19th July 1999

Years ago, compression was all the rage. Now that hard drives can handle 20+ gigabytes of data, you shouldn't have to rely on software compression for more space. Of course, if you're still hankering for an extra byte or two, fire up your favorite ZIP file manager. Run a digitally fine-toothed Comb through your hard drive, searching for data & programs which you hardly use. When you've found a few, ZIP them up! You'll potentially wind up saving megabytes.