Sometimes you just need to make a file smaller, quality be darned.

Maybe it’s your kid’s school play performance that probably doesn’t need to be preserved in pristine 4K resolution. Or perhaps it’s a PDF that won’t fit within your email provider’s attachment size limits.

Whatever the case, it’s worth bookmarking a couple of free tools that can squish your files down without uploading them to some untrustworthy server somewhere or making any other needless compromises.

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Quick and easy file compression

For a simple way to make your files smaller, check out ​vidshift.io​ (for videos) and ​nanofile.io​ (for everything else).

➜ Vidshift and Nanofile are free online tools for compressing files, both from the same developer.

⌚ It takes just a minute to start uploading and compressing, though the actual compression times depend…