Mini Link Dump + Chrome

I’ve got nothing else better to do at work then read some tutorials, random white papers for proprietary software my company uses and catch up on the Internets.

First link of my official Link Dump 1.0

CSS Dock Menu - nDesign Studio
This is nuts. A lovely combination of the jQuery libraries and another sub-component from the library. A great use of Nick’s icons. I hadn’t visited in a while and happened upon the older entry of ‘CSS Dock menu’. Yes, I am a closet Apple fan.

Icon Buffet
Following with more prettiness, Icon Buffet. Don’t worry, this isn’t the first time I’ve been here. This site is old news. I just thought I’d post it for all those who haven’t played/caught them all. I only wish they made them bigger so I could use them on my desktop - they’re really meant for web-use.

Chrome
I can’t believe I didn’t put this first on my list (for today). I just downloaded Chrome (on company time - teehee) and it’s amazing, so far. A lot of different features from those of a typical web browser. Tabs are old news, and so is the cleanliness of streamlined menus and ‘Century Gothic-esque” font. Google’s new child offers some interesting new things, however. To name a few, and not ruin your fun:

Multi-process powah! Each tab is it’s own sub-process branching from the main ‘browser’ process. You can see how much memory each tab is actually taking. I’m excited about this. You should be too if you use a multi-core processor or want more control over your browser.
Not only can you see the memory usage for Chrome, but if you type in (or find the funny link): about:memory, you can also see the memory used by your other active browsers. I spent a good twenty minutes opening various tabs in Firefox and IE7 to see how they compare. Chrome seems to cut down on the memory usage in general.
In-page re-sizable textareas! This is much win.
No menu bar/bookmark bar/spam bar/[…] clutter. Nice and simple.
Desktop shortcuts that open a simplified browser session. A good idea for a Twitter-obsessed friend of mine. You could even stick a browser shortcut to your favourite pr0n site in your hidden folder. Even better: Incognito window. Leave little trace!

Chrome doesn’t seem to recycle tab names though. I have ‘tab 88′ open now, but I clearly do not have 88 tabs actually open. The point of this is ? Speaking of tabs and performance: after having 10+ tabs open, performance seems to linearly decrease. Closing tabs becomes slightly sluggish and general UI elements take a tad longer to respond. Oh well.

Overall, I’m impressed! The only thing I’m not thrilled about is the mundane-looking blue bar at the top. There also seems to be lackage in form-filling. I forgot to mention how frikin’ fast it is. I guess that new Javascript V8 engine helps