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Royalty-free state flag icons
I needed a set of US state flag icons, but I couldn’t find find a nice royalty-free, no-cost set in the size I wanted. So I went ahead and created the set on the left. I think it came out pretty...
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Royalty-free image sources
Image copyright can be a thorny issue, and most web designers are not legal experts. But you’ve got to be confident that you have the right to use any image you place on your site. If you need an image...
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Resize images in Java, preserving image quality
It shouldn’t be so difficult to do simple image manipulation in java. Resizing images is a frequently-encountered need, often to create thumbnails or to shrink pictures taken from digital cameras to a...
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Assuming you want to load the image from the URL into memory in order to display or manipulate it: try { URL imageUrl = new URL("http//example/image.jpg"); InputStream in = imageUrl.openStream();...
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Create thumbnails and avatars in Java
Avatars–icon-sized images used to represent people online–are usually square. Consider, Facebook avatars are 50 by 50 pixel images. Most source images are not square, however. Cameras typically take...
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Web Page Optimization – Changes I Made for Page Loading Speed
It has been years since I optimized the page loading speed at GoToQuiz. At that time, image sprites and CSS/javascript minification were the state of the art. In the intervening years, though, further...
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Recreating a Logo in SVG (from a PNG)
This is the hdpi logo for GoToQuiz.com, in PNG format: It’s file size is only 3.83KB, which isn’t bad at all. And it looks crisp on hdpi screens. But I wanted to try recreating it in SVG anyway, mainly...
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