Filed under: Design, Utilities, Windows, Productivity
Quickly compress PNG images
by Jordan Running Dec 1st 2006
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 PNG-crushing action. It's very straightforward and, if you're in the habit of publishing big PNGs, very handy.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
