Want to use your Chromebook’s webcam to take a photo? All you have to do is fire up the camera app

Got a fancy new Chromebook with an RGB keyboard? You can customize the way the lighting effects look in a few simple steps.

Acer is one of the best and most popular makers of Chromebooks, and if you’re looking to buy a new one, we’ve rounded up some great options.

Chromebooks are plenty capable gaming machines, either locally via Steam, or via the cloud. We’ve suggested the best gaming services you can use.

You don’t always need to be online to watch Netflix on a Chromebook. You can download the series or movie you want to watch when you’re offline later.

Did you know that your Chromebook has a clipboard history feature? Press CTRL + SHIFT + V and you will see the clipboard manager. Google wants to make it easier to access clipboard history so that more people will use it. For this, they are adding an option to long press CTRL + V to…

Speak or write a language other than English? It’s easy to change to your preferred language on a Chromebook.

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge You bought your parents / grandparents / other relatives a new computer, set it up, and showed them all of its nifty new features. You’ve gone home, knowing that you’ve made them very happy. But deep down, you know that this isn’t the end of the story. It’s not…

If you’re a big fan of Lenovo, you probably already know that it makes Chromebooks. Here are some of its best options.

Chromebooks work great for software development, too. Here are six development tools that you can use on ChromeOS for any kind of project.

Microsoft Powershell is best known for running on Windows, but did you know it also can be installed on a Chromebook for development?

Google is working on adding an option in the three-dot menu in Chrome App on Android for users to quickly delete the last 15 minutes of browsing history. Here is how you can enable and test this feature right now. Every web browser, be it on a desktop or on mobile, allows clearing the browsing…

Announced in January at CES 2023, HP has today opened sales of the Dragonfly Pro Chromebook, which packs a punch with its spec sheet.

HP’s Dragonfly Pro Chromebook is the best Chromebook there is, showing how a close collaboration with Google can change everything.

After years of demand, Minecraft is finally coming to Chromebooks with the “Bedrock Edition” available in early access starting today, but you’ll need to fork over a bit more to get access.

You don’t have to stick with how your Chromebook looks right out of the box. There are many ways you can personalize it.

Microsoft is bringing the Bedrock edition of Minecraft to Chromebooks, but only a select few might be able to try it today.

I am a big fan of downloading videos offline on apps like YouTube and Netflix. I download Netflix movies and YouTube movies when I go on trips where I will not have a good internet connection. You can now download videos on your computer using Google Chrome, just like your phone. There is now an…

Google’s ChromeOS is the Rodney Dangerfield of modern operating systems: It’s been around for ages now, and it pops up in all sorts of unexpected places. No matter how hard it works, though — boy, oh boy — it just can’t get no respect.Much like Dangerfield, ChromeOS’s struggle to be taken seriously dates back to…

Google is adding time-lapse video support to the built-in Chromebook camera app. Time-lapse Video You might have recorded a lot of time-lapse videos using your phone’s camera app. If you wanted to do that using your Chromebook, the only option right now is to use a third-party camera app. This is changing. A code change…

Plugable’s first Works with Chromebook docking station is a winner, letting you enjoy dual monitor support and many extra ports.

Google officially announced Fast Pair for Chromebooks in January of 2022, and it’s now rolling out with ChromeOS 111.

You don’t need a Mac or a PC to edit your favorite photos. Chromebooks are also capable photo editing machines.

The Chrome Cleanup Tool has been superseded by Google’s alternative antivirus protection services, effectively rendering it obsolete. Google is retiring the Chrome Cleanup Tool, an application for Chrome users on Windows that detects and removes suspicious or unwanted software. The tool will be removed from user systems starting with the release of Chrome 111, at…

Have to edit an Office file like a Word document on a Chromebook? There are three ways you can do it.

You don’t need to stay in Chrome all the time. Check out these great Android, web, and Linux apps for your Chromebook.

Who’d have thought Google will pull the Click to Call feature from Chrome on all platforms such as Windows, Mac, Linux (and Android), when it was so useful to make calls by clicking phone numbers on web pages? Well, the change is apparently live in Chrome Canary on Windows, presuming it won’t affect Android. Chrome…

The Acer Chromebook Enterprise Vero 514 puts the environment first, but it is also one of the fastest Chromebooks we’ve ever reviewed.

Worried about the battery health on your Chromebook? You can easily check it through the Diagnostics app, or download an app to look into it for you.

It’s not possible to use a Chromebook without a Google Account, but you can browse as a guest to avoid using one.

Google Chrome’s Journeys feature is adding an option to let you hide certain website visits. History Journeys Hide Visits ‘Journeys’ is Google’s new take on organizing browsing history on Chrome. You can see your visits to a website or your search for a topic as a cluster called ‘Journey’. You can resume journeys to continue…

Control your Chromebook and avoid extra mouse clicks with any of these gestures.

When you install Chrome for the first time, google.com will be the default search engine. If you this has changed, you can use the same steps to change the default search engine back to google.com

Google Chrome is making it easy for you to delete autocomplete suggestions from the address bar. An upcoming Chrome feature will add a delete button next to suggestions. Delete button for autocomplete entries Here is the new Google Chrome experimental flag I spotted today: Show a delete button for Autocomplete entries: When enabled, Autocomplete entries…

Google is integrating the ability to create, edit and Save “user notes” in the Google Chrome browser. As of now, Notes only supports adding text. Here is how you can enable it in Chrome right now. Google Chrome is getting Notes Till now Chrome doesn’t have a Notes feature built-in.