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Chrome 32 lets you easily find and close those noisy tabs
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2013-11-12 00:56
If you've ever wondered which of your 200 browser tabs is making all that racket, the latest Chrome Beta can lend an ear.
When a tab is streaming audio in Chrome 32 Beta, an indicator will appear next to the close tab X. The indicators will change depending on the source, so streaming audio will be denoted by a speaker icon, a red circle will indicate a Web cam, and Chromecast's box icon will notify you when you're broadcasting a tab to your television.
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Chrome-saved cleartext passwords not a flaw, Google says
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2013-08-08 05:01
Google Chrome passwords are stored in cleartext, a function that Google dismisses as a flaw.
Software developer Elliott Kember discovered that all saved passwords can be displayed in plain text in the Chrome settings panel.
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Is Chromecast Google's Trojan Horse For Television?
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2013-07-26 01:53
More than any other big technology company, Google is building for the future, undertaking blue-sky projects like wearable computers and self-driving cars that don’t have an obvious place in today’s world because it believes they’ll be ubiquitous in tomorrow’s.
Chromecast, the new $35 widget that lets you stream web video from your computer or mobile device to your television, isn’t that kind of product. It’s more of a bridge technology, a stopgap measure — a bit of a kludge, really. It’s certainly not the watch-anything-on-any-screen solution we keep hoping will arrive.
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AMD begins open relationship with Windows, seeks Androids and Chromebooks
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2013-06-06 07:56
AMD continues to soldier forward in the PC market, but CEO Rory Read wants the company to get at least 20 percent of its revenue from other sources by the end of this year. Some of this money will come in from next-generation game consoles like the PlayStation 4 or the Xbox One. And some of it, according to a report from PC World, will soon be coming from Android tablets and Chromebooks.
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Google's Chrome team developing app launcher for Mac
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-05-22 01:42
Google is looking to bring a version of its Chrome OS app launcher to the Mac, possibly as an add-on to the Chrome browser, allowing users to access a slew of Web apps normally available only from within the
Chrome developer François Beaufort revealed on his Google+ page that the Internet search giant is working to bring the app launcher to Mac.
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