Most of you probably already familiar with the WinZip application, WINRAR or similar software, which function to compress data. That is, if you want to “shrink” the size of a file or folder, you should do is put the files or folders that you want to minimize its size into special software such as WinZip was (of course, the application must be already installed on your computer).

There is a far better alternative than the old ZIP format, but among all of us may still have insisted on using an ancient archive system for handling and distributing files. The main reason is that Microsoft and Apple has support for the ZIP into the operating system, so that you do is download the ZIP file from a website and you can open within Explorer or Finder.

It is a file compressing software. Its name is PeaZip. This software supports various file formats other compressors, including ZIP, RAR, TAR, even 7z.