{"id":682,"date":"2015-06-18T18:41:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jpegmini.com\/?p=682"},"modified":"2015-06-18T19:06:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T19:06:08","slug":"how-to-magically-free-up-tons-of-hard-drive-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jpegmini.com\/es\/how-to-magically-free-up-tons-of-hard-drive-space\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Magically Free up Tons of Hard Drive Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember watching a paid commercial late at night, many years ago, from Showtime Rotisserie &amp; BBQ. The host, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/?title=Ron_Popeil\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Popeil<\/a>, involved the audience during his pitch. To this day I can still hear the catch phrase play over and over in my head, \u201cset it and forget it.\u201d Ron was great at showing the simplicity of the product.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tLq27iOW0R0\" width=\"220\" height=\"115\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This rotisserie oven was so easy to use. All you had to do was put the chicken or meat onto the skewers\/spits, place it into the oven, set the time and come back when it\u2019s done, or \u201cset it and forget it.\u201d If you think about it, it\u2019s pretty similar to how we treat our photos when we transfer them to our hard drives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jpegmini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-18-21.26.58.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-688 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.jpegmini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-18-21.26.58.png\" alt=\"JPEGmini-Photo-Storage\" width=\"581\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jpegmini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-18-21.26.58.png 581w, https:\/\/blog.jpegmini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-18-21.26.58-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.jpegmini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-18-21.26.58-570x183.png 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This may sound a bit far fetched, but imagine with me if you will; the camera is the chicken\/meat, the hard drive is the rotisserie oven, and the transfer cable is the skewer\/spit. You are plugging the transfer cable from your camera to your hard drive in order to transfer the photos from the memory card.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t make a difference what you do next. You could be posting those photos to your social networks, website, emails, or even editing. No matter what, there is one thing that is for certain; they are staying on your hard drive. \u201cSet it and forget it\u201d is essentially what you are doing here.<br \/>\nDay after day, week after week, month after month, you keep adding more and more photos to your hard drive filling it up. All of a sudden, your computer isn\u2019t working as fast as it used to. You start seeing a \u201cLow Disk Space\u201d flag on your PC\u2019s system tray or, \u201cYour startup disk is almost full,\u201d if you\u2019re on a Mac. Don\u2019t worry, there\u2019s no need to panic! We have the solution that will magically free up tons of hard drive space.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jpegmini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-18-21.31.09.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-690\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.jpegmini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-18-21.31.09.png\" alt=\"shrink-photos\" width=\"636\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jpegmini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-18-21.31.09.png 788w, https:\/\/blog.jpegmini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-18-21.31.09-300x244.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.jpegmini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screenshot-2015-06-18-21.31.09-570x464.png 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One must never break the Magician&#8217;s Code, but we\u2019re going to make an exception today. Would you like to know how our magical solution works? Great! Here\u2019s how it works.<\/p>\n<p>There are two main components to JPEGmini. The first is an image quality detector, which imitates the perceptual qualities of the human visual system, to determine the maximum amount of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpegmini.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">compression<\/a> that can be used on each photo without causing visible artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>The second is a unique JPEG encoder, which adapts the JPEG encoding process to the original photos, creating the most compact representation of the photos that is possible under the JPEG standard. When you combine these two components it enables <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpegmini.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">JPEGmini<\/a> to achieve an extremely high recompression ratio of up to 5x, or 80% reduction on your photos, depending on their resolution.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Si6534rcWqY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to magically free up tons of hard drive space you can download JPEGmini by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpegmini.com\/app\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember watching a paid commercial late at night, many years ago, from Showtime Rotisserie &amp; BBQ. The host, Ron Popeil, involved the audience during his pitch. 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