How to Compress Your Images Without Affecting the Quality

By | August 22, 2010 |

caesium-logoIf you have a whole bunch of high-resolution photos, chances are, you won’t be able to upload them to your favorite social sharing sites, simply because their file size are too big. One of the solution is to compress the photos to reduce the file size. This give rises to another problem: most applications are not able to retain the image quality after the compression. So you are down with two choices: to retain the photos in its original big size high-resolution setting, or accept the reduction in the quality with the benefit of a smaller file size.

What if you can compress the images by up to 90% and retain the quality at the same time? This is where Caesium comes in.
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How to Compress and Split Files in Ubuntu

By | October 6, 2008 |

In Ubuntu, the Archive Manager (or file-roller) has make it easy for anyone to compress and zip up a file or folder, but if you have a large file, say 20Gb, and you want to back it up to the CD/DVD, you will find that no amount of compression can you reduce the file size to fit into 1 CD/DVD. In such case, it is a better solution to compress and split the large file into several smaller files and store them separately. This also applies if you want to share a large file on a file-sharing site. Splitting the compressed file into several smaller files will make it easier for others to download.

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