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Microsoft's iconic Windows 95 and Minecraft Alpha themes just became historic, literally

Sayan Sen — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 06:28:01 +0000

Almost every nerd is aware of the iconic Microsoft Windows theme songs. The one for Windows 95 just became history as it got inducted into the National Recording Registry. Read more...

Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2 will soon let you create TAR and 7Z archives

Taras Buria — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:50:02 +0000

Windows 11 24H2 lets you create TAR and 7Z archives without third-party apps. However, you don't have to wait for version 24H2 to get that feature. Microsoft will soon bring it to 22H2 and 23H2. Read more...

Windows 11's native file archive is impressive as 7-Zip plays catch-up with Zstd support

Sayan Sen — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:44:01 +0000

Microsoft deserves some praise for the native file archive on Windows 11. Performance aside, 7-Zip found itself playing catch-up with Windows 11 as the app recently received Zstd support. Read more...

PowerToys 0.71 gets a Windows 11 overhaul, archive preview with Peek, and more

Steven Parker — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 18:18:26 +0000

A new PowerToys version is here, and even though there are no new Toys to write about, this release does contain a good number of improvements and fixes, including modernized settings with Mica. Read more...

An official ebook on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs set to release on April 11

Aditya Tiwari — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 21:14:01 +0000

A new digital book based on the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will be released this month. Published by the Steve Jobs Archive, this ebook will include his past speeches and interviews. Read more...

Twitter backtracks and will once again preserve text from deleted Tweets

Alap Naik Desai — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 01:16:01 +0000

Twitter recently changed the JavaScript for embedded Tweets, ensuring even the text from the Tweet disappeared. The social network has reversed the change, but only temporarily as it explores options. Read more...

Apple launches new Data and Privacy website ready for GDPR

Paul Hill — Wed, 23 May 2018 12:18:02 +0000

Apple has launched its new Data and Privacy website in order to get in-line with the GDPR rules coming into effect on Friday. The site lets you download your account archive and delete your account. Read more...

A Reddit user claims he has downloaded all 900TB of SoundCloud's public music

Stergios Georgopoulos — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 12:00:01 +0000

Fearing for the future of streaming audio platform SoundCloud, a Reddit user claims he has backed up all 900TB of SoundCloud's public music. Archive Team is also making its own backup of the site. Read more...

Instagram introduces archive, a feature to let you 'hide' your pictures - save your blushes

Gurkaran Singh — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:26:01 +0000

The popular social media platform has updated its iOS and Android apps to add the new functionality that allows you to hide the pictures you've shared on your profile; visible only to you. Read more...

Get your dose of nostalgia with these 10,000 Amiga apps for your browser

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 14:22:02 +0000

The Internet Archive, the people behind the Wayback Machine, have uploaded and curated over 10,000 games, applications and demos designed for the Amiga. You can try them out in your browser. Read more...

NeoBytes :) Historical Software Archive: It's WayBack Machine for software

Andrew Stevenson — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:04:42 +0000

Internet Archive has launched the Historical Software Archive, the browser based alternative for running old software and games, away from the more traditional DOSBox and emulator software. Read more...

Twitter finally lets you download your entire Tweet history

Rob Schorman — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:13:23 +0000

Ever wanted to download an archive of all your tweets? Although the new feature has rolled out to a very small group of users, it will be generally available before the end of this year. Read more...

Outlook.com's new features start to roll-out

Brad Sams — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:11:09 +0000

Microsoft has rolled out the new archive email option as well as more color choices for the theme of the interface for users in Brazil. Make the jump to see a few pictures of the new feature. Read more...

WinRAR 4.10 Beta 2

Steven Parker — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:28:19 +0000

WinRAR is an archiving utility that completely supports RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives. It consistently makes smaller archives... Read more...

PeaZip 3.9.0

Steven Parker — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:42:13 +0000

PeaZip is an open source file and archive manager. It's freeware and free of charge for any use. PeaZip can extract most of archive formats both from Windows and Unix worlds, ranging from mainstream 7Z, RAR,... Read more...

PeaZip 3.8.0

Steven Parker — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:11:18 +0000

Ten years of the Apple Store: Then and now

Denis Wong — Fri, 20 May 2011 08:06:08 +0000

The year was 2001. In those days, the serif Apple Garamond font which dated back to the introduction of the first Macintosh still graced Apple's corporate identity, although it would soon be on its way... Read more...

PeaZip 3.7

Razvan Serea — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:09:01 +0000

PeaZip is a free archiver, available as portable and installable software for Windows and Linux. Create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, *PAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, ZIP. Extract ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF... Read more...

WinRAR 4.0 Beta 5 32/64-bit

Steven Parker — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:33:32 +0000

WinRAR 4.00 Beta 2

Steven Parker — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:00:45 +0000

US Library of Congress set to archive every public tweet ever

Matt Blowes — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:18:35 +0000

Every public tweet ever posted, since March 2006 when Twitter began, will be archived by the US Congress. Whether it be the first tweet by co-founder Jack Dorsey or Conan O'Brien's tweet announcing his surprise... Read more...

Google launches news archive search

Tom Warren — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:33:41 +0000

In partnership with newspaper publishers, Google has announced it is scanning print archives and making them available on Google's News Archive Search. The company has partnered with around 100 newspapers to digitize them and make... Read more...

Library launches email archive

Tom Warren — Thu, 03 May 2007 11:49:31 +0000

Millions of emails are to be stored at the British Library in a unique project to preserve present day communications for future generations. Computer giant Microsoft is joining forces with the library to collect a... Read more...

BBC opens TV archive to remixers

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:50:01 +0000

The BBC has released the first TV clips from its archive onto the internet for people to "rip, mix and share". Almost 100 clips, from shows such as Walking With Beasts and... Read more...

Advanced Archive Password Recovery 2.0

Steven Parker — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 09:25:00 +0000

Advanced Archive Password Recovery (ARCHPR) is a program for recovering lost or forgotten passwords for ZIP/PKZip/WinZip, ARJ/WinArj, RAR/WinRAR and ACE/WinACE archives. Supports the customizable brute-force attack and is effectively optimized for speed (up to fifteen... Read more...

Archive Search 1.0 Beta 9

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 01 Sep 2001 14:25:32 +0000

Nice tool allows you to search for files inside compressed archives. Archive Search features: supports most important formats used on the PC including: zip, lzh, ace, arj, arc, rar, cab, zoo; fast search of files;... Read more...