PNG vs JPG
PNG is a newer image format combining the best of GIF (loss-less
compression) and JPEG (millions of colors). Strange but
true, a PNG-24 file is smaller than the smallest equivalent JPEG,
but looks better than the largest JPEG. Check
the numbers.
Top 10
Reasons My Land Rover Discovery Sucks
my first web-site, still working since 1996. Critically
acclaimed by the London Times: "the graphics are excellent"
(thanks to my brother David).
The fascinating study of pollen - the immature male gametophyte of plants. Made of the most acid-resistant organic molecule - sporopollenin - pollen grains are useful in everything from archeology, criminology, geology, botany, apiology, paleoclimatology, the immune processes behind allergies, and more! These pollen micrographs and drawing were made with pollen form the world's premier pollen herbarium in Stockholm Sweden.
What! You mean it takes 3.6 MB for just over a minute of low quality
video?!? This has got to be one of my prime motivators for
running my own site vs getting space on a free site. See my guide to free servers if you need
only 10 to100 MB of space for the price of an email address (also
free).
It's easy to do with a Macintosh, but hard to keep the kids
off. With an old 90mhz Pentium and Linux I've got a
dedicated server with lots of cheap disk space.