Ownership of the Zip file format has always been a tenuous thing. Back in the day, PKWare’s founder Phil Katz (shown) didn’t publish an official document or specfication, but hobbyists such as those with the Info-ZIP project did eventually have the Appnote.txt file that shipped with PKZip to provide a pretty good road map […]

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I’m ordering some cat food, which for some reason is always out of stock in the local store. By using Amazon, I’m going to pay shipping, but I get a break on the tax, and I get my A9 discount, plus I get 3% bonus points on my Amazon Visa, and so it all works […]

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Euclid Discoveries continues with their modus operandi, talking big and showing nothing. Now it’s a 5X improvement in compression over standard MPEG-4, at least in a press-release-ware.

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Data compression is of course more than just a hobby of mine, it’s a way of life. And now I have an inspirational poster that I can frame for cubicle wall or use as wallpaper while I engage in my passion. Thanks to the photoshop pranksters at b3ta.com for helping!
 

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A recurring question that I see in my inbox, or in a comp.compression post is: “Can’t I write a program that figures out in advance what the best compressor will be for a given file?”
Of course, what the question implies is that there ought to be a good way to do this without actually […]

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