pngcrush
8th February 2003
Mark invoked the lazy web earlier today in a bid to find a good way of bulk optimizing PNG files. Several people recommended pngcrush in the comments and it sounds like a fantastically useful piece of software—apparently it can run 114 different lossless compression methods on an image and automatically chose the most efficient one.
More recent articles
- Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat - 17th February 2026
- Deep Blue - 15th February 2026
- The evolution of OpenAI's mission statement - 13th February 2026