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Download Google+ Style Buttons

July 26th, 2011 | Comments Off | Posted in Design

Pixify, an easy website design service for small businesses, have some tips on how to improve a website’s UI (user interface). One way that you can improve a website’s user interface is by using Google‘s new button designs that has been rolled out across many of their services since the launch of Google+.

Part of the design’s success is the new buttons. Great UIs tend to have simple, obvious buttons that are standard across the entire application. I have created Google-styled buttons that you can apply to your app’s UI.

Download Google+ Style Buttons Here.

 

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How to make Google+ Posts and Comments Collapsible

July 25th, 2011 | Comments Off | Posted in Tips N Tricks

What’s the best browser fits Google+? Why Chrome of course. Not only that it’s faster, especially when loading Google products, you get to customize them by using Chrome Extensions. Speaking of which, here’s a Chrome extension that you might want to use with Google+.

The extension is called G+me for Google Plus™. What it does is that it collapses the Google+ stream while keeping live updates. You’ll be able to hide comments and collapse posts that are too long. This way, you’ll be able to quickly browse through the posts of the people you follow (in your circles). If you find something interesting, simply expand the post to view them- this is also true for comments. You don’t have to go through to all the posts and comments if you don’t like to.

Features of G+me

1. *Notification status visible at all times*. Browser icon shows badge with number of new notifications.

2. *Collapsible comments*. Always-visible button makes 100s of comments easy to hide.

3. *Collapsible posts*. An alternative to muting, this is great if you’re not interested in seeing a post but still want to get back to it later and/or still want to get notifications.

4. *Real-time comment count on collapsed items*. Track the number of seen or unseen comments, whether you like to collapse posts and comments.

5. *Mark comments as read*. Collapsing posts/comments automatically keeps track of comments you’ve seen; the extension remembers.

6. *List-mode option keeps at most one post displayed*. This turns the stream into a dashboard: in one screenful you can see activity on many posts at once and jump back and forth between multiple active comment streams.

7. *Mouse-over instant preview*. In list mode, hover the mouse over a collapsed post to get a fully-functional preview on the side.

 

Google+ is still on beta and God knows when they’ll bring it out of beta. Things are improving every day, maybe they’ll make these features available to us sooner or later, I don’t know. But, until then, extensions like G+me is a must-have.

Download G+me for Google Plus™

Note: For Google Chrome Browser Only

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An Infographic Comparing Google+ and Facebook

July 23rd, 2011 | Comments Off | Posted in Technology

Learn the difference and choose your side.

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How to Automatically Share your Public Google+ Posts on Twitter

July 22nd, 2011 | Comments Off | Posted in Tips N Tricks

Are you both on G+ and Twitter? Do you want to automatically share your Google+ updates on Twitter? All you need to do is head over to ManageFlitter’s website and set it up so that you’ll be able to share your “public” G+ posts with your Tweeter followers.

To link your G+ with your Twitter account, the first thing you need is your Google+ public link. Your G+ public URL can be found by clicking the profile button. Copy the URL and paste it on ManageFlitter under the step 1 input box. The next step is to give ManageFlitter access to your Twitter account and you can be on your way to sharing every public posts made on G+ to your Twitter followers.

We’ll keep an eye on your Google+ page for public posts and tweet them from your Twitter account. Posts that are longer than 140 characters will be linked back to your post on Google+

The ManageFlitter’s Google+ to Twitter advanced option will allow you to:

Only share Google+ posts including the tag #twt

Add “G+:” to the start tweets created

Share Google+ hangout sessions

Always include a link to the original Google+ post

 

Plus: Manage Flitter is also a pretty neat Twitter management tool.

 

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Easily Migrate Photos from Facebook to Google+ All at Once

July 8th, 2011 | Comments Off | Posted in Tips N Tricks

Migrating from Facebook to Google+? Creating an account on a new social networking site is so easy that your grandma can do it for you, so migrating from Facebook to Google+ won’t be a problem for anyone in terms of account creation. What’s hard is transferring the millions of photos that you managed to accumulate on your Facebook account over the years. Luckily for us who wants to give Google+ a shot, there’s a webapp that will help us transfer photos from Facebook to Picasa.

Move2Picasa is a tool that will help your Facebook to Google+ migration a breeze. Simply allow Move2Picasa access to your Facebook account to begin the transfer. The transfer rate will depend on the amount of photos stored in your Facebook account.

Reminder: Move2Picasa will transfer ALL your Facebook Photos. You won’t be able to make a selection of photos you want shared/transferred on Picasa.

[Move2Picasa]

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Take a Peek at the Back of Popular Websites

April 21st, 2011 | Comments Off | Posted in Design

Have you ever wondered what you’ll see if you can look at the back of webpages? Back of a Webpage has all the answers.

The birds are busy bringing you tweets (links, videos, photos, music, etc).

It’s pretty cool seeing the back of Flickr photos look like the real back of real photograph prints.

Source: [Back of Webpage]

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