Friday, January 25, 2013

Native Client comes to ARM Chromebooks, Netflix Support Inevitable


One of the downfalls of having the ARM (Samsung Exynos-powered) Chromebook, is the fact that some apps and websites do not work on the ARM architecture, that includes Netflix. But in Chrome OS 25 which is currently in the dev channel, it brings a very welcome change. Native Client will finally run on ARM devices. Which currently the only ARM Chrome device is the new Samsung Chromebook.

Chrome Beta for Android Updates to 25.0.1364.47


Chrome Beta was recently released on the Google Play Store, and being a beta, it gets updates constantly. Last night, the Chrome team pushed out an update for Chrome Beta to the Play Store. It contains a number of fixes including:

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Tip: Just Bought a New Chromebook? Here's How to Get your Free 100GB of Google Drive Storage


So you've just bought a shiny new Chromebook. Whether it be the Samsung Chromebook or the Acer C7. And you definitely want the 100GB of free Google Drive storage that was advertised with the device, right? Well here's how you do it.

Chrome OS Beta Channel Updated to 25.0.1364.46


Yesterday, the Chrome OS Beta channel was updated to version 25.0.1364.46. This version is coming to the Samsung Series 5 550, Samsung Series 5, Acer C7, cr-48, and Samsung Series 3 Chromebox devices. This new update contains a ton of new bug fixes as usual with beta's.