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How to Compress Your Files Faster with pigz

Pigz is a multi-threaded implementation of gzip that allows you to compress files to the gzip format quickly. Here is how to compress files with pigz.

How to Use Wayback Machine to Archive Websites

It is easy to take online content for granted — until it’s no longer available. Learn how you can use The Wayback Machine to archive websites and preserve content.

The Best Tools to Archive Websites for Long-Term Storage

If you want to preserve the contents of a specific website, here’s what you can do to archive websites permanently for long term storage.

How to Zip and Extract Archives on Mac

Mac has an inbuilt feature for you to create and extract archives. Use this guide to learn how to create and extract archives on Mac.

Understanding the Various Compression, Encryption and Archive Formats

There are several archive formats and each comes with its own pros and cons. Find out more about the compression, encryption and each archive format and see which one is most suitable for you.

Automatically Move Archive Files to Trash After Expanding [Mac]

Tired of having folders full of unneeded archive files on your Mac? Learn how to automatically move archive files to trash or delete them after expanding.

How to Deal With Archives From the Command Line [Linux]

There are plenty of graphical solution for dealing with archives (or zipped files) in Linux, but none of them beats the command line for the speed and versatility. The only bad thing about it is that there are so many different types of archives, each with its own specific syntax and properties and it can […]

The Many Ways to Copy, Move, Rename, and Archive in KDE 4

In my last post, I covered some of the features in Dolphin that I find particularly useful. In this post, you will learn about some very basic features that everyone uses, but you may not know all of the various easy methods of accomplishing them. In KDE, there are several ways to copy, move, rename, […]