“What is almost endless lossless data compression? Implode (coding) a long code (input data) in a short key code (output data). Explode (decoding) the short key code back in the original long code. It’s not allowed that two different long codes generate the same short key code.”

“What is this? It’s a simple web application where you can easily create transparent PNG images. These can be used to create cool effects in a variety of ways. This application produces only rectangular images, so I suspect it will be used mostly for web page background images, but use it for whatever you like.”

“Finding quality images and photos for complementing an important article, essay or news report is already quite a challenge for many. Imagine when the goal is not just too find good images, but find some that you could openly and freely use without needing to pay royalties or one-time publishing rights to someone.”

“Over the next four weeks, youíll have the choice opportunity of mastering a few techniques for producing realistic aging and weathering, all with the intent of creating that wicked, sick, insane, whatever-you-wanna-call-it worn look.”

“Bullet madness is a list of 200 bullets, arrows and icons uploaded by our users.”

“Iíve been looking so long for a simple Mac OS X tool that can take screenshots of pages that are much taller than my screen height, and Iíve finally found it: Paparazzi. There are three fields: URL, Width, and Minimum Height. Click ‘Capture’ to preview the screenshot. One more click to save a PNG. Thatís it. Go get it!”

“If you’ve ever done design work for any type of software or web-centric company, you have undoubtedly come across the need to capture screenshots for print purposes. This is usually for demonstrative reasons, and it’s a graphic technique employed where just showing the reader a screenshot (usually with a few callouts) can do more than several pages of explanatory text. The trickier part for designers often comes with saving the images. Since the screen captures are by nature low resolution (72 dpi, screen resolution), converting them for print takes a bit of software trickery.”

“Dimensionizer is a contextual menu plugin for the MacOS X Finder that allows you to discover the dimensions of virtually any image in a single click. Best of all, you don’t even have to remember the dimensions to use them. Just select the menu item representing an image, and Dimensionizer will copy the image dimensions to the clipboard.”

“Would you like to display your own icon on the browser address bar when visitors view or bookmark your web page? The favicon feature makes it possible to brand address bars, bookmarks / favorites, and/or tabs with custom icons. The FavIcon from Pics makes it easier to create icons for your web pages. Simply select a picture, logo or other graphic (of any size/resolution) that you already have for the ‘Source Image’ and click ‘Generate FavIcon.ico.’”

Quickly and easily make those little pixellated font buttons that you see linking XML files, web sites, etc…

“Welcome to the Adobe SVG Zone. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an exciting new XML-based language for Web graphics from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This area was created to give Web developers and designers a taste of developing sites with SVG.”

Lots of articles about “using XML to represent and exchange graphics.” Also includes links to several graphics resources such including software, tutorials and GUIs.

“This wiki is open for the entire SVG communtity to edit and use freely. Any code found on this wiki (not code linked to on other sites) is in public domain unless otherwise specified. But, of course, feel free to acknowledge the author of the code and the SVG-wiki.”

“Discover the power and flexibility of the Web’s hottest new graphics format, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), with Jasc WebDraw. A complete SVG authoring solution, WebDraw delivers a robust set of graphics design and source code editing tools for faster, more flexible SVG design and development.”

“Created for designers by ARTIS Software and The Iconfactory, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, aligning and inspecting on-screen graphics and layouts.”