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  • Bijective BWT (2 Comments)

    David Scott has written a bijective BWT transform, which brings all the advantages of bijectiveness to BWT based compressors. Among other things, making BWT more suitable for compression-before-encryption and also give (slightly) better compression.

  • Asymmetric Binary System (107 Comments)

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  • Precomp: More Compression for your Compressed Files

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  • On2 Technologies is Hiring

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  • China’s AVS Specifications Available (2 Comments)

    Its old news that China has developed their own Advanced Video Standard to avoid high licensing fees. English translation of the standard is now available, along with the IPR policy. Finally something technical that you can get your hands on to feed your appetite.

PowerPoint Shrinking Software Unveiled by TopByteLabs

Posted by Sachin Garg on 27th August 2005 | Permanent Link

PowerShrink 2.0 claims to compress PowerPoint presentations by an average rate of 62%, while keeping full functionality and file format of the PowerPoint Presentation.

In this release, they have added a customizable toolbar, a Windows Shell Extension and a more stable and reliable compression, including improved picture quality. PowerShrink 2.0 is compatible with nearly all Microsoft OS Versions, XP, 2000 and NT. Also, it is compatible with almost all PowerPoint files, versions 97, 2000, XP and 2003.

Read the complete press release here.

There was a recent c10n story on a similar tool NXPowerLite.

2 Responses to “PowerPoint Shrinking Software Unveiled by TopByteLabs”

  1. krishna Says:
    August 28th, 2005 at 12:15 pm

    looks good, but whats the deal with the logo??

  2. Tony Says:
    September 2nd, 2005 at 3:37 am

    Logo symbolizes a young and creative company. We definately need more of this not the boring corporate designs.

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