How To View How Much Memory Each Google Chrome Tab is Taking

The good and bad thing about Google Chrome is that it separates each tab in the browser as a separate process in Windows. This is great for isolating crashes which can bring down a tab without losing the rest of the open tabs, but looking at the task manager, you can’t really tell which tab is using all the memory as below:

There is a relatively easy way to find out memory usage of Chrome within your browser. In order to view this, follow the steps below:

Step 1

Go to a New Tab in Chrome

Step 2

Type the following in the URL bar and hit enter:  about:memory

You will see the following window:

Here you can see cool things like:

• How much memory each running browser is taking on your machine (this includes that IE browser that you need for software that absolutely needs it).
• How much memory each Chrome tab is taking
• How much memory each plugin and extension is taking.

It also differentiates between physical and virtual memory

Now isn’t that awesome?

Step 3 (optional)

I actually added this “page” as a bookmark in Chrome to put on my bookmarks bar, so that I can see the memory usage via a single click.

Note

You can also get to this page by going to the Chrome Task Manager (hit Shift-Escape while in Chrome) and clicking the funky looking “stats for nerds” link at the bottom of the resulting window.

Comment below if you like and want more of these quick tips! Until then, I’m outta here!

Feedly for Android– RSS Reader that Rocks…

Mmmm RSS feeds.. who doesn’t love the ability to subscribe to feeds from various websites and being able to read through the articles at ones leisure.

Now, when I had my iPad as my primary tablet, I used Flipboard ALL the time. It was amazing and one of the premiere products out there that supported subscribing to various topics as well as twitter accounts. That was one of the major reasons why I bought the iPad funnily enough. It looked so damn cool going through my Facebook and Twitter listings like a magazine.

Come forward to the Asus Transformer, there was no Flipboard, and I almost panicked when I found there would be no android version of this application.

The major difference between Feedly and Flipboard is that Feedly is a RSS Reader that integrates seamlessly with your Google Reader subscriptions. Flipboard on the other hand does funky stuff with your twitter and Facebook feeds.

Anyway, enough about Flipboard.. all about Feedly from here.

Feedly is first and foremost a news aggregator based on RSS feeds. Its optimised for Honeycomb and while it comes pre-configured with lots of fantastic content, its even better when personalised with Google Reader integration. Presenting your RSS feeds in a clean magazine like format, Feedly looks and behaves beautifully. Feedly comes with customised layouts for different types of devices (including mobile, tablet and web) and looks great in landscape more on my Transformer.

The developers have taken the user experience seriously and designed the interface to be intuitive and familiar. The panels transition to and from the background seamlessly with very little lag, and the rendering engine that sets up and displays the content is almost on par with Flipboard.

Integration with products such as Instapaper and Read It Later is excellent as well as the ability to discover and add additional feeds directly from within the application.

While Feedly is available on both Chrome and Firefox, I’ve never really used the PC equivalent. Frankly, it was easier to subscribe to the RSS feeds I needed via Outlook than to go through Feedly. However, on the tablet, this application has made reading the RSS feeds a new experience and one that comes with my highest recommendations.

Combined with the fact that its free from the Android and Amazon market, its one of those applications that can only get better with time.

Bring on Twitter and Facebook integration, and I’m happy to leave the iPad to the wife!

You can get Feedly for Android here:

• Amazon Market Link (US Only)
• Google Market Link

Ooh! Peggle for Android just released and free today from the Amazon AppStore!

Yes.. finally, one of the classics from PopCap Games is out for the Android, and free for the next 24 hours!

I’ve played this game on the PC and IPhone before and the android version looks good! Hurry and get your free copy below. Otherwise, its still a cheap deal at just shy of three dollars after today.

Peggle (WiFi Download Only)

Swype 3.0 Beta released for Android

Good news! One of the premier keyboards for Android just hit version 3.0. The beta version just got released and is available from the Swype website.
This version comes with major new features including:

• Tap Correction – allows the user to go from “swyping” and back easily.
• The pop up word choices window has now been replaced (finally!) with a much more user friendly horizontal list above the keyboard.
• Its now Honeycomb friendly, with a version specifically for WXGA screens.

As this is Beta software, you need to install it from their website directly (complete details are at http://beta.swype.com/), and bear in mind the warnings on the website before you proceed to install beta software on your device

Yeah yeah.. Blog finally getting some updates..

I know I’ve been a bit.. well, lazy..
I know I’ve been procastinating.. I know this site is still getting visitors.. so I thought I may as well get down to doing some updates!

I just did a site re-design with a new look and feel (barring the damn logo!! argh.. i need to do a new one again crap..), and now collating some nice little topics to write about. If there is anything in particular you want to see, leave a comment, and provided its not illegal or naughty, I just may spiel about it.

Oh yeah, I’m going to be a lot more informal about things now too.. Am getting too old to remain well mannered and non-cranky.

Dee

Google Adds Device Compatibility on its Android Market

This was a pleasant surprise for me for sure. In addition to allowing users to remotely deploy applications directly from the website, Google has now included functionality to do a device compatibility check against registered devices.

I have an Asus Transformer Tablet in addition to my Samsung Galaxy phone registered and going into any application, you can now see which device the application will work on.

The market shows all applications regardless of device compatibility, so usually the only time you used to know if an application will work would be when you try and install it. Now, this message would save the users some time as well as looking very cool indeed!