Removed Feature: Preview Tools Show Colors

I'm a little bummed. One of my most often-used features is now missing from Preview.
While I'm coding CSS, I frequently use a screen snapshot of a website in progress, open it in Preview, and then select Tools > Show Colors to display the Apple color palette. I had grown accustomed to sampling colors using this tool, then adding them to the global color palette, which I am then able to reference in my other design programs.
For some reason, this function has been removed in Snow Leopard. I can't figure out for the life of me why this feature would need to be removed.
It was bad enough that the Apple color palette did not support web colors in HEX format. I had to use a 3rd party plugin for this functionality. But it matters not, since now it appears the only option is to open these snapshots in Photoshop just to grab a simple HEX code for a color.
Talk about killing a mosquito with a sledgehammer.
If I'm missing something, will someone please enlighten me? I've poked around in the custom menu items, just to make sure that this function wasn't simply tucked elsewhere. I can't find it. one might even think that the built-in DigitalColor Meter utility might serve this purpose, but sadly, it does not.
Is there an easier way to grab a HEX code from a snapshot?
Thanks a million, Apple.

Thanks, micp. That's actually the plugin I've been using for a while. But the only way to invoke this tool in Preview is to select Tools > Fonts and then select the Colors tool.
Leopard's version of Preview had this function in the toolbar, with a convenient keyboard shortcut (Command + Shift + C ).
Still love the Hex Color Picker by Waffle Software. I'd be lost without it. Just wish it was easier to pull up that menu item.

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