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August 29, 2008

YouTube Dwarfs Top Video Sites

YouTube continues to dominate the top video sites tracked by Nielsen Online. Updating last year's top 10 video site survey this year we find YouTube even further ahead of its nearest "competitor," Google. As of July 2008, YouTube had more than 7.5 times more unique viewers than Google Video. Combined together, Google properties YouTube and Google Video have over 88 million unique viewers, and make up over 36% of the share of videos viewed on the Internet. A recent study by the Communications Workers of America revealed that the US ranks 15th worldwide in broadband speed. In other news, US broadband penetration crept up 0.27 percentage points to 90.76% in July 2008. more »

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August 18, 2008

Optimize Drop Shadows

Drop shadows add impact to web graphics, but they also impact file size. You can minimize the resulting file size of palette-based images such as GIFs and PNGs by reducing the complexity of drop shadows. This article shows how to create optimized drop-shadows in Photoshop to minimize the size of web graphics. more »

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