Archive for June, 2011

Virgin Offering Free Chromebook Demos and WiFi on Select Flights

by Chris Chavez on June 30th, 2011

Google has partnered with Virgin America Airlines to offer free Google Chromebook demos to their passengers. I guess when you think about it — it kind of makes sense seeing how you have a captive audience and travelers are one of the main customers Google is hoping will adopt their idea of “cloud storage.” Passengers [...]


Tip Of The Day: Require Password When You Re-Open Your Chromebook

by Donovan Leiber on June 30th, 2011

Man, that instant-on option of Chromebook is blazing fast, but imagine you’re using the device, close the lid, scurry on your way, and somebody else comes along, opens the lid and has access to all your goodies! You can trigger Chrome OS to require a password every time you close the lid in order for [...]


Tip Of The Day: Secure Chromebook Login Options

by Donovan Leiber on June 29th, 2011

The nice thing about Chromebooks is you can quickly login, hop on the internet, and automatically have access to everything you were previously doing “in the cloud” regardless of what device you were doing it on. That being said… do you want others to have access to all this stuff? Maybe not, and if not, [...]


Tip Of The Day: Enable Tap To Click For Chromebook Trackpad

by Donovan Leiber on June 28th, 2011

If you’re having a little trouble with you Chromebook trackpad there are a couple features you’ll want to consider changing- everyone has their own preferences and luckily, Google allows you to customize them in Chrome OS. Visit chrome://settings/system in your Omnibar and you’ll see exactly what I mean: As you can see, two of the [...]


Acer’s Chromebook Arriving This Month

by Chris Chavez on June 27th, 2011

It’s been known for sometime that Acer’s Chromebook has been available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Where most people were left in the dark was with any kind of solid release date. Well, that’s finally over (sort of) with Acer’s newest press release today. While, still no exact date was given Acer did say their newest [...]


Google IO Attendees Can Now Order Their Free Samsung Chromebook Series 5

by Chris Chavez on June 24th, 2011

Lucky individuals who attended Google I/O this year were blessed with not only a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 but they were also promised one of Samsung’s new Chromebooks debuting sometime this summer. After a long wait Google I/O attendees have finally begun receiving emails from Google HQ letting them know that their Samsung Chromebook Series [...]


Acer Cromia & Samsung Chromebook Pre-Order At Amazon, BestBuy

by Donovan Leiber on June 10th, 2011

You’ve been itching to get your hands on the first Chromebooks for some time now. If you want to sure you get yours before everyone else, the time is ripe. Amazon and BestBuy have launched their pre-orders for the device. Head on over to Amazon and get the darn deal dude!


Get Easy Access To Chrome’s Bookmarks, History, Downloads & More with Mega Button

by Donovan Leiber on June 10th, 2011

In previous browsers, we’re used to having a menu at the top of our screen with all the familar links like “File” and “Edit” and all that jazz. Google keeps Chrome super sleek and super streamlined by including all of that information in one place: the “Wrench” icon in the upper right of Chrome Browser. [...]


1-Minute? Samsung Chromebook Setup Takes Much Longer [VIDEO]

by Donovan Leiber on June 9th, 2011

We got our Series 5 Chromebook plugged in and ready to rock, eager to check out the “1-minute setup” flaunted for Chromebooks. Unfortunately we found out that it took MUCH longer mainly due to one thorn in the Chrombook’s side: it required a several minute OS update when booting for the first time. Without that [...]


Samsung Chromebook Unboxing [VIDEO]

by Donovan Leiber on June 9th, 2011

Well look what WE have: 2 Samsung Chromebooks. That’s right… TWO. We’ll be giving one away in a contest so stay tuned for contest details. For now, here’s what you can expect when you buy the Series 5 and finally rip it open. Pretty standard box with what you’d expect inside. I tried to do [...]