Compressor.io – new online image compressor

Compressor.io is a new image compressor / optimizer for jpeg, png, gif, and even svg. It also has options to save the optimized image directly to Google Drive and Dropbox. Pretty neat.

Phonopaper – a graphical sound generator

Phonopaper is the coolest app so far. It takes photo from the waveform on paper and generates sound!

Useful code snippets for WordPress

Here’s something you can configure with WordPress to cut down some database weight and more. Love the snippets to empty the trash though you might want to keep it.

Read more at “Eight Useful Code Snippets for WordPress“.

Blend modes in depth

CSS blend mode like Photoshop’s blend mode still has a long road ahead. Here’s a good read about CSS blend mode.

And here is some teeth grinding math equations for some. Photoshop blend modes explained in depth.

Accessibility does matter

Accessibility is a rather less respected area during a web build by many. But it does matter to build a better web despite all the crazy visual fuss dominating the wow effects.

Read this article “Accessibility and Building a web for everyone because sometimes it’s not all about us”.

More reads from W3C that may make you head banging.

15 years of acquisition of tech giants

Nice visualisation of 15 years of acquisition of tech giants including Apple, Amazon, Google, Yahoo and Facebook.

Hungry Tech Giants

Source: TechCrunch

W3C validator on Ubuntu 12

If you happen to install W3C Validator via apt-get on Ubuntu 12, it’s likely the cgi isn’t registered as cgi. Turns out there is a path typo at LocationMatch in /etc/w3c/httpd.conf

<LocationMatch "^/+w3c-markup-validator/+(check(/+referer)?|feedback(.html)?)$">

It should become

<LocationMatch "^/+w3c-validator/+(check(/+referer)?|feedback(.html)?)$">

then everything is back to normal.