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Know & Tell Tech tips TA K E A N D E D I T S C R E E N S H O T S . Chrome's built-in photo editor makes this an easy task. Just press CTRL, then press the Window Switch key (F5). When you see the screen flicker, your screen shot has been taken. Your screen shot will be saved in your Downloads folder. K E E P Y O U R F I L E S I N T H E C L O U D . Chromebook's limited internal hard drive tends to fill up fast, but did you know that every Chromebook comes bun- dled with 100 GB of cloud storage space? Just head over to drive.google.com/redeem to activate your free cloud storage. P R I N T F R O M A N Y W H E R E . Use Google's Cloud Print service to print to either a Cloud Ready printer that can connect directly to the Internet or a classic print- er that is plugged into a Windows or Mac computer with Internet access. No wires necessary. T O O M A N Y W I N D O W S O P E N ? Hit CTRL-M once to minimize your current window, or keep hitting CTRL-M to minimize all windows, till you see the desktop. U S E Y O U R C H R O M E B O O K O F F L I N E . Head to drive.google.com and click More on the left-hand side of the screen. Select Offline Docs and install the app. Once installed, return to Drive and click the Google Drive icon. On the right hand side of the Offline Docs page will be a blue button that says Enable offline. H AV I N G T R O U B L E S E E I N G ? Chrome makes it easy to zoom in or out with a simple key com- bination. For pages that display too small, zoom in by hitting the Ctrl-+ (plus key) combination. You can scale pages back down the same way by using Ctrl-− (minus key). Pages will always display at the last zoom setting when revisited. Have a tech tip to share? Email editor@cta.org. T H E G O O G L E C H R OM E B O O K is fast becoming a mainstream computing device thanks to its low price and multi- tude of cloud applications. Here are five tips and tricks to make your Chrome- book use more productive. B Y T E R R Y N G 1 4 2 5 6 3 CHROMEBOOK ADVICE 14 M A R C H 2 0 1 4 Educator 03 Mar 2014 v2.0 int.indd 14 3/6/14 10:52 AM