Free up disk space on Android with Image Optimizer
If your Android phone or tablet is running out of storage space, you may want to free up disk space on the device. While you can uninstall apps, delete a couple of videos or audio files, or other data, you may also want to consider optimizing the photos and screenshots that you have on your device with an app like Image Optimizer.
The main advantage of this operation is that you do not have to delete files to free up space.
Before you do so, you may want to sync the data with a local PC or online storage such as Dropbox or Google Plus (which you can do manually or configure to happen automatically) as the original images on the device may be reduced in quality.
While that is not a problem if you only view them on the phone or tablet, it may be an issue if you plan to view them on a larger monitor or use them for purposes like printing where quality is important.
Once you have backed up the images that you want to have available in their original state, you can start the Image Optimizer application. It displays a list of all photos and screenshots that you have taken on your phone or tablet. Here you can either select them all at once with a tap on the menu button or select them individually in case you only want to optimize a selection.
The program then runs the optimization program which may take a while. It displays the overall size of all images, the optimized size, and the total amount of space saved in percentage.
Before you do that so, you may want to open the settings menu to change output settings. Here you can modify the quality level of jpg files on the system and the optmization level of png files. The compression for JPEG files is set to 75 which may be too low for some users.
The application furthermore skips files if the compression saves less than 10% of the file size. This threshold can be changed in the settings as well.
Verdict
If you take a lot of photos or screenshots on your Android device you may be able to save big when running the application to optimize those images. What's missing right now is an option to process a selected folder on the system, but that feature is already in the pipeline according to the author.
The second feature that I'd like to see integrated into the app is a preview option to see how a certain quality or compression grade affects the image quality.
As far as my own experience goes, the optimizer managed to reduce the size of the 206 photos and screenshots stored on the Galaxy Note II phone by more than 100 Megabyte.
Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.