Just checked mine and all OK. Purchased yesterday afternoon and last charge on my card was from realmac for $8.00.
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That’s terrible, @LSPhoto. I’ve just alerted Paddle from our end.
Of course, it’s hard to know where the info was taken from (unless you have more information regarding that) as our numbers are flying all over all the time. If anybody else has a similar report, please let us know (and paddle.com, too) immediately.
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The store that someone tried to purchase from actually called me. Any charges would not show up on your online account. I callled my cc company and only they could see it. I have my card in my possession and my last charge was over a week ago until last night. I emailed paddle but could not find a phone # for them.
Just checked with my bank and all is ok as of now. My purchase was quite early after the announcement. So everyone should keep an eye on it.
I do know from experience that the time credit card info is stolen to the time it is used can be quite a while.
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Paddle Phone Support
You can also reach us by phone during UK business hours: 9AM to 6PM Monday to Friday GMT (5AM to 2PM EST), on the following numbers:
US: (844) 723-5163
UK: 0141 280 5752
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It’s happened to me several times before but it’s always used within 2 days after they get the #. Also possible someone got it through wifi or other.
Thanks. Will have to call Monday, I guess. I’m in California.
I also purchased this as soon as the offer showed up. It works well but it really does not compress file sizes as well as TinyJPG, by a long shot.
I used an image that started out as 2.1MB, Squash 2 got it down to 1.7MB, while TinyPNG got it down to 382KB, that is a big difference. Comparing the two compressed images I cannot tell the difference, in fact, if anything the TinyPNG version looks better.
It really makes a difference being able to get very good compression rates, so I look forward to seeing improvements to Squash in the future.
Still a nice piece of software but for a lot of my images it is just not enough compression, but I plan on experimenting more with the quality setting and seeing what the results will be.
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Same thing here. I always use TinyJPG with incredible results. I purchased this app hoping to have similar results. Is there something that we need to do in the settings? I only see the compression percentage, but it is not as near as the 70% that it is set to. Why?? And TinyJPG is free. please Realmac, please fix this.
Agreed, very disappointing compression, I was expecting much more!
TinyJPG is still winning by a country mile with my images - a 4.5MB jpg:
Squash - 1.8MB
JPEGmini - 1.5MB
TinyJPG - 606.5KB
If anything, TinyJPG’s results look the best
More data:
Original - 2.6MB
Squash - 2.5MB
JPEGmini - 1.8MB
TinyJPG - 0.75MB
Im not really happy with Squash. I did some tests and often I get the message “we couldn’t Squash that file any further”. First I have to open the image with Preview.app the export as .jpg and in a second step I can bring Squash to reduce the file size.
But the result is often disappointing. In a lot of cases the image file size will increase! Example:
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Original file size: 601 KB
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"Reduced by Squash: 633 KB !
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Reduced by ImageOptim: 211 KB
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Reduced by TinyJPG: 118 KB
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Reduced by an Automator action: 551 KBB
Here the original image for tests:
As a quick test using that image I reduced that image to:
260kb using Adobe Fireworks - Setting = Better JPG Export with default at 80%
232kb Using JPEGmini
Both of those are realistic compression results that creates a file size reduction with a degrading of the mage quality that you cannot detect on a screen. I think most experienced graphics users would agree that Adobe and JPEGmini are the most widely respected compression utilities.
Compressing an image file to a smaller size is as easy as setting a lower % setting but not without reducing the quality of the image in the process. So to interpret that Product A is better than Product B because it produces smaller files is totally meaningless without declaring the quality of the final image. As it takes a pretty experienced eye to detect over compression on many images, most users just can’t decide what’s the best.
Also IMHO ImageOptim does not produce good results with JPG images however it is a really excellent PNG compressor.
The Squash details above claim to compress a 3.3Mb jpg image down to 778Kb. Hmmm. It would be very convincing if those images were made available for download.
Hey guys,
You can adjust the level of compression in the preferences window.
With Sqaush set at 40% quality, the file is only 186kb, and still looks great.
The results you get from squash will be the same (and usually better) than you can get with ImageOptim.
Also remember if a jpg has already been optimized/compressed, you won’t see any (or very little) savings.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Dan
UPDATE: I’ve also just tried the same image via TinyJPG and I have to say the compression artifacts are a lot more visble.
When you compress images it’s all about hitting the right balance between quality and file size, at least with Squash you get to choose. You also get the convience of having the app on your Mac, and not having to upload the images to someone elses server.
We’ll be improving Squash over the coming months, but if you’re not happy with it just drop us an email and we’ll issue you with a full refund.
Cheers (again),
Dan
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You can try to save a transparent PNG in PS. And try this with TinyPNG… It is awesome.
In the end it is all about the workflow.
Missed the initial discount on CyberMonday ; any discounts in the near future ?
Sorry, nothing planned at this point!
Hi Dan maybe an obvious question but the version that they sell at the (Spanish) App Store is also the newest one Squash 2 ? -I suppose yes but they don’t mention Squash 2.
Cheers
Yup, it’s the latest 
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