If you want to get a movie or TV show up on a big screen, or beam music wirelessly to a speaker, then the Chromecast standard is one of the best ways to go about it: It couldn't be much simpler to use ...

When the Google Chromecast HDMI streaming stick — later a dongle — arrived in 2013, it was a revelation. Retailing for $35, it served as the cheapest possible way to get streaming content onto the ...

Download content to your device and cast the file rather than stream videos from the internet. Lower the video quality before casting to reduce the bandwidth required for casting. Enable Optimize ...

Something else you can throw to a Chromecast in seconds: any tab you happen to have open in Google Chrome on your laptop or ...