This morning as I was listening to Pandora music app on my Android phone, I was pleasantly surprised by the Chromecast icon on the bottom right of the screen. If you have a good sound system, this can easily connect to Pandora. For those who are not familiar, Pandora is a free app which allows you to select radio station based on artists, genre, or songs.…
Gigaom.com and other websites are reporting that users are beginning to see the Chromecast icon on websites outside of youtube.com. Previously, Youtube only allowed users to cast directly from Youtube.com. Now they appear to allow Chromecast users to cast from websites which embed youtube videos on their websites. Have you noticed this?…
Google’s latest gadget – Chromecast inadvertently created a hot commodity. I’m not sure if this is part of it’s marketing ploy but as we stand, there is only one way to get your hands on one of these and that is through the 2nd hand market such as eBay and Craigslist. eBay is selling these on avg. $60-70 and Craigslist has it for a hair cheaper.…
GMapper14 from Lifehacker.com figured out a way to use Chromecast on the Kindle Fire! Below are the instructions.
After several comments that Amazon Prime blocked Chromecast, I digged into it a bit more and found out that this may be due to Microsoft Silverlight. If you do not have it installed, select ‘Flash Player’ and it will still work. Here are some snapshots.
My PC doesn’t have Silverlight installed so instead of installing the plugin, I selected Adobe Flash player.…
Chromecast has proven to be a nice little device that can make most devices into a home theater PC. The only exception – it must have wireless capability. If you have an older model PC and by older meaning it doesn’t have a built in wireless card.
My main office PC which is a Dell Vostro does not have WiFi built in.…
Whoa! umer936 at xda-developers.com found a way to unleash extra settings on your Google Chrome browser for your Chromecast. Beware, if you do not know what you are doing, DON’T TAMPER WITH IT!
You can open this by going to ‘options’ under Google Cast extension then right click on ‘Inspect Element’ and uncheck ‘display:none’.
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Today, Google abruptly ended their 3 month free Netflix promo. It appears even the great minds of Google under estimated the popularity of their Chromecast device. But if you were one of the lucky ones who purchased a Chromecast early on July 24th. Early as in immediately after the announcement, you may be able to get your promo.
If you bought it at an online retailer, you will obtain an e-mail with a 3 month promo code which you can enter it at http://netflix.com/chromecast.…
Here is my unboxing of the Google Chromecast!
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The Chromebox arrived a day early! Amazon really has some tricks up their sleeves. I ordered this roughly noon yesterday and by 11am this morning, USPS delivered it already! I will put up some videos later but for now, here are some pictures.
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