About 2-3 times every year, I have one of those “Duh! Why didn’t I think of that before?” moments. This week, my “Duh!” moment was in realizing that for a great-many .png images, removing the white background in them and replacing it with transparency would more than likely result in less pixel information needing to [...]
Parlez-vous français?
I personally don’t speak French well at all (other than knowing that when I get into trouble, I need to spend some quality time on the Google Translate web site). However, a recent comment on one of my blog postings lead me to find out about a French-language web page on [...]
In response to Conrad Chu’s comment from my previous blog posting (thanks for taking the time to comment, Conrad), I thought I would share a specific example of .png optimization related to punypng and PNGSlim. Conrad had asked me to share a concrete example to illustrate my “In my experimentation with the two tools, punypng [...]
It’s been about four months since I last posted in this blog about the great, free, web-based optimization tool called punypng. Consequently, I thought I would play around with the tool a bit more tonight to see what might have changed in recent months.
Related to .png optimization, I still have struggled to achieve comparable results [...]
Hey everyone! Just wanted to post a quick “public service announcement” that Stoyan Stefanov’s smush.it tool now comes as an automated Wordpress plug-in! Smush.it offers the following resources:
* stripping meta data from JPEG images
* optimizing JPEG compression
* converting certain GIF files to indexed [...]
I came across another fantastic article the other day by Carlos Bueno on the Yahoo! Developer Network Blog entitled “An Engineer’s Guide to Bandwidth.” Two things in particular that I really enjoyed about this article:
1. Distinguishing between bandwidth and packets. From the bandipedia.com web site:
“A packet consists of a certain number of bytes. A [...]
I came across a couple optimization tools I was unfamiliar with tonight, so I thought I would share a quick posting to see if anyone out there knows anything about either tool:
JPEG & PNG Stripper (Win95 to Win7) – (from their web site) A tool for stripping/cleaning/removing unnecessary metadata (junk) from JPG/JPEG/JFIF & PNG files. [...]
Just for grins, I decided to re-visit my C:/ drive tonight using PNGOUTWin. I did a basic search on *.png within my C:/ drive and all sub-directories, then had PNGOUTWin do the heavy-lifting in the background while I caught up on a little work.
A few thousand images later, I had over 20 MB less [...]
This isn’t as much a image optimization tip as it is a time saving tip. However, I recently learned a neat little trick for skipping directly to the portions of a YouTube video that you want to view!
Let’s say, for example, you wanted to share a video of the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch [...]
Just a quick posting to let folks know that Andrew Dent has released the v1.0beta3 version of PNGSlim, as of September 23, 2009. To download a copy of that updated tool, you may visit: http://people.bath.ac.uk/ea2aced/tech/png/pngslim10b3.zip.
This release includes (in Andrew’s own words):
- Update introduces first step in making the script a bit smarter and efficient.
- Bug [...]
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