Google Plus Widget: Put Circles & Live Feed on Web

In last couple weeks, you can see I have added a section named "Circles" in the right sidebar of this blog. This section contain an invitation to join into my Circles in Google+ and also showed summary of my friends in the circles.

This is a sweet customizable Google+ widget made by a guy called Chris Kanger. You can also add this Google+ widget to your website or blog which will make it easy for your site visitors to add you to their circles so you can build your relationship with them.

This widget can also showing your latest Stream feed updates. And the big plus of the new widget from this widget like I said before is that it is customizable. Which mean you can change the sizes, font, colors, title text and even the size and color of the button so the widget blends with your site design.

Do you want it?

How to Stop Gif Images on Google Plus Stream?

Unlike Facebook, Google+ allowing its users to upload animated gif images. Probably Google thinking the users would use it to have fun and use it for wisely.

Yes, users are having fun bitching about rival Facebook and sharing Facebook slap images. But for peoples with slow connection of internet its like a nightmare. Because Google Plus takes huge times to load those images in browser.

If you are tired of all the animated gif images taking rounds on Google Plus then you might want to read this post. Its time to mute gif images and stop distractions!

All you need is using Google Chrome web browser then install this little extension from Chrome Web Store, called Gif Stopper. Gif Stopper will stop animated gif images with using the 'Escape' key. Open your Google Chrome web browser then go to the download link below:

How to Zoom Photos on Google Plus?

In Google+ we can freely and easily upload and share our photos or images from our stream and choose anyone who can view it. But, the stream shows photos in small size only hence you can not view the things in the photo unless you open it.

Now we should thanks to the developers who has give their contributions to make Google+ more stylish so we can overcome this problem using a little application they have made.

This application is used as an extension in Google Chrome web browser, so you'll need to download and install the Google Chrome first to activate this application. Visit Google Chrome website to learn more.

Actually I found several good applications related to zooming/enlarging photos in Google Plus. But, I prefered to use one as my favorite. This Google Chrome extension is called +Photo Zoom.

Get Google Plus Stream Updates via RSS Feed

Nowadays if we want to check updates from our Google+'s circles, we need to open their stream one by one. Of course it's serious problems because it takes lots of time, moreover if we have many friends to followed.

RSS feed is one solution for this problem. RSS is most popular option for get latest updates from any website or blog on internet and we can used it to follow a specific user on the new social networking site also. But unfortunately RSS feeds are not officially supported by Google+ yet. That's bad of course.

RSS feed subscribe option is still on the process of developing Google+ project with another service like API, media player plug in and everything in between. But we can try a service that turns a stream into an RSS feed using third party applications.

How to Play Games on Google Plus?

Games is one of most favorite feature wished by millions of Google+ users. And finally Google announced that they has released online games for Google+, even still gradually to its users.

Till now, there are 16 total games available to play on Google+. They are:
Angry Birds, Bejeweled Blitz Beta, Bubble Island, City of Wonder, Collapse! Blast, Crime City, Diamond Dash, Dragon Age Legends, Dragons of Atlantis, Edgeworld, Flood-It!, Monster World, Sudoku Puzzles, Wild Ones, Zombie Lane, and Zynga Poker.

Most of Games on Google+ is easy to play and understand. In this post, I'll tell you how to play games on Google+ and I'm choosing Angry Birds -as most popular game in mobile games market- for the example.

Google+ Online Games Has Arrived!

Finally Google released online games to play in Google+!

This is really a big move toward mainstream adoption today, integrating web-based games within the brand new social network. Games also have been expected since the earlier launch of Google+ by millions of users.

Unlike Facebook which shows Games updates all in "Top News" and "Most Recent" pages, games related updates won't appear on Google+ streams. But rather would show up separately on Games Page. Vic Gundotra, senior VP of engineering of Google reported on Google's Official Blog. So your main homepage stream will only show usual conversations, not games notification.

"Games in Google Plus are there when you want them and gone when you don't," Google says. "If you're not interested in games, it's easy to ignore them."

10 Sites to Create Shortened Google+ Profile URL

The main benefit of shortened URL is to make it easier for you to send this URL to your friends without having to remember for your Google profile id (the 21 digit number in the URL) like:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/106629607806000497486/posts

But unlike Facebook where you can have your profile URL short like http://www.facebook.com/username, Google don't have any official vanity URL for our Google+ profiles. So we have to use third party apps to shortened our Google+ profile URL. If you don't want to use any third party applications, you can see another tricks, using Google Profiles option or redirecting from your own domain name.

Here are 10 Sites to Create Shortened Google Plus Profile URL:

How to Update Facebook Status from Google+? (2)

This is my second post about "How to Update Facebook Status from Google+?". And different from previous post, this time I will show you how to do it by using third-party applications.

Thanks for crossrider.com who has launched this apps!

But, hopefully the applications used in this tutorial will still work, considering Facebook being aggressively blocking applications that attempt to extract their users contact data to Google+. If not, you can still follow on my previous manual tips by clicking this link: "How To Update Facebook Status from Google+?".

Allright then, now follow these steps:

Shortened Google Plus Username Using Gplus.to

In this previous post we use Google Profiles to change and make a custom of our Google+ page URL. But for you who are not activate Google Profiles before creating Google+ you can't use that way. Fortunately there is a website named "GPlus.to" who give us very smart solution.

Gplus.to is a service that shortens your Google+ profile URL into a neat, easy to remember link. To create your shortened URL, all you have to do is giving Gplus.to your Google+ profile ID, it will generate an URL in the format gplus.to/yourusername. You can set whatever name you want as long as it is still available.