In November, Google Pay added a fee for instant transfers and decided to kill peer-to-peer payments via its web app. Now, a new banner on its support site shows that you can no longer send or receive money with the original application. Users are invited to install the shiny, new Google Pay app via the […]
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There are multiple different channels that apps find themselves making their way onto your Chrome OS device. At one time it was via the Chrome Web Store. In that store, you can find dedicated Chrome OS apps alongside Extensions that expand the usability of Chrome. Now that Android has come on the scene, this section of the site will expand incredibly.
Full Restore on Chromebooks will drive you crazy if you watch a lot of Youtube videos
Full Restore is a feature first introduced at the end of last year to Chromebook users. It allows you the option to automatically restore all of your existing apps and browser tabs after a reboot or if your device crashes under load. While quite possibly the one thing that I so desperately needed over the […]
Continue ReadingShopping with Google is becoming a lot more interactive, but the service remains unusable
Last week at Google I/O, the company announced that Shopify Integration would be coming for retailers who want to bring their products into Google Shopping. Now, they will have a whole new way of presenting their wares to consumers by curating how their brand appears across Search, Shopping, Images, Maps, and Youtube! This re-imagined experience […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Meet overhaul begins rolling out with option to revert back to legacy experience
Last month, we reported on Google’s plans to completely overhaul Meet – its video chat service now hugely popular with Workspace users in education and enterprise and has exploded in growth thanks to the global pandemic. Now, that’s beginning to happen, and Google has given us updated information to discuss! Rapid Release domains will begin […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Messages may soon allow you to pin and star conversations
XDA Developers has performed a teardown of the latest Google Messages APK for Android, and while these inspections don’t guarantee features will make their way to the masses, they often do. During their adventure, they discovered that the app may soon allow users to pin conversations to the top of their messages for quick access. […]
Continue Reading‘Desktop PWA Sub Apps’ could help users install multiple experiences in one fell swoop
A new potential Chrome flag discovered by Chrome Story called ‘Desktop PWA Sub Apps’ may enable installed web applications to create additional shortcuts for related web apps. Sound confusing? Let me explain. Traditional software packages – like Windows applications, for example – are delivered to a user via an installer. These installers can give the […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Docs now supports placing images above and behind text
Likely as a part of the larger Smart Canvas update to Docs, users will now have the ability to place images above or behind text instead of just between or aside it. Formatting of the text will also be preserved when importing or exporting documents from Microsoft Word. The lack of consistent formatting in the […]
Continue ReadingLinux leaving Beta in next Chrome OS update and that’s a big deal
Google I/O 2021 is a wrap and despite there being no hardware to speak of, there were a ton of new features and updates announced that will be heading our way over the coming weeks and months. During the “What’s new in Chrome OS” session, Emilie Roberts and Sanj Nathwani highlighted some new features that […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Photos introduces Storage saver and new tools to reclaim space as unlimited ends
We are officially just one week away from Google taking an axe to its unlimited free storage for Photos and Drive. Having announced it six months ago, it’s hard to believe it’s finally happening. We’ve become so accustomed to free and unlimited storage over the years that now that the company is doing its best […]
Continue ReadingGoogle and Samsung team up to reimagine WearOS with Fitbit in tow
On this week’s episode of The Chrome Cast, we finally had a chance to sit down and digest some of the awesome announcements that came out of Google’s 2021 I/O developer conference. There weren’t a lot of consumer-facing products unveiled but the list of new software and platform features is a long one and we’ll […]
Continue ReadingThe Google Play Store will better surface apps and games built specifically for Chromebooks
This week was full of some incredibly interesting announcements for Chrome OS. While I was really hoping for a sneak peek at Material You for laptops, I was instead left standing with my hands out. However, Google Play apps, Linux, progressive web apps, and gaming all got the royal treatment, so I’m more than satisfied […]
Continue ReadingOpenShot brings official Linux video editor to Chromebooks
Seeing how the foundation of Chrome Unboxed is built very much on Chrome OS and cloud computing, we are huge fans of the open web and ever-evolving tools that come with the territory. That said, there is one particular area that Chrome OS is still lacking and I’m afraid that we are still a few […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Photos is testing the ability to combine filters in search
In the Google Play version of the Photos app which was first spotted by Prasham Parikh of Android Police, the company is testing the ability to search using several filters simultaneously. Previously, on the Search or ‘Explore’ tab, you would find many different types of filter options at the bottom of the screen – favorites, […]
Continue ReadingEnabling Linux for your managed Chromebooks
The Linux container on Chrome OS still feels a bit “Beta” in my opinion but it does offer up some useful additions to the Chromebook toolbox. Apart from giving you a new set of productivity tools, the terminal is a great way to learn your way around the Linux command-line interface. Whether you’re teaching a […]
Continue ReadingYoutube TV hits 10 million Google Play Store downloads and arrives on Sony’s Playstation 5
As the war between Google and Roku wages on, with the former recently placing a Youtube TV link directly in the official Youtube app to circumvent Roku’s latest decision to block the ‘unchecked monopolist’, the Google-based television streaming application has officially hit 10 million Google Play Store downloads. For those unfamiliar, Youtube TV offers over […]
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