Projects

GNU tar

The Tar program provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation.

7-Zip

7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio. 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 ... [More] , CHM, 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 * Self-extracting capability for 7z format * Integration with Windows Shell * Powerful File Manager * Powerful command line version * Plugin for FAR Manager * Localizations for 63 languages [Less]

Zip & Unzip

YUI Compressor

claimed by Yahoo! Inc.

The YUI Compressor is JavaScript minifier designed to be 100% safe and yield a higher compression ratio than most other tools. Tests on the YUI Library have shown savings of over 20% compared to JSMin (becoming 10% after HTTP compression). Starting with version 2.0, the YUI Compressor is also able ... [More] to compress CSS files by using a port of Isaac Schlueter's regular-expression-based CSS minifier [Less]

The Unarchiver

The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. It can also handle filenames in ... [More] foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems. I personally find it useful for opening Japanese archives, but it should handle many other languages just as well. [Less]

peazip

PeaZip is an open source file and archive manager: cross platform, available as portable and installable software for 32 and 64 bit Windows (9x, 2k, XP, Vista, 7) and Linux x86 and x86-64 (PeaZip is a desktop neutral application). Create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, *PAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, ZIP ... [More] Extract 129 archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF and many more... PeaZip allows to create, convert and extract multiple archives at once; create self-extracting archives; bookmark archives and folders; apply powerful multiple search filters to archive's content; scan and open with custom applications compressed and uncompressed files. Other features: strong encryption, split/join files, secure deletion, compare, checksum and hash files... [Less]

Minify

Combines, minifies, and caches JavaScript and CSS files on demand to speed up page loads.

wro4j

There are countless articles related to web performance. The most comprehensive one is performed by researchers from Yahoo. They have identified a number of best practices for making web pages fast. You can find the details here. Also, they created a tool called YSlow: YSlow which analyzes web ... [More] pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. The aim of wro4j project is to help application developed on java platform to address a couple of those problems described by Yahoo research. More, exactly it is about "Minimize HTTP Requests" and "Gzip Components". [Less]

libarchive

Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives. The bsdtar program is ... [More] an implementation of tar(1) that is built on top of libarchive. It started as a test harness, but has grown into a feature-competitive replacement for GNU tar. The bsdcpio program is an implementation of cpio(1) that is built on top of libarchive. [Less]

pack:tag

pack:tag is a JSP-Taglib that minifies, compresses and combines resources (like JavaScript and CSS) and caches them in memory or in a generated file. It works transparent to the user/developer and the compressing-algorithms are pluggable.