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since its debut a few months ago the new
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chromecast with google tv
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has become the favorite and go-to
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streaming dongle for all sorts of people
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because frankly it's just awesome at
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delivering content to your screen
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gives you a remote and keeps all the
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goodness of the original chromecast
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experience but along with that remote
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on screen there are some learning curves
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to getting around and how you move
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through all of it and
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part of that is learning shortcuts and
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learning how to leverage your remote
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and take advantage of some of those
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shortcuts and so we've put together a
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list of our five favorite shortcuts
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that you can use with your new
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chromecast with google tv
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today okay so first off number one let's
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start with a quick shortcut that gets
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you to your settings menu from wherever
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so a lot of you probably know right here
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at the top you can go all the way over
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and into your settings and you can
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change things from right here log out of
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your account that kind of stuff but what
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if you're actually in an application so
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for instance what if we're in netflix
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and i need to get back and my wi-fi is
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acting up and i need to quickly jump
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back well instead of having to go all
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the way back home and cycle through a
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if you just hold the home button for
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just a second you'll see that
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menu pop up there again click down and
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boom just like that you're right in your
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settings the next tip is for live tv
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viewing for any of you that leverage
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youtube tv on your chromecast and what i
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as i was moving through the ui for
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youtube tv things work like you expect
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them to and you can get around just fine
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but i couldn't find how to get back to
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so from the home screen you actually
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live view right here this isn't youtube
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tv it's what's on youtube tv but it's
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not the same exact thing so
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if i click into something like this and
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i'm going to pause this so it's not
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playing in the background
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but say i want to get from here back to
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what else is playing live i don't want
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to go all the way back to the home
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screen and start from scratch and start
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all you have to do is click the back
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button from this view
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click over to live and you get youtube
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tv stream and it's super helpful it's
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not very intuitive to get here
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but once you know that it's there it's a
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whole lot easier to jump back and forth
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between programs that you're you know
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looking around and choosing what to
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watch in a similar manner if you're
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wanting to move between programs that
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watched instead of going all the way
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back to the live view and then
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looking through the live listings again
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and trying to find what it was you're
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if you want to just go right back to
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what you're watching like say you're
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watching a couple different sporting
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games or something like that
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then the easiest way to do that is to
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actually just click down
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twice on the remote and you'll be right
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on the last show you'll actually see the
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last few things that you're watching
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but you can jump from one thing right to
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really quickly so we jumped here so i'm
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and i'm right back to hgtv where my wife
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likes to keep the channel set next up is
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a quick shortcut that can work for
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anybody whether you use youtube tv or
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and that's the ability to remap the
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youtube button that is on the face of
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while i think most people will probably
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find youtube the most handy feature here
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maybe youtube tv for someone like myself
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that uses youtube tv a lot
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would rather that button go to youtube
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tv or youtube music and to change that
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all you have to do is long press that
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a nice little ui comes up and you select
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which service you would rather have
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that button mapped to speaking of
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a really handy shortcut that a lot of
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people don't realize is available when
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you're watching youtube videos on your
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is the ability to actually like and
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thumbs up and all of that kind of stuff
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you would normally do on your phone
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whenever you are watching a video on
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your television so i'm just going to
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click into the first thing that's here
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and again when you're looking at
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something on your phone you have the
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ability to just scroll down and hit your
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or subscribe to the channel well you
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have all those abilities here too if you
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know where to look all you have to do is
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start using your directional keys on
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click down and right back up above the
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slider and you have captions you can
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click into the channel here or if you go
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you can change your quality you can
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thumbs up thumbs down
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you can subscribe to the channel and all
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that kind of stuff that you normally
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would do on your phone and it's really
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handy because a lot of times you'll sit
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multiple things on the chromecast that
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you would normally watch in your phone
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and you have all the same abilities to
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interact with these videos
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just like you would on your phone with
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the chromecast with google tv and our
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quick trick is the ability to quickly
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the chromecast doesn't come with a whole
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lot of storage and so it's nice to know
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how to quickly go through and delete
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now granted you could use the shortcut
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we talked about earlier go to your
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dig down into your applications and
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delete them that way or
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say you're done with disney plus and you
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don't want it anymore all you have to do
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is long press the center button
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for just a second move open and view
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details we're going to view details
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and right from here you'll be able to go
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in and uninstall the application
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just like that alright guys well that's
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it for our five best chromecast with
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google tv remote tricks if you like this
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