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Archive for April, 2009

Ping 1.0 (PNG file compressor)

Posted by datonn on April 28th, 2009

A quick posting tonight, to see if any Mac users out there know anything about a PNG optimization utility called Ping 1.0. I do not know anything about that tool (I’m not a Mac user) other than that it requires Mac OS X 10.4 and the tool’s description that is found on the versiontracker.com link [...]

"Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up"

Posted by datonn on April 27th, 2009

That attention-grabbing title is from an article written by John Harlow of The Sunday Times that was published on April 26, 2009. It is a very interesting article, with some attention-grabbing quotes, such as:
“The amount of traffic generated each month by YouTube is now equivalent to the amount of traffic generated across the entire [...]

Wayfinding: People, Signs and Architecture (.jpg/.png)

Posted by datonn on April 20th, 2009

After recently asking some mapping colleagues of mine at CartoTalk to proof a presentation I was giving at a regional conference of the University and College Designers Association, I was introduced to a book entitled Wayfinding: People, Place and Architecture.
Wayfinding and personal navigation is a topic that has always been of great interest to [...]

EDU Checkup (.gif/.png)

Posted by datonn on April 6th, 2009

As a part of my participation on the [uwebd] listserv, recently became aware of a very interesting web site/service called EDU Checkup. According to that web site: “EDU Checkup is the idea of Nick DeNardis who is the Associate Director of Web Communications at Wayne State University. One of the many tasks in my 9-5 [...]

I thought I’d take a break tonight and share with you an excellent image optimization slideshow that Stoyan Stefanov at Yahoo recently posted on Slideshare.net. The presentation is entitled Image Optimization for the Web at php|works. A very good presentation…have a look!
Image Optimization – 7 mistakes
View more presentations from Stoyan Stefanov.

Stoyan is doing great [...]


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