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New Features in PunyPNG

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 [...]

punypng now supports Dirty Transparency

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 [...]

punypng: making the web more puny, one png at a time

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 [...]