Thanks to ever-growing hard-drive capacities and ever-faster network connections, compressing files isn’t quite the vital and frequent task it used to be. Still, it’s useful in certain situations; for ...

File compression on the Mac has been around since nearly as long has the line itself has. Here are our top picks for squeezing files down as small as they can go on macOS and iOS. In 1987 - just a few ...

Panic mode activated – you’re sending an important folder of pictures via email but the files are too large to send. Or maybe it’s your computer storage that’s the issue, but you just can’t seem to ...

VideoProc Converter lets you convert videos to MP4, MOV and other universally supported formats that work seamlessly across Apple and Windows devices. For Mac users, dealing with unsupported video ...

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If you’ve ever sent, or received, a big file via email, you’ve undoubtably encountered a zip file. Double-click one of these and it expands to show files hidden inside. A zip file, or archive, takes ...

Sending files to clients or co-workers is an important part of doing business for some organizations. Invoices, receipts and other documents often need to be distributed to others, and Gmail users can ...

If you need to open a file with the rar extension on your Mac, there's a handy app called The Unarchiver that can help you do just that. Rar files are commonly used to extract a huge amount of data — ...

Ever download a folder full of files, only to notice all of the documents inside are zipped shut and encrypted—basically the digital version of Fort Knox? These are examples of the ever-wonderful, yet ...

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Use Preview: Open the PDF in Preview, click File > Export, select “Reduce File Size” under Quartz Filter, and save. Use ColorSync Utility: Open the PDF in ColorSync Utility, click File > Export, ...