Tag: COMPRESSION

I hate crippleware. I hate nag-ware, and all kinds of related vermin from the netherworld. Among them, WinZip for years has bugged the snot out of users instead of just providing a good product for free like the cool kids. Sure, they have their reasons, but those reasons are why you don't hear about WinZip anymore. They are old news. Now you hear about 7-Zip, which I do like, even better than ...

If you work with images often, you may or may not be familiar with pngcrush, an open source utility that pushes PNG image compression to its limits. Excellent though it may be, pngcrush works on the command line, and if you're used to working in GUIs, that might slow you down. Over at his blog, though, Neil Turner shows how you can set up a "Crush" action on your Windows context menu for instant ...

If you run a website and you're looking to eke every last bit of performance out of your web server that you possibly can, one of the best ways to do so is to lighten its load. And although it might seem like a little thing, tightening up your CSS file can reduce page downloads on your site by up to 30 or 40kb, (depending on the state of your CSS file). Multiply that over the thousands of visitors ...