How to easily move iPhone photos to your Chromebook
Is it a challenge to move photos from your iPhone to your Chromebook? Not at all: There are two easy ways to make it happen and one of them can even free up storage space your iPhone.
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Using a mouse? Here’s how to disable the trackpad on your Chromebook
Using a mouse with your Chromebook or Chrome tablet? You might accidentally graze that trackpad when typing. Here’s how to disable the trackpad so that doesn’t happen.
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Chrome OS 80 likely to fix notification actions on external monitors
Using an external monitor with your Chromebook? If so, you may have noticed that notifications may only be actionable on your device’s internal display. That’s getting fixed but not likely in time for Chrome OS 79.
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How to enable Virtual Desk trackpad swipe gestures in Chrome OS 78
Chrome OS 78 brought Virtual Desktops to Chromebooks but left out a key gesture for quickly switching between workspaces using a trackpad swipe. Here’s how to add it, along with an upcoming change to make it better.
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Chrome OS 78 Stable Channel arrives: Here’s what you need to know
Chrome OS 78 has arrived for Chromebooks and Google touts four new features. Of course, there’s always more in the software updates, so here’s what you need to know about them.
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Chrome OS 79 Dev Channel supports Gboard, other Android keyboards on Chromebooks
Want Gboard, SwiftKey or another Android virtual keyboard on your Chromebook? The Dev Channel of Chrome OS 79 will let you do that, but bear in mind, it’s a bit of a work in progress at the moment.
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Chrome OS 79 to add custom font settings and more to Reader Mode on Chromebooks
Chrome OS 79 is expected to add custom settings to the Reader Mode on Chromebooks, including choice of font, font size and more. Here’s a great example of what it should like, based on a currently available Chrome extension.
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Click to call feature in Chrome OS 78: Tapping phone number links on Chromebook completes call on connected Android phone
Earlier this year there were references to a “Click to call” feature for Chromebooks and it appears that Click to call will arrive in Chrome OS 78. Once it arrives, clicking a hyperlinked phone number will place the call on a supported Android phone.
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In the future, your Android phone could be the recovery tool for your Chromebook
Last year I said every Chromebook user should carry a USB stick in case they need to recover Chrome OS. That advice may be going out the window because your Android phone could be used in the future for recovery.
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Chrome OS 79 to throttle CPU usage on background Linux apps, improving web, Android performance as needed
The Chromium team is working on a new feature for Chrome OS 79 that will scale down CPU resources for Linux apps running in the background. That should improve browser and Android app performance on Chromebooks when needed.
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Chrome OS 77 Stable Channel arrives: Here’s what you need to know
Google has quietly rolled out the Stable Version of Chrome OS 77, which is available now for nearly all Chromebooks. Here’s what in, and not in, the new software release.
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