Chromecast is now available for several months in America and its development has seen significant progress and improvements both on the part of Google by independent developers. Unfortunately, in Italy and in many other countries you can not buy this accessory and many applications and services at the present time are not compatible with our market by restricting the use of Chromecast a few functions if the wanted to buy in Italy.

Fortunately, in the plans of Google seems to be a global launch in 2014. It is very interesting as a novelty, the large-scale commercialization, will also include the release of the SDK, and then, finally, a complete and official development base on which developers can build. In addition to this are planned many new services and important agreements that could lead to extend the use of Chromecast on other devices by creating a sort of ecosystem cast to be able to share content, and access the features of HDMI dongle by other devices.

We therefore hope that in Italy may soon get Chromecast and many services to make the most of this product.

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Applications from the online store Chrome Web Store can be run on mobile devices running iOS and Android. As reported by The Next Web, currently, Google holds the corresponding experiments.

According to the publication, the Internet giant is developing a software development kit that allows software makers to produce “hybrid” applications running in an environment like desktop operating systems and mobile OS. The information was found in the GitHub repository project Mobile Chrome Apps, headed by one of the developers of Google. Of the discovered documents that Chrome App for desktop platforms – this is only the beginning.

Google developer kit will produce universal software for all popular systems. Their interface is, of course, should be adapted for each OS. Thereafter, such programs can be published in the online stores and Google Play App Store. The documentation claims to support Android 4.x, further technology will be compatible with iOS, as well as devices with Android 2.2 and 2.3.

App for Chrome Web Store can be created on the basis of HTML, JavaScript and CSS. At the same time they work in offline mode and outside the browser. In other words, Google is seeking to expand opportunities of the Internet as a platform, and in the near future, this technology will also include mobile OS.

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Chrome development team never sits still. Her latest project, codenamed Spark provides a development environment for writing applications Chrome.

First talked about the project Spark IT evangelist François Beaufort of Team Chrome. According to him, the project is currently in its infancy. It is known that IDE Spark is based on the basis of a new programming language for building web applications called Dart and GUI Polymer. It should be noted that IDE Spark currently already available in the web service GitHub for everyone who wants to be among the first to test the possibility of this development environment.

Recall that Chrome packaged applications written in programming languages, markup and styles of HTML, JavaScript and CSS, but running outside the browser, work in offline mode and access to certain API is not unusual for the web application. In other words, the new IDE, Google intends to expand the boundaries of web programming. By the way, a web programming language Dart owned by Google, which sees him as the successor JavaScript.

At the moment is quite difficult to say whether Google will support IDE Spark and release updates to it on a regular basis, as this development environment, by and large, created to demonstrate the capabilities of the above decisions, Google.

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Web technology WebRTC (Web with Real Time Communications) moves Google, Mozilla and Opera with one purpose – to make possible video conferencing on mobile devices and websites directly in the browser, without the need to install any add-ons for this. Unfortunately, the recent development of WebRTC stalled due to the contradiction between the two companies, which were divided into two camps: one in every way promote an open standard free Google VP8, while others, thus pushing for more support H.264. Cisco may help the two camps to reach a compromise.

It became known that Cisco has decided to open its own implementation for the H.264 codec is licensed under BSD. In the near future OpenH264 video codec will be available for free download in the form of binaries for all popular platforms possible. In other words, any project or application, including WebRTC, will be able to use ready-made modules H.264 from Cisco. At the same time pay royalties MPEG LA does not have to. It is worth noting that the pay is not got to do is for the use of ready-made modules, while the source code for the application of the codec will have to pay royalties.

Mozilla community in the face of technical director Brendan Ike supported the initiative and promised to implement a Cisco support module from Cisco H.264 in Firefox at the beginning of 2014. The report said that the Firefox browser will automatically install the OS is compatible with the version of the module OpenH264, if this feature will not be disabled by the user in the settings. H.264 Support Firefox users to provide access to content without the need for H.264 decode it.

On November 7, the Internet Engineering Council (IETF), engaged in the development of protocols and the architecture of the Internet, is going to decide on the video codec standardized for use in WebRTC. At the moment, there is no guarantee that their decision is closely linked with the plans Cisco. True, H.264 is now one of the most popular video codecs and its application in WebRTC along with VP8 will allow users to think less about the devices and software that they use for video conferencing.

We recall not so long ago, Google and Mozilla had a chat with browsers with support for WebRTC .

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Google has announced some of the innovations implemented in the new version of Chrome browser and Chrome for Android.

So, with this week’s Chrome browser users will be able to search for pictures. This will be enough to right click on any picture that is displayed in the browser. This will launch search for similar images on the Internet.

At the same time, the Chrome browser for Android introduces new gestures. They allow faster to navigate through open tabs, and access to the menus. For example, a horizontal swipe toolbar along the top of the screen allows you to quickly switch between tabs. If you perform a gesture from the vertical toolbar down, then you can access the switch tabs. Finally, the gesture down from the menu not only opens the menu, but also allows you to select a menu item without lifting your finger from the screen.

These innovations will be available to users over the next few days.

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Currently, many browsers support the connection interface plugins Netscape Plug-in API (NPAPI). But soon Google will refuse to support NPAPI in your browser Chrome.

As stated by Google, blocking NPAPI will begin in January 2014, the appropriate plug-ins no longer work by default in new versions of releases Chrome. But today in the Web Store are no longer accepted new extensions that use the NPAPI. Previously added extensions, developers can update to May 2014, and in September 2014 they will be completely removed from the directory.

Additionally reported that in January 2014, not all based on NPAPI plugins stop working. Some of the most popular additions still continue their work, but only as long as no new versions will be based on the new API. In any case, before the end of 2014 will be completely dropped support for NPAPI.

It is noted that at the time based on NPAPI plugins allowed to implement support for audio and video in the browser. But since then, the web technology has greatly stepped forward and now do not need the older decisions that have come out of the 90s of the last century. Now, the assurances of Google, NPAPI is one of the main reasons for application hangs, crashes, security problems. The use of this outdated architecture leads to a complication of the code. Refusal to further support the NPAPI is virtually invisible to end users. Now only 6 NPAPI plug-ins are applied on the basis of more than 5% of users of Chrome: Microsoft Silverlight, Unity, Google Earth, Java, Google Talk and Facebook Video. That they came to a temporary white list and will work after January 2014. If necessary, expand the white list users will be able to.

Instead NPAPI further encouraged to use web-based technologies such as NaCl, Apps, Native Messaging API and LBS (Legacy Browser Support). In addition, as an alternative, Google offers to use Pepper API (PPAP) – a simple and safe solution. However, the support that PPAPpoka limited.

Further, it should be noted that not only Google has decided to abandon further support the NPAPI. The company also Mozilla stops supporting this API in your Firefox browser from mid-December of this year.

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Besides the fact that Apple has released the final version of iOS 7, the company has also updated and some other programs. Moreover, in this case we are talking about software for Windows.

In particular, the iCloud Control Panel for Windows an opportunity to not only synchronize bookmarks with Internet Explorer, but also with Chrome and Firefox. Although it will have to set the appropriate browser extensions have also recently released Apple. It’s funny that in OS X until a feint of alternative browsers and bookmarks iCloud can be done.

In addition to bookmarks iCloud Control Panel allows you to synchronize between Windows, OS X and iOS contacts, mail and calendar events.

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Google will soon add to its popular Chrome browser a new opportunity – this time he will learn to interact with touch screens. This is confirmed by the fact that in the latest test version of the browser already has a feature tabs scrolling by holding your finger on the touchscreen.

It is clear that only one “swipe” is not limited to – Google certainly has built into Chrome support multiple simultaneous touches, for example, to zoom in on the page in the same movement that is used in all smartphones, that is “pinch» (Pinch to Zoom).

To all this is added full support for the on-screen keyboard – this function is already working on Windows 8. In Chrome, it will be activated by placing the cursor in the text box anywhere on any web page. Perhaps in the future there will be also additional features, but Google has not yet particularly strongly about it spreads.

The reason for touch-release version of Chrome browser for desktops and laptops, obviously, is the proliferation of models with touch screens. This is particularly true of mobile PCs, as touch screens for desktop computers are not yet a great deal. For example, the same Chromebooks Google Pixel comes complete with a touchscreen.

At the same time it should be recalled that the suppliers of mobile PCs, to put it mildly, unhappy with the promotion of laptops with touch screens – their sales considerably lower in comparison with the forecasts of analysts and producers themselves.

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Than the $ 35 Google Chrome cast stick presented many were thrilled by the small device. Not least because you can also wirelessly transmit a browser tab from the PC. Unfortunately, Google still has a way to conceal during the presentation. It’s long been known that Chrome can also access the contents of the entire desktop. For some time there namely a remote desktop tool with which you can control from any remote PC from another PC. Such a possibility, it now seems to give beta-default in Chrome cast plugin for the Chrome browser.

If the “Cast Entire Screen (experimental)” option is activated, namely the full desktop is transmitted. Unfortunately, the sound transmission does not work despite the audio mode is enabled, but because Google will certainly still work. There is as well when streaming a single Chrome Tabs still a slight delay of less than a second, so you obviously can not use the whole thing in all applications. Now the Chrome cast stick just have to come to Germany when that will be the case is still not yet clear.

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