Unlike Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed and other social sites, Google Plus does not have built in support for vanity URL’s yet. Your Google Plus profile URL is really long and difficult to remember because every Google Plus profile has a unique 21 character numeric ID attached to it. No one can remember such a long string [...]

The best thing about Google Plus is it’s sleek notification bar. The notification bar stays on top, no matter what Google service you are using. You may be checking emails on Gmail, reading blog posts in Google Reader, catching up with Google calendar events – the Google Plus notification bar will alert when you whenever [...]

Okay this one is not like Twitter follow buttons or Facebook fan page boxes. No sneaky JavaScript’s or iFrame codes in the Google profile button for websites. Google has put up a sample webpage for webmasters where they can generate the HTML code for a Google Plus button and embed it on their websites and [...]

Unlike Facebook or Twitter, Google Plus does not have a clear option to send direct or private messages to your Google Plus friends. if you are a Twitter or Facebook users, you might find this a little annoying. Both Twitter and Facebook has clear and easy way to send direct messages to your friends and [...]

The best thing I like so far about Google Plus is the ability to allow my friends to email me, without them knowing my email address at all. I haven’t added my email address in text to my Google Plus profile and neither I have to tell everyone that this is my email address and [...]

Yesterday, Google Plus was available on an invitation only basis and only a small percentage of users have signed up for Google Plus yet. If you have already signed up for Google Plus, you are very lucky! Many users at Facebook and Twitter are still trying to get into Google plus and see how this [...]

The other day Google took the web by a storm, releasing their latest social networking site – Google Plus. Google plus has received mixed reactions and most of the people in my circle have doubts whether it can really beat Facebook in the coming months. There is also some good news for website owners and [...]

Google Plus in it’s early nascent stage and it has been only one day since Google Plus was launched on an invite only basis. Only a few users (including me) were able to get a Google plus invite and most of the web traffic is still in the waiting queue. If you have successfully created [...]

Google Plus is certainly going to be the next big thing. In it’s first day of launch, thousands of people have already signed up for a Google Plus account and many more are still in the queue. The response was so massive that Google had to halt the invitations for a while because the demands [...]

In Google Plus, the sharing visibility of content is restricted to circles. A circle is nothing but a personalized group of contacts and friends which you can create within your Google Plus profile. This is quite similar to Facebook friend lists, Google circles can be controlled in a much better way and you can choose [...]

Google Plus is Google’s completely new social networking and sharing platform which is far more cleaner than Google Wave or Google Buzz. I have been using Google plus for some time now and I am finding it more compelling and easy to use, when compared with Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed and other social networking websites. Google [...]

Some good news! I have just signed up for Google + – Google’s brand new social networking site which aims to redefine how social sharing works. At this moment, you will need an invite to join Google +, we are giving away 10 invitations for Google + here. Get a Google Plus Invite If you [...]

There can be situations when you may want to save a file to your Dropbox account, without downloading the file on the local computer itself. The general way to use Dropbox is to put all your files and folders in the “My Dropbox” folder of your computer and run the Dropbox desktop client. Dropbox will [...]

While surfing at Google.com, you might have noticed that Google has introduced a black navigation bar on top of every page at Google.com. Whether you are using Google reader, Google Buzz, Gmail or Google Translate, this black navigation bar stays and looks a little ugly to some people. We have previously discussed a Greasemonkey script [...]

Here is something really interesting, if you are into Flash and HTML5 web apps. Google has released a new tool called Swiffy, which allows you to convert Flash objects and SWF files to it’s corresponding HTML5 version. Google understands the fact that not all mobile browsers has built in support for Adobe Flash so this [...]

From the past couple of weeks, Google has been experimenting a major design overhaul of search result pages on Google.com. The design changes were randomly tested on different users and it appears that Google has finally implemented the newer design on Google.com. Here is how the new design of Google.com looks like: There is a [...]

Google has just launched a new mashup for organizing their product results on one page. WDYL.com which is the short version for What do you love, lets you search for a keyword across all Google products, directly from one page. Think of this as a way to find results from Google, Google Image search, Google [...]

So you are a Facebook addict and want easy ways to use Facebook from office without getting caught by your boss or office colleagues. Some corporate organizations restrict employees from using Facebook during work hours by imposing strict guidelines that using Facebook during office hours is strictly not permissible.

WordPress as a content management system offers many possibilities on how you want your site’s structure to be built and how you want content to be shown on different pages of your site. The best thing regarding WordPress is that you need to edit a file only once and the changes will get reflected across [...]

You remember those awkward moments when you clicked a snap and found that the subject is out of focus. Maybe you wanted to focus a person’s face but your digital camera has an autofocus feature which automatically selected a random point on it’s focal length and focused the wrong person or object. The result is [...]