Pixel Slate Bears All Before #MadeByGoogle Event

The Pixel Slate is going to be announced Tuesday at Google's annual hardware event, but many of the details has already leaked out. Including the look of the new Chrome-based Tablet.

In a new leak today, the Pixel Slate bears all, showing the somewhat small bezels, as well as dual stereo speakers, a stylus and even a USB-C port. The Pixel Slate will also have a detachable keyboard available for actually doing some work on the Pixel Slate. The pixel Slate is going to be announced on Tuesday by Google, and at this point, the only thing missing is the actual price tag.

Google Redesigning Chrome's Incognito Mode

Google has refreshed the Incognito Mode page in the latest dev build of Chrome

Developers, or anyone using the developer channel of Google Chrome may have noticed that there's a slightly redesigned version of the Incognito Mode page in the browser. The only real change you'll see is that it's more up-to-date with the rest of the web. Meaning it's brought into web 3.0. You can see the differences above, thanks to the folks at OMGChrome.

Redbox Instant Now with Chromecast Capabilities

With today's update to Redbox Instant Android app, we are seeing Chromecast support for yet another big name service. You'll need to have version 1.5.1 of the app to be able to cast your movie to the big screen though.

Videostream Chrome Extension Updated, Now Supports Casting all Video Types

Today, Videostream updated their Chrome Extension so that you can now cast just about any type of video to Google's Chromecast. Both the free and premium versions now support casting all video types as well as MP3 and WMA, and a few others.

Chrome Canary Brings 'Off' Switch to Notification Center on Mac OS

Latest build of Chrome Canary brings an 'Off' Switch the notification Center, only on Mac OS

The notification center in Chrome is probably one of our most loved features of Chrome, simply because we can access all the Google Now cards from our desktop instead of opening it up on our phone. It's a great feature to have. But what about turning it off, or having a do not disturb option? Well, Google appears to be playing around with an On/Off switch for the Notification Center as the latest Canary build for Mac OS brings an Off switch to the notification center.

22% of US School Districts Now Using Chromebooks

Its looking more and more like the future of the PC is in the cloud, or is it just Chrome OS? Chromebooks are pretty cheap, unless you're looking at the Chromebook Pixel. The Acer and Samsung Chromebooks are $199 and $249 respectively. Making it very easy for school districts to use them for teaching.

Don't Like the New 'New Tab' Page in Chrome? Here's How To Convert to the Old Version

A new version of Google Chrome began rolling out this week. It brings plenty of changes, but the most noticeable one is the fact that the new tab page is completely different. It has all your most popular web pages along with a search bar. Instead of apps and websites, along with the "recently closed" section at the bottom. Which is what I'm particularly missing. It's actually pretty easy to get it back and here's how:

New Chromebooks Announced last Week Does NOT Mean the Pixel Won't Get Updated

When Google introduced us to the Chromebook Pixel earlier this year, we were in love. That was until we saw the price of it. We had all gotten used to Google pushing out great devices at dirt-cheap prices. Like the Samsung and Acer Chromebooks, not to mention the Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10. Last week, Intel announced that there are four new Chrome devices from ASUS, Acer, Toshiba and HP that will be running on their new Haswell chips. Many people took that as meaning that we will not see a Pixel 2.

This idea surfaced from a PC World report last Thursday:

“While the new Chromebooks are expected to be flagship products for their respective brands, don’t expect a repeat of the Chromebook Pixel that product, which paired an Intel “Ivy Bridge” Core processor with an incredible 2560-by-1700 pixel touch display, was a “prototype” to show off the power of the Chromebook platform and will not be repeated, Caesar Sengupta, director of product management at Google, told a small roundtable of reporters on Wednesday.”

This would have really made a few people upset, not to mention everyone who attended Google I/O this year and got a Chromebook Pixel. The Pixel is a great device which we'd hate to see be a one-and-done device. The folks at GigaOm reached out to Google for a comment on this matter:

"We did not say that Pixel will not be repeated; we don't comment on the future or unannounced products. At launch we said Pixel was designed to bring together the best in hardware, software and design to inspire the next generation of Chromebooks, and to work with the ecosystem to continue  to push the experience forward for touch and high-DPI web. We see that playing out."

So while Google didn't say the Pixel was done, they also didn't say if we'd see a new Pixel. Although it sounds pretty promising that we will see another one probably sometime in 2014. Hopefully they will release two versions, one that's a bit cheaper would be nice to see.

Microsoft's Next Google Target in their "Scroogled" Campaign is Chrome

Microsoft has been doing a "Scroogled" ad campaign over the past few months. They don't seem to be doing to well, but then again, I mostly follow and interact with Google fans. The latest one, shown above, is targeting Chrome. Which is one of Google's larger products. You can see Google's original ad down below.

Chrome is the Most Popular Browser with 750 Million Users Worldwide

Google Chrome is a pretty popular web browser. Today at Google's developer event in San Francisco, Google announced that Chrome is the most popular browser in the world and has over 750 million users. That's almost twice as many users as Chrome had this time last year.

Chrome is a pretty popular browser that is now turning into an OS, hence Chrome Central. Google is also working on Chrome OS and a few Chromebooks like the Chromebook Pixel. So how many of you use Google Chrome as your browser? If not, what browser do you use?

Dev Channel Updated to 27.0.1425.0

Yesterday, the Chrome team updated the Dev channel to version 27.0.1425.0 for Mac, Linux and Chrome OS. Windows was updated to 27.0.1425.2 on the Dev channel.