Exactly one year ago today, I posted my first two messages in what has become the Graphics Optimization Blog. Now, 242 postings and 57 reader comments later, it has become a resource that is visited by approximately 60-80 people every day. About 60 percent of the site’s traffic comes from outside of North America, while [...]
Since I created my first “professional” graphic design for a Taco John’s restaurant in Roseville, MN in 1991-1992 (a freebie favor for my art instructor who knew the owner/manager there who needed a design), one perpetual problem and “Holy Grail” related to imagery was the need and ability to enlarge static, rasterized 300 dpi (or [...]
As a follow-up to my GIFAR and JPGAR posting from last week, I thought I would continue to “scare” people a bit in the spirit of the impending Halloween holiday. Boo!
Today’s posting will be a brief discussion of EXIF data. What is EXIF data? EXIF.org defines it as “Exchangeable [...]
Only eight more days until Election Day here in the United States! Eight more days of 24/7 news cycles with pundits from the left and the right trying to bemoan the other Party’s candidate instead of talking about why we should vote for THEIR candidate. Eight more days of robo-calls and all-but-unbearable television commercials (I [...]
Given the fact that my Minnesota Vikings had their bye week in the National Football League this weekend, I had a bit more time to snoop around the ‘net this afternoon while taking a couple of breaks from all my email and research work.
While poking around a few sites, I came across an interesting [...]
During the past several days, the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) has launched an entirely new web presence for its current and prospective members. I had blogged about their former web site back on May 14 as an interested member of the Association (member #35462), so I thought the launch of their new site might [...]
One of the really cool tools I brought home with me from the 2008 HighEdWeb conference in Springfield, Missouri was WAVE. From its web site: “WAVE is developed and made available as a free community service by WebAIM. Original development was sponsored by the Temple University Institute on Disabilities. Originally launched in 2001, WAVE has [...]
During my recent trip to Missoula, Montana to attend the 2008 North American Cartographic Information Society’s (NACIS) annual conference, I was lucky enough to attend a session presented by Lawrence Faulkner. Lawrence is the President of Solid Terrain Modeling, Inc., a firm he founded with his partner Mark Fisher in August 2000. According to their [...]
“What the HECK is Derek talking about….once AGAIN he’s writing about file extensions that do not exist, right? Too much Diet Dr. Pepper, right?” I wish you were right, but I am unfortunately here to report that those files formats DO exist (at least in theory)…and are something that might have you hiding under your [...]
Now that I’ve had a few days to rest and recuperate following the 2008 North American Cartographic Information Society’s (NACIS) annual conference in Missoula, Montana (USA), I wanted to make sure and add a posting about a great service called mapgiving that was revealed at that event on October 8. mapgiving is essentially a way [...]
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