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Smart Unlock, which Google used to call “Easy Unlock” is now live and available on your Chromebook. This showed up in the dev channel sometime back, but never worked for me. Yesterday I told you all that this feature is now part of the Chrome Admin Console. Today, thanks to, I tried this again. And…
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Chrome’s redesigned Bookmark Manager is a thing. It is totally different from the traditional bookmark manager that we all know, and has some additional features. The design is more “Cards” based like most of the Google properties on the web these days, and it is COLORFUL. I liked the design yes. I am also looking…
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Here is one interesting piece of news for Enterprise Chromebooks admins (and users!). Chrome OS team is planning an optional flag “disallow shutdown” as part of the Enterprise Policy. The team is planning to introduce a flag named kDeviceShutdownAllowed, and admins can set this to false to disable shutdown. The shutdown buttons will be replaced by…
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Google engineers have a long and proud tradition of sneaking jokes, games, and absurd little surprises into their products. Chromebooks, running Chrome OS with Chrome baked right in, are a goldmine for this kind of thing. Some of these Easter eggs are hidden in the operating system itself, some live inside the Chrome browser, and…
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Here is something that showed up on Chrome OS developer channel update, a “mute” option for individual tabs. This feature showed up in the code base a couple of weeks back and we have this working in the Dev channel already. Here is how it works. You can right-click any tab including the empty new tab page…
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You changed your banking password. You created a new login for that streaming service. You finally upgraded from “password123” to something a real human might not guess. Good. But there’s a problem: Chrome is still autofilling your old credentials, and now you can’t log in to anything. This is where Google Password Manager comes in.…
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Edge is an on-screen ruler that supports multiple units, horizontal & vertical orientation, and looks like a native application. This is a typical developer tool, but muggles like me can use this once in a while for measuring things online. Note: I couldn’t get this working on my Chromebook. I am guessing this is a…
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Google is working on a new API that will let you connect scanners to your Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. This new API is currently just a proposal under review, but we are getting closer to experimenting this feature on Chromebooks, says François Beaufort According to the design, here is what the new API will do: – Method…
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Your Chromebook can automatically detect the location and change the time. You can manually change the time and date from Settings > Advanced > Date and time. Manually change time Changing the date and time from the Settings app will change it on the lock screen as well. You do not have to change that…
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Here is a quick tip from François Beaufort to test the battery health of your Chromebook. All you have to do is enter the Chrome OS command line using Ctrl + Alt + T and enter the following command: battery_test 0 That will run a (very) short test and tell you how good your battery is now.…