Anchit Pandey, Author at Electronic Gurudev

Jul172011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Get Vanity URL for Google Profile

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It seems to be a little known fact, that old Google Profile users who had activated to use their Gmail username in their profile address already has sort of a vanity URL for their Google Plus profile. For example, the URL showing up for my profile in my browser is https://plus.google.com/101396322906779742823 and that’s the one I’ve referenced in other places. However, turns out that my Google Profile address – the one I’ve had for years – does work, too. So the shorter and speaking pointer to me on Google+ is: http://profiles.google.com/anchitpandey or http://www.google.com/profiles/anchitpandey. By default, it links to your posts tab. You can, however, attach whatever works on the longer version and it’ll work here, too. So http://profiles.google.com/anchitpandey/about will lin...

Jul132011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Facebook Treat – Multi-person chat, Video calling and lots more!

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Article first published as Facebook Treat: Multi Person Chat, Video Calling and Lots More on Technorati. Facebook has come up with the Group Chat; enhances data visibility and video calling powered by Skype for all its users indicating that they are strongly working on their apps support to enhance user experience. Group Chat The new feature of Group Chat also popularly known as multi-person chat give users freedom of sharing and discuss thoughts with their multiple friends through instant chat. Note: If in place of "Add to chat" you have "Start a video call" option. Then look into the setting button (i.e. between "Start a video call" and "Close this chat") because it must be there inside it. Enhances Data Visibility In response to Facebook’s increasing integration with thi...

Jul72011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Google Plus vs. Facebook

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Article first published as Google Plus vs. Facebook on Technorati. Like all the other Google lovers I was also very excited when I heard that Google had launched its own social network, Google Plus. I tried hard and somehow managed to get an invitation. This was very exciting for me as I was looking forward to it as an alternative for Facebook. I posted an article on Google plus discussing its features. However, soon after creating a profile and looking into all the options and features of it, I started missing applications that I used to enjoy at Facebook. Frankly these applications were proven to be at best time killing applications and many times they simply saved me from getting bored. Except few of the features like Circles, privacy settings and editing a wall post, I didn’...

Jul42011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Google+ Shortcuts!

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Like everything else Google+ also have some shortcuts to make things easier, and luckily after working on Google+ for quite a while I found some of the tricks that would be helpful for you to get used to it. I’m sure you will love these! Here you go: Press Tab + Enter to post a comment To make your text italic: _?italic text?_ To make your text bold: *?bold text?* To strikethrough text: -?strikethrough text?- To link to a person in a post or comment: @electronicgurudev or +electronic gurudev Press “k” to move yo the Stream Press “j” to move down the Stream

Jul32011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Check Out Gmail’s new look

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Yeah you heard it right, Gmail is now not just great in terms of features but also Google has introduced their usual white and wider interface in Gmail as well. So all the people out here who loved and wished Gmail to be a reflection of Google can now actually feel the essence in Gmail’s new interface. To see and apply the neat and clean interface shown below in the images all you need to do is to just select any out of “Preview” and “Preview (Dense)” themes in the Themes tab in Gmail Settings. Here’s what one of the new themes currently looks like: And in conversation view: Click the images above to see larger versions. Note: Some Labs features may look a little strange in the new themes. However Gmail Team is working to fix these issues and will roll out...

Jul32011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Change in Facebook News Feed Visibility

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Hi Facebook Users, Have you noticed that you are only seeing updates in your news feed from the same people lately? Have you also noticed that when you post things like status messages, photos and links, the same circle of people are commenting and everyone else seems to be ignoring you?Don't worry, everyone still loves you and nobody has intentionally blocked you. The problem is that a large chunk of your friend/fan list can't see anything you post and here's why:The "New Facebook" has a newsfeed setting that by default is automatically set to show ONLY posts from people who you've recently interacted with or interacted the most with (which would be limited to the couple of weeks just before people started switching to the new profile). So in other words, for both bu...

Jul12011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Want A Google+ Invitation? Get Started with GOOGLE PLUS

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Google is betting that its new social network, Google+, will fix what it calls the "awkward" state of online sharing--but Google isn't sharing invitations to its latest project with everyone. Users have been clamoring for invitations to Google+, which Google launched as a limited "field trial," noting "you may find some rough edges." Access to the project is currently by invitation only, and a limited number of users were given 15 invitations apiece to bring others on board. If you're eager to begin trying out Google+ and can't find someone with a spare invitation, you can sign up to request a Google+ account here. Google has created an entry form that asks people to submit their first name and email address so they can stay posted as the service is rolled out more fully. "We’re sti...

Jun282011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Explore Google Plus

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Google with the launch of its brand new social project Google plus has indicated its intentions to grab share in the Facebook's social network of more than 500 million active users. Will it work? Not sure but it looks like the best version of social that they have ever done (as compared to its much hyped Google Wave and Buzz). They have put together a core group of social products and a new navigation bar that integrates sharing and conversations into every single Google Product. Alike Facebook, Google has also focused on Privacy Settings, and emphasizing that Google plus will let users to bifurcate what they want to share and with whom they want to share. The design and UI is much better than normal Google products, but it still retains the elegant & “normal” Google look with ...

Jun262011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Firefox: Change Address Bar Search Provider

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When Firefox performs a search from the Address Bar, it queries the search engine string you have setup within Firefox. If it’s using Yahoo, you can switch to Google. Don’t like Google? Use DuckDuckGo. Here’s how to switch which search engine Firefox searches when you use the address bar to search. 1. In Firefox type about:config in the address bar and press ENTER. 2. Locate and double-click the entry for keyword.URL 3. Set the value based on which search provider you would like to use for your address bar searches. Here are a few search strings you can use. Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p= Ask: http://www.ask.com/web?q= Bing: http://www.bing.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q= DuckDuckGo: http://duckduckgo.com/?q= Go...

Jun232011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

iOS 5 Let Multiple Apps Simultaneously Download

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`Since iOS 5 released on this WWDC, there are some developers install iOS 5 on their devices which conducted the trial, and efforts to explore all the hidden features of this iOS. Today, developers have a new discovery. An unknown developer claimed that he accidentally discovered a function that on the iOS 5 can simultaneously download multiple apps. Then he excitedly told the others iOS users in the blog, which now download any new apps from the App Store,it will not occur need to wait for the app again. According to reports, when users download navigation applications in iOS 5, large-scale games, or other large application files, while still able to download some small applications. And priority access to the first Application finished downloading, without having to ...