Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an IT veteran turned stay-at-home-dad of two girls. He focuses on Android devices and applications while maintaining a review blog ...

The world’s most popular compressed file format doesn’t play all that nicely with smartphones. Try and open a Zip file on iOS or Android and you’re likely see a ...

To unzip a file, you can use tools that come pre-installed on your device. You can unzip ZIP files on both computers and smartphones, since they're one of the most common file types. Once you've ...

You can send a zip file in Gmail if you want to send a large file or folder to someone without using Google Drive. Gmail has a hard 25 MB limit for sending attachments over email, and if you try to ...

When was the last time you had to create a zip file? Personally, I have to interact with those types of files all the time (either receiving or sending them to various clients, family, and friends).

I am sure that you have heard about ZIP files. It is a compressed file format that can be used to compress & pack one or more files or folders together, to save disk space, as its size is smaller. It ...

As smartphones and tablets become more ubiquitous in modern society, more people use them in place of traditional desktop or laptop computers. It's possible to perform the same general tasks on a ...

Windows ME/XP/2003 have built in ZIP file support. It is therefore, very easy to make and extract ZIP files using these operating systems. Right click on a file, folder, or selection of files and ...

Files by Google has been working on a convenient tool for creating file archives. With a couple taps, you can ZIP up one file, or a complete directory. While the tool’s not yet accessible in the ...

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 ...

In this how-to, we’ll look at the zip command, a useful utility that enables us to specify lists of files, set a level of data compression and create compressed archives. Whilst you become accustomed ...