Tag Archive: Google

Even More Chrome Addons To Make Google + Awesome

Google + is pretty awesome, isn’t it? But you know what makes it more awesome? Some of the addons for Chrome that have been circulating about the internet since its release a mere two weeks ago. Developers have been hard at work putting together applications and extensions to expand and improve upon the Google +…

Chrome 12 Browser Released In Advance of Chrome OS Launch

With just a week to go before the launch of Google’s new Chrome OS cloud based operating system and the first Chrome OS powered Chromebook devices from Samsung and Acer being available, Google has released version 12 of the Chrome browser. The Chrome 12 browser will be embedded into the first publicly released version of…

Offline Gmail, Google Docs Returning August 1st?

It was only a few weeks ago that we previewed the new features coming to the Chrome browser in version 12. Probably of most interest to many Gmail users was what would not be in Chrome 12, Google Gears. Gears, originally developed by Google as a way to enable support for enabling web applications to…

Chrome OS – A Top Priority For Google

There have always been questions in the Chromebook forums and from readers of this blog; about how much Google believes in Chrome OS. The proverbial words; ‘Google Buzz’ are often flung like feaces from hand during such discussions. Indeed we have heard the arguement that Buzz was a failure because Google never put it’s full…

Three To Sell Chromebooks In The UK – Official

It is now official, Three will be the first British career to sell the long awaited Chromebooks in the UK. Three also comes as the first confirmed European career to put it’s weight behind Google’s Chrome OS powered devices. In a blog post by David Kerregan who is the head of mobile broadband for the company…

Chromebooks For Business – Video

As part of Google’s ongoing campaign to lure businesses to switch to their ‘cloud operating system’ (Chrome OS) they have been releasing a steady flow of promotional videos aimed at businesses. One recent video is more specifically aimed at medium sized firms that Google believes may reap benefits from moving to their Chromebooks. ‘Jason’s Deli’…

First Ever Chrome OS PC Set For 4th Of July Release

  The first ever Chrome OS personal computer (based on Chromium OS source code) will be going on sale on the 4th of July this year. This is according to Xi3 Corporation, the Salt Lake City based hardware manufacturer who announced a Chrome OS variant of their ‘Xi3 architecture‘. Here’s an extract from the company’s…

Are CR-48 Chromebooks Shipping – Again?

There have been a few claims by a number of members in the CR-48 Chromebook forum (and via email) that they recieved their CR-48 Chromebooks within the last week. These individuals applied for the Pilot program in December last year but had since not recieved any correspondence from Google whatsoever. This is all quite bizarre…

Google Chrome: It Get’s Better – A Message and an Ad at the Same Time

You may have heard of the “it get’s better” project which strives to give gay youth hope for the future, the truth that they have something to live for and that the future can have great things in store for them. The teen years can be bad enough being straight, I can’t imagine the extra…

H.264 Video Support and Chrome OS

Image via Wikipedia On January 11, 2011 Google announced via a three paragraph post on the Chromium Blog that it was pulling support for the widely used, but patented H.264 video codec from the Chrome web browser as it pertains to he HTML5 video tag. H.264 encoded video can still be played via the Flash…