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Trick or Treat!  Our sweet, albeit spooky, neighbour Frankie will drop by this week.  Chez SaturdayMP, Hallowe’en prep for the following year begins as soon as the last Jack-o-Lantern is extinguished!

This week, I experimented with which compression quality I needed to make Frankie truly scary (and not just an adorable garden ornament).

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Right off the bat, I picked a compression index of 50***** and saw almost no difference, other than size of the jpeg.

For those of you in or near Edmonton, you’ll know that I’ve been longing for summer with Mini-Compressor Monday posts, and that autumn has been upon us for many weeks already.

In our mature neighbourhood, we’re fortunate to walk by big old (red and gold and orange and brown) trees on our way to school.  Being so close to the river valley, everything’s a-colour!  Even the back alleys are pretty.

People all across Canada celebrated Thanksgiving this weekend, including this Saturday MP family!

Here we are thankful for four distinct seasons, a plentiful harvest (cough, behemoth garden), record sales, gainful contracts and wonderful customers!

Here is a photo of Edmonton’s famed river valley, taken last October.

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I snapped it to show off to friends who live abroad.  With one right-click, I was able to resize the photo to email.

To continue with the Mini-Compressor Monday series, we have another beautiful summer vacation photo to share and another Mini-Compressor happy ending to tell.

Kinuseo Falls in Northern British Columbia

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Breathtaking?  Yup!  Immediately shareable?  Not quite.

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The Uncle_*_ who so graciously boated us to the falls that early Saturday Morning, forgot his camera so we wanted to email this picture, plus a few others of our silly picnic on the sandbar and the ones of the Norwegian cousin getting soaked…  It took 16.4 seconds to attach the uncompressed jpeg alone.  It would take another bit of time to attach the rest, and send the email.

We ate ice cream, climbed mountains, gardened and worked.  Yeah, worked.

Aside from breaking sales records, we were also coming up with other ways to explain our wares.

So, today, we unveil: Mini-Compressor Monday_*_

In the vernacular of the geeky world I live in, Mini-Compressor Mondays is a series similar to “Yarned by You” and “Fashion Friday”, where the blog posts focus on the practical applications of Mini-Compressor.

Today, for our inaugural post, we present this snake, cleverly named Snake-y.