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Jul182011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Get the Vanity URL for Google+

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Article first published as Get the Vanity URL for Google+ on Technorati. Are you also missing vanity URLs for user profiles with Google Plus? Well unlike Facebook and Twitter, Google+ doesn’t offer vanity URLs for user profiles. The reason Google+ doesn’t use vanity URLs is because those could lead to spammers figuring out the email addresses of millions of Google+ users (since by default your Gmail username is linked to your Google Profile for e.g. http://profiles.google.com//). Note: If you are still willing to use your Gmail username as vanity URL click here Even in Facebook it is the same, I mean your profile username is your email ID with @facebook.com following your username. However, it seems that after being caught with Google Buzz privacy nightmare. Google is t...

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...

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...

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...