Hi and welcome to Media4x!
Media4x is a small (but growing) collection of online tools.
Most of the tools were initially made for internal use by our web development team (Mediafox Marketing). But when you create something useful for yourself, sharing should be your next step. So we have made our tools available for all. We still have tons of code, waiting to be published as online services and we will continue to add new pages to this website. Come back soon!
Apr 2013. New tool!
JPEG Minimizer is the perfect match to our PNG Minimizer, released earlier. Why another JPEG compression tool, you ask? Well, not another. It's THE ONLY online tool, useful for web optimization. Please compare it with competitors yourself. Other tools either don't even bother to actually compress your files or don't allow you to choose the level of quality or both. For example, the most popular online tool JPEGMini often makes files 1.5X-2X bigger with the same quality.
JPEG Minimizer is the perfect match to our PNG Minimizer, released earlier. Why another JPEG compression tool, you ask? Well, not another. It's THE ONLY online tool, useful for web optimization. Please compare it with competitors yourself. Other tools either don't even bother to actually compress your files or don't allow you to choose the level of quality or both. For example, the most popular online tool JPEGMini often makes files 1.5X-2X bigger with the same quality.
Jan 2013. New tool!
PNG Minimizer is the best lossy PNG compressor available online. It provides unbeatable compression ratio even with full 8-bit palettes. But above that, it allows to shrink palettes even further, to any level you consider acceptable for your needs. PNG-8 format is the clear winner when it comes to performance, especially for mobile Internet. Using PNG Minimizer, you can easily get 50-80% smaller sized images without significant quality loss.
PNG Minimizer is the best lossy PNG compressor available online. It provides unbeatable compression ratio even with full 8-bit palettes. But above that, it allows to shrink palettes even further, to any level you consider acceptable for your needs. PNG-8 format is the clear winner when it comes to performance, especially for mobile Internet. Using PNG Minimizer, you can easily get 50-80% smaller sized images without significant quality loss.
DDTab is your help against eBay daily deals obsession. One of our colleagues
found the habit of checking daily deals to be very time consuming and, for some reason, very hard
to get rid of. Probably there is a professional (expensive) treatment for this problem, but we invented
a technical solution that won't cost you a cent. Now you can view exactly the same offers presented
in one table, sorted by date and with instant search. Come back to this page once or even twice a day,
without wasting as much time as before.
Image Denoiser is a very simplified representation of rather good and
modern patch-based image denoise algorithm. You would be surprised how few denoise tools are
available online. It's because denoising is a very resource-consuming process. And the task itself
is too complex to automate, due to many parameters that need to be tuned differently for every image.
Still, this tool is good enough in many cases.
Keyword Spy is your secret weapon to compare your site with
competitors by keywords and keyphrases. Maybe search engines are caring less about keyword density
these days, but they are still about text, aren't they? And that will never change. We admit that
Keyword Spy is rather difficult to use and sometimes it feels like your head is about
to explode... But without this tool the same work would be much much harder.
Palette Extractor is our "yet another palette generator" with two
important differences. First, it uses a mathematically correct method to do the thing.
K-means clustering algorithm is well known and has many effective realizations in various programming
languages. If you create a similar tool using the same algorithm, you will produce the same results.
Second, it allows to select a region instead of using the whole image. As far as we know, this is the only
such tool in the Internet.
Site Optimizer is our alternative to all those boring "your site is faster
than 80% others" tools like Google's Page Speed, and Yahoo's YSlow. In fact, all online tools just use
those two in background. All except our Site Optimizer. Our software is not browser-based, so it's not
that precise as Page Speed or YSlow. But being very practical it literally points out problems, instead
of presenting you obscure grades and percents. You can always tell your employee or colleague: “Let's reduce
that... score to zero”.
