More posts in “Development”

Coming Soon: Unlock Your Chromebook by Putting Your Phone Near It

Hate having to put in a password to unlock your Chromebook? Good news: you'll soon be able to login to Chrome OS simply by putting your phone near it.

23 April 2014

Chromecast to Display Weather Forecasts? Code Hints At It

Is Google planning to make the Chromecast home screen more informative? Some hidden code powering it certainly seems to suggest so.

15 April 2014

Chrome OS Gallery Goes Standalone, Image Editor ‘Refresh’ Planned

The Chrome OS image viewer is being 'split out' from the file manager and in to its own separate application.

13 April 2014

Chrome OS 35 Beta Brings App Folders, New Window Controls and Ok Google

The latest update to the Google Chrome OS Beta channel, version 35, brings App Launcher folders to the desktop by default. Not that the feature is earth-shatteringly new or unexpected, of course. Support for creating […]

11 April 2014

Google Devs Accidentally Invert Scrolling in Latest Chrome OS Dev Update

Among the changes rocking up in the most recent dev channel update to Chrome OS was one tweak you can't help but have noticed: inverted scrolling.

3 April 2014

Chrome Apps Can Now Respond to Keyboard Shortcuts When Browser Not in Focus

When the shiny new mini-media player app for Google Music launched one feature was notably absent: media key support. In order to skip a track, pause playback or stop music entirely one had to hunt […]

3 April 2014

Chrome OS Adds ‘Close’ Buttons to Expose Mode, Other Changes in Latest Dev Update

Another update to the Chrome OS Dev channel was pushed out this week and while it doesn't come packed with huge changes there are some notable improvements to be found.

27 March 2014

New Video Player App Coming to Chrome OS

Chromebook owners rejoice: a new, standalone video player app is coming to Chrome OS.

23 March 2014

Google Drive To Be Default Download Location on Chrome OS

Google Drive has been enabled as the default download location on Chrome OS, according to a recent commit by developers.

14 March 2014