Gracepoint After Five

We just pushed out some hot new features to PunyPNG today:

Added option to preserve EXIF data, to maintain copyright and other image metadata
Added option to skip bit reduction when compressing.  This improved IE6 compatibility (see PunyPNG’s IE6 support)
REST-based API support (beta)

We also fixed a handful of outstanding issues:

Improved performance of dirty transparency compression
Improved simultaneous uploading of multiple [...]

I originally created GraceList as an internal application for our church, Gracepoint Fellowship Church, Berkeley.  With a close-knit community that emphasizes open homes and lives, you can imagine how many things get lost and found.  I wanted a dead-simple classified apps so people could make postings about the small Bible they found at last week’s prayer [...]

I recently ran some benchmarks, comparing punypng to a lot of the popular tools out there. I selected tools I felt were decently strong and versatile in handling images:

punypng: the new kid of the block.
smush.it: Uses pngcrush as the main PNG optimizer.  Currently, available in Yahoo’s YSlow Firefox plug-in.  I believe it uses the -brute [...]

Gracepoint After Five’s super-ninja compression tool, punypng, got a new upgrade to help slice and dice the size of your website images.  punypng’s compression algorithm now automatically supports Dirty Transparency as described by Sergey Chikuyonok’s awesome article on Clever PNG Optimization Techniques that was recently published on Smashing Mazagine.  This unique and innovative technique offers additional [...]

At my company a few years ago, we’ve been working on some projects that require some heavy UI overhaul. One of these projects requires a “filter bar” — a search bar that filters a long list dynamically. We thought that the typical text fields would clash with the style of our design, so we [...]

I finally released punypng to the world last week.  It’s a free png compression service that intelligently leverages multiple open-source png compression algorithms in the hopes of making the web  more puny, one png at a time.
Try out punypng (as a short url: http://www.punypng.com works as well)

How punypng came about
punypng actually started not as a [...]