Lifehacker's Best Chrome Extensions of 2014

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-18 01:29

Lifehacker offers you his version of the top extensions for Chrome at the end of 2014. This time, we decided not to include captain extensions like AdBlock and other well-known add-ons in the collection, but focused on those tools that we reviewed on the blog pages and turned out to be really capable of making the browser work better.

Motivation ()

Another year has passed. So fast, right? How much time has been wasted on empty, meaningless, useless things? Each time we voluntarily throw into the furnace the next few minutes of our only life, opening a new tab with the intention of plunging into popular bugger sites and social networks. But what if on a new tab you see not familiar sites, but time? The time that you have lived and are living now. Accurate to nine decimal places.

This is your life. It flows away slowly and continuously. Try to enter 2015 with this extension. We are confident that it will change your approach to time.

Dayboard ()

Continuing the theme of the war on procrastination, we have included another extension for the new tab in the top. Don't want to see the minutes of your life flowing away? Then look at the things you need to do! Each time you open a new Chrome tab, your to-do list will appear in front of you, in which you can include up to five most important tasks, and in focus mode there will be only one, but the highest priority task for the day.

Do Not Disturb ()

We promised not to be afraid of adblocks here, and therefore included his friend Do Not Disturb! In the top. In fact, this is the same fighter against unwanted content on viewed pages, but of a much broader profile. In part, its capabilities overlap with AdBlock and Disconnect, but in general it turns out to be a reliable comprehensive protection against annoying and dangerous things that we encounter on the Internet every day.

MailTrack ()

Whatever one may say, but e-mail still remains the only and uncontested means for serious communications. Therefore, email optimization remains a priority from year to year. What's missing in default GoogleMail? Of course, notifications of receipt and reading of letters. Excuses from employees and partners in the style of “I saw nothing, I don’t know anything” are no longer accepted, because MailTrack, thanks to the built-in detector image, instantly records and notifies the sender that his letter has been opened. You can fight this extension only by disabling the display of pictures in letters.

Checker Plus ()

Why is this extension so memorable? And just because it fits the entire cumbersome Googlemail interface into a compact pop-up window from the application icon. No exaggeration. With Checker Plus, you can fully work with Gmail without opening the Gmail tab.

SndLatr ()

For some unknown reason, Google still hasn't built a deferred mail function into their mail. A scheduler would be very useful at work, wouldn't it? Actually, the SndLatr extension just adds to Gmail the ability to schedule sending letters on a schedule.

Sortd ()

Chrome extensions make the possibilities of the Google mail service truly limitless. This plugin turns Gmail into a near-perfect to-do list. Letters become tasks and are distributed among customizable categories and are clearly displayed in a single space, similar to any classic To-Do manager. Why start a separate application to help you work with mail, if the mail itself can become such an assistant?

Secure Mail ()

2014 was also remembered for the loud leaks of all kinds of personal data. The protection of email correspondence, especially if it contains commercial or any other valuable information, is critically important. One of the simplest and most reliable protection methods is encryption. This extension implements an encryption method using a key generated by the sender. In order to decrypt the message, the recipient will need to enter the same key. In the presence of a reliable key transmission channel, data safety is almost 100%.

Hide YouTube Comments ()

The past year has been rich in all sorts of world events. Almost half of all popular videos on the most popular video hosting are exclusively politota. And if it is useful to be aware of what is happening in the world, then reading that concentrated nonsense in the comments to the video can be very dangerous for the psyche. With this extension, you can easily save yourself the hassle of contemplating YouTube comments.

Lifehacker ()

And yes, we could not help but include our small, but very useful creation, designed to make reading Lifehacker in Chrome more convenient. Thanks to this extension, you will not only not miss a single post, but you will also be able to quickly find the materials you are interested in through the built-in search.

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