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Originally Posted by glennosmond
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Then WinRAR should do the same thing for free, right?
I would also imagine it would be pretty slow and take alot of battery life too... contstantly decompressing and recompressing.
I really love on the list of features on the bottom is "Easy uninstall". So after you decide you hate this program and paid $40 for it, at least it won't give you any troubles while it's uninstalling.
Alright... more SwellDisk ripping, I just love this comment (on a different version and page)
"I like the fact that the support email is ceo@swelldisk.com . Straight to the top man!"
- Alan C. Macus
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No, WinRAR won't let you do this on the fly - which is what this and other compression utilities did, back in the early 1990s. The main advantage was, way back when, that you could compress executable files and some types of data files to effectively increase your storage space, at the expense of CPU cycles and RAM. Stac Electronics' Stacker and Microsoft's DoubleSpace were two of the more popular programs, the latter changing its name to DriveSpace after DOS 6.22 was released
From what I've seen on other people who've used this program (darkdestroyer posted about this, IIRC), it works without slowing down the Axim noticeably... but at the same time, if you lose the Swelldisk program, then you're stuck with a pretty useless bunch of compressed files. Also, programs like this really fell out of favor once hard drives started getting big (over 1-2GB), and the cost-per-byte fell drastically when more manufacturers besides Western Digital and Fujitsu got into the hard drive market (IBM, Maxtor, and others helped accelerate the trend of larger drives with lower costs through competition).
This is also rendered somewhat less useful as an option as WM2003SE and WM5 allow programs to be run from expandable storage cards, whose capacities recently (in the past two years) balooned from the relatively low 64-128MB to 4GB+ in size at relatively low costs. Between that and the improvement in the compression algorithms for video and audio information (MP3, OGG, FLAC, WMA, DivX, h264, MKV), these programs have become somewhat outmoded as a lot of the data which most users will WANT to compress to increase their space (digital media) cannot be further deflated by an appreciable amount.
Honestly, I'd take the $40 and put it towards a new/bigger SD or CF card. :D