Monthly Archives: September 2009

Compiling Pngcrush on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Michael Fox

Pngcrush is a command line tool that processes png files through several algorithms (read “magics”), optimizing the png without quality loss. Here is how you can install it from source on snow leopard. Continue reading →

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Google Links Directly to Content Sections Inside Search Result Snippets

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Michael Fox

Google announced that they have added a new feature to search results. The brief summary in a result may contain links to specific sections of content on the page. This helps get a user directly to the most relevant content … Continue reading →

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Fixing Pixelation from Scaled Images in IE

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Michael Fox

A project I worked on recently called for a carousel with five images of different sizes — somewhat like a “light” coverflow. I ended up building it with basic <img> tags that get scaled by javascript which modified the width … Continue reading →

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