Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Digital storage space is always at a premium, so it’s helpful to ...

Thanks to ever-growing hard-drive capacities and ever-faster network connections, compressing files isn’t quite the vital and frequent task it used to be. Still, it’s useful in certain situations; for ...

People compress electronic files for different reasons – to make them easier to transport electronically, to organize their backups, or to save device storage space, for example. That's why Apple's ...