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As many of you know, I’ve now been a part of Google+(Google Plus) since they day they launched(June 29th).  I’ve learned quite a bit since being there and messing around with it and interacting with other users. Tonight(July 6th) Google opened up the gates for us to invite our friends for a while and it seems that a lot of them don’t know any of the nice little tips and tricks that Google+(Google Plus) has.  So, I’ve decided to write a few things up so I can post a URL for my friends and new people to view and read to hopefully grasp things a bit quicker.  This is just the first of what will probably be many more posts to come. (more…)
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Well I managed to get an invite to the new http://plus.google.com yesterday and so far I’m really enjoying it.  If you don’t know what it is, click on the link I just linked to and check it out.  It’s Google’s latest attempt at social networking.  And to be honest, I think this one might actually be successful. What I really like about it is the Circles.  Circles allows you to group people in certain categories.  Then when you want to post something to Google+, you can select which of your Circles sees what you posted.  Instead of everyone you are friends with seeing it.  It’s a very nice feature. (more…)
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For those that have been invited to try out Google’s Beta Music service and own an iPad/iPhone and can’t seem to get it to work on your device, here’s a little trick you can use to make it work. Google Music loads well, but after clicking the “play” button nothing happens. Here’s a trick to make Google Music work every time: start playing a song, pause and play again. It’s unfortunate that you have to use a workaround, but Google Music doesn’t officially support Safari for iOS. The system requirements page says that it only supports “Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer 7 and above” and that you need Adobe Flash. It’s interesting that this trick lets you play music on more than one device simultaneously. For example, I was able to play music on my iPad and iPhone at the same
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Enable Google Toolbar in Firefox 5 If you’ve installed Firefox 5 and noticed that Google Toolbar wasn’t updated to support the new Firefox release, there’s a simple way to enable the extension: install the Add-on Compatibility Reporter. “After installing the Add-on Compatibility Reporter, your incompatible extensions will become enabled for you to test whether they still work with the version of Firefox or Thunderbird that you’re using.” This should only be a temporary solution until Google Toolbar and other extensions update their compatibility list. Google Toolbar 7 works well in Firefox 5, especially considering that the new Firefox version didn’t make too many important extension-related changes. Firefox’s faster release cycle, inspired by Google Chrome, has an important downside: extension developers need to update their extensions more frequently and update the list of Firefox versions that are supported. Mozilla alleviated this problem by automatically marking almost 4,000 extensions as compatible
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