This is the last week of our Chrome Extension tour and I have three of them left. I have also saved the very best for last and you will not believe what it does, it is a miracle! I am sure you will get my meaning at the end.
First up is, “LastPass: Free Password Manager.” This is an app that will manage your password collection online. It works very well as I have been experimenting with it for over a year now. You can record your site passwords as you create, use or edit them on an online account. This online LastPass account should have a good password (more about those next week).
If you add a username and password for a site to LastPass the next time you go to the site, you can autofill the answers with the extension. Very quick and easy.
I do have one concern which has not been confirmed yet and may never be. I cannot help but think what happens if someone hacks my LastPass password. LastPass says that they have superior security for your safety and there has never been a major issue…but only time will tell.
Next is “Save to Pocket.” I have written about GetPocket.com in the past and it is still an excellent site/app. It is a site which allows you to save interesting sites for later viewing. With the “Save to Pocket” extension all you need to do while viewing an attention-grabbing site is to click the button then that site will be saved to Pocket. Later you can log into the Pocket site and view all of those older sites. It allows you to tag them so that all of your recipes, art, technology, etc. sites can be easily found.
Of course, be careful or you will have more than you have time to read. I try to keep my list trimmed down and I still have over 60 sites to catch up on.
Now the one you have all been waiting for. This one is not perfect but it does a lot of good things for you if you are tired of the way Facebook works. “Social Fixer for Facebook” was created by an individual, Matt Kruse, who was tired of how Facebook worked for him. It was a personal project that has now significantly evolved. Read more about him and it at socialfixer.com. There are many things you can adjust using this extension for Facebook; however, it will only work on that browser. So, if you go to another browser or another computer without Social Fixer installed you will get the same old FB.
Here you go, the number one thing this app does well…drumroll please…it allows you to filter out many, many political posts so you do not have to see them. There are many other “filters” that you can apply to remove other types of posts and make FB perform in different ways but the first one I mentioned is the winner for me!
