Recent content by Steve Simons

That's a bit harsh. Especially when I manage a whole fleet of Chromebooks for a school. If you have a tech guy at the school, they can restore it from the USB boot disk. It takes 10 minutes. Nothing to worry about. Unless he opened the sucker up and did damage to it that way. Then it's a...

Lower right corner there should be a little o (next to your log in stuff). Click on that. It should open the SD/USB device. If it doesn't, then it isn't inserted properly, not compatible, not formatted, or bad.

Were you grounded when you did this. Static electricity is a bad thing. I'm guessing it's that or a missed connection. Chromebooks have a pretty finicky seating on some of those ribbons. Check those, they shouldn't pull out easily if seated properly.

I wouldn't. Touch screens on a Chromebook are largely useless right now because there's virtually no apps worth using outside of google draw for them. We've tested them and they are clunky at best at this point. You are better off buying a standard, solid chromebook (HP G4 kicks butt in my...

HP G4 Chromebook is fantastic. I manage hundreds of them. Few problems with them. Excellent battery life. https://www.amazon.com/HP-Chromebook-Graphics-T4M32UT-ABA/dp/B016J9LHSO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1477112315&sr=8-2&keywords=hp+g4+chromebook

In gmail you can turn mail notifications on in the settings but unfortunately I don't believe it plays an audible sound.

Yes and no. There are some paid extensions for the Chrome Browser/Chromebook. Wevideo is the best, but you have to pay for it to take the watermark off of whatever you create. For single licenses, it's very reasonable and does a good job. It's like a lite version of imovie. I hope that helps.

Esc, Refresh, Power button. Control D Space Bar Chromebook should restart and reset to factory settings. At reset the screen should work again. If it doesn't then you can check it with an external monitor. If the external monitor works, then order a new screen from Amazon (usually about...

I don't see why it can't. If a phone can handle multiple BT devices, a Chromebook should as well. To be safe, you can order it from Best Buy and return it if it doesn't work.

If you haven't bought yet, I'd go with the HP G4 model. We have hundreds of them in our building and they kick butt. 4 GB RAM, Intel processor, excellent battery life (about 8-10 hours). We pay just over $250 a piece and that's with the enterprise fee. $370 is way overpriced.

I have two Samsung smart TVs about 5 years apart in age. Neither of the functions or wifi work worth a dump, so everything is disabled. Just a marketing ploy to get to charge more for a TV. If you can even get basic things like Pandora or Netflix to work on yours, I'd be impressed, because...

So much for touting the Sapphire glass...

Depending on cost and functionality, I may get one to replace my fitbit. Less likely if I have to still have my phone on me for it to register though.