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One of my favorite parts of using a Chromebook is the ease of setting up secondary displays. I’ve yet to encounter a display that didn’t just work when attached to my Chromebook. Even with differences in scaling and DPI, moving windows between screens is fluid, easy, and the setup is painless. For me, using the […]
In early February, Google sent out a not-so-clear email to users of Google+ with this subject line: Your personal Google+ account is going away on April 2, 2019. As it turns out, that subject line wasn’t quite clear enough for a vast majority of users and there’s some confusion around the entire shut down that we’d like […]
Chromebook Offers are usually small, free gifts for Chromebook users that rotate in and out alongside the ever-present 100GB of free Drive storage. They don’t change too often and are usually simple things like exclusive Roblox add-ons. While my daughter loves getting these types of freebies, many Chromebook users simply forget or completely ignore the […]
About a week ago, news began rolling out from the G Suite Blog about an update to Gmail that introduced a highly-productive new feature: a right-click context menu from the inbox view. From this menu, you can now right-click (two-finger click) any message in your inbox and get a myriad of quick options without ever […]
A question we frequently field here at Chrome Unboxed goes something like this: “What’s the best Chromebook for less than $XXX?” Sometimes that number is $200, and sometimes that number is $500. Other times, I’ve answered that same question and the number was $1000.
Themes have been a part of the Chrome experience for many years. 3rd-party themes are numerous in the Chrome Web Store and come in all colors and variants. There are a few that are really well done and a few that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. After all these years of allowing others […]
As it stands right now, if your Chromebook has access to the Google Play Store, you can install and use millions of Android apps on your Chromebook. The selection is quite large and there are new apps added every day. Additionally, the selection of Android Apps that consider Chromebooks as a viable device is growing […]
I’ve been known to say it over and over again, and today proves my point even further: these new Chromebooks go on sale often and when they do, they are no-brainer purchases. Today’s deal is none other than the fantastic HP Chromebook x360. We just finished up our review and I can go ahead and […]
Chrome OS 72 began rolling out to the masses yesterday and brought a slew of new features and updates along with it. You can check out Gabriel’s article that outlines all the new stuff users can expect with the latest update, but there was an addition baked into Chrome OS 72 that Google didn’t exactly […]
Near the end of 2018 we reported on a new feature that was coming to Chromebooks: PDF Annotation baked into the browser. The entire project is based around a new software library from Google simply called Ink. This software library is basically a set of tools to enable Google Apps to leverage writing tools in […]
You may be reading that headline and thinking to yourself: “What is a channel membership?” Or, you might be asking, “Chrome Unboxed has a YouTube Channel?” (We’ve had plenty readers not know about our YouTube Channel and plenty of YouTube viewers not know about our website. Crazy, but true!)
Over the past couple days, a new addition to Chrome has been uncovered that looks to unify the various apps available on Chromebooks. First discovered as simply the chrome://apps page by Chrome Story, Kyle Bradshaw over at 9to5 Google dug a bit deeper and uncovered an entirely new effort behind the simple settings page that […]
