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Next-gen Chromebooks could feature 5-second boot times

Brad Linder — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:00:31 +0000

A few days ago we saw evidence that next-generation laptops designed to run Google Chrome OS might feature Coreboot technology allowing for super-speedy boot times. Now the folk sat Netbook News have seen the technology in action, and it's pretty impressive. The caught a Samsung Chromebook prototype going from 0 to a login screen in just 5 seconds. Current Chromebooks...

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Google Chrome now syncs browser tabs across all devices

Brad Linder — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:24:13 +0000

Google has rolled out an updated version of its Chrome web browser which lets you access a list of currently open browser tabs on any device. In other words, you can surf the web while eating breakfast at home, and when you get to work you can fire up your web browser and see a list of all the web...

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Upcoming Chrome OS “Daisy” device to feature ARM-based chipset?

Brad Linder — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:22:25 +0000

If you want to buy a device that comes with Google Chrome OS preloaded right now you have two options: The Acer AC700 and Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks. Both are laptops with Intel Atom processors. We already know that Samsung is working on an upcoming Chromebook with an Intel Celeron chip as well as a Chromebox desktop. Now it looks...

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Pin Chrome web apps to the Windows 8 Start Screen

Brad Linder — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:50:46 +0000

One of the key features of Windows 8 is the new Start Screen which provides nice big shortcuts to your apps, settings, and other features using the new Windows Metro user interface. But it's not just reserved for apps installed on your computer. You can also add shortcuts to web apps. The folks at Chrome Story noticed that it's easy...

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Future versions of Adobe Flash for Linux to be Google Chrome only

Brad Linder — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:00:52 +0000

Adobe has laid out a roadmap for future development of Adobe Flash, and one of the things that caught my eye is that Flash Player 11.2 will be the last official standalone version of the browser plugin for Linux. While Adobe will continue to support Flash Player 11.2 for Linux with security updates for several years, the company is moving...

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Chrome to Mobile send web pages from a PC to phone or tablet

Brad Linder — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:13:21 +0000

Google has released a new tool that lets you send any web page you're reading on a PC with the Chrome web browser to a mobile device running the new Chrome browser for Android 4.0. It's called Chrome to Mobile Beta, and it has a few advantages over the older Chrome to Phone tool. Like Chrome to Phone, you can...

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Chrome web browser comes to Android, app store, extensions behind

Brad Linder — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:56:51 +0000

Google has launched a public beta of the Google Chrome web browser for Android. It's available from the Android Market for phones and tablets running Android 4.0 and up. The new browser uses the same rendering engine as the desktop version of Chrome for Mac, Windows, and Linux -- and it has the same user interface, so it should be...

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Google Chrome adds support for multiple user profile sync

Brad Linder — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:45:48 +0000

The Google Chrome web browser (and Chrome OS operating system) have offered users the ability to synchronize their bookmarks, passwords, extensions, and apps between devices for a while. Just login with your Google account, and when you bookmark a page on your desktop you'll be able to pull it up on your laptop computer next time you fire up Chrome....

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Google Chrome browser adds support for native apps

Brad Linder — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:48:46 +0000

Google has released an updated version of the Chrome web browser for Windows, Mac and Linux with two major new features that blur the line between web apps and desktop apps. Both features have been available in beta versions of Chrome for a while, but with today's release they're available in the Stable channel -- meaning they're open to everyone....

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Google Chrome adds offline support for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs

Brad Linder — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:15:30 +0000

Google Chromebooks such as the Samsung Series 5 and Acer AC700 just got a little more useful. Google is introducing offline support for some of its most popular web apps when you're using Chrome OS or the Chrome web browser on a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer. Today you can already install Gmail Offline beta, a web app that's available from the...

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Google Chrome browser beta now supports C, C++ apps

Brad Linder — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:51:43 +0000

Web apps have come along way in the last years, letting you do many things in a web browser that you could previously only do in a desktop app. We can play games, compose documents, or even edit photos or audio using a web browser. Recent advances have even made it possible to create web apps that work even when...

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How to get more out of Google Music with Chrome browser extensions

Brad Linder — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:31:07 +0000

Google Music lets you upload thousands of songs from your private collection to the cloud so that you can stream them to an Android device or any computer with a modern web browser. But while the web app offers some nifty tools such as the ability to create playlists or search or browser for music, Google Music leaves a bit...

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Discover web apps for Google Chrome without visiting the Web Store

Brad Linder — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:05:12 +0000

The Chrome Web Store is a pretty good place to find web apps and extensions for the Google Chrome web browser. But sometimes you just don't think to go to the store to look for an app and instead use a browse the old fashioned way: by entering URLs or search terms in the location bar. But developer Mihai Parparita...

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Offline support for Google Docs in the works

Brad Linder — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:37:02 +0000

Google Docs is a free web-based office suite for creating, editing, managing, sharing, and collaborating on text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents. It doesn't offer all the bells and whistles you get with Microsoft Office, or even free and open source alternatives such as LibreOffice. But for many people Google Docs is good enough to replace a full-fledged office suite --...

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Google brings voice, search-by-image to web, instant page loads to Chrome browser

Brad Linder — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:54:05 +0000

Google is holding an event to talk about improvements in search technology today, and the company has outlined a number of pretty cool new features for mobile, web, and Google Chrome browser-based searches. Instant Pages One of the most impressive new features is something called Instant Pages, which will allow users to load web pages much more quickly after entering...

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