In my never-ending quest to rid my life of unnecessarily-bloated files, I have quietly continued to chip-away at the 40,000 or so .png images that are found on my laptop…looking for any opportunity to save a bit of hard drive space and/or RAM. Late this evening, I decided to use PngOptimizer to quickly optimize 150 [...]
In my day-to-day activities at mapformation, I am always looking for new and creative methods for promoting our firm’s services within higher education. One of the more successful tools I have used in previous years is to become very active in professional associations. One group in particular that I have been recently evaluating is the [...]
This evening, I was asked to attend a meeting of younger adults here in Springfield to discuss ideas and opportunities for improving the quality of life as well as employment opportunities within our small, rural community. The meeting was facilitated by a staff person from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, who promised future [...]
I recently decided to experiment a bit more with a tool from psydk.org called PngOptimizer, after a mapping friend of mine was asking me about quick, easy tools to use for optimizing Google Map tiles. PngOptimizer is included as a part of the PNGSlim command-line tool that I use to optimize most of my .png [...]
Now that my choice for President, Barack Obama, has survived an INCREDIBLY tough Democratic primary season against Hillary Clinton, I have to admit that I am very excited about his chances against Republican John McCain in the Fall. I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma when it comes to politics…as I vote Republican about [...]
One of the things I have thought might be a really cool and useful service on our main GraphicsOptimization web site is to create little “tutorial” videos which illustrate how we use some of our primary optimization tools in our daily efforts to optimize imagery for software GUIs and web sites. Video is not my [...]
Just a quick post tonight to say that Mozilla’s Firefox 3 browser has FINALLY arrived today! I’ve been SO anxious to see how it functions…especially related to the claims of Firefox consuming substantially less memory is concerned. I like to run Pandora.com for my background music while I work, but one of the negatives [...]
I recently had a meeting in Southern Minnesota with a facility that might be hosting some upcoming “graphics optimization boot camp” events which would allow me to train regional web site developers on how to implement many of the same techniques that are found on our GraphicsOptimization web site (and found within this blog). While [...]
In my day to day travels across the Internet, I am often looking for good opportunities to save a TON of bandwidth with a minimal amount of time and effort. I got to thinking today, after our recent tornado here in town, what about all of those satellite/radar services that are found across the web? [...]
A very quick post tonight…but I thought I would share a few photos of a tornado that touched down a few miles from our home and office tonight here in Springfield (shared by a woman we know with KARE 11 News, an NBC news affiliate in Minneapolis Saint Paul). It was a small tornado [...]
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