Zipper is a free and animated utility for zipping and unzipping files.

Drag files and/or folders onto the Widget and it will compress them into an intelligently named archive, or drop archive files and it will unzip them into folders.

Now supports the following file formats :-
Compression: ZIP, 7ZIP, TAR/GZIP and TAR/BZIP2.
Decompression: ZIP, 7ZIP, TAR/GZIP, TAR/BZIP2, Z, RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, HXS, CPIO, RPM and DEB, plus zipped Widgets and self-extracting executables.

Requirements:

· Yahoo Widget Engine

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Renamed to Zipper to avoid confusion with the Mac shareware utility Zipit!
· Switched to 7Zip command line utility for all zip and unzip commands
· Added support for 7Zip, RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, HXS, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and self-extracting executable formats
· Added support for several new variations on TAR/GZIP/BZIP2 extension combinations
· Added feature to automatically detect whether an executable is a self-extracting executable
· Added support for extracting password-protected archives
· Added support for compressing archives with password
· Added optimization slider to set the level of compression
· Expanded "Append" mode for conflict resolution to different give more options for updating and overwriting
· Added help window with detailed help information, accessible from the context menu
· Added option to use Recycle Bin/Trash when replacing archives or destination folders that already exist
· Added additional confirmation dialog for safety when deleting source files and archives
· Added safety checks to warn before deleting existing files and folders and made it impossible to delete important system folders.
· Improved compression ratio for Zip and GZip formats by using 7Zip utility
· Revised preference titles, options and descriptions
· Fixed problem with unescaped paths which caused operations on some filenames to fail
· Fixed a bug where compressed files with uppercase extensions were not recognised