Your Chromebook can now automatically connect to trusted Wi-Fi networks you’ve used on your Android phone and other Chrome OS devices when signed in with the same Google Account, no need to enter in the credentials again. Google is also extending Wi-Fi Sync to work with more devices, making it easier and faster to get online. Phone Hub also shows the Chrome browser tabs you last opened on your Android phone, so you can pick up right where you left off. Love my Chromebooks and they just keep getting better and better.You can respond to text messages, check your phone’s battery life and cellular signal, turn on its hotspot and even locate it, all from your Chromebook. Now, it's a permanent notification easily right there for access.Ī great update, packing a bunch of useful features in and they included Wifi sync and lock screen (but that didn't change from what I had seen earlier). but it was amongst your other notifications and easily lost or dismissed. Sure, there would be a notification in the tray for media controls. alas, again with an external keyboard without that □|| key you can't access it from what I can tell.
You can now name your desktops and more.īut. keeps your work where you leave it ready for when you return to it tomorrow, meanwhile you have your desktop with Stadia and blogs all up ready to read.īring it up by hitting that multi-window button and you'll see the DESK option up top. Great once 430 rolls around and you just switch over. some windows and tabs on one desktop, switch to the 2nd and it's a different configuration of tabs. With Desks you can create a whole new 'desktop' you can switch between. you could have different windows having different tabs, or there could so be 'tab groups'. is that you have a desktop and there's a ton of windows open, some of them are work, some of them are hobby, some music playing. if you've not used this type of thing before. This is a feature I never really used on even Linux desktops, but something I might start trying. I didn't see a difference in my use unfortunately. You're supposed to be able to go into the settings and make sure 'related info' is turned on for the Assistant. When browsing the web you could highlight a piece of text and it should come up with some bubble of what it thinks is something related to that highlighted text. Tho', it's a little hard to do with an external keyboard as you won't have that everything key. Just pick which you wanted to paste and bingo bango. Hit ◉+V and you'll be met with a clipboard option of your last few things you had copied in to the clipboard (screengrabs, URLs, paragraphs). So, hit CTRL+C as you need to put something in the clipboard, and then when you need to recall something, instead of CTRL+V you use the 'everything key' instead of CTRL. Well, like Google Keyboard you have access to not just what you recently copied, you can see a bunch of the last few copied items and past as you need. just simply CTRL+C then CTRL+V where needed.
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Can't remember where you downloaded that PDF, or which folder that JPG went? Well, it's in the Tote now, easy to access and you can share from it.ĭon't need it? Well, you can just right click on it and 'hide previews'.Įverybody knows how to Copy / Paste. For those of you with Windows, think of it like 'recents'.
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Recently download files or screengrabs now have their own place on the bar. and this is my favourite, we now have an option for recording.
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Click it and you're presented with an option of taking a clip, full screen, or just a window. Now, it's just a button in the little system tray. Screen capture on my Pixelbook was tough, and especially as I use a second monitor now - trying to remember that it's CTRL+SHIFT+□|| button is hard.