ChromeOS Screenshot

ChromeOS added a cool feature to allow videos as well as images to be taken from the desktop.

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The cool part of this feature is you can choose which part of the screen to snapshot. If you are a blogger, this makes you life much simpler and is a welcome addition. The output by default is Webm, …

Terminal in ChromeOS

Mar 11, 2022 chromeos productivity

ChromeOS Terminal

The default terminal in ChromeOs was making some of my applications look less than their best. For example Pass is one of the main applications that I use on a regular basis. When using this software the border that was meant to be shown as lines is actually displaying garbage characters.

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Cobra Command Line using Go

Dec 26, 2021 chromeos go linux

The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive.
In the following blog post I assume you already have the Go environment setup. Previously we have created a Hello World application. The next step is to create a command line application. The example below covers the basics of …

Setting up ChromeOS Minikube

Sep 6, 2021 chromeos productivity

Recently while playing with some development tools, I was surprised to see Minikube now runs on ChromeOS.
Minikube allows for a scaled down Kubernetes cluster running directly on your host machine. Kubernetes is a container orchestrator. Put simply it enables the "simplified" running of containers.
In this …

Setting up ChromeOS Virtual Machine

Aug 6, 2021 chromeos productivity

ChromeOS can create multiple virtual machines to run various software.
Creating a new virtual machine allows for software to be tested without ruining your existing setup. It is also great for running programs in an isolated fashion.
In this blog post learn how to Create a new virtual machine in ChromeOS.

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Introduction …