Well when you’ve a Surface Pro or any other Windows 8 Laptop with multi touch screen with resolution equal to almost 2k. You could install Chrome browser and follow our awesome Doug Simmons instructions in response to this MobilityDigest Post, Microsoft Web Apps for free. Simmons said “For all you awesome Chrome users (specifically, 23.4% … Read more
Should Google really be worried about the success of Samsung with Android devices? Last year we had read few analysts and bloggers saying Google is afraid of Amazon while Amazon was busy releasing Kindle HD. Well they made few good points, but we really haven’t seen any kind of knucklehead reactions from Google, which we … Read more
Google announces a zillion dollar Chromebook, everybody flips out, dismissing the amazing resolution as "too high for the web" and "lol 32GB" and “why not get a real OS and much bigger storage and buy a Macbook Pro dumbass” so forth. And before that, Google had announced a $200 Chromebook the specs for which would … Read more
Google’s Chromebook idea has been around for a while, they’ve had multiple OEMs like HP create inexpensive laptops running their in own Chrome “OS.” The OS is much less of a conventional operating system, and more of a super functional browser. Because the cost of previews Chromebooks were always a hair under the “real” offerings … Read more
Discuss amongst yourselves. I don’t care what the specs are. The OS can’t justify $1300+. That’s why Ubantu isn’t flying off the shelves. This product makes no sense…you can’t mix high end hardware with a low end OS. It’s like taking the engine from a Honda and putting it in a Porsche and trying to … Read more
Just skimmed a headline on Google News that Google defector turned Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just announced some sort of overhaul (tl;dr) to Yahoo’s news site. I’d never been to it and I’m actually not even sure if it had existed, other than maybe some sort of personalized homepage widget, and I love my own … Read more
Google Fiber went live in Kansas City the other day where residents have the option of getting 5Mbps/1Mbps Internet service from Google for free. If you’ve got a few bucks you can get fibered up to a 1Gbps link (up and down), roughly 100 times faster than what most Americans have, plus a terabyte to … Read more
I was just catching up on our internal email and found David K bitching about his $600 Surface RT not letting him connect to his office’s virtual private network. Googled it, yup, no VPN client on this thing. Meanwhile, on a $249 Chromebook, you’ve got OpenVPN, IPsec with PSK or certificate-based authentication out of the … Read more
David the main idea of the Chromebook, which they try to convey in the name, is that it’s for running Chrome, period, and being able to do everything you do in Chrome on a conventional computer on the Chromebook. Boot it up in eight seconds, let it run for eight or nine hours at a … Read more
The other day ZDNet was wetting itself over a huge disruption to the market that they asserted was a game changer. As we now know, they were talking about the Samsung Chromebook. Yes, it’s a $250 notebook that looks like a MacBook Air. And if it were running an operating system then it would have … Read more
Are netbooks even still a viable choice anymore? I sold my netbook long ago in favor of tablets. Tablets are pretty much the same as a netbook but without the bulk really. Samsung has just announced the new Chromebook which is of course running Google Chrome OS, personally I’ve never used Chrome OS so who … Read more
So you got a new Samsung phone and load it up just to get slapped in the face with bloatware. Well the guys over at TheUnlockr have a great step-by-step tutorial on how to remove bloatware from Samsung Android phones using an XDA tool called Bloat Removal Tool. It’s shocking how much it removes but … Read more