RAR is a popular archive file format. RAR files are similar to ZIP files. You might have downloaded a RAR file from the Internet only to wonder how to open it. Even if you are running Mac OSX Lion, Apple’s latest desktop OS, your Macintosh won’t open RAR files. At least not by default.

There are many free apps you can use to open RAR files on Mac OSX.

Fortunately, there are plenty of free applications that will open RAR files for you.

Find out what they are after the jump.

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