How
about sending a large number of photos to your friends/students/teachers etc.? Most of
the time, people have problems in sending photos
over the internet. On the other hand, sometimes we receive packets,
from others, which cannot be seen unless they are unpacked! In other
technical words, they are compressed (or zipped). How can one unzip it?
One
good open source program is PeaZip. Besides the usual advantages of using open source, there is the added
advantage that this program is capable of understanding several file
formats. So forget about the problem of receiving a file and cannot open it just because it is not compatible with your system.
Another
added advantage is that one of them is that one can encrypt files
with PeaZip too! So again, one can forget about security problems when sending an exam
paper or other sensitive school material (such as assignments by
students) across the internet.
It
can optimize the compression of photos (some other programs make a
mess of your photos!!). Another asset would be that of splitting and
joining your large files (we blogged about JSplit in a previous
publication).
If
that is not enough, well it can backup your files too!! Many worry
when formatting the hard disk because of losing all the important
material. How can one recover those infinite number of hours
preparing lessons or doing assignments or papers? Well, PeaZip can be
used for that purpose too. It's a super program! If you need any FAQ
(frequently asked questions), well the link is here. Extra help may be found here.
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