Hey you and welcome! My name is Mr. Berry and in this whole video I want to look at some of
the new features that we can find on the new Chrome OS update for the 10th anniversary.
Now you'll see these on personal Chromebooks and you may or may not see them on school Chromebook
as the admin may have blocked some or most of these features and before we get too far into
the video I would like to remind you to click on that thumbs up as it really helps YouTube
share the video with more people. So let's look at some of these new features you and I, come on!
Hey here I am in my Chromebook! Now if you notice in the lower right hand corner of the computer
screen there are a few icons that didn't exist last year and I'm going to look at the icon
that looks very similar to a smartphone first that's called our phone hub and I'm going to
go ahead and click on that one there and it comes up and in order to make this work you
have to have an android cell phone and you have to have Bluetooth turned on on both the cell
phone as well as the Chromebook now once they're connected you'll see the name of the cell phone
at the top of that little window that's there and then you also will see whether it's connected to
wi-fi or to your cellular network and next to that is the battery state of charge all right
now below that you'll notice that you have notifications so if there's other notifications
that you're receiving on your cell phone they can actually come up there on the top of that list
and then below that we have the ability to turn on your wi-fi hotspot so you can use your cell phone
as your internet hotspot next to that we have the silence so that you can make all notifications and
all the ringing and noises for your phone go off just by clicking on silence the phone so there
we go that's turned on and next we have locate phone so if you've misplaced your phone there
in your home go ahead and click on locate phone and your phone will start ringing to find it and
then at the very bottom of this you have recently opened tabs and work that you were doing on your
cell phone so you can go ahead and click on those and then continue where you left off right on your
Chromebook and next to that icon at the bottom there you'll see this this is called the tote
now the tote is normally we would think of it as a place where we can put our items like mini
or music images video stuff like that and that's exactly what the toad is so as you're downloading
uh images if you're downloading music if you're downloading videos or even word documents or
other type of work that you have there it will appear in the tote now your your documents and
everything else they still go into your downloads folder and i'll show you that here in a second
but let's just look at the tote for a second here and notice at the top there it says pin files so
you can actually pin your uh very important files perhaps it's a document that you're working with
you want to have easy access to it you can pin it right to the tote below that we have downloads
and an image that I downloaded there of Campbell Mountain there and what I'm going to do is you
still have access to all of your downloads so I'm going to click right here where it says open files
and once the file app opens you can see all of your files and what I'm going to
do is I'm going to click on downloads and there's my recently downloaded files there
so you still have access to your files going the traditional way by going to the files app going to
downloads and seeing all your work there and what we're going to do is if we go in and let's say I
want to right click one of these images here so I'm going to right click the mountain here
and notice one of the options that we have here is pin to shelf so if i click that now that image
will be pinned down here on my shelf as far as my toad is concerned there so it's inside the tote
and it'll stay there until I unpin it to unpin something it's rather easy
just right click it and click on unpin so there you go now it will be taken out of the tote
in due time normally the most recently uh three or four downloaded items we found right there in
the tote the next thing i want to look at are changes inside the notification area so if I
click on the time it comes up and there's all my notifications there but I also have other features
now one thing that I really talk about in my classes is being able to go in and check things
on your Chromebook so um if you ever want to check your Chrome OS to see what version you have
you click on the time and then this window opens up and then right there where you see it looks
like a gearbox there click on the gearbox now the settings opens now this is the Chrome OS
settings which is a little bit different than the chrome browser settings for example if you
look at the very bottom of this list right here it says about Chrome OS and you can click that
now this will open up and it will show you your Chrome OS version as well as other information
there you can actually check for updates so if you don't have the newest update yet with
all these features you can actually click right here where it says check for updates
now i want to show you some of the new features here that we have with what's called
screen capture now in the past I was able to capture my screen by going control plus
the key that's above the six so I would hold down control key and then tap the key above the
the sixth there and that would capture the screen well now there's an easier way to do this
what we would do is we would actually go in and click on screen capture and i can capture a still
image I can actually capture video now by click sliding this over to the video slider there and i
can capture my whole screen as a video as you see that I'm doing it now some of the other features
that we have here are not so obvious as a new icon or a new tool that's sitting down at the bottom
of your screen for example now we have what's called wi-fi sync so if you log into a wi-fi
such as Starbucks with your cell phone later you can go in with your Chromebook or other devices
and it will remember that you've logged into that network and it will log in automatically for you
when you're in that location and another feature that i love using because I'm often editing uh
work such as documents and also video files right on my Chromebook is now a copy and paste
feature now in the past I would go control c to copy an item such as text or something there
and then I would go to my other document and go control v to paste that text into the document
but now we have what's called the clipboard built into the operating system and that allows us to
save five different copies or five different elements in the clipboard and then use those
five different items there in my work so that really saves you time so you don't have to go
copy and paste and copy and paste on each item you just copy your five items it remembers those
five items and then you can paste those items one by one into your work so remember whenever
you need that clipboard opened up just press the everything key or the little search key
there on your Chromebook's keyboard and the V key together and that will open up your clipboard next
I want to talk about quick answers quick answers will automatically provide helpful information
like a definition or even a translation of a word right whenever you right click on any
word that's found on the internet or within any of your documents this saves you a lot of time
because now you don't have to open up a separate tab or separate web page and look up that item
now the next feature is called desks google has basically supercharged desks to help you organize
all of your workspaces now to find desk click on the overview mode key which is just above the six
this way when you reboot your windows will restore to their previous desks so your
workflow isn't interrupted simply right click at the top of the window to send it directly to
all of your desks and swipe across your touchpad with four fingers to switch between which tests
that you want to be viewing in this way you can be working with many different projects at one time
and the next feature that we have is personalize the lock screen and we already have this feature
on our smartphones so it's kind of nice to have this on our Chromebooks too with this feature
you can display a photo gallery that you have or show other information such as weather or other
apps that you want to be looking at such as the stock prices and the last feature that I want to
talk about before i talk about some of the apps that I've actually used with my Chromebook is the
media controls they're now pinned down at the bottom of the shelf there next to the time so
that when you're playing a movie or playing a song you can actually have the controls right
there at your fingertips click it and you can skip to the next song if you need to or pause the music
so it's kind of a nice way to have a controller for your media right there right on your shelf
now for this next segment i want to talk about some of the applications actually use
with my Chromebook to make it useful number one of course is google drive
google docs google sheets now i have a whole series of videos of going in it's called computer
literacy 2020 and I'll have the playlist right here above me click on there and actually get
into that playlist this is a great playlist if you're brand new to computers or if you're
brand new to the Chromebook there's a lot of information in there there's more than 30 videos
next I do use Microsoft word in Microsoft excel with Microsoft office and i have a special video
for that actually I have about 20 different videos on that but one of my later ones is right here so
there's a link to it above me click there you actually see how i actually install Microsoft
office and use it right on my Chromebook and next is games now I do play a lot of different games
on my Chromebook you can actually go to the play store and install any of the games that you're
used to playing with on your smartphone but you can also play even like pc games as well and that
is kind of new and i have a video on that right here above me so there's the link to the video
on how to actually play pc uh games right on onto your Chromebook and another thing that I have to
do just about every day is edit pdf documents and it's true that I can go into google drive
and get into google docs and then save a document as a pdf I can also do do that with Microsoft word
but what if I have an existing pdf document that is emailed to me and then I have to
basically change things in there like as if it was a form well I have a video on that as well it's
the link is above me so just go ahead and click on there and you can see how to edit pdf documents
right there on your Chromebook and another thing that I do with my Chromebook is I do edit images
and so yes you guessed it there's a link to the video there on some of the ways I do add images
right on my Chromebook and the last topic that i want to talk about here is flixier. Flixier is
a video editing program and actually allows me to create videos like the one that you're seeing here
just directly right on my Chromebook I don't need to use a pc you don't need to use any other
computers which is great and uh so let me show you and take you a quick tour of flixier.
Flixier is a cloud powered video editor that runs right in your browser. It enables non-linear video
editing with plenty of features to satisfy even advanced users among them you can cut trim delete
and reorganize video clips right on a timeline additionally you have access to many different
video effects motion graphics and even audio editing one of the nicer things about flixier
is team collaboration projects within your media library can be shared allowing multiple people
to work on the same video and instantly pick up wherever someone else left off cutting down a
lot of collaboration time if you want feedback on your work you can share a review link with others
without any rendering being involved this means that collaborators can leave time-stamped comments
giving you quick and precise feedback in real time once you finish working on a project all
you need to do is click on the export button and with your quick cloud-based rendering technology
the video is exported within minutes saving you many hours in the process so hey there you go make
sure you do check out flicks here there I will have a link to flixier down in the description of
this video and i just want to say thank you uh for all the wonderful comments I've been receiving on
my other videos and so if you like these types of videos please give it a
thumbs up comment down below because I do love to read your comments thank you very much and bye bye!