One of the iOS App Store’s most powerful method of unarchiving ZIP files has just been put through a significant update. WinZip for iOS, released by WinZip Computing LLC, has long been thought of as the de-facto options for users wanting to interact with archived files directly on their iOS device. Although the universal app has benefited from relatively minor upgrades during the course of 2013, the push to version 3.0.0 sees a total app overhaul to fall in line with the new iOS 7 guidelines as well as supporting a number of iOS 7 only technologies.

The apps for Windows 8 are still streaming through, and if you’re the type of user whom constantly deals with archived content, you’ll be pleased to know that WinZip is now available to download.

When transferring files over the web, most of the time, archiving them in advance is the best way to go. If it’s just the odd .jpeg or .mp3, then archiving is a pretty trivial pursuit, although if you’ve got a batch of files, by far the easiest way of getting them from A to B is by creating an archive to be extracted at the other end.

In terms of Windows and Mac applications, there are those we like to have, those we cannot live without, and then the bare basics – those paramount to day-to-day performance.