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Google rolls out Chrome Office Viewer Beta, enables in-browser file viewing
Posted in: Today's ChiliThere are some universally annoying things the average Web surfer will encounter from time-to-time, and while the list is mostly made up of pop-up advertisements that bypass your ad-blocker, one of them is direct-file links to things like PowerPoint and Word files. Clicking one of these files results in it being downloaded and opened by the application, a potentially slow and usually unwanted action. Google aims to solve this problem with the launch of Chrome Office Viewer (Beta).
Chrome Office Viewer (Beta) is an extension for Chrome Beta users on Windows and Mac that solves the aforementioned problem, allowing users to view Microsoft Office files within the browser rather than downloading the files and opening them with the relevant application. This feature has already been available to Chromebook users, and will hopefully be available to all Chrome users soon.
There’s another benefit to using this in-beta extension in addition to speeding up the process of viewing Microsoft Office files – malware protection. When you click a direct link and the file is downloaded to your computer, you’re potentially downloading a compromised file that could leave your data or system at risk. The extension helps guard against this via a sandbox.
If you find yourself opening your fair share of Microsoft Office links and are tired of the clutter and slowdown that results from how they are handled, you can give the new extension a try by downloading Chrome Beta. Once you have Chrome Beta, you can then download the Chrome Office Viewer (Beta) extension and use it to view the files. Google advises users to keep in mind that it is a beta extension that could have bugs, and is welcoming feedback.
[via Chrome Blogspot]
Google rolls out Chrome Office Viewer Beta, enables in-browser file viewing is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Apr 09
Google Chrome for iOS updates with full-screen browsing, new printing options
Posted in: Today's ChiliGoogle issued a fairly minor, but still noteworthy update to its Chrome iOS app today. The update now includes full-screen browsing, as well as new printing options, allowing users to take advantage of Google’s CloudPrint protocol or Apple’s AirPrint feature. The update also comes with support to save a website to a PDF directly to Google Drive.
As for the full-screen browsing capability, there’s not much to it, although it does get rid of the address bar when you scroll down a webpage, allowing users to take advantage of the whole display when web surfing. So, instead of the address bar remaining static, it moves along with the scroll, meaning it’ll get out of your way when you scroll down a page, which probably didn’t take too much coding effort, but it’s a very convenient feature to have nonetheless.
As for printing webpages, you can do so either via Google’s CloudPrint or Apple’s AirPrint, which is also a convenient feature to have handy when web surfing, although printing usage has gone down for casual purposes, since the use of Evernote allows users to save a website for later. Plus the new PDF saving feature to Google Drive is a nifty way to save websites as well.
It’s not every day when you see the option to save a website as a PDF file. Normally, you can only save it as an HTML file, along with the assets that go with the website. Saving for PDF gives you a simplified version of that, and then you can easily print out a copy if need be from your computer or mobile device. Google Chrome is a free download and the update is available now in the iTunes App Store.
Google Chrome for iOS updates with full-screen browsing, new printing options is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Apr 09
Google Chrome for iOS Offers Full-Screen Browsing, Web Page Printing In Update
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Google Chrome has been the alternative browser for many iOS and Android users for a number of reasons, although one of the main points has to be its ability to sync with Chrome on your computer. Google’s mobile browser just got better on iOS as they have released an update that makes the experience much better for iPhone and iPod Touch users.
The way iPhone and iPod Touch users will benefit from today’s update is the fact you can now browse the web in full-screen mode, which automatically activates itself once you start scrolling your way down a webpage. When scrolling, the toolbar will begin to hide itself until you’ve reached a point in the webpage where it can completely remove itself. The moment you need it back, you’ll just need to scroll back up on the webpage and the toolbar will appear. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Apple Patent Connects iPhone To Mac Automatically Through Proximity System, Apple Expected To Develop Digital Wallet By 2014 [Analyst], 
Mar 26
Google Chrome for Windows, OS X, and Linux received a fairly hefty update today. The browser got bumped up to version 26, and it comes with spell check improvements, desktop shortcuts for multiple profiles on Windows, and an asynchronous DNS resolver on Mac and Linux versions, as well as the usual bugfixes and performance improvements.
The improved spell checking is quite a bump up from traditional spell checking that we’ve known. Google Chrome’s spell checker checks for grammar this time around, as well as proper nouns, homonyms, and context-sensitive spell checking. All you have to do is enable the “Ask Google for suggestions” spell check feature in settings.
Of course, Google Search and Google Docs have had the new spell checking feature for quite some time, but now it’s coming universally in Google Chrome on any website, which is pretty cool. The update will be rolling out in the next couple of weeks, so don’t worry if you’re not seeing the update right away, as it’s still being released.
As for the desktop shortcuts feature for multiple users, Google Chrome users who share a computer can now create shortcuts on their desktop of Google Chrome for each specific user in the family. This eliminates the need to open up Chrome and manually switch accounts — a great feature if you have multiple people in your household using one computer.
Google Chrome for desktop updates with improved spell checking is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Mar 25
Chromebook Samsung Series 3 Review
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Chromebook Samsung series 3.
Just like set top boxes, which are dedicated devices for streaming video content, the Chromebook is a dedicated web browsing appliance. It is an inexpensive piece of hardware, running on a free Operating System, with free software and updates (OS, firmware and drivers), troubleshooting free, anti-virus and anti-malware proof and you cannot “mess it up”, even if you wanted to.
Now, assuming, somehow, it was “broken”, it could be restored to the factory settings with just one click, well, may be two. In case the device is misplaced, stolen or just died, there is no data loss, unless it was stored locally, no software re-installations, no reconfiguration. Put your hands on another Chromebook, login your gmail account and voila, everything should be where you left it off. Sounds too good to be true doesn’t it? The truth is I am as eager as you are to find out! The following is my review: (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: HP Envy X2 Review, Samsung Series 5 UltraTouch Review (13.3″), 
Mar 21
Viruses, trojans, and other malicious pieces of software are nothing new on OS X. While the mainstream consensus is that Apple‘s desktop platform is impervious to such malware, that’s actually not the case. In fact, a new piece of adware is making the rounds that injects advertisements into web browsers after installing a disguised plugin.
The trojan is detected as “Trojan.Yontoo.1” and it was discovered by Russian security firm Doctor Web. Of course, you have to an install a plugin or other piece of software in order for the trojan to activate, but hackers are making it easy for unsuspecting users to take the bait. They’re prompting users to install a plugin before they can watch a mobile trailer, for example.
Of course, we’ve all come across this scenario before, where we don’t have a certain plugin installed in order to view something, so we’re forced to download and install it before continuing. However, it looks like criminals are taking advantage of that tradition by implementing the same kind of system in order to get users to install the trojan.
It’s said that a Windows version of the trojan also exists, but it doesn’t affect Windows 8 users currently. Cross-platform malware isn’t rare most of the time, but this particular one uses its own code to target each specific operating system, as opposed to targeting a universal piece of software like Java, which we’ve heard plenty about recently.
[via The Next Web]
New Mac trojan injects ads into web browsers using plugin is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Feb 09
If you were just cruising around the web today and got hit smack in the face with a Google Chrome malware error, you weren’t the only one. A whole number of sites from such as imgur, DeviantArt, The San Francisco Chronicle, and YouTube were blocked for many users citing malware from us.bernerverein.ch. More »
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