Troy

Member since: Jun 4th, 2006

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Engadget	18 Comments
BBHub	1 Comment
Download Squad	10 Comments
Engadget Mobile	2 Comments

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BlackBerry Protect enters (mostly) open beta (Download Squad)

Mar 5th 2011 6:33PM I don't think you now need to be a member of beta zone, you can download it immediately from AppWorld here: https://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/20844

Google offers up to a 40% discount on all JPEGs -- with new WebP format! (Download Squad)

Oct 1st 2010 2:00AM I still disagree, even with a 1,000,000. I don't know for sure, but certainly feel that by and large most images of the web are not optimized as good as they could be using jpg and likely could be further compressed without noticeable degradation. The samples google provides are recompressed jpgs on their blog are just recompressed jpgs, and without knowing the compression level used on those images we don't have a baseline to know if we could chose to compress the images further with similar results.

If I remember correctly jpg offers a scale of compression/quality from 1-12. If someone was so interested they could take a lossless source image. illustrate each level of compression and provide side by side comparisons between the two. You'd expect to see relatively that a jpg at compression level 8 yields the same quality image as a webp at a higher compression level on the same scale.

Google offers up to a 40% discount on all JPEGs -- with new WebP format! (Download Squad)

Oct 1st 2010 12:13AM Sounds misleading to me. How many of those images weren't properly optimized to begin with? I'd be more interested in a direct comparisons of uncompressed source images saved to the respective formats.

Dell Streak's Gorilla Glass screen: torture tested for your amusement (video) (Engadget)

May 29th 2010 3:34PM @SteveyAyo
I have to reserve my opinion until I see the comparison video :b

Microsoft ditches Family Guy special... for being Family Guy (Engadget)

Oct 26th 2009 10:12PM Likely they entered some type of contract to sponsor the program which I'd expect to include a termination fee in the cancellation clause... But I guess it's still a good deal for them if they got the Win7 references in without having to pay the full bill.

BlackBerry Bold 9700 announced, launching globally starting next month (Engadget Mobile)

Oct 24th 2009 11:09PM http://tinyurl.com/ykmhwn5

VIDEO: Autoblog tries out Volvo City Safety on boss's BMW (Autoblog)

Oct 21st 2009 12:39AM The Internets have it! Someone already posted it but if you missed it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f3eieqVkPk

VIDEO: Autoblog tries out Volvo City Safety on boss's BMW (Autoblog)

Oct 21st 2009 12:30AM @notYou

What other 10--it is 50 times per second not minute if that is what you were thinking?

I was interested though, at 15mph you are travelling 22ft/s. Devide that by 50 and about every 5 1/3 inches the car is sampling the distance. *Sounds* pretty reasonable to me, but I have no idea.

BlackBerry Messenger 5 now available, we go hands-on (Engadget Mobile)

Oct 8th 2009 11:43PM I just start typing the persons name I want to message, it automatically searches and narrows the list, I find that much faster than scrolling through the list trying to find the person anyway.