A new “Image Burner” page has been added to Chrome OS to help users getting a USB drive ready for recovery mode. The installer will do the following:
Prompt the user to choose a target storage device to use as the RSD.
Verify the storage device is large enough.
Download the appropriate recovery software (recovery kernel + recovery root filesystem) and save it to the RSD.
Download the appropriate recovery data (Chromium OS firmware + kernel + rootfs + recovery configuration data) and save it to the RSD.
Prompt the user to remove the storage device and plug it into the netbook.
Chrome OS ImageBurner
The page links you to the recovery mode information on Chromium Code. Have a look here for more information. I will have this page updated as soon as I get to play with this.
Handler Settings Page
Another addition to the browser and the OS last week was the new settings page for custom handlers. With this new setting, you will be able to explicitly say to your OS to handle a specific protocol and mimetype with Chrome. This will be helpful for developers and users as well. Follow the discussion here for more info.
Handler Settings
Handler Settings
CR48 or Chromebook User ? Try This One !
This works only on Chromebooks and Cr48s, “Master Your Touchpad” Let me know how this works. I couldn’t try this because I am on a PC.
I thought Nokia will slowly drop Symbian because they have a deal with Microsoft now for Windows 7 phones, but to my surprise, they dropped a beta version of “Chrome To Phone” plugin called “Nokia Drop” today. Â It has almost the same functionality as android or iPhone.
Changing Phone’s Wallpaper From Chrome ?
Yes, yes, sound cool, I know !
I loved the idea of changing the phone’s wallpaper remotely from your computer, to an image that you saw on your computer browser. Well, that sounds truly awesome !! I have had so many situations where I wanted to change my phone’s wallpaper to the image I found on flickr. Hmm someone knows about such functionality in Android ? help !
Supported Phones
Nokia Drop is compatible with S60 5th Edition and Symbian^3 devices. Nokia Drop has been tested to work with X6-00, 5228, 5230, 5235 Ovi Music Unlimited, 5530 Exp Music, C6-00, N97, N97 mini, N8-00, C6-01, C7-00, E7-00, 5233, c5-03, 5800 (PR4+)
Remember the Chrome OS Tablet concept from the official Chromium OS portal ? Cr48 is going the direction Google wanted, and news about commercial Chrome OS computers are here, perfect time for to look back at the tablet concept and concentrate more on it ?
Looks like it is.
Chromium pages recently saw a new design for the “New Tab Page” which might be a sign of Google’s plans to improve the tablet friendliness of Chrome and may be even a Chrome OS tablet too. The redesigned new tab page will behave like the iPad or android tablet menu while sliding from one page to the other.
I am guessing that the plan is to replace the current option to switch between recently closed, apps and most visited items with a tablet like UI. However, things are yet to take shape. I will watch this closely and bring you more updates soon !
But wait, there is something more to this tablet story, there is a new user-agent string showing up on Chromium Code which shows the use of a Chrome OS Touch device.
for TOUCH_UI builds of ChromeOS. This lets websites that are already customizing for tablet experiences easily adapt to support tablet ChromeOS devices.
In particular, this will result in UA strings like the following:
Google had promised us some commercial Chrome OS devices in Mid 2011. The time is almost here and we have started seeing more and more rumors of Chrome OS devices. Latest is Sony Vaio notebook with Chrome OS. Rumored Specs Nvidia Tegra 2 (250) platform 11.6″ (1366×768) LCD display 1 GB of Memory 16 GB [...]
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I remember watching videos about Flipboard App for iPad and thinking that I may buy iPad only because of this app. Flipboard presents content of your social media network in a magazine like format and it looked really cool. Is there something similar for Chrome ? Layers is something close to this experience. Even though [...]
Scribble is an interesting note taking app for Chrome, and that works offline too. The first thing you notice after installing is this, there is no save button ! I was confused, I asked the developer and he said, the app saves your note character by character.Yes, the note gets saved with every keystroke. Who is the [...]
The Cloud War is on. Google Chrome + Google Docs now gives you offline support too. One more reason to bring your life to the cloud. Here is the official note from the Google docs blog. In addition, at the event today, we were excited to demonstrate a feature that we expect to deliver early [...]
You can not have your most visited thumbnails and apps thumbnails at the same time on new tab page. I said thumbnails, because you will always have most visited and apps as links, even if you minimize one of the two. I kind of start missing my most visited thumbnails after started using apps on [...]
James complaints that I ignored Chrome Web App store and Web Apps completely. I have admit that. I got carried away with Chrome OS and CR48 Chrome Notebook. I am sure that you all read about Chrome Web App Store already. So I thought its better to give you something with a little different. So, [...]
