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Daily Mac App: iZip Archiver

by Samuel Gibbs (Nov 21st, 2011)

Simple handling of compressed archives is a breeze on a Mac, simply secondary-click and hit "Compress". Likewise opening a zip file is as easy as a double-click. But what happens when you want to get a bit more advanced with your compression archives? That's where something like iZip Archiver ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: BetterZip 2

by Samuel Gibbs (Jul 22nd, 2011)

Mac OS X has had a zip utility built into it for some time. For extracting stuff other than Zip files, the Unarchiver's your friend. But what about actually compressing and managing archives? That's where BetterZip 2 steps in. BetterZip 2 allows you to open archives without first extracting ...

BetterZip Quick Look Generator shows contents of archive files

by TJ Luoma (Oct 22nd, 2010)

In response to an article about Archive Utility's preferences, a reader asked if there was a way to show the contents of an archived file. I used to have a QuickLook plugin for this, but it stopped working at some point and I had never gotten around to finding a new one. The BetterZip Quick Look ...

Friday Favorite: BetterZip

by Brett Terpstra (May 21st, 2010)

BetterZip is a utility I might not use every day, but I'm very thankful for it when I need it. It's an archive/compression utility which handles a broad array of archive formats, including ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, and some that you rarely see on a Mac, such as 7-Zip and RAR formats. While the ...

BetterZip is a better zip

by Mat Lu (Dec 24th, 2007)

With zip support built into OS X a third-party compression utility has to bring something special to the table, and BetterZip does. Basically it allows you to open and inspect archives without expanding the whole thing first. This can be useful if you only want a few of the files that are compressed ...