Our favorite Google Chrome extensions

After the John Oliver-inspired Drumpfinator took the Internet by storm last week, we decided to compile a list of our favorite Google Chrome extensions, from silly to super useful. If you still use Safari, well...we can't help you there.Aesthetic TilesScreen Shot 2016-03-09 at 12.23.42 PMTiles allows you to choose your favorite/most-visited websites and organizes them into a supremely aesthetically-pleasing grid that serves as the backdrop for your new tabs.Earth View from Google EarthScreen Shot 2016-03-09 at 12.34.11 PMIn direct competition with Tiles for your new tab space is Earth View. Earth View transports you around the world with a simple "Command T" by displaying stunning Google Earth images as the backdrop for every new tab you open.MomentumScreen Shot 2016-03-09 at 12.41.02 PMYet another extension battling for your new tab page. Momentum replaces the standard new tab page with a personal dashboard, including weather, a to-do list, time, and an inspirational quote.PracticalLeo DictionaryLeo functions much like the Kindle or iPad feature that allows you to look up a word's meaning by displaying a text bubble with its definition right on the page. Now you can learn an unknown word rather than read around it!AdBlockAdBlock is the most popular Chrome Extension in the world with over 40 million users. It's rather self-explanatory: it blocks ads.HolaHola is a free VPN that allows you to trick your computer into thinking you're surfing the web from around the world. The most useful application? Netflix. Every country has a vastly different array of selections, so Hola extends your possible procrastinating tenfold (maybe it shouldn't be in the "practical" section after all...). That being said, there are some out there who contend that Hola is actually quite bad for your computer, so be careful!How Many Pens?Developed by Blog's own Joe Stein '16, as well as Sam Brebner '16, Rahul Kuchibhatla '16, and Evan Fuller '16, How Many Pens? converts dollar amounts on pages you visit into "'equivalents' in actual things." The developers wanted to help online consumers more easily conceptualize the meaning of a dollar in a world in which currency has become increasingly divorced from value.PocketPocket allows you to save web links for later, so you don't have that article you've been meaning to read up as a tab for an entire week.OneTabSimilarly, OneTab allows you to condense all your tabs into a comprehensive list with just the click of a button. The developers boast that it can save up to 95% memory as a result, but I don't really know what that means. Either way, it's definitely nice to not have 342 tabs open at once.FunnyMillennials to Snake PeopleSick of reading the umpteenth thinkpiece on why millennials are the pits? Never see the word millennial on the Internet again with Millennials to Snake People, which replaces each instance of "millennials" with "snake people" on every web page you visit.Nicolas Cage Screen Shot 2016-03-09 at 1.04.32 PMThis is the same extension as Millennials to Snake People, except it changes "God" to "Nicolas Cage." Because we know you needed that in your life.Images viavia, via, via and via

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