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The Chrome web browser is a memory hog. I get it. We all get it. We’ve all seen the memes, and nobody’s denying it. But using a lot of RAM isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s only bad if it’s wasting the RAM by not doing anything important. It’s like a Shelby Mustang GT. Sure,…
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To turn off the touch screen on your Chromebook, enable the Debugging keyboard shortcuts flag and then use the keyboard shortcut SEARCH + SHIFT + T. Disable touch screen on Chromebook Chromebooks with touchscreens are very common these days. It is almost a must-have if your Chromebook supports Play Store and Android apps. However, occasionally…
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It’s finally happened, Google Play Store is here! (for Asus Flip, Pixel 2 and Acer R11 owners on the Dev channel anyways) When Google first announced that the Google Play Store was coming to Chromebooks, we were told that the Asus Flip, Acer R11, and Chromebook Pixel (2015) would receive the update on version 53,…
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Many companies including Google, Microsoft and IBM are working on “quantum computers” which will dramatically increase computing speed and efficiency. This is still a thing from the future but looks like Google is preparing Chrome for challenges in the quantum computing era. Quantum computers can in future decrypt information saved in the current modes of…
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Have you ever wondered how much storage you had left on your Chromebook? Well, you’ve always been able to tell, by opening the Files app and clicking on the options icon. But now, if you’re on the Developer channel, you can enable a flag which will give you a Storage option in your Chrome settings…
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Google stopped supporting Google Chrome on 32-bit Linux in March 2016, which ended up users using Linux 32-bit distribution in a fix. Ubuntu/Debian users are getting an error while using the Chromium browser which goes like this: ‘Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release Unable to find expected entry ‘main/binary-i386/Packages’ in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)…
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You are able to cast a video to the TV from your Chrome browser, but not able to hear anything?. Here are some possible causes and solutions to try when there is no sound through Chromecast. Are you using external AVR? See if you are using an external AVR. This may be one of the…
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Right now some of you might be thinking “who’s using Chrome to play high quality audio anyways?”. Well I think the answer is, a lot of people. Sure, many of you are using your favorite VLC player, or some other kind of player, like iTunes or Spotify’s Windows application. But many users are using web-based…
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Forgive the tardiness of this final post. I’ve been working. A lot. On Pixel C. I know, right? Yes. Boom. Period. Comma. Moving on… There’s much I can say about my ongoing working relationship with Google’s apparently-already-forgotten Android productivity experiment. I’ll invest a few final words on the topic here, but I’ll begin with the…
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If you’re like me, you like to have lots of tabs open. I mean lots. I typically have 30-40 tabs open on my Chromebook Pixel, which has an i5 Broadwell processor, and 8GB of RAM. My work computer though, is an Asus Chromebox with an i3 Haswell, and 4GB of RAM, and lately while driving…