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was http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/jpegoptim/
https://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html
https://github.com/tjko/jpegoptim

Optimizes JPEG images, performing magic to reduce size, or optionally stripping metadata for even further savings, or performing lossy re-compression for potentially extraordinary size reduction.

I like this idea, and it’s actually freed up a significant amount of space. Being able to take a 5MB file and knock it down to 1MB while maintaining excellent visual quality.. is astonishing

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this needs to be cleaned up

Git-Logo-1788C.png

(on Wikipedia)
https://git-scm.com/

A version control system of some note.

I use it, not that I know what I’m doing.

See also:



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7zip logo

(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: 7zip
https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable
https://www.7-zip.org/

An archival program.



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Avidemux logo

Software > Video editing >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.avidemux.org/
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

I don’t really care about this, but I do use it occasionally to cut apart videos.

Quite straightforward to use for simple video editing and appending. It took me almost no time to learn.

Good for transcoding and merging audio into video.

  • I use avidemux_gtk

    • there is also avidemux2_cli



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TODO – add my notes, and scripts

Nano logo

Software > Text editors >

(on Wikipedia)
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/
https://nano-editor.org/

The license-unencumbered version of Pico.

Small, easy. Needs some basic functionality but is still quite useful.

  • acronym: Nano’s ANOther editor
  • formerly: TIP (TIP Isn’t Pico)



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