Ultimate Predator Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 The latest beta looks amazing, the should be out soon, Its not freeware, but I reckon its worth it: http://www.powerarchiver.com/news/ It looks like MS Office 2007, superb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Horrible graphical user interface imho. 7-Zip FTW! :happybday: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted January 27, 2007 Author Share Posted January 27, 2007 Horrible? It looks lovely. And its easier to use. 7-Zip is included in PowerArchiver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 Horrible? It looks lovely. And its easier to use. 7-Zip is included in PowerArchiver. You probably mean 7z. 7-Zip is a software application. 7z is a file archiving/compression format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted January 28, 2007 Author Share Posted January 28, 2007 My bad. I tried it once before, not enough features for my liking. I mean, just look at PowerArchivers main features; http://www.powerarchiver.com/features/ And its full features; http://www.powerarchiver.com/features/list.php And then the 2007 version is gonna add more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Many of those features are not so useful, atleast for me, I think. 7-Zip has all the functionality I need, I haven't stumbled on anything, I wanted todo, that I couldn't. Can do nice batch script via the command-line interface too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted January 29, 2007 Author Share Posted January 29, 2007 Its a personal thing I suppose. But for me, I want all the functionality that I can get. particularly: Superior ZIP Support ZIP Support PowerArchiver offers superior ZIP format support compared to other archivers. Here are the highlights: * Support for unlimited file size and unlimited number of files in ZIP archives * Support for advanced Deflate64 method providing higher compression ratios * ZIP AES support (both PkZip 5.1 and WZ 9.0 standards supported) * Fast and strong compression and decompression * Multiple disk spanning, with support for unlimited span sizes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrT Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 powerarchiver is great becoz future upgrades are free... unlike winzip... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted January 29, 2007 Author Share Posted January 29, 2007 True. But in terms of features, it is far superior to most. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Its a personal thing I suppose. But for me, I want all the functionality that I can get. particularly: Superior ZIP Support ZIP Support PowerArchiver offers superior ZIP format support compared to other archivers. Here are the highlights: * Support for unlimited file size and unlimited number of files in ZIP archives * Support for advanced Deflate64 method providing higher compression ratios * ZIP AES support (both PkZip 5.1 and WZ 9.0 standards supported) * Fast and strong compression and decompression * Multiple disk spanning, with support for unlimited span sizes All functionality you can get? So then you welcome features such as Tetris and a BMI calculator in the file archiver too? Not all features are good. It can become feature-creep and bloated. Good is to have necessary and useful features. As good old Albert Einstein once said "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." "Superior ZIP Support" is not really a feature, its just some proclaimed shizzle by the PR department. Same goes for phrases like "Fast and strong compression and decompression", fast is relative. powerarchiver is great becoz future upgrades are free... unlike winzip... Then 7-Zip is double great, because its free, and the upgrades are free too, and everything about it is free. You even get the source for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted January 29, 2007 Author Share Posted January 29, 2007 To each his own. But there ZIP compression is better than most others, and it can open up and compress in a host of different formats. 7-Zip can't match this list; http://www.powerarchiver.com/features/list.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 To each his own. But there ZIP compression is better than most others, and it can open up and compress in a host of different formats. 7-Zip can't match this list; http://www.powerarchiver.com/features/list.php 7-Zip can open a host of different formats too. But, yes I think that PowerArchiver 2007, might be able to open in a couple of more formats in than 7-Zip, but I don't mind, because 7-Zip opens pretty much any file formats that I come across. It's each to his own, some like this, some like that. Personally I am glad that 7-Zip don't have all those features mentioned in the PowerArchiver 2007 feature list. PowerArchiver has "Internal viewer that supports TXT, RTF, GIF, PNG, BMP, ICO, TIFF, GFI, SGI, EMF, WMF, PPM, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk, Truevision, ZSoft Paintbrush, Kodak Photo-CD, JASC PaintShop Pro, and Dr. Halo file formats", I am glad 7-Zip don't have that. If I wanted an image viewer, I would get a real one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted January 29, 2007 Author Share Posted January 29, 2007 Each to his own. I like having software that I know will open everything, like K Lite Mega Codec Pack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Yeah, but there are many obscure formats that people never come across anyways, so I don't really mind if support of them would be lacking, as long as its supports the major formats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted January 30, 2007 Author Share Posted January 30, 2007 Each to his own. On P2P stuff you find some pretty obscure stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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