FOURDY Wlog » Technology http://wlog.thefourdy.com  Expressing the unexpressed! Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:19:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 List of 6 excellent tools to optimize your graphics for web http://wlog.thefourdy.com/list-of-6-excellent-tools-to-optimize-your-graphics-for-web/ http://wlog.thefourdy.com/list-of-6-excellent-tools-to-optimize-your-graphics-for-web/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:23:46 +0000 Anurag Ahuja http://wlog.thefourdy.com/?p=338 Amidst of all discussion happening to save non-renewable resources why isn’t anyone thinking of web space? Where do you classify the webspace? Do you think you can go on and on and on putting anything over the internet?

With this though, I (as a web designer,) decided to optimize the size of all graphics that I use to build my webpages. For doing so, I came across many ways to do it and many tools which help you do it. I am listing the 6 excellent tools to do so.

Non-techie people can also use it while mailing/uploading photos taken from Digital Camera – which are generally huge in size!

Yahoo Smush.it

Smush.it uses optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files.
Yahoo Smush.it

http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/smushit/

 

Radical Image Optimization Tool

RIOT is free program designed to efficiently optimize images for the Web
RIOT

http://luci.criosweb.ro/riot/

 

PNGOUT

PNGOUT is a tool which can optimize PNG files created by other programs.
PNGOUT

http://www.advsys.net/ken/util/pngout.htm

 

Online Image Optimizer- GIF, JPG, and PNG

Image Optimizer lets you easily optimize your gifs, animated gifs, jpgs, and pngs, so they load as fast as possible on your site.

Online Image Optimizer

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/

 

PNGGauntlet

PNGGauntlet is a .NET program that uses Ken Silverman’s PNGOUT to optimize PNG files.
http://brh.numbera.com/software/pnggauntlet/

 

SuperPNG

SuperPNG is a free Adobe Photoshop plug-in for using PNG (“ping”) files.

Super PNG

http://www.fnordware.com/superpng/

I hope that you find the above tools useful. Even if you don’t, Adobe Photoshop has “Save for Web” for you – stay with it!

]]> http://wlog.thefourdy.com/list-of-6-excellent-tools-to-optimize-your-graphics-for-web/feed/ 2 Keepin’ it real fake: Deceptive Marketing in India http://wlog.thefourdy.com/keepin-it-real-fake-deceptive-marketing-in-india/ http://wlog.thefourdy.com/keepin-it-real-fake-deceptive-marketing-in-india/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:10:01 +0000 Soham Pal http://wlog.thefourdy.com/?p=223 We've all made fun of those iPhone clones infesting the market. However I've seen only a few people appalled by the deceptive marketing bonanza that this device has caused in the subcontinent. If calling it the E-Phone weren't enough, they decide to go an extra mile by blatantly reusing an official image of the aforementioned device.

What's surprising is the fact that the press seems to have completely waived off it's responsibility in publishing such an advertisement. The fact that an advertisement like this has actually made itself to the print edition of such a premiere newspaper explains why we need more attention towards monitoring of advertisements in the country. Surely, such an advertisement would be laughable if it ended up on the frontpage of the New York Times, perhaps followed immediately by a lawsuit. Why should things be different in India?

View the transcript after the break.]]> We’ve all made fun of those iPhone clones infesting the market. However I’ve seen only a few people appalled by the deceptive marketing bonanza that this device has caused in the subcontinent. If calling it the E-Phone weren’t enough, they decide to go an extra mile by blatantly reusing an official image of the aforementioned device.

What’s surprising is the fact that the press seems to have completely waived off it’s responsibility in publishing such an advertisement. The fact that an advertisement like this has actually made itself to the print edition of such a premiere newspaper explains why we need more attention towards monitoring of advertisements in the country. Surely, such an advertisement would be laughable if it ended up on the frontpage of the New York Times, perhaps followed immediately by a lawsuit. Why should things be different in India?

As requested by someone, here’s what the advertisement reads:

  • 2GB memory card
  • 3.0″ TFT Screen, MP3, MP4 & FM Radio
  • Breakthrough internet device
  • 2 Mega Pixel Digital camera
  • Touch screen & hand writing
  • Dual sim cards working same time
  • Shake function
  • Bluetooth, support T-flash card & GPRS system.

Each èphone has an unique IEMI No.

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