In case a few of you who are regular visitors to this blog were wondering about the “radio silence” from Yours Truly during the past week, I’ve got four little characters for you: H1N1. Yep, I got to join the world-wide epidemic and enjoy a little flu.
I hadn’t felt good since the end [...]
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 [...]
Back in February 2008, I shared a posting about one of my favorite disc golf sites out there, discgolfersR.us. A year and a half later, we’re still talking about the issue of image optimization a bit on that site, as can be seen at: http://discgolfer.ning.com/forum/topics/members-using-front-page-for
I’m just happy we’re talking about it…as if even 1-2 more [...]
I noticed recently that The MacArthur Foundation named its 24 MacArthur Fellows for 2009. For those that don’t know what I am talking about, these are the awards that are often dubbed “genius grants” by the media…where people with unique talents, ideas and gifts are given money to basically play and further explore whatever field [...]
One of the sites that inspired me to really jump into the deep end and take this long, strange and rewarding journey related to image optimization was Google Maps. It’s obviously map-related, and if there is a mapping site/service out there which consumes more bandwidth per day than Google Maps (due to the volume of [...]
I came across a really interesting site the other day called PrintFriendly.com. Their service is a simple yet powerful one: to empower individuals viewing content on the web to have greater control over the content of any page that they wish to print to paper or .pdf format. From their web site:
“How It Works
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During my recent NACIS trip to Sacramento, California, I had the privilege of going out to lunch with a University of Wisconsin-Madison grad student named Daniel P. Huffman, along with three other individuals, to discuss the Ortellius software demonstration presented at the conference.
Daniel seemed like a very nice person, so I thought I would [...]
As I eluded to in my October 7 posting, one of the really interesting products I was introduced to at the 2009 NACIS annual meeting was Ortellius, which is described on their web site as “powerful map illustration software” designed exclusively for the Macintosh platform. Jill Saligoe-Simmel of at MapDiva.com did an excellent job of [...]
A friend of mine sent a link to me this morning of a New Scientist article that talks about how new organic LEDs (OLEDs) can consume less energy/electricity simply from the color of the images that are being displayed on-screen. That article is entitled: Limited-colour screens could boost cellphone battery life, and is the type [...]
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