Jason’s Deli is a dining chain based out of Texas, and they have been selected to beta test the Chrome Notebook. Here’s some of the people involved with the test telling about their experiences:
Game of the Week: Angry Birds – in Chrome
May 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This week an older game, that used to be an install. Now it’s available in Google Chrome: Angry Birds.
Rovio stated in the keynote on Google I/O 2011 that when the Webstore would be fully operational, they would make the Mighty Eagle available as well.
I guess that’s all I need to say about that.
Oh! One more thing: there are several Chrome levels built into the Chrome version.
Have fun!!!
Google I/O 2011 – Keynote Day 2
May 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
I was unfortunately tied up for the whole afternoon and part of this morning with production issues, but here is a little bit of information about the 2nd keynote for Google I/O 2011.
The keynote for Google I/O 2011 Day 2 is centered on the Chrome browser, and the HTML5 push.
- Chrome has now 160M active users (on Automation Adventures, the number one browser is Firefox with 35%, followed by Chrome and IE, both with close to 29%)
- Voice recognition built into Chrome
- Demo with clicker – easy addition of speech recognition
- Demo of Google Translation with speech recognition
- TinkerCad demo of HTML5 and WebGL
- Chrome WebStore In-app payments: 17 million installed, 2x more time spent in apps, 2.5x more transactions. Literally 1 line of code to activate.
- Webstore will expand around the world, available in 41 languages.
- Angry Birds now available in the Chrome Web Store!
- Chromebooks coming next month. Samsung and Acer will be producing Chromebooks, which will be available June 15th through Amazon.com and Best Buy. Available in 7 countries.
- Monthly Chromebook subscriptions for businesses ($28/user/month) and schools ($20/user/month). Also starting June 15th. More info here.
The main focus seems to be on ease of management for the IT department: the hardware and OS fade away by being replaced by the netbooks, and the applications are centralized web applications. The main pain will actually be felt by the same IT department, since a lot of the applications in most organizations are not web based. Virtualization is an alternative there, but I haven’t seen a proven and reliable Remote Desktop or Virtual Machine client for Chrome OS yet. Until then, this remains an interesting alternative to installing a browser on a bare machine…
Latest updates for Google Chrome OS
April 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Last week a few updates came through for both the Chrome OS and the Chrome browser, and for the Cr-48 netbook.
Two major changes made are the change to use the click functionality of the Cr-48 mousepad to eliminate the problems with the tap, and the capability of the Chrome to accept voice input.
The ‘click’ functionality is actually a change to the default settings in the Chrome OS. The initial installation of Chrome had Enable Tap-to-click enabled as far as I remember. The new default for this is disabled, which prevents accidental clicking by resting the mouse of your hand on the mousepad. I feel the disabled option is working a little better.
The biggest thing is that Chrome OS is now capable of speech recognition. Currently there are a few fields that are enabled for speech recognition, mainly simple text fields. This is new functionality being developed in HTML5, and is a preview from the HTML Speech Incubator group. I have the Speechify plugin enabled, which shows a little microphone next to any field that allows speech input. I can’t wait for it to be enabled on multi-line text widgets, so I can dictate blogposts… 
A minor change is the Chrome logo, which has become a little simpler: the old logo sported a 3D look with a small reflection on it, the new logo sports a more 2D look with clearer colors.
Google’s Chrome Test lab explaining the benefit of living in the cloud
February 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I ran across this video earlier, but while browsing around for some more info on the CR48 netbook I ran into it again, and thought I’d share it with you:
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