Hey everyone!
Just a quick announcement tonight that version 1.0 of the pngnq tool has officially been released. The major updates in this release include (according to their web site):
“May 2009: Merged ‘improved pngnq‘ and added configure script. Changes include gamma setting, better assignment of transparent colors so they don’t take up too much of the [...]
I came across a really cool web site the other day called Gapminder. According to their web site: “Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, [...]
I came across an interesting site recently called Panamap, a service of Urban Mapping. Pretty cool stuff…a presentation model that mentally took me back to the late 1970s when I was anxiously awaiting finding the bottom of a Kellogg’s cereal box to see what “3D baseball card” I could add to my collection. [...]
It’s that time of year here in the Minnesota disc golf community! A time when the very-best of the best around the world travel to Minnesota to play in our one and only A-Tier tournament (national event) on the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) calendar. The event is called the Minnesota Majestic…and showcases some of [...]
I attended another great Network Brown County session today in New Ulm, Minnesota, when I had one of those Eureka moments where you think to yourself: “Why haven’t I thought of this before?!” One of our presenters was Daniel Anderson from New Ulm Community Access Television (NuCAT). Daniel was talking about how they sometimes struggle [...]
One more tool that I might need a bit of help to review…since it is Mac-only. Thanks to comments in my ImageOptim posting last week (thanks Jason and Stoyan!), I came across yet another .png optimization tool designed for the Mac. The tool is called PNGCrushrrr, and according to Stoyan is essentially a front-end [...]
One more time…another favor to ask of Mac users! I came across yet another Mac-platform .png and .jpg optimization tool recently that a friend/reader of this blog named Pornel has made available on his web site, called ImageOptim. According to the description on his site:
“ImageOptim is a front-end (GUI) for set of tools for [...]
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