FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format

http://flif.info/

FLIF is a novel lossless image format which outperforms PNG, lossless WebP, lossless BPG and lossless JPEG2000 in terms of compression ratio.

According to the compression experiments we have performed, FLIF files are, on average:

  • 26% smaller than brute-force crushed PNG files,
  • 35% smaller than typical PNG files,
  • 37% smaller than lossless JPEG 2000 compression,
  • 15% smaller than lossless WebP,
  • 22% smaller than lossless BPG.

Exclude WAMP processes from Microsoft Security Essentials

I noticed that my local wordpress admin area suddenly was extremely slow. After lot of trial and error I finally found the culprit: it was Microsoft Essentials apparently scanning every single request.

The Fix: (source)

Op MSE settings -> excluded processes

And add the following (for every version of Apache/MySql you are running):

wamp/bin/appache/apache[version]/bin/httpd.exe
wamp/bin/mysql/mysql[version]/bin/mysqld.exe

That’s it