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 [...]
Hey everyone! Just wanted to post a quick “public service announcement” that Stoyan Stefanov’s smush.it tool now comes as an automated Wordpress plug-in! Smush.it offers the following resources:
* stripping meta data from JPEG images
* optimizing JPEG compression
* converting certain GIF files to indexed [...]
I came across another fantastic article the other day by Carlos Bueno on the Yahoo! Developer Network Blog entitled “An Engineer’s Guide to Bandwidth.” Two things in particular that I really enjoyed about this article:
1. Distinguishing between bandwidth and packets. From the bandipedia.com web site:
“A packet consists of a certain number of bytes. A [...]
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 came across a couple optimization tools I was unfamiliar with tonight, so I thought I would share a quick posting to see if anyone out there knows anything about either tool:
JPEG & PNG Stripper (Win95 to Win7) – (from their web site) A tool for stripping/cleaning/removing unnecessary metadata (junk) from JPG/JPEG/JFIF & PNG files. [...]
Just for grins, I decided to re-visit my C:/ drive tonight using PNGOUTWin. I did a basic search on *.png within my C:/ drive and all sub-directories, then had PNGOUTWin do the heavy-lifting in the background while I caught up on a little work.
A few thousand images later, I had over 20 MB less [...]
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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