Being involved with computer graphics for 30 plus years now I am always on the lookout for ways to improve image optimization. And let me tell you, there certainly are some massive gains to be had with the WebP image format. All links in this post open in a new...
The future is here, right now. If you weren’t aware of what AI is capable of regarding computational photography this clip will open up your mind to what’s possible, what’s happening, and what is coming. Interesting regardless of where you stand on...
I recently had to copy a static website for a client that no longer had access to their back-end. I used a program called HTTrack Website Copier to download the entire site locally, so that I could then upload it to a new server location. It only comes up once a year...
Due to Unix/Linux/Windows server environments, when you are editing code locally in Dreamweaver you’ll sometimes find your code double-spaced for the whole file. A quick fix is to run this find/replace command to remove the extra spaces. In Dreamweaver:...
I had to accomplish a task today of exporting hundreds of image file names located in a few directories on my computer. Basically the client wanted a spreadsheet of the all the file names I had created. No problem I thought as I had remembered doing this a long time...
Recently after reading Smashing Magazine’s Web Development Reading List #118 and finding out that AdBlock Plus might not be operating completely independently, I took their advice and am now using uBlock Origin. It’s open source software (github here) by...
Unless I’m mistaken and you don’t use the Internet much at all, YOU NEED a password manager. Here’s the gist. KeePass is free, open-source, cross-platform, light-weight password management program for Windows. If you aren’t using Windows but...
I pay for my data to be backed up nightly to the cloud. At the end of each day the Crashplan software compares all the folders and drives I’ve selected and looks for new, or updated files, and then uploads them to the cloud. Whew. What a load off my mind. I used...
Locate32 is the free software program I use to search for files and folders on my computer running Windows 7. I’m only writing about it here because it’s awesome. Locate32 uses it’s own database to make searching lighting fast (yes, that fast) and...
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