Friday, December 01, 2006

12 days of Christmas, Pingomatic, Hit Counter, 1st Dimension Ads, IrfanView, Batik

12 Days Of Christmas is now available for the 1st Day. There are 9 different "gifts". I downloaded most everything, but haven't gone through to see exactly what is there. There is a free 1 year silver membership to SureFireWealth.com, which might be good.

Here's a link to notify search engines when your blog has been updated.

Here's a link to add a hit counter to your blog.

Cashouts for 1st Dimension Ads happen tomorrow. Actually, being in all 4 dimension sites isn't so bad now that the initial round is over. Since it takes a week to get paid, you really only need to surf 60 sites a day, not the 80 required in the first round. You also get paid every week, so that's nice.

I have a war file which contains thumbnail images & the fullsize images for 3 different sets of data. Before I added the third data set, the war file was manageable as far as emailing goes. Adding the image files for the third set, makes the war file ~27 mb. The image files are gifs. Anyone have ideas as to how to make the war file smaller? Am I even going about it the right way by storing both thumbnail & fullsize versions? I've tried just storing thumbnails & using scaling when I need a fullsize version, but there's just too much distortion. Just storing fullsize images & scaling to get the thumbnails doesn't work right either. Some of the scaled thumbnails seem like they load too fast & a line ends up being a square. The gif's were created from jpeg's. Anyone know of a converter that has a high level of compression with very little distortion? I currently use Irfan View. The third data set started out as svg, which I converted to jpeg using batik.

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