Bandizip: just another zip or power house?

Zip zip zip. Sometime if you tell a co-worker to compress a file, he/she would look at you and show you a face of "that the **** you are talking about". However if you say zip it, then everyone know what to do.

WinZip probably the most popular compression software on Windows. But I don't like it. It was because at that time:

• it tried too hard to change the interface to be too fancy
• it doesn't support Chinese or Asian characters
• it doesn't support rar and gz (common zip format in unix/linux)

Even though it already improved, but ever since I switch to 7-Zip, I never look back. Every time I change a new computer or laptop or install a new Windows, one of the first software to install is 7-Zip. 7-Zip don't have any fancy interface, but I don't care, what I care is the features and easy to use.

Recently I found Bandizip. It claimed that it can be better than WinZip and 7-Zip. Here is why (taken from Bandizip website):

	Bandizip	WinZip	WinRAR	7-Zip
Freeware	O	X	X	O
Extracting .z01	O	O	O	X
Extracting .part1.rar	O	O	O	O
Extracting 7zip.001	O	X	X	O
Extracting zip.001	O	O	X	O
Changing Code Page	O	X	X	X
Fast Drag&Drop	O	X	X	X
High Speed Archiving	O	X	X	X
Multi-core Compression	O	O	O	O

pix credit: bandicam.com

There are installation and portable version for Windows (yeah) as well as Mac OS X. And yes, it is free.

Go to Bandizip official website for more detail:
http://www.bandicam.com/bandizip/


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