Yesterday, while developing advertising campaigns , I suddenly noticed my operating system was gradually performing slower and slower. After snapping out of the zone, the reason for the drop in performance became obvious. Three instances of Firefox, each with a minimum of ten open tabs, four Notepad sessions, three instances of Internet Explorer (have to conform to standards now, don't we?), two Putty sessions, three instances of Foxit Reader, a development VM, paint shop pro, anti-virus, Alt.Binz (torrents suck), automatic updates, sftp-drive, and loads of other miscellaneous crap; lovely.
The veteran Nullamatix readers probably already know I prefer minimalism over aesthetics any day, but feel free to take a look at the attached screenshot taken a couple months ago to see what I'm referring to. Further analysis lead me to conclude most of the Firefox tabs were for web based tools - nice. So I started thinking, "how about a little consolidation to render this problem obsolete?" After dedicating nearly fifteen consecutive hours to mine and my family's future (I'm a computer nerd, I'm a computer nerd), it was time to end the day and get some rest.
Shortly after waking up and fixing a pot of coffee, I started working on a Tools page, which is now listed in the top navigation menu. Anytime I come across a new and helpful tool, I'll add it to the list. The purpose, needless to say, is to provide an organized and consolidated list of useful tools for web developers, Internet marketers, and network/security specialists. The list is pretty short at the moment, but trust me, there's a lot more on the way. I guess the purpose of this post is to announce the addition and provide readers an opportunity to showcase their tools. If you have any useful web based tools you'd like to recommend for inclusion either shoot me an email or leave a comment.
Until next time, back to the grind.
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Tags: desktop, performance, tools
