I Stopped Uploading Client Photos to Online Tools. Here's What I Use Instead.If you handle client photos — real estate shoots, product photos, headshots, unreleased designs — every "free" online compressor asks you to do something you probably shouldn't: upload someone else's 1d ago · 2 min readzippicapp.hashnode.dev
ZipPic vs Squoosh: The Three Jobs Squoosh Can't DoSquoosh is a genuinely good tool. If you want to squeeze one hero image and compare AVIF against WebP against MozJPEG with a side-by-side preview and fine-grained codec settings, it's still one of the2d ago · 4 min readzippicapp.hashnode.dev
Your PNG Screenshots Are 5x Bigger Than They Need to BeI published a tutorial last month with 14 screenshots. After it went live, I checked the page weight out of curiosity: 38MB. Thirty-eight megabytes — for a page that is mostly text. Every screenshot w4d ago · 3 min readzippicapp.hashnode.dev
That 50MB PDF You're Trying to Email? It Could Be 3MB.Last week I tried to send a scanned contract over email. 47MB. Gmail's attachment limit is 25MB. The client's upload portal capped at 10MB. I ended up splitting it into five parts like it was 2004. Th4d ago · 3 min readzippicapp.hashnode.dev
I Compared ZipPic and TinyPNG Head-to-Head. Here's What I FoundI build and run ZipPic — 18 free media tools that run 100% in your browser, nothing uploaded. TinyPNG is the name everyone knows in image compression, so I decided to put the two side by side and measOct 15 · 2 min readzippicapp.hashnode.dev
