APPS

SHORTCUT YOUR WAY THROUGH WEB APPS.

Free | tinyurl.com/tla74-apps There are web apps aplenty, but it can get rather tedious if you access them individually via your browser. However, this Chrome extension, named Apps, will give you easy access to the most popular web apps once installed. It’s a new plugin that doesn’t add an icon to your toolbar, but to Chrome’s homepage (or to the apps directory if you’re using a new-tab tool, like Fruumo above). Click on the plugin’s icon and you’re taken to a web interface that lists popular apps, including Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube and Instagram, plus gives you easy access to Google Drive and your Twitter account. During testing, we found Apps was able to log us into our web apps directly, without us needing to set them up individually, so it’s possible that the plugin is pulling in saved login details. And as the web interface mentions, you can rearrange the apps in their 3 x 5 grid to your liking by pressing, dragging and dropping the icons for each app.