Cr-48 Tracker App Back in Business

Posted on 29. Jan, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey in Chrome OS, NewsThe Cr-48 tracker was a popular little application that allowed people to see whether or not they were going to be participating in the Chrome OS Pilot Program. Since Google has offered no official confirmation for recipients, it has been the best way to see if at least one was going to show up in your town.It’s back!While for a long period the app went dormant, it appears to be up an....

Cr-48 Shipments to Resume, Applications for Pilot Still Open

Posted on 11. Jan, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey in NewsSince late December, Chrome OS notebooks have not been going out as part of Google’s Chrome OS Pilot Program.Yesterday, I speculated about some of the reasons why shipments from Google of the Cr-48 to test users may have stopped. Many who have not received one have started to wonder if they’ll ever get a chance to test one of these machines prior to a commercial release.Yesterday, Google Chrome ....

Cr-48 Going International? GSM is Being Tested in Chromium

Posted on 25. Jan, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey in RumorsThere are a lot of people who want to get involved in the Chrome OS pilot program, and those who are simply unable to right now are those located outside of the United States. So when would folk from other countries be able to start testing a Chrome OS device? Google has been pretty vague about it, citing product certification requirements.The need to partner with local carriers depending on c....

Flashing Your Cr-48 BIOS

Posted on 02. Jan, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey in Chrome OS, TutorialsSo, what did you do over your holiday break? Spend time with friends and family? Maybe relax a little bit? Flash your Cr-48 BIOS?Ok, so most of you probably wouldn’t dare make an attempt to do this, but some devoted techies spent some time recently doing so, enabling them to load operating systems such as Windows 7 and Mac OS X on their test pilot machines. We can’t condone your ....

Five More Days of Our Cr-48 Giveaway

Posted on 26. Dec, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in FeaturesConcerned that you aren’t going to be getting a Cr-48? Well, the application process from Google’s pilot program have closed, but we still have one ready to go for our giveaway, which ends on December 31. As of this posting, we have 46 people who have entered. One of those people is going to get this Chrome OS laptop, and you also have a chance.To recap:1. Sign up forthechromesource Forum.2.....

Finding the MAC Address on Your Cr-48

Posted on 21. Jan, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey in Chrome OS, TipsOne way that I like to set up wireless security on my network is by tying devices to the router by their MAC address. So in order to do that I needed to find the MAC on my Cr-48. It’s pretty simple once you know how to do it; the problem was figuring it out in Chrome OS’s menus. Here’s a guide.In the Omnibox, type in chrome://system. You’ll see a menu that shows you system diagnostic ....

Eric Schmidt to Step Down as Google CEO in April

Posted on 20. Jan, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey in NewsIn a blog post today, Google CEO Eric Schmidt remarks about how far the company has come since he joined Google in 2001. He is also announcing that the running of the company will turn to Larry Page April 4. From the earnings release:Larry said: “Eric has clearly done an outstanding job leading Google for the last decade. The results speak for themselves. There is no other CEO in the world that ....

Entanglement, Poppit Are Top Chrome Webapps – For Good Reason

Posted on 22. Dec, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in FeaturesDid you forget about the Chrome Web Store? Yes, it’s still humming along. And as it stands right now, the two most popular apps are games titled Entanglement and Poppit with over two hundred thousand users. The next most popular is Tweetdeck, a Twitter application. Then there’s Gmail and then the New York Times app rounding out the top five.But let’s go back to Entanglement, made by Gopherwo....

Yes, Android is Cr-48-able

Posted on 05. Jan, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey in Chrome OS, NewsAs if this didn’t seem plausible.Someone has been able to successfully port Android over to the Cr-48. This was made possible by Hexxeh’s Luigi Cr-48 firmware toolkit. Android has appeared in many other gadgets than phones, which is to be expected.I’ve seen Android on laptops before, and I frankly don’t believe it has a future in the PC space. It lacks what you need for sitting in fro....

Will Using Google Cloud Print Always Require Chrome?

Posted on 25. Jan, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey in FeaturesYesterday, Google announced that its Cloud Print service is now available for mobile devices loaded with Android 2.1 and up as well as iOS 3 and up. That’s great since you’ve already been able to use it on Chrome notebooks and now it is being rolled out to other platforms, but it makes one wonder how it is going to function in the future.As it stands right now, you must have a computer hooke....