Media Conversion

Nice site here which can convert different types of media.

LHA Compression in Windows

If you need to use LHA compression in Windows you can download a Command Line version from here. Once you've placed it somewhere on your system you'll need to add it to your PATH environment variable.

Extracting a file is pretty simple: lha x ‹file.lha›

AlZip Compression

AlZip is a new compression program which you can download for free from here.

7Zip Compression

The Command line version of 7Zip can be downloaded from here.

7-Zip compression

Need help compressing & decompressing certain files in Vista?

Just download 7-Zip from here.

Zip folder association

Ever had that problem in Vista when you remove some compression software & the built-in zip software won't work?

Copy & paste the text at this link into Notepad & then save it as zipfolder_fix.reg

Double click it & it will be added to your registry & fix the file association problem.

LHA Compression in Ubuntu

Just type in at a Terminal.

sudo aptitude install lha

I found it on this thread at the Ubuntu forum.