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To rotate your Chromebook screen, press CTRL + SHIFT + RELOAD. Every time you use this shortcut, the screen rotates 90 degrees sideways. Chromebooks are now coming in many new form factors, and Chrome OS is finding its way into many other use cases like kiosks and signage. Rotating the screen is no longer a…
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I was playing a youtube video and opened up the mixer on my Windows PC for something. To my surprise, Chrome was listed there right next to the Speaker. I can reduce volume of Chrome, without reducing the volume of the entire computer. That’s something new! Try it out now. Play something on Chrome, click…
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You can call this the easiest note-taking on Chrome. If you are on Chrome OS, well, this is the easiest. This will work on all modern web browsers, and not Chrome specific. Here is How You Can Take Note on A New Tab Open up a new tab and type this in the address bar.…
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Everything you need to know about the Chromebook Shelf: how to move it, pin and unpin apps, auto-hide it, reorder icons, create folders, and fix common problems.
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Well, this is a pretty shameless copy-paste of François Beaufort’s post, but pretty useful, so I couldn’t stop sharing it. Now, there won’t be many who would want to do this, so if you are not the very curious type, you can probably skip this post. How To Spoof Your Chromebook’s MAC Address Your Chromebook needs…
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I am officially back on Chromium OS. My Dell netbook is now running the latest Chromium OS build from Hexxeh after months long adventure with Windows 8. Things are looking pretty nice in here and I am enjoying it. Okay, so today I am going to show you how to sync your Google Contacts on…
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This is a very short post to share a Chromebook tip. To get the firmware of chrome your chromebook is running using CLI in dev-mode [crosh/shell] type: /usr/sbin/chromeos-firmwareupdate -V | grep “BIOS version” To view in the GUI (in chrome itself) type: chrome://chrome/help Do you have any Chromebook tips to share? Please drop me a comment…
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Can I Play .wav Files On My Chromebook? Yes, Chrome OS can play .wav files. However, since .wav files can be encoded with a variety of codecs, Google Chrome OS cannot read all of them. Here’s a list of formats that do not work yet: 11,025 Hz 4 bit ADPCM 8,000 Hz 4 bit ADPCM 8,000…
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Chromebooks are not that much fun if you are offline. But if you prepare for it, you are going to have a nice time with your Chromebook even without an internet connection. You can enable offline access to Google Docs from your Chromebook. You need to be connected to the internet to set this up.…
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Remember this post? Some Future Chromebooks Will Not Have Dev Switch. Yes, and that new Chromebook is “Snow” or the new Samsung ARM baby. Okay, before I go with the whole storytelling, here is your answer if you reached this page searching for “how-to”. How To Enter Entering Developer Mode on ARM Chromebook Hold down the ESC…