So in being a web developer I have little tweaks and special tools to help me stay sane and keep web pages loading quick .
Joe Levi had shown me a great little tool for optimizing your .png's called pngcrush. Of course this was back when I was using windows XP sp2 (cause we all know sp2 was another operating system within the original XP OS) so changing the context menu was much more simple and fun. However it was a 10 minute project to come up with a way to put "CrushthatfunkyPNG" in the right click context menu. So I will share it so maybe my wasted 10minutes with be 1 minute for you. Here Goes:
First download the latest version of PNGCrush;
Second extract the exe and where you want it to live; ie(C:\Program Files\PNGCrush)
Now for some registry tom foolery(Hacking):
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\CrushthatfunkyPNG]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\CrushthatfunkyPNG\Command]
Modify the Command key to be this exactly including the quotes:
"C:\Program Files\PNGCrush\pngcrush-1.5.10-win32.exe" -fix -reduce -brute -d compressed "%1"
And now a pretty little png crushing app in your windows vista context menu.
Another hint if you would like to add any other programs to your context menu this works the same way.
Thanks to Joe Levi / Neilturner for the idea
