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Google likes to do this from time to time, giving users access to a handful of rentals for a Redbox-like price. They are at it again, but there are some things you need to know about it this time around. First and foremost, this offer is not extended to all Google users. Yeah, that stinks, […]
As the days are closing in on the eventual release of the ASUS C302CA (formerly known as ‘Cave’), we are seeing the device show up in multiple retailers with no availability date. Save one.
Screenshot from a Dell Chromebook 13 running Android Apps. You read that right! Dell is next in line to see Android Apps arrive in the Beta Channel of Chrome OS. As the title implies, there are some caveats here and we are going to go through them quickly. Those things aside, The Dell Chromebook 13 […]
As I’ve said before, it is firmly Chromebook Silly Season. The sheer number of new devices showing up in the commits bears witness to this fact, as does the near-endless speculation surrounding them. We previously speculated ‘Kevin’ could be announced at Google’s 10/4 Event. Emphasis on the ‘could’. We’ve also talked a bit about Samsung, […]
With all the talk revolving around ‘Kevin’ and ‘Gru’ of late, one of the devices I’ve been extremely excited about has been relatively silent. ‘Cave’ has been absent around Chrome Unboxed for a little while. We still feel that ‘Cave’ is the ASUS Chromebook 2, but nothing we’ve seen recently has been conclusive. We’ve seen […]
The great YouTube Music migration, promised many months ago, is finally beginning. Users left and right are starting to see the pop-up dialog in the YouTube Music app that begins the process of moving your songs, albums, playlists, purchases, uploads, personalized tastes, recommendations, and your liked and disliked songs over to the service from the […]
Necessity is the mother of invention. Well, maybe not an invention in this case but the battle for best video conferencing platform is heating up and companies like Google and Facebook are doing their best to put some pressure on the now-giant that is Zoom. Google has recently upgraded the abilities of the company’s consumer-facing […]
We’ve talked about Google’s plan to release an upcoming feature called Nearby Sharing and I don’t want to undermine how exciting that will be when it does arrive. However, in the meantime, there’s a PWA out there that does much of what Apple’s much-loved Airdrop does and you can use it today, right now, and […]
I have been waiting for more than a year and a half to write this article. It seems like a lifetime ago since I penned my theory about what Google was doing with containers and Chrome OS. Since then, the Crostini Project has brought Linux apps to millions of Chromebooks and in doing so, opened […]
Over the weekend, I received a message from a reader who was desperately trying to get Viber working on his Chromebook. What is Viber you ask? Yeah, I wasn’t exactly familiar with it either but over 1 billion people around the globe depend on Rakuten’s messaging platform for chat, calls and even video conferencing. The […]
Before we go any deeper with this, I’d like to confess that I am in no way an expert on Linux. Since the Crostini project first emerged and brought Linux applications to Chrome OS, I have been quite busy researching the various Linux distros and more specifically, how apps are packaged and handled on said […]
We’ve talked a lot lately about Linux apps on Chrome OS and the plausibility that Chromebooks could eventually be able to run resource-hungry applications such as full-fledged video editors like Davinci Resolve. Now, we’re still a little ways out from that becoming a reality but if and when Crostini can leverage a dGPU or external […]
