Showing posts with label compress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label compress. Show all posts

Sunday, 24 June 2012

Use Clotho Hide Your Files/Folders in Other Files

You must be using a lot of tricks to hide your personal files or folders from others. To hide files you have got a lot of options, like to compress it with a password, change file attribute to hidden, or by just password protecting your full hard drive using bit locker or some other software.

Clotho is on of those utilities that can do almost all of the above stuff but with a bonus of being able to hide a file inside another file. I don't mean renaming, I literally mean hiding your file or a complete folder into another files like image files or text files. By this whenever the SPY tries to open that text file or image file(the file in which you have hidden your treasure!) he'll just find a normal text or image file.

Clotho provides you with bunch of functionalities like making the compressed file compatible with WinRAR and other compatible softwares scramble the data without damaging it.

It is a great utility but not made for huge files. So try encrypting it with other softwares or just compress it using some software and make that compression password protected. I'm telling you to use some other software and not Clotho itself to compress the files is because I found it Clotho to be slow for compressing huge files. So look just have a look at this post to find out the best compression software.


Download:
Clotho v2.4

Monday, 14 May 2012

Which Is The Best File Compression Software (Algorithm)?


According to me the best file compression software and algorithm award goes to 7z. It is both a software that can RAR or UnRAR your files and bunch of (almost all you must have heard of) other compression algorithm and even a file compression algorithm which is considered to be the best in terms of size reduction of your files. It might take some time to compress if you want to bring out the file with maximum compression, but trust me it’s worth it as it can "un7zip" very fast. 7zip is open source so you can even create your own software that uses 7zip algorithm. For the Mac OS the software has different names but it's basically the same thing.
But if you don’t like its old school look of 7zip, you can try other software like IZArc and PeaZip. But I think that they take a little bit more time to load on my old PC, so I suggest using 7Zip if you are using an old machine.


Windows
Download:
x86: 7Zip
x64: 7Zip

Download: IZArc

Download: 
            x86:PeaZip
            x64: PeaZip 
Linux
NOTE: You need to search for "p7Zip" for you distro, here.
Download: PeaZip

Mac OS
Downlaod: 7zX