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Imagine being stuck with a computer, with high speed Internet access but no admin rights to install any software. And at that very time, you need to uncompress a file! ( anything but Zip format, as it has support built in to operating systems nowadays ). Imagine the horror!
Nothing to be scared of though, just like word processors and other desktop utilities are going online, someone came up with the idea of an online uncompressing application ( quite a mouthful isn’t it? ). WobZIP, the solution to our global uncompressing needs claims to support formats like 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZHCHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS, with a maximum file size of 100MB. What’s great about them is that they will be supporting more formats soon. It also scans the file for viruses to keep you secure, using BitDefender. Not only it supports uncompressing files uploaded by the user, it can also uncompress files through a URL, which is a pretty neat feature. Uncompressing is done through the use of the open source p7zip software.
To test it out, I uploaded a ZIP file around 200 kb, which it unzipped in a jiffy and showed all the contents of the compressed file. But here came the issue, the files can only be download one by one. Which means it could take you some time, if you have a compressed file with several folders. And to rearrange them into the same folder structure again is quite a hassle, which isn’t what this service aims to give to it’s users. Or the other option is to download all the files as a .ZIP file, which I have to question, as to why would a user uncompress the file online and then download it again as a .ZIP?
Anyhow, it’s a work in progress and It surely has a potential to become a handy utility, but before I end my review, one more thing. Why not name it WebZIP?
i doubt handiness of this utility as why would some one upload downloaded file and waste his time……..especially large files………so the market which the company may capture is very small……………
it will be useful in places like universities and corporate environments where installation of software isn’t possible. Imagine being stuck with a .RAR file and having no software to extract it.
“Or the other option is to download all the files as a .ZIP file, which I have to question, as to why would a user uncompress the file online and then download it again as a .ZIP?”
Speed. Think about how well plaintext compresses. If you’re decompressing a 100MB archive of text, assuming you need it in entirety, you may want to ZIP that so you’re not waiting while a HUGE amount of plaintext is downloaded.