If you take photos on your phone the image dimensions are most likely pretty high if you have a decent camera. This means there may be many occasions where you need to reduce the image dimensions of the photos you’ve taken. You may need to upload them to a blog for example or perhaps you … Read more
The built-in ChromeOS image editor is great if you don’t need to do much editing of your images. After all, it’s free to use and comes as standard on all Chromebooks. It’s also been improved and will continually be improved by the ChromeOS team. That being said, it’s pretty limited, so you may need more … Read more
The ability to choose either a dark or light theme on your Chromebook has been around for a few months now. Changing the theme on your Chromebook allows you to customise your computer just the way you want. It can also help save battery life, so it isn’t all about aesthetics. There is now a … Read more
It was back in April when I showed you how to install Steam Linux Alpha on your Chromebook. Fast forward to November and we now have access to Steam Beta. Providing you have a compatible Chromebook you can now use the Steam Linux app from the ChromeOS beta channel. This should offer a much more … Read more
ChromeOS the operating system used by the Chromebook and Chromebox does not have a recycle bin as standard. This may sound a little crazy, as it’s pretty much the standard on other computers. However, the Chromebook was never about storing files locally, as you can easily store most of your files in the cloud. It’s … Read more
If we look back only a few years you didn’t have too many options for customising your Chromebook. This has thankfully changed and we have a lot more ways to customise how our ChromeOS computer looks. In fact, customisation has gotten so good on ChromeOS that you can now even change how your Linux terminal … Read more
If you’re anything like me you most likely have hundreds if not thousands of MP3 music files. Before I switched to ChromeOS in 2011 I used iTunes. When I moved away from Microsoft computers in favour of the Chromebook I needed an alternative. I found Google Music, which was great and it was really easy … Read more
The ChromeOS 104 update offers lots of new features for your Chromebook. One of these is the new ChromeOS app launcher menu. Personally, I love the new ChromeOS start menu, which is why I wrote an article on how to enable the new Chrome OS start menu before it was available by default. The new … Read more
