Think back to the old days when you have restricted bandwidth, restricted online time, super slow speeds… Sure, the material on the net isn’t as cool and dynamic as they are now. But didn’t you spend a great deal of time READING, rather than watching pointless videos, looking at pointless pictures, skipping whatever text that comes with it? Hell, you would even download the TEXT because you won’t want to spend the time online. You know that if you do that, you will slowly deplete your monthly online time limit.

Look at what unlimited bandwidth and online time has done to us. I’ll tell you what its done to me. I took everything for granted. When ‘mighty’ Starhub got complacent and started doing maintenance (which means downtime for the users) in the middle of the day, I found myself to be completely useless without the net. I can’t look for resources, tutorials, inspiration, all that. I realise that there seem to be very little I can do, offline.

When I scour the net, I didn’t really READ the content. I know they’re good content, which is why I bookmarked them. It’s become a habit. I have this folder tab on my Firefox bookmark toolbar, which I call Articles. Anything useful, interesting or beneficial I found on the net, (mostly through my RSS feeds), I drag and drop the tab into that folder, thinking that I’ll read them later.

In the case of resources and tutorials, I thought I’ll store them first so I can come back, download and then try them out. But no… the list piles up. It kept getting bigger and bigger. I see an interesting article,I bookmark it, and then I forget it.

See the scrollbar. This is only the list I’ve compiled since I bought this laptop. I exported the list I had on my computer before I formatted. That list still remained unvisited.

I think I should stop reading in the new feeds and learn from whatever sites I’ve already bookmarked. If I can just put in one good practice per day… Imagine how great it’d be after say, 30 days. And I definitely have more than 30 tips/resources pages.

I bookmark pages, or websites that are related to webdesign, graphic design, video, filming, freelance, client management, page rankings. Anything that I plan to incorporate into Suadref Studios. Hmmm… Damn my procrastinating brain.

With all the big ruckus about the launch of almighty Google’s new browser, I think I’ll have a say in it too after trying it out for a few days.

I’ve decided that it’s got a few good stuff, but overall, I’m still using Firefox. However, I’m leaving Chrome on my desktop in case of quick net searches.

Why is Chrome nice?

1. Awesome load up speed. It’s almost like, to quote a friend, loading up a folder in your computer!
2. Precious real estate. I’m talking about the tabs being put way on top, practically on the title bar. There is NO title bar. Just tabs and a little google word beside the – [] X on top.
3. Incognito Mode. This shouldn’t be here. It should be found below, in the not-nice section.
4. The multiple mini-site Home page. I know, most browsers have this, but Chrome’s super load up speed and displaying this with no added time makes it a charm.
5. Easy Importing. I spent minimal effort in making Chrome feel at home with all my bookmarks, cookies and saved passwords imported over from Firefox. But I’m sure many other browsers have this feature too.
6. Holy Crap. I just added this: Chrome has: right click>>Inspect element. SWEET!!!! It literally breaks down the design of the site~!!!

Then why am I not a total Chrome convert? Mainly coz of lack of the following:

1. No Add Ons. Even though I don’t use a lot of Add Ons, I really treasure and maximise the usage of those addons I have. Stuff like WebDeveloper toolbar, Download Helper, DownthemAll, and IE Tab (heh) are priceless to me. Can’t live without ‘em.
2. No: Right Click>> View background Image. I have this habit. I see a pretty website, I’ll think of how they got this up on their webdesign. So I’ll go around the screen looking at how the lay out their CSS. It’s a lot harder to do when you can’t simply view background image. FORGET THAT! I amended this, see number 6 above.
3. Chrome’s streaming isn’t perfect. I was watching some Veronica Mars, and it got interrupted quite often. Firefox never had that problem. Unless my dumbshit Internet Provider cocks up again. Yes Starhub, I speaketh of you.
4. No customizability on the toolbars. I want this here, I want that there, but I can’t do anything. Minimalistic is good, but gimme some room to customise, will ya?
5. Bookmarking. It’s just.. unfamiliar, and not too detailed. In Firefox 3, you can type keyword tags and suddenly the page url comes up in the address bar. I’ve really taken a liking to that.
6. Incognito mode: Who are they kidding when they say that it’s useful for planning secret birthday parties for friends? Pfft.
7. No full screen. Sometimes I wanna see the whole view. Another weird habit. Don’t ask.
8. Others: They don’t really concern me, much. But from what I’ve read around, here are some more, briefly: Non-windows support, dragging tabs back into windows  (or into bookmarks), profile roaming, who knows what else.

Hmm, people think I’m super pro Chrome coz of my MSN nick. I just forgot to change it for some time. In summary, I think Chrome’s still a new browser which has much potential to uncover, especially with Google making it, I’m curious to see where future versions will take it.

Meanwhile, the Mozilla people aren’t just shaking their legs.

On a lighter note, do yourselves a favour and watch this amazing piece of film. It’s TERMINATOR vs ROBOCOP!!! A dream film!