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Chrome Ext. Android. Google Chromebook - 80 Tips To Master Chrome OS. Getting started with a Google Chromebook is very easy so is being a normal Google Chromebook user.

Google Chromebook - 80 Tips To Master Chrome OS

But to be a power user, you need to know some tips, tricks and secrets. Here is a few to get you started! Towards the end of the list you will find tips mostly found on development channel or beta channel of Chrome OS. So if you are using stable version of Chrome OS and find a feature not working, do not worry, it will be there in few weeks time when Chrome team updates stable version.

Thanks everyone who shared these tips on various forums and communities. Chromebook Tips, Tricks and Time Savers <img src=" alt="" width="448" height="212" />You can create a recovery media right from the Google Chromebook. Hope you learned a thing or two here. Why Chrome OS Is More Important to Google’s Future than Android.

Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.

Why Chrome OS Is More Important to Google’s Future than Android

There is a debate happening in the industry about whether or not we are heading toward a future where all computing takes place in the browser or where all computing takes place with native or installed software. Today we download and install software or apps on our PCs, smart phones, tablets, and connected TVs. In the future this may not always be the case. It’s possible that in the future all of our software will run in the browser, not natively as an installed application. We call these applications “web apps.” (MORE: Google Unveils Web App Store, Notebooks with Free Verizon 3G) A web app is an application that is used through a web browser instead of being downloaded and installed onto your PC or device.

You may think that idea is crazy. (MORE: Why Tablets Represent the Future of Computing) With Android management shakeup, Google reveals the broad sweep of its ambition - Quartz. Google’s master plan for mobile is finally coming into focus.

With Android management shakeup, Google reveals the broad sweep of its ambition - Quartz

The latest development: Andy Rubin, who has run the Android mobile operating system since 2004, even before it was acquired by Google, is stepping down. Taking over Android will be Sundar Pichai, currently the head of Google’s Chrome web browser and Chrome OS project. And here’s where Google shows its hand: Even as he takes on new responsibility for Google’s mobile strategy, Pichai will remain in charge of Chrome. Somewhere in the afterlife, Steve Jobs just yelled, “Boom!” Google is preparing for hybrid, mobile PCs The distinction between PCs and mobile devices is blurrier than ever, and Google seems to be setting itself up for the moment when Android (for mobile devices) and Chrome (for PCs) become one. In 2011, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said that Android and Chrome OS would some day fuse. Schmidt has also said that Chrome OS is for devices with keyboards, and Android is for devices without.

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