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Booya!

Check out this Performance Comparison of Major Web Browsers.

Google Chrome killed it!

In summary:

Up yours Internet Explorer. And you know what? Up yours too Firefox!

I’ve been having so many issues with Firefox lately that I had to completely give up on it and use Chrome as my default browser. Many of my Firefox add-ons weren’t compatible with the latest version and the ones that were compatible were slowing it down. I’m careful with my add-ons and I didn’t have too many to begin with so this was unacceptable for me.

I’m really loving Chrome. It’s fast and it looks pretty damn cool. I have mine set up with the chrome finish so my browser looks all slick-like.

I’m not even that disappointed that I can’t use the add-ons I was so dependent on with Firefox. I don’t even miss them.

You can’t right click on an image in Chrome and set it as your desktop wallpaper which is sad, but you can right click on anything you want to and “inspect element”. This is a super handy tool for web developers, designers, internet marketers, etc. If you use Firebug for Firefox, this tool is very similar.

It’s definitely worth trying Chrome out if you haven’t already.

As an Internet Marketer and web designer, I’m constantly downloading files, installing apps, etc. so my PC gets a little under the weather sometimes. I found this cool little program awhile ago that I now couldn’t live without.

Glary Utilities is a light-weight application that does a bunch of things.

It cleans your registry entries, recovers lost disk space, and removes spyware and adware to name a few features. It’s like giving your coffee pot a good cleaning and having a nice, fresh, tasty cup of coffee after.

What I love most about this tool is it loads quickly and scans/fixes quickly. This is a bonus for me since I have zero patience. Oh yeah, and it’s free.

Give it a try and see how much junk it will fix on your computer.

20 Tools For The Freelance Designer On A Shoestring Budget was a post that caught my eye since I’m a freelancer with a teeny weeny budget. (Freelancers with no money? That’s unheard of!)

I use a few of the tools/services listed like COLOURlovers, Notepad++, and deviantART but some of the other resources listed were new to me.

If you’re a designer/freelancer, you might find something new too. Check it out.

I wanted to point out a couple resources that two of my excellent readers recommended in the hopes that they will be useful to you.

Chris from AB Web Design says the best tool he has found for color sampling is Pixie. It’s a tiny little program that tells you what the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values are for a particular color. You simply hold your mouse over the color you want.

I do this a lot of times when I see a color in a photo or on a website that I love. Now, instead of opening up Fireworks (which takes an eternity on my piece of crap machine) to find out what the hex value is, I can open up Pixie instantly and find out. Very handy.

Jack from ZedProMarketing.com uses Treepad. I haven’t used it too much yet but I can see it’s like Notepad (for keeping text files) but with a lot more features. Plus it is a much smaller program than OpenOffice or MS Office so it’s much easier to load and keep running while you’re working on other things.

For bloggers and/or web designers who have computers that are lacking in speed and memory (like mine!), these two programs are great options. Thanks for the recommendations guys!

I was looking for a web safe color chart that I could buy and there doesn’t seem to be much of a selection online. That’s OK though because there are some great options at VisiBone.

I found a mousepad and a chart that I’d love to try, although I don’t think the mousepad would work with my optical mouse. It would be really handy to have a chart on my desk when designing websites, so if you also dabble in design, this chart may be something that could come in handy for you.

(I’m not an affiliate for them. Just pointing out a cool resource.)