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Compress PNG files – best solution!
Hi guys, I just wanted to share a really (REALLY) great site I’ve found for compressing your PNG files, I was in dire need of a good solution for one of my mobile app’s GUI and the TinyPNG website is perfect for that.Don’t just take my word on it, try them yourselves 
And they have a freaking panda as a mascot!!! Instant favorite!!
How does it work?
Excellent question! When you upload a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file, similar colours in your image are combined. This technique is called “quantisation”. Because the number of colours is reduced, 24-bit PNG files can be converted to much smaller 8-bit indexed colour images. All unnecessary metadata is stripped too. The result: tiny 8-bit PNG files with 100% support for transparency. Have your cake and eat it too!
Say NO to ACTA!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citzRjwk-sQ
Learn more and take action about ACTA at
http://lqdn.fr/ACTA
Here are few ways to act against ACTA, right now:http://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_to_act_against_ACTA
What is ACTA?
Since Spring 2008, the European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia as well as a few other countries have been secretly negotiating a trade agreement aimed at enforcing copyright and tackling counterfeited goods (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). Specifically, leaked documents show that one of the major goal of the treaty is to force signatory countries into implementing anti file-sharing policies under the form of three-strikes schemes and net filtering practices.
At a time when important debates are taking place on the need to adapt copyright to the digital age, this treaty would bypass democratic processes in order to enforce a fundamentally irrelevant regulatory regime. It would profoundly alter the very nature of the Internet as we know it by putting an end to Net neutrality.
See the most worrying provisions under discussions and the three core reasons for rejecting ACTA.
If you have a sense of what is really going on, say NO to ACTA!
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Is Internet Explorer For The Dumb? A New Study Suggests Exactly That
A Vancouver based Psychometric Consulting company, AptiQuant, has released a report on a trial it conducted to measure the effects of cognitive ability on the choice of web browser. AptiQuant offered free online IQ tests to over a 100,000 people and then plotted the average IQ scores based on the browser on which the test was taken. And the results are really not that surprising. With just a look at the graphs in the report, it comes out pretty clear that Internet Explorer users scored lower than average on the IQ tests. Chrome, Firefox and Safari users had just a teeny bit higher than average IQ scores. And users of Camino, Opera and IE with Chrome Frame had exceptionally higher IQ levels.
Internet Explorer has traditionally been considered a pain in the back for web developers. Any IT company involved in web development will acknowledge the fact that millions of man hours are wasted each year to make otherwise perfectly functional websites work in Internet Explorer, because of its lack of compatibility with web standards. The continuous use of older versions of IE by millions of people around the world has often haunted web developers. This trend not only makes their job tougher, but has also pulled back innovation by at least a decade. But with the results of this study, IT companies worldwide will start to take a new look on the time and money they spend on supporting older browsers.
The full report can be downloaded at: http://www.aptiquant.com/IQ-Browser-AptiQuant-2011.pdf
