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Google+ Features Icon Set

Dustin — December 24, 2011 — 1 Comment

If you’re a graphic designer, blogger, or just someone who likes to collect icons, I’ve created a set of Google+ feature icons that you can use at your leisure!

Perfect for all your Google+ design needs!

I searched all over the net to try and find something like this, but the only ones I could find weren’t complete. So, I created my own. It contains both a color and grey version of the following feature icons:

Stream
Photos
Profile
Circles
Hangouts
Sparks
Messenger (Huddle)
Games
Business Pages

All icons are in vector format, so they’ll size nicely to whatever your needs. I hope they are of good use for you in all your Google+ projects! Enjoy!
Download .PSD

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Google+ – Don’t Fight It!

James — November 7, 2011 — Leave a comment

One challenge faced by many on Google+ is the fact that Google+ can sometimes seem a bit desolate and are desperate for more of their friends and contacts to join the social network.

Heck, I am the first to say that I am in that place! I really want more of my friends to join Google+

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The Google+ Developer API is Here!

James — September 15, 2011 — 2 Comments

Flipping yes!

I have been waiting a long time for Google to finally release a Google+ API but now it is finally here!

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Google Releases The Google +1 Chrome Extension

James — September 1, 2011 — Leave a comment

What’s up Google+ lovers? Hope you are having an absolutely awesome day!

I just wanted to updated you on a new release from Google which may be of interest to people in this community.

As you will know, Google +1 has been around for a while now as Google’s answer to Facebook like. Although I say that, I think that Google +1 has a lot more value for the internet though. Google are the search giants they really know how to make search awesome, and what they are doing with Google +1 is making search social, which I think is a really great thing.

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How To Translate in Google+ with Google Chrome

James — August 30, 2011 — Leave a comment

Sometimes in Google+ you follow foreign friends or celebrities and they talk in some kind of foreign gibberish that you don’t understand.

Up until now you had to copy and paste into Google Translate if you wanted to be nosey. What an absolute mission!

Well now you have to worry no more. If you rock Google+ and Google Chrome, your prayers have been answered.

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How To Find More People To Follow on Google+

James — August 30, 2011 — 7 Comments

[This post is part of a collection of posts called "The Beginners Guide To Google+". If you are new to Google+ and want to learn the basics why not check out the other posts in the series? You can also get the latest news and tutorials from GPlusTuts by subscribing here!]

Feeling a bit bummed about Google+ at the moment?

I know that I am!

I guess the main reason is the fact that not many of my friends have even tried Google+ out yet, and so I am only following a small amount of people on Google+ right now.

Today though I found a really cool resource which I think is going to help me to find more people to follow and interact with on Google+. I am pretty excited about it and I think that it is going to help you to find a lot more interesting people to follow on Google+ too!

Check out my video below where I show you how it works:

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Integrate Google+, Facebook, and Twitter with SGPlus for Chrome and Firefox

James — August 3, 2011 — 4 Comments

Something that seems to be super important in the hearts and minds of new Google+ users is the ability to integrate their other social networks within Google+. If you are anything like me then many of your friends and family have still not seen the light and come over the Google+…yet!

Various Chrome and Firefox extensions have been released since Google+ was launched to aid in the kind of integration I am talking about, but so far none have been as good as the extension we are looking at today.

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Do You Need a Google+ Invite?

James — July 15, 2011 — 121 Comments

As we all know, since Google+ launched everyone who is anyone has been trying to get hold of a coveted Google+ invite. Some of us have been lucky and made our way onto it, whilst others of us are still waiting.

For those who still haven’t made it into Google+ and are still wanting an invite, last week we wrote a guide about how to get a Google+ invite, but even then, it seems that some people are struggling.

So, we want to make sure that everyone who is interested in becoming a Google+ user is able to, after all, it’s those that are truly enthusiastic and active on the service that are going to make it a success.

We are now going to start sending out Google+ invites.

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Want a Google+ Search?

James — July 11, 2011 — 3 Comments

With certain social media sites (especially Twitter!) I love that it is so easy to search public content.

This has so many good uses, from finding people’s opinions on trending topics, to finding people who have similar interests to you, to finding the answer to a pressing question.

When it comes to Twitter, for example, Twitter advance search is like my best friend, in fact I might even go as far as saying my BFF!

Enough about Twitter, we are here to talk about Google+, the new kid on the block!

If you are wanting to get the most out of Google plus then you are going to want to use some kind of public-content search option, for me I know that I am going to find it super useful in terms of finding new connections who have similar interest, after all, this is social networking right?

Well, when one of our blog subscribers, Rich Knight, contacted us with a link to a Google+ search website, I thought that maybe we were onto something good.

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