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Chrome for Desktop redesigns user profile switcher, Reading Lists coming to Android

Chrome for Desktop redesigns user profile switcher, Reading Lists coming to Android

March 2, 2021 By Michael Perrigo Leave a Comment

Over the next few weeks, Google is going to be rolling out a revamped profile switcher for Chrome on desktop. Not only will it have a new landing page with updated Googley graphics, but it will also feature a fully customizable setup process which will allow a new user to create a space just for […]

Filed Under: Chrome, Families, New & Upcoming Features, News, Updates

You can no longer listen to these Disney books on your Nest and Google home devices

You can no longer listen to these Disney books on your Nest and Google home devices

February 27, 2021 By Michael Perrigo Leave a Comment

One of my son’s favorite features of the Nest Hub during bedtime was the ability to say “Hey Google, let’s read along with Disney”. Upon doing so, he’s been able to have Google read with him and play sound effects to the classic Disney stories that we’ve purchased and keep in his Google Play Books […]

Filed Under: Families, Nest, News, Smart Home

Youtube becomes a safer place for tweens and teens with new supervised experience beta

Youtube becomes a safer place for tweens and teens with new supervised experience beta

February 24, 2021 By Michael Perrigo Leave a Comment

Youtube Kids is great decent okay and all, but as many children who grow to be a bit older will openly tell you, it feels super restrictive. Between the ages of 9 and 12, kids are more than ready to move on and explore some new and exciting content on the platform, but Youtube Kids […]

Filed Under: Apps, Education, Families, New & Upcoming Features, News

Youtube Kids releasing new parental controls this year, expands to more countries

Youtube Kids releasing new parental controls this year, expands to more countries

February 18, 2021 By Michael Perrigo Leave a Comment

Having launched in 2015, Youtube Kids sought to create a safer environment for kids and families to explore and engage in video content. It gave parents the tools they needed to protect their children by blocking videos and reporting content that was suspicious or vulgar. It also gave the ability to only allow videos from […]

Filed Under: Families, New & Upcoming Features, News, Updates

Chromecast with Google TV may soon get Kids Profiles, but multi-user support is still missing

Chromecast with Google TV may soon get Kids Profiles, but multi-user support is still missing

February 12, 2021 By Michael Perrigo Leave a Comment

The Chromecast with Google TV is fantastic, but shortly after getting our hands on it, we realized it had a major flaw – you couldn’t actually switch between profiles at a device level, and instead were relegated to manually switching profiles per service! We called this out as a glaring oversight or just an odd […]

Filed Under: Chromecast, Families, New & Upcoming Features, News, Updates

Qustodio brings industry-leading parental control software to Chromebooks

Qustodio brings industry-leading parental control software to Chromebooks

February 11, 2021 By Gabriel Brangers Leave a Comment

As the old saying goes, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” and that adage has never rung so true when it comes to protecting your kids in this digital age in which we live. Even before the onset of a global pandemic, digital citizenship has become a dominant theme for parents wanting to […]

Filed Under: Apps, Chrome OS, Chromebooks, Education, Families Tagged With: sponsored

[Update: school accounts and more!] How to set up parental controls on your child’s new Chromebook

[Update: school accounts and more!] How to set up parental controls on your child’s new Chromebook

December 29, 2020 By Michael Perrigo Leave a Comment

Update: I stated in the article preserved below that you couldn’t add a supervised user account to a Chromebook that has pre-existing regular Google accounts signed in. You actually can. If a supervised account is managed by an organization and that organization has not blocked sign-ins from accounts outside of their managed domain, you can […]

Filed Under: Apps, Families, How To

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