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online uncompress
WobZip is a website where you can uncompress files online, either from your computer or from an url which comes in help of people using a computer without software to decompress popular formats like ZIP, 7z, RAR, TAR, or Z (like using someone elses computer, a newly installed OS, some error in the software or maybe just don't want to install 7zip, etc.)

WobZip will let you upload a compressed file of up to 100Mb in size and can uncompress even password-protected files.

But the best part of WobZip is of course the posibility to extract online zipped files. Just enter the URL of a file, without downloading it to your hard drive. And think of this: a lot of mobile phones have a web-browser but cannot uncompress files but now WobZip can help. ;)

WobZip is under development and testing so the current version is not guaranteed to be bug-free, and it only supports the uncompression of files.

A few technical details:

-Formats supported: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZHCHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
-To uncompress a password protected file from a URL, this is how you have to enter it: http://wobzip.org/?type=url&url=FILE_URL_HERE&p=PASSWORD_HERE

[credits: labnol.org]