password protect your zips or create self running .exe zips. Download ZipItFast and help get the word out.

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The ZIP Wizard
$15.95 - PC Shareware, Inc.

ZIP files are simply collections of one or more files, that have been digitally compressed to reduce their file size. By compressing the size of those files, and then bundling them together into one single file, called a ZIP file, you make it easier to upload and download your files. A compressed file will download and upload much faster, thereby saving you time. There have been many formats for compressing files over the years, but the most common format is ZIP.
The ZIP Wizard is the program of choice to create these ZIP files. The ZIP Wizard is by far the "easiest to use" ZIP utility available. The Wizard knows his stuff, and he will be happy to step you through the ZIPping process. The friendly (and cute) ZIP Wizard interface will make you feel confident that your files are being ZIPped up correctly. It's as simple as: 1) Choose the files you want to ZIP up... 2) Give your ZIP file a new file name... That's it! Presto! Like magic your files are ZIPped! You can even send your ZIP as an email attachment right from within The ZIP Wizard interface!

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Zip Express
$24.95 - Insight Software Solutions

Zip Express allows you to search by zip code, city, county, state or area code. As you type in search criteria, potential matches are displayed. Preferences may be chosen on what data is to be displayed. The current time for a given area code or zip code can also be displayed allowing you to determine whether you can place a call during business hours. Large groups of data can be displayed at once and can easily be printed or copied to the clipboard.
Zip Express allows you to automatically paste zip code information directly into your Windows applications via hot keys. Over 80 hot keys may be assigned commands.
Zip Express allows you to create unlimited zip code information formats to be used for pasting into programs, copying to the clipboard or for sending to the printer. You may select such information as the zip code, city, state, state abbreviation, area code and time zone. Just about any other text can be included with the format. In addition, when creating formats to be pasted directly into programs, you can include common keystrokes such as the tab key or backtab key for navigating among fields. Or include the Backspace or Del Char keys for deleting old information that will be replaced. Copy data to the clipboard or print it. It lets you automatically paste zip code information directly into your Windows applications via hot keys and over 80 hot keys are available. You can have nearly unlimited formats for your data.

New features in version 2.0 include the ability to bring up a map of a specified zip code location if an Internet connection is present. In addition, Zip Express can now provide the current time, time zone, and dialing codes for countries around the world. There is improved compatibility with Windows XP, the ability to import and export program configurations and support for "silent install" across networks

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PeaZip
$0 - PeaZip Software

PeaZip is an open source portable file archiver.
It supports its native PEA archive format (featuring compression, splitting and flexible authenticated encryption and integrity check schemes) and other mainstream formats, with especial focus on handling open formats.

PeaZip allows to browse archives in navigational or flat mode, to apply multiple inclusion and exclusion filters to archives, to extract multiple archives at once.
While defining objects to be archived, PeaZip can save, restore and edit archive's layout, and to fine tune archiving, compression and encryption options for supported formats; multiple files and dirs can be added to a single archive or even to separate archives at once.
Default output path may be defined both for extraction or archiving operations, which may be overridden for a single session or for a single operation.
Both for extraction and archiving operations the program allows to save job definition as command line (for learning or scripting purpose) and to have a detailed job log after each operation.

Aside as an archiving/compression software, PeaZip can be used to:
split/merge files in multiple volumes
compress executables with split/UPX
generate random passwords or keyfiles
PeaZip's most used functions are also available in SendTo and context menu

The interface is customisable for opacity, some colors, and icons.

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