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The Chrome Web Store has started showing a compatibility icon next to apps and extensions. A simple but useful tweak to help users find out if the extension or app that they are trying to install is compatible with their device. If the app is not compatible, the blue “add to Chrome” button is replaced…
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Google Now is officially available on Chromebooks. Here is a quick guide on how to use Google Now from the Chrome OS launcher app. Access Google Now on Chrome OS To access Google Now, click the Search icon and open the app launcher. You can see Google Now card at the bottom of the picture…
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I’ve always wanted a Pixel. Ever since the first iteration was launched in 2013 I’ve been drooling over the high-end concept device from Google, meant to showcase Chrome OS and its possibilities. But the price tag was always a barrier. A very large barrier. At the time, I (and many others) believed that $1300 USD…
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Soon, you will see a new option on Chrome when a page fails to load. “Show Saved Copy” If you have a “stale copy” of webpage in Chrome’s cache, you will be able to view that instead of the error message. This idea has been floating around for a while. Now, this is available on the Dev…
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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.…