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A Google Chrome Review from a Firefox 3 user

After reading the following propaganda:

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

I downloaded Google’s new Chrome web browser, particularly sold on the whole multi-threaded thing. I like to have about a million tabs open and it really sucks when one crappy javascript page goes bonkers and kills all your other tabs. Also I have a dual CPU; it’s nice to finally see a browser take full advantage of that.
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Taking better screenshots

The old method of hitting printscreen (usually twice for good measure) and then editing the photo in Gimp just wasn’t working for me anymore. Luckily I found this little shiny collection of 1’s and 0’s:

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

It has more features than I really need, but here is a list of the cool ones:

  • Take a snapshot of the entire desktop.
  • Take a snapshot of any Window, or menu.
  • Take a snapshot of any rectangular area.
  • Use an onscreen ruler to measure the size of, uh , onscreen stuff.
  • A color picker that gives you the color value of any onscreen color.
  • Basic transformation tools like flip, rotate and such.

You could pay $39 for Snag It or you could download this great tool.