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Google Gboard, the keyboard app from the Mountain View company, has a new update rolling out that brings some improvements and new language support.  The updated build is version 7.31 for those keeping score at home and should be widely available at this point.

A few months ago, in May, Gboard gained the ability to create your own GIFs using your phone’s camera.  With this update, you can add text to your GIF.  This allows you to make them a bit more personalized.

The powerful but budget friendly Huawei Matebook D has made its way to the US.  Powered by the AMD Ryzen 5 2500U quad-core and coupled with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, the 14″ touchscreen uni-body laptop is priced at $599 currently exclusively at Walmart, both in store and online.  The Matebook D is aimed to bring the quality of Huawei laptops at a more affordable price.  It also represents a new breed of Windows 10 laptops that are powered by mobile SoCs to maximize performance while also being gentle on the battery.

The AMD RyzenTM 5 2500U is clocked at 2GHz and will burst up to 3.6GHz.  It is coupled with the Radeon Vega8 Graphics processor.  Display wise, it has a 14″ touchscreen that renders at 1900 x 1080 to give you at 16:9 ratio.  All of this is coupled with four speaker Dolby ATMOS sound output to give great audio performance.

Endlich! Google Pay ist endlich in Deutschland angekommen

Finally!  Google Pay has finally arrived in Germany!  It has taken much longer than most expected but the tap-to-pay app can now be used with four different banks for Germans.  Rumors had been floating for several weeks that Pay’s debut in Germany was going to happen but there was nothing official on it.  Now the Google Pay support page for Germany has been updated reflecting support for the country.

As for the banks supported, you have four available:  Comdirect, Commerzbank, N26, and Wirecard.  If you bank with one of these institutions in Germany, you can now add your cards to Pay to use them where ever terminals allow you to tap to pay.

Regardless of which Operating System you use, the majority of power users are always looking for ways to gain efficiency to their day-to-day activities.  Chrome OS users are no different.  As one who uses a Google Pixelbook for my daily driver, any time I can find a shortcut that makes things faster for me, I leverage it as much as I can.

The challenge with Chrome OS is not that these shortcuts are not there.  It is that the platform is still relatively new in the grand scheme of things and they are simply not well known.  Consider that Chrome OS is just shy of being 7 years old while Windows in some shape or form has been around for 33 years.  Even MacOS has been around for 17 years now.  The benefit of having that much time in development is all the little tricks to get to things or improve efficiency are documented.  Chrome OS?  Not so much.

That’s the point of this article.  I’m going to outline three trackpad tricks you have in Chrome OS that will hopefully make you a little bit more efficient.  All three of these tips are accessed by using three fingers on the trackpad and performing an action.