GAOTD,
Could you offer WinRar as a giveaway? I know there are several free softwares on the market but WinRar giveaway would be a good software for personal use.
Thanks.
WinRar
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cdundee007
MemberPosted 17 years ago # -
In August 2006, WinRAR was awarded the "Best Overall Utility" at the SIAF "People's Choice Awards". RARlab wanted to share this success with users and for a 24 hour period gave away free (non-upgradable) licenses of WinRAR 3.51.
While you are waiting for the "next giveaway" - http://www.7-zip.org/
(Note several other products have un-rar support - but only WinRAR can create RAR archives).
Posted 17 years ago # -
To be completely honest there isn't a lot of difference that the average user is going to miss by running 3.51.
99% of users do 2 things with winrar - create rar archives, and extract from them.
Version 3.51 does both.
The remaining 1% of users push the product in directions most users wouldn't understand even if you tried to explain it to them.
Posted 17 years ago # -
Theleecher
MemberI really believe the future belongs to 7-Zip (or rather, 7Z format) - it may have it's failings, as compression can be rather slow, even by the standards of "good" compressers, but the furmat is open for both decompression and compression. Zip is near universal, not because it is good, but because it is available across the spectrum from being included in other applications, through freeware, to commercial software.
Zip can be PKZIP, WinZip, or one of countless other commercial and freeware programs that are both decompression and compression capable - and that is what any replacement for the outdated zip format also needs to claim.
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=4 - yet another compression comparison guide - WinRK scores pretty well, but look at the site for it and it's either a very old version or a year-old beta - acceptable perhaps for freeware, but not for something to buy.
Posted 17 years ago #
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