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“Hang with us. We’re fetching your files” Fix Google Drive Error On Chromebook is an article from Chrome Story – Be a Google Chrome Power User ! Having trouble with Google Drive on Chromebook? Here is quick fix for the error “Hang with us. We’re fetching your files” on Chromebook’s Google Drive folder. What’s The…
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May 16, 2012 in
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As previously anticipated, Google introduced Knowledge Graph, a new way to handle queries that replaces keywords with objects. It’s like replacing a dictionary with an encyclopedia. “The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows about—landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of art…
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13 Web Intents To Try With Google Chrome and How To Try Them is an article from Chrome Story – Be a Google Chrome Power User ! For many here, Web Intents need no introduction. For others, let me start with a short and easy to understand intro. Ever used “Share” option in Android? Noticed…
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Chrome for iPhone and iPad Getting Ready? is an article from Chrome Story – Be a Google Chrome Power User ! IS Chrome for iPhone and iPad in the making? Pedram Jabbari and I had a long conversation about this topic a few days back. It all started with an interesting entry we saw in Chromium code…
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May 16, 2012 in
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Chrome Watch, Chrome Clock, Chrome Mug, Chrome T-Shirt…… What Do You Want? is an article from Chrome Story – Be a Google Chrome Power User ! So, what do you want, my dear Chrome Fan? The Google Store has a lot of Chrome goodies for you! Well, not just Chrome, you get a lot of…
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May 15, 2012 in
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Google’s OneBox for instant answers has a new interface that emphasizes the results. Google now displays the answer on the first line and the font size is bigger. The Q&A OneBox now shows multiple answers for questions like [What is the cast of The Help?] or queries like [the dictator actors]. Until now, Google used…
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May 15, 2012 in
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Google Docs has a new feature that lets you find more information about some of the words from a document and also add content from the Web. The research sidebar can be enabled from the Tools menu or by using the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+R (Cmd +Opt+R for Mac). You can also select one or more words…
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May 15, 2012 in
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Last year we proposed the Web Intents API to help web applications integrate with one another with minimal effort. We’ve now enabled an experimental version of the API in the most recent stable version of Chrome, to gather feedback from the web community and shape the future of the Web Intents API. This prototype version…
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May 15, 2012 in
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How to View the Source Code of a Chrome Extension is an article from Chrome Story – Be a Google Chrome Power User ! Developer News – A not so neat little trick. I found this cool post on Digital Inspiration which tells you how to view the source of a Chrome extension. Why should…
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May 15, 2012 in
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Say you’ve found an awesome recipe on your work computer while… ahem… working hard at the office. But when you get back home, you can’t quite remember if it was two teaspoons of baking soda or two teaspoons of baking powder. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could pull up the same recipe on your…
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May 15, 2012 in
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Google Chrome is 21 (Legal Drinking Age!!) is an article from Chrome Story – Be a Google Chrome Power User ! Chromium (where everything that’s Chrome starts) turned 21 the other day. V.21 is running on the Chromium nightly builds now. The team usually makes a informative-funny intro to each version number and this time,…
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May 15, 2012 in
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Your Google Web History and Chrome History Will Merge Soon! is an article from Chrome Story – Be a Google Chrome Power User ! Yet another plus one for “Google Chrome Sync”. Why am I talking about Chrome Sync now? I will tell you. Yes, Google Web History is going to be integrated with Chrome…
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May 14, 2012 in
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Last year, Google started to test a new sidebar that offers useful information about your query. As the Wall Street Journal mentioned in a recent article, Google will soon “present more facts and direct answers to queries at the top of the search-results page”. There’s a large database of entities and each one has a…
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May 14, 2012 in
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Install Chrome on Ubuntu12.04 is an article from Chrome Story – Be a Google Chrome Power User ! Its been a while since I tasted a bit of Ubuntu. So, this weekend, I took time to install Chrome on Ubuntu 12.04 and find out how my favorite browser is doing on Ubuntu these days. Here…
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May 12, 2012 in
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Make Your Chromebook Do A Barrel Roll – Chrome OS Easter Egg – AWESOME!! is an article from Chrome Story – Be a Google Chrome Power User ! Here is an awesome awesome Chromebook trick for you. An Easter Egg hidden in Chrome OS, makes it do a barrel roll. Take a look at this…
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