Google+ Cheat Sheet

Are you addicted to Google+ like millions of others early adopters? Do you spend your Saturday nights hanging out in Google+ Hangouts?

Google is back with a brand new device of social networking. It has everything for everyone.  Google Plus Claims Solutions To Security And Privacy Concerns, hope so it fulfill. Google is coming up with few minor UI changes . Google changes it search page for everything, image, videos. The attached screenshot shows the black color or header bar which is known as Google+ Bar as well.

Mashable.com : more succinctly describes Google Plus’s capabilities here:  “The search giant’s new social project will be omnipresent on every Google product, thanks to a complete redesign of the Google(search and everything etc) navigation bar. The familiar gray bar at the top of every Google page will turn black, and come with several new options for accessing your Google+ profile, viewing notifications and instantly sharing content at any time. The notification system is similar to how Facebook handles notifications, complete with a red number that increases with each additional notice.”  This is reminiscent of Facebook’s user interface, but here is where the likeness ends.  The differences are found in the details.  One feature is called Circles: users can have circles for professional life, personal life, and for every area in-between.  They’ll be able to share videos, pictures, etc. inside of another feature called Sparks.  And with a feature called Hangouts, users can share their locations and meet with people face to face.  Google says Hangouts is the “next best thing” to teleportation.  Business owners may also find that they have a robust and secure social and professional solution.  Many hope Google Plus is able to live up to Google’s confident claims.

You share different things with different people. So sharing the right stuff with the right people shouldn’t be a hassle. Circles makes it easy to put your friends from Saturday night in one circle, your parents in another, and your boss in a circle by himself – just like real life.

With Hangouts, the unplanned meet-up comes to the web for the first time. Let specific buddies (or entire circles) know you’re hanging out and then see who drops by for a face-to-face-to-face chat. Until teleportation arrives, it’s the next best thing.

Tell Sparks what you’re into and it will send you stuff it thinks you’ll like, so when you’re free, there’s always something cool to watch, read, or share.

Texting is great, but not when you’re trying to get six different people to decide on a movie. Huddle turns all those different conversations into one simple group chat, so everyone gets on the same page all at once. Your thumbs will thank you.

Taking photos is fun. Sharing photos is fun. Getting photos off your phone is pretty much the opposite of fun. With Instant Upload, your photos and videos upload themselves automatically, to a private album on Google+.  All you have to do is decide who to share them with.

For example, search using a picture of your favorite band and see search results that might include similar images, webpages about the band, and even sites that include the same picture.

How it works

The results page

When you search by image, your results will look different than your normal Images or Web results page. The biggest difference is that your results can include non-image results like webpages that seem relevant to the image that you searched for. The elements of your results page will change depending on your search and on the information that’s most relevant to that search.

Google Image Search

via Search by Image : Getting started – Google Images Help.

Enjoying….

Here you can clearly see the the Chrome Browser ads in chrome browser.

Highly Unlikely: If this ad is appearing for your blog and sites then there is very-very less possibility that a visitor will see chrome ad then it is a waste of highly magnetizable space.

I am reporting this to Google Adsense on twitter about filtering these kind of ads which are unlikely. Please retweet it to make it more reachable if your ads are not appearing properly in chrome browser.  It will improve your earning.

There are several incidents where adsense is posting irrelevant ads, this is one of those. Please report and retweet this post to bring into notice.

See this doodle in action here. I created my logo doodle You can create your own Google like Doodle for your name, blog name etc. Create and share it at dotty-dot.

Few days back Google has shown the same type of doodle at Google UK homepage. Few people got inspired by that and created a app hosted on Google appspot which make you able to create your own Doodle.

This Doodle can’t be saved because it is totally based upon javascript and HTML5. You should visit the source code of this page to get the full details with customized javascript and CSS.

Priority Inbox^Beta

Welcome to Priority Inbox! By automatically separating out your most important messages, Priority Inbox makes it easy for you to read and respond to the messages that matter.

Get through your email faster

Try reading and replying to the messages in the “Important and Unread” section first. Mark anything that requires follow-up with a star, then go through the “Everything Else” section. If you leave Priority Inbox, you can return to it by clicking the link next to Inbox on the side navigation of Gmail.

How it works

Gmail’s servers look at several types of information to identify the email that’s important to you, including who you email and chat with most, how often you email these people and which keywords frequently appear in the emails that you read.

Train Priority Inbox

If Priority Inbox makes a mistake, you can use the buttons to correctly mark a conversation as important or not important and Priority Inbox will quickly learn what you care about most.

And more…

• Customise Priority Inbox: You can change what type of email you see in each section (such as switching the “Important and Unread” section to just “Important”). Simply click on the section headers or visit the Priority Inbox tab under Settings to customise.
• Use filters to guarantee importance: If you want to be absolutely sure that some messages are always marked as important (such as emails from your boss), you can set up a filter and choose “Always mark it as important.”
• Search by importance: If you want to see all the messages that have been marked as important, both read and unread, perform a Gmail search for “is:important.”
• Switching back to your old inbox: If Priority Inbox isn’t for you, you can easily switch back to your normal inbox by clicking “Inbox” on the left or hide Priority Inbox altogether from Gmail Settings.

To learn more about managing your email with Priority Inbox, take a look at the Gmail Help Centre.

- The Gmail Team

This feature has some limitations like products integration – you can’t use Orkut, Adsense etc. Even you can’t add more then three google account. Here is snapshot of the error coming while adding fourth account.

Some threats of this features:

I created new gmail account due to some reasons . One of the reason was adsense account. My previous account was blocked so created new google account to reapply for adsense. Now I have a new account but Google can take action . Here I am taking risk of blocking my account. SO before going to use your another mail address into one take care of these kind of threats.

What’s next to integrate first:

I use orkut, facebook for social networking. Due to logging into different account I reduced using Orkut, so the first thing now is the integration of orkut accounts into this feature.

Write your comments about the new features and threats by using this feature.

Drawback:

Multiple-signin features don’t combine accounts for ever, it just manages the session untill you logout any one of the accounts. Every time you login into one account you have to log in into all the accounts but while logging out it will logout from all at once.