Chuck Welch (https://chuckwelch.com/tag/tips/)
There are some apps in the new Facebook that will post your every move to your timeline. Bugging your friends to hell. There are some that rarely send messages, but do you really want your friends to see you’ve wasted 2 hours playing Gardens of Time? Some allow you to opt out of sending notifications, but many require you to allow the app the ability to post. Here’s how you can keep using those apps, but take a few steps to send all those Facebook notices to The Void. Continue Reading →
Here we go… 1) You can set a link on your website to auto-forward to your Google+ page. Like so: http://chuckwelch.com/+ will forward to https://plus.google.com/113347566311475996443/posts (My G+ Posts page.)
All it takes is a quick edit of your .htaccess file on your site. You just need to add:
RedirectMatch ^/+(.*)$ http://plus.google.com/YOUR•PLUS•ID•HERE$1
For more info, I’ll just direct you to the Google Android engineer who wrote first about it…Daniel Sandler. 2) When you post you can limit those who can read the post. Continue Reading →
I’ll just dive in…make sure you’re logged into Google+… 1) Forget the “vanity URL” tip from yesterday…Google looks to have already disabled that. If you already have one…it still works. 2) Like the new (temporary) look of chuckwelch.com? That’s the PlusOne Theme 1.0 by Mayur Somani
3) Your profile picture isn’t static. Continue Reading →
I’m going to guess either you’ve received an invitation to the Google+ beta or you’ll leave a comment below asking for one. If you don’t want to be a part of the G+ flash mob, you stumbled on here looking for a different Chuck Welch.
I’m going to assume you’ve already logged into Google+ and know the basic layout. Please read all the tips before dismissing them individually. Continue Reading →