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Jul 26, 2011

Collection of Google+ Shortcuts, Tips & Tricks

Google+Google+ is Search Giants new venture of Social Networking site to compete the Success and fame of Facebook. It has new kind of concept known as +Circle, +Hangout, +Mobile, etc. they are amazing at first touch. Google+ is the only topic discussed everywhere in present. So today we are going to explore some unique and fabulous Google+ Shortcuts, Tips & Tricks. I have made collection of it. Catch them out below :

Google+ Keyboard Shortcuts , Tips And Tricks

Google+ Keyboard Shortcuts , Tips And Tricks

Google+ Keyboard Shortcuts :

  • Press “j” or Space Bar to Navigate down the stream page. It works like page down button.
  • Press “k” or Shit+Space Bar to Navigate up the stream page. It works like page up button.
  • Use “@” or “+” followed by username to mention the user in the post or comment.
  • Press Tab key to scroll down the comments or posts.
  • Press Enter key focusing on a post to open its comment section.
  • Press Tab+Enter Key to end the comment.
  • Press “q” twice to search and add people to your chat list when you are on home page.

Google+ Tips & Tricks:

+Circle:

  • To put multiple persons into a circle , select them all in the circle page and drag them all and drop them into the circle you want them in.
  • Delete a Circle to see funny animation of circle rolling out. Just create an extra circle to play with.
  • To delete an friend or person from a circle just drag him/her out the circle and he will be deleted.
  • To see the list of persons in a circle right click on the circle and clcik on “view circle in a tab”, it will provide you with and clean environment to edit and sort the list out.
  • To add all those persons who have added you to their circle but you havent added them then just go to “People who’ve added you” tab and click on not in the circle yet and drop them into the circle you desire one by one.
  • To copy friend list from one circle to another do as follow :
  1. Go to circle
  2. Right click on the circle.
  3. Click on “view circle on a new tab”.
  4. On top click on more action and click on select all.
  5. Now just drop them all to an single circle where you want to copy them.

+Chat:

  • To enable chat in home page, click on “Chat with people on Google+” then the IM Functionality on Home page will be enabled.
  • To re-size the chat window will chatting you can drag the chat box in and out.
  • To use Google+ chat on phone, open Gtalk from phone and then go to Google+ the whole conversation is there.

+Message:

  • When you share your message with group of people and you dont want them to reshare it then click on disable reshare after posting on the top right arrow in the corner.
  • To get permalink to an post click on the time stamp in the post.
  • While sharing your message as a status you can share with an single person by mention his name in the “add more people” section or with multiple groups by selecting the circles there.
  • To send an message to single person or to share message with single person on Google+ is simple just mention only him in the message before sharing it. It will start one to one conversation between you and the person.
  • To check out who can see the message you or some one else has shared, click on public or private above post, you will get the list of persons who can see it.
  • In top Right arrow which is in a circle above the post has different option:
  1. If you have shared it then it will let to to disable reshare, Edit post, disable comment and delete the post.
  2. If some one else has shared it will let you to Block the person, report abuse, mute the post and get link to the post.
  • To make an publicly visible post, before sharing the post click on “+Add more people” there you will get option to share your post with public.
  • Whenever you share the post or message with the specific circle and don’t make the circle public each and everyone will get the mail about the post.
  • To disable email notification of your post unselect the “notify about this post” option below the post.
  • To insert media into the box simply drag and drop the media from your desktop to the share box and its all done.