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As with pretty much anything that’s new, there’s always a learning curve. Google+ is no different and there are some fun and interesting features along with new and different ways to do things. With that in mind, I’ve thrown together a cheat sheet for anyone who’s interested in learning some of the basic ins and outs of G+.
| Post Formatting | ||||
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| *Text* | → | Text | You can mix and match any of the text formats to the left. | Mention other people in your posts by prefixing their name with either the + or @ symbols. |
| _Text_ | → | Text | ||
| -Text- | → |
Sharing |
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| You can add links, photos, or videos in your post by dragging and dropping them in to the share box. | Private messages aren’t an obvious feature, but you can do it by sharing with only one person and disabling reshare. | Clicking on the timestamp for any post will take you to a permalink for that post’s page. |
| To prevent someone from sharing your post, click on the arrow at the top-right of the post and select “Disable Reshare”. | ||
 Blue: Only people in the selected circle will see the post.
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 Green: People outside of your circles will see the post.
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| Circles and +1 | |
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| Circles function kind of like a combination of groups on Facebook and following someone on Twitter. You are following anyone in your circle, but they do not necessarily have to approve you or have you in one of their circles. | Clicking +1 on Google+ or elsewhere on the web is similar to “Like” on Facebook. Clicking it once will +1 that post, clicking it again will remove it. Clicking it on a post will not show in your stream, clicking +1 elsewhere on the web will. |
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| Space | → | Scroll down Stream |
| Shift-Space | → | Scroll up Stream |
| J | → | Scroll down Single Post | K | → | Scroll up Single Post |
| Q | → | Jump to Chat |
| Return | → | Start a Comment |
| Tab, Return | → | Submit Comment |
If you’re aware of any errors above or anything that you think should be included here or has been added to Google+ since I posted this, please leave a comment and I’ll be sure to add it.
Dear Facebook,
Every time you release an update or tweak to your iPhone client, it becomes an even larger piece of shit while simultaneously not actually adding any worthwhile features from the standard site. From what I hear, you don’t even have a native iPad app yet. I can’t speak to your Android app, but knowing your iOS development cycle, I doubt it is any better. Frankly, this is pathetic. For a company that has it’s finger on the pulse of social networking more than any other, you seem to be neglecting an increasingly apparent future in mobile platforms. If you don’t want to get bitch-slapped by the likes of Google+ and Twitter, both of which embrace mobile usage at their very core, it might be time to pump some much-needed development in to native mobile applications. Your iOS and Android apps should mirror the features of today’s and tomorrow’s Facebook, not the Facebook of 2-3 years ago as it currently does. Until that happens, you’re just about begging something like Google+ to usurp your throne.
Sincerely,
Someone who likes your service, but will jump ship if you keep acting like you’re the only game in town.
Socialism
You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbor.
Communism
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.
Fascism
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk.
Nazism
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you.
Bureaucratism
Vou have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other and then throws the milk away.
Traditional Capitalism
You have 2 cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
American Capitalism
You have 2 cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow has dropped dead.
Enron Venture Capitalism
You have 2 cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for live cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with and option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public then buys your bull.
Andersen Model Capitalism
You have 2 cows. You shred them.
French Capitalism
You have 2 cows. You go on strike, organize a riot and block the roads because you want 3 cows.
Japanese Capitalism
You have 2 cows.You redesign them so they are 1/10 the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called ‘Cowkimon’ and market it worldwide.
German Capitalism
You have 2 cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month and milk themselves.
Italian Capitalism
You have 2 cows, but you don’t know where they are. You decide to have lunch.
Russian Capitalism
You have 2 cows. You count them and learn that you have 5 cows. You count again and learn you have 42 cows. You count again and learn you have 2 cows. You open another bottle of vodka.
Swiss Capitalism
You have 5000 cows. None ofthem belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.
Chinese Capitalism
You have 2 cows. You ahve 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment and high bovine productivity. You arrest the newsman who reports otherwise.
Indian Captialism
You have 2 cows. You worship them.
British Capitalism
Vou have 2 cows. Both are mad.
Iraqi Capitalism
Everyone thinks you have many cows. You tell them you have none but they don’t believe you and bomb the shit out of your country. You still have no cows but at least you are part of a democracy.
New Zealand Capitalism
You have 2 cows. The one on the left is looking pretty sexy…
Australian Capitalism
You have 2 cows. Business seems good. You close the office and go for a few celebratory beers.
I love reading the comics in the news paper. I generally read all of them every day of the week when I’m at work. I’ll admit it, I even read The Family Circus, presumably as a result of some sort of obsessive compulsive disorder. For as long as I’ve been reading through the comics every day (many many years) I have just about never found The Family Circus to be funny. Only occasionally does it even cause me to crack a smile. It’s one part stale dry humor poured over one part traditional family values then stirred, not shaken. Yet, somehow, it persists. Day after day, year after year, decade after decade, it appears in just about every major newspaper around the country. I long assumed that maybe I just could not appreciate the white-bread family it revolves around simply because I did not have children myself to appreciate the types of quirky behavior encompassed in it’s small circular frame every day. Well, now I have a toddler with another baby on the way, so I’m finally starting to see and appreciate the humor of what babies and toddlers do and how they see the world. As it turns out, my newfound understanding of raising a family and living with a toddler has shown me something: The Family Circus still isn’t funny.
For those of you not yet up to date with the news today, Rick Santorum is running for President. I find this absolutely hilarious, because of his gigantic Google problem. I won’t delve any further in to the details of Dan Savage’s highly successful redefining of Santorum‘s last name, other than every time I’ve typed it in this thread I’ve linked it to the “Spreading Santorum” website, which further worsens his problem.
Good luck in the campaign, Rick!
Hello, this is the part where I kill you!
If you, like myself, have been a long-time Firefox user, then the following reasons I’m switching to Chrome may interest you.
- Speed
I haven’t bothered looking with any depth in to benchmarks or anything like that, but when I click that Chrome icon on my dock, it is instantly open. Firefox, however, takes several seconds to show up. Any defender of Firefox, my former self included, would brush this off as the fault of various installed plug-ins, but I’ve tracked down and installed all of the same or comparable Chrome extensions (plus one or two new ones that looked neat) and it still opens like lightning. Page loads seem faster as well, but they were still pretty fast in Firefox once it was open, so that one is a close call. - Extensions
Whether you call them plug-ins (Firefox) or extensions (Chrome), they are what makes a modern-day browser awesome. AdBlock is obviously a must-have (although I disable it on my favorite sites and/or sites that aren’t completely obnoxious about ads), but some of the other Firefox plugins that I’ve found Chrome counterparts for that are as good or better than those available for Firefox are Chrome SEO, StumbleUpon, and Ultimate Chrome Flag. A big part of what has held be back from switching to Chrome earlier was the lack or limited ability of a few of those. - Standards
Whether or not you are aware of what web standards are or how they make your web browsing experience better, they are important. Some browsers (I’m looking at you, IE) have long ignored this fact and it has hurt them in the long run. One of the very first things I do when I install a new browser or major update is run the latest Acid test. As seen below, Chrome currently ranks extremely well (Hint: 100/100 is perfect), whereas the latest version of Firefox “only” scores a 97. - PDF Support
If you, like me, view a lot of PDFs from various websites across the net, then you’d expect your web browser to natively be able to just view them inline without thinking twice. This works flawlessly in Chrome without any 3rd party extensions. In Firefox, however, you used to need a third party extension to get it to work and in the latest version that has stopped working and development on an update is all but abandoned because it would require a rewrite. Why Mozilla doesn’t just integrate this in to Firefox is beyond me, but thankfully Google felt it necessary for Chrome.
So there you have it. On both my home and work computers, Google Chrome is now the primary web browser. Between the speed with which they update it, the ever-growing selection of high quality extensions, and the features already built in, it will likely stay the default web browser on any computer I use for some time to come.
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