WinZip Releases Free iPad, iPhone Apps

One of the problems with iPads and iPhones is that there's no place to download files to. The exception is when doing so from within an app that specifically supports the file format at hand. Though iPads and iPhones include several useful viewer capabilities, such as for PDFs, DOCs, and images, they lack support for one common file format used for attachments:.ZIP.

Within the Windows and Mac environments, this isn't a problem: this format is available as a choice right in Windows Explorer and in Mac OS X's Finder as the Compress choice. Zipping compresses the package's contents so they take up less storage space, and you can optionally encrypt the resulting archive file with a password. The problem? When you try to download a ZIP file attached to an email in iOS, you get a message saying "Mail cannot open this attachment."