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Finally, Google’s also simplifying the setup process to combine home and school accounts quickly via Family Link.
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For example, you can’t run Android apps on CloudReady installations.
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Google’s making improvements to its screen-capture tool, allowing you to make screen recordings and share snapshots more easily. Because the CloudReady install wasn’t supported by Google, some of the more advanced features of Chrome OS are missing. There’s also a list of smaller but still useful new features: the ability to right-click a word and receive a definition, or translation, or a conversion from one measurement to another plus an improvement to the Chrome OS virtual “desks” (or desktops) that can allow a window to be right-clicked and moved to a desk.
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That same capability is being shared across Chromebooks and Android phones-a handy feature if your wireless access point has a long, complex password to deter intruders. Again, this is a feature that Microsoft somewhat underplayed in Windows Mobile devices and PCs: If you were signed in with a Microsoft account, you could automatically share Wi-Fi access points and their passwords with similar devices. Google is extending Wi-Fi sync capabilities to other Chromebooks.
Here’s a look at the new Chrome OS Tote function. And, if you don’t want to send a file from Tote, you may want to send something from the Chrome OS clipboard-which, again like Windows’ own clipboard, is being expanded to include more items, five in all. With features like built-in virus protection and secure support for multiple users, Chromebook keeps you and your data protected. It’s probably easier to think of Tote as a repository of frequently-used or critical files. It’s likely that Nearby Share will be used in conjunction with Tote, a new file folder being added to Chrome OS. Users will be able to turn Near Share on and off to “fine-tune their visibility,” he said. Nearby Share will use whatever link is available: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or potentially ethernet, Kuscher said. “For me, this really means no sending emails to myself with documents that needed to go from myself to myself, which is quite nice,” said Alexander Kuscher, director of product management of ChromeOS, during a Google Meet call with reporters on Tuesday. Nearby Share beams documents to other Android phones and Chromebooks in proximity to you, provided the recipients have also turned on the feature and chosen to accept documents. Secondly, Google’s announcing Nearby Share, which sounds similar to the Near Share feature already within Windows. Google’s new Phone Hub for Chrome OS tries to include only what you’ll need. Finally, small buttons will include links to the last three websites your phone accessed. Phone Hub will include shortcuts to functions found on all Android phones, and not just Pixels: the ability to create a hotspot, the ability to mute the phone, and-still very important!-the ability to ring your phone if it becomes misplaced.
Instead, it’s a subset, living down in the notifications hub at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. The first significant feature arriving with the M89 release is Phone Hub, which doesn’t try to keep up with the Your Phone app available on Windows.