Krunch: Compress and decompress files online

by Jordan Running May 30th 2006

Krunch is a slick web service that does two things: compresses and decompresses files. What's the use of being able to compress and decompress files on the web? Well, say you're at an internet kiosk and you need to get at a file that's inside a .zip file, but the kiosk has no unzipping program. Just enter the URL of the file or upload it and Krunch will let you download the individual files inside. Or, say you want to send a bunch of files but don't have an easy way to zip them up. Upload them individually to Krunch and it will give you a .zip (or .rar or .gzip) file. Or maybe there's a bunch of files online that you want zipped up. Add their URLs to Krunch and you'll get an archive back. Get the idea? Krunch is free to use, and your compressed and uncompressed files will stick around for 24 hours.

[Via Lifehacker]

Tags: compress, decompress, free, krunch, uncompress, upload, web20

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Myspace Layouts said 9:19PM on 5-31-2006

pretty cool new web 2.0 tool

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