<story><title>The Tiniest GIF Ever</title><url>http://probablyprogramming.com/2009/03/15/the-tiniest-gif-ever</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kevinconroy</author><text>Great write up and +1 kudos to author for diving into the details.&lt;p&gt;For the mere mortals out there looking to make their GIF, JPEG, and PNG images smaller (and websites faster), I highly recommend ImageOptim (&lt;a href=&quot;http://imageoptim.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://imageoptim.com/&lt;/a&gt;). This Mac-only tool combines all of the libraries below to compress your images down to the (nearly if not the) smallest, cross-system compatible size.&lt;p&gt;If you&apos;re Mac based, try this:&lt;p&gt;* ImageOptim &lt;a href=&quot;http://imageoptim.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://imageoptim.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you&apos;re Linux based, try these:&lt;p&gt;* PNGOut - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.advsys.net/ken/util/pngout.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.advsys.net/ken/util/pngout.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* advpng - &lt;a href=&quot;http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-advpng.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-advpng.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* pngcrush - &lt;a href=&quot;http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* optipng - &lt;a href=&quot;http://optipng.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://optipng.sourceforge.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* jpegoptim - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* gifsicle - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Tiniest GIF Ever</title><url>http://probablyprogramming.com/2009/03/15/the-tiniest-gif-ever</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elsamuko</author><text>If anyone is interested, I did the same with TIFF:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3773355&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3773355&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The peculiarity in this example is, that the image&apos;s content is the whole tiff itself.</text></comment>