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蓝盒子专为数码照片开发了文件压缩解决方案。

数码照片的成功使得您不需再购买胶卷，但是这不表示您的数码照片可以免费存储。即使手机能代替5MP相机，而那些不堪一击的软件则需要不断增加硬盘空间来存储图片。

最糟糕的情况是：当您想要通过网络交换整本数码相册时，您真的能等到成百上千兆数据都传过来那会儿吗？

要解决这场混乱，有一个简单的办法：压缩文件。这样，您不仅可以节省硬盘空间，还能拥有小尺寸的文件，易于与他人分享。

蓝盒子提供专门针对数码图片的压缩软件，该软件使用自己的压缩格式，在很短时间将巨大的图片文件转变成为非常小的文件。

测试蓝盒子宣称的快捷有效的压缩，压缩率达95%等能力并不容易。程序的界面很直观，不会有大量没必要且详细的帮助信息，您可以轻松得将单个图片拖拽到程序中的新文件夹或已经创建的文件夹里。

我们的原始Jpeg图片组总计为210,765,992字节。通过程序设置，压缩程度为中度，我们得到了76,359,387字节的.blu文件。将同样文件夹压缩到最大是12,433,727字节。也就是说，我们不是一倍的压缩，而是很多倍的压缩

也许考虑到图片质量，您可能愿意使用蓝盒子压缩高清晰的图片。但是测试结果显示了该程序的内在品质。

蓝盒子快速而高效，用户可以轻松得给自己的文件添加密码，保护文件，而且图片即使压缩后也能查看。

如果蓝盒可以处理除.blu和.zip以外的格式，就更方便了。这样合适的价格，再也找不到比这更好的压缩软件了。

蓝盒子提供专门针对数码图片的压缩软件

结论

由于Jpegs文件已经是压缩文件，只使用标准的Zip程序不会有什么作用。蓝盒子为数码图片提供了成熟的解决方案，只需小小损失一下图片质量，就可以收获惊喜结果。现在您可以一劳永逸地整理您的相册了。

Will Johnston

Blubox Software Limited today announced its award winning software application, Blubox, had been selected by Tesco Photo to power Tesco Picture Viewer, beginning in February 2009.

Tesco Picture Viewer, distributed free with every photo-CD dispatched, provides Tesco’s customers with a unique and enhanced experience when viewing their digital photographs processed by the Tesco Photo Service.

The Blubox system is the world’s only digital image management solution which enables the user to optimise their images for more efficient storage and high speed sharing online.

Tesco, the UK’s largest retail chain provides a comprehensive range of photo printing services, ranging from traditional digital print processing to the production of digital photo albums and on-line photo storage for over 1 million customers each year.

The Tesco Photo Viewer will be powered by Blubox, the powerful digital imaging management application currently winning awards and accolades worldwide for its highly innovative and intuitive system for managing high-resolution digital photographs on the desk-top and web.

“We are very pleased to be working with the premier retail partner whose ethos is to provide its customers with the highest standard of service possible” says Peter Boswell, CEO at Blubox Software. “From February 2009, Blubox will contribute to the overall customer experience when they develop film and digital photographs with Tesco”

“Tesco are constantly looking at ways of improving on the existing high standard of service” said Kevin Martin of Tesco “and we are delighted we will be offering such an innovative and useful technology as Blubox to our customers”.

Blubox Software Limited today announced that it had signed an exclusive 2 year agreement with Mustek Ltd to market and distribute image-compression technology in South Africa.

Mustek, South Africa’s leading systems integrator, assembles and distributes the Mecer-branded range of PCs, notebooks and peripherals. In addition, Mustek stocks and distributes a range of other branded IT and related electronic products.

Blubox™ software compresses digital images by as much as 95% without any loss of quality.

“We’re very pleased to have reached agreement to market Blubox™ across South Africa on an exclusive 2 year basis, as well as Nigeria and Kenya on a non-exclusive basis” said David Kan of Mustek “and we’ll be using multiple channels to sell the software, including in-store retailing, bundled deals, pre-loading onto PCs and notebooks, and direct downloads from our website”.

Commenting on the deal, Peter Boswell of Blubox said “This is a milestone agreement in the global deployment of Blubox™ and we look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with Mustek”

“I like the idea of being able to store more information on my computer than I previously could because the archives allow storage on your computer as well. It's not merely for emailing easier or secure transport. It's a useful program and if you have loads of pictures on your computer it will free up lots of space, allowing you to store many more.”

...I found compressing the files easy and I like how you can still browse through the images once zipped which is something a lot of other programs don’t allow.

BluBox also lived up to its claims of maintaining the quality of the images as I compressed one of my photos to a ridiculously small size and saw no difference in quality once it was unzipped.

This is a great piece of software that any keen photographer should have purchased and installed on their computer asap...

...there's little doubting that Blubox has, to our knowledge, an unrivalled ability to shrink the file sizes of images.

... BluBox nonetheless is likely to be used for one task only, to bring down the size of image files. Fortunately it's a task it's quite brilliant at, and given the modest price tag for the software, it's a strong purchase for the enthusiastic amateur digital photographer.

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Blubox Software Limited announces that it has agreed with Samsung Semiconductor Europe Limited to provide its digital data compression technology, Blubox, to Samsung memory card partners and their customers across Europe on a free trial basis beginning in April.

The deal will see on-pack promotions for Blubox on memory cards and USB sticks powered by Samsung NAND Flash, and marketed by Samsung distributors using their own brands across Europe. The trial is expected to last for three months. Blubox application (available online at www.blubox.com) compresses digital imagery by up to 95%.

Ken Jones, Vice President of Samsung Semiconductor Europe Ltd, added, “Samsung globally holds the lead position in the memory market. I see the fresh initiative of offering content on memory cards to be an important differentiating factor in the purchasing decisions of today’s discerning consumer. This agreement provides benefits to Blubox, Samsung, Samsung’s distributors, their retail partners and ultimately the consumer – a win for all.”

Blubox will be offered free to all Samsung customers for a 3-month trial period. After which, the service will be charged at less than £20.00. Blubox will generate revenue from those who extend their free trial into a product purchase or subscription. Revenue will be shared equally between Blubox and Samsung.

The first Samsung memory cards including the promotion will be available in the UK in April.

Compression is a straightforward way to ease the burden of multi-megabyte files, and is offered in several shapes and forms with Blubox. Laying claim to being the 'world's most advanced compression and imaging software for digital photographers', Blubox offers two types of compression - binary, or lossless 'zip' compression, and image, or 'lossy' compression.

The 'Binary' mode offers just one setting, yet the 'Image' mode allows the user to compress at either 'low', 'medium', 'high' or 'maximum', with the final file or folder producing a Blubox archive file of respectively decreasing size. The software also contains 256-bit AES encryption to guarantee the security of personal images.

The 'Image' mode does result in the emergence of JPEG artefacts when compressed on the higher settings. However, this is a small price to pay for the convenience of up to a 95% reduction in file size that can prove invaluable when sending images in bulk.

Blubox presents a clear user interface allowing a simple learning curve that even the novice-compressor can grasp easily.

What's more is that the .blu archives created can be read without the need of the Blubox software, thanks to the free Blubox viewer downloadable from blubox.com, and archived images can be previewed even when compressed at the highest setting.

A great value, simple-to-use compression solution.

92% Gold Award

With digital SLRs growing in popularity and compact cameras delivering larger image sizes, hard drives around the world are filling up with our photographic memories.

File compression is one solution, of course, but it's a big negative when you're after the very best in image quality, especially with so-called "destructive" formats such as JPEG that degrade in quality the more you alter the files.

BluBox seeks to address the problem by compressing files down to just a few hundred kilobytes with no loss of quality, and has the ability to expand them again to their original size.

It's a great idea and anyone who uploads images to photo-sharing sites will love it. It also makes uploading to Flickr, for example, much quicker because you can upload high quality JPEGs at a fraction of their original size.

Getting compressed images back to their original size was quick and there was no adverse affects in quality. It's a great tool that's so quick and easy to operate.

Picture Protection

You can employ BluBox to archive huge volumes of images and this is another failsafe if you're looking at good back-up options. Protecting archives with passwords is easy and the actual images are encrypted with 256-bit AES security. Unlike many compression tools - or uploaders for that matter - BluBox enables you to view pictures in full screen while they're encrypted and compressed. you don't need a separate photo organiser because BluBox does a great job of offering the types of features found in more costly programs such as Serif's AlbumPlus.

There's also the BluBox viewer, which is available as a free download from the Web site. This enables you to send archives to your friends and family, who can then unzip your archives and view a substantial number of images in just one email. Whether it's a photo-sharing site or email, Blubox is a speedy solution to cutting down file sizes and at £20 you can't go wrong. This one comes highly recommended.

Verdict

No hassle and produces great results 89%