There are few technologies in the IT world which are just so helpful that once you’ve got used to using them you will find them simply indispensable; file compression is just one of those things that you may not have yet given any thought to and it just so happens to be the subject of this weeks article.
To give you an example of how file compression would reflect the real world; Could you imagine how useful it would be that when you wanted to go onto holiday you simply put everything you needed into one huge suitcase which could then be shrunk to a quarter of the size whilst travelling and then made the correct size again when you reached your hotel room?
For the IT professional being able to do a similar thing with PC files is almost as useful; file compression allows them to collect many files and compact them all into one easy to manage package for transportation, either using a floppy disk, CD-ROM or more commonly the Internet. The recipient would then simply uncompress the package and use the files exactly as normal – The advantages of this are numerous. Most obvious is that instead of sending 2 Megabytes over the Internet you are able to compress it into 1 Megabyte, halving the time that you have to spend online. In addition you are able to send for example, 20 files all compressed into the same package and so it would be easier to manage for both yourself and the recipient.
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