# Friday finds + friendly tips

_Published on 15 July 2011 at 10:28 AM · Updated on 1 July 2025 · Around 3 minutes to read_

Just when I thought I was growing tired of things online, (I actually even tweeted that I was bored with the web) Google and a few other companies have dropped some serious bombs and there are now a bunch of interesting things online worth exploring. With all this geeking it up, even an old hat like myself can learn a thing or two, I feel worth sharing with you.

**Finds**

- Google+ launched and has already got 10 Million+ users. It’s still by invite only, so send me your gmail address and I’ll invite you.

- If you have email overload, then perhaps Shortmail’s 500 character limit will help. No attachments, no junk mail, no folder management. Just pure text. Claim your name @shortmail.com

- Adobe released the Flash Player 11 beta for desktops. This particular build brings with it Stage3D APIs, for “advanced” 2D and 3D rendering, 64-bit support, H.264 encoding, and 7.1 surround sound.

- +1 buttons let people who love your content recommend it on Google search. Follow the instruction’s and easily add the +1 button here.

- Kevin Rose decided to point his domain kevinrose.com to his Google+ account as it gives him more (real time) feedback and engagement than his blog ever did.

- Over 36 000 businesses may have already signed up for Google+ which will launch later this year.

- State of the Internet 2011 is an interactive infographic created by Online Schools.

- If you like infographics, then you need to visit Visual.ly, the world’s largest community for exploring, sharing, creating, and promoting data visualizations.

- Plus buddy analyzes your public Facebook profile and provides recommmendations of who to follow on G+

- You can register for DesignSignoff, a new elegant tool for design presentation & review.

- For interesting stats and to discover and Find People on Google+

- Tweet my Plus is a service to tweet your Google+ posts.

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Friendly* **Tips**

- Don’t tweet at 2am about yawning, you might have yawned several times tweeting, but no one will be around to respond to your curious questions.

- Keep your url’s short by using the Google url shortener

- Despite being irritated when receiving calls from blocked numbers, answer the phone, apparently clients might be calling your from PABX systems etc which will block the number.

- Create a short URL for your Google+ profile on http://glpl.us

- If you are a client, please don’t call, email us so we have a record of our conversation. If we talk, we’ll do it face to face, I promise we play well with others.

- Learn how to redirect your homepage /+ URL to your Google + profile like this http://digiguru.co.za/+

- Lots of functionality not available in Google+ can be achieved by using Google Chrome’s extensions

- If you hit the home button on your keyboard, it scrolls to the top of the browser (Yes, I really didn’t know that)

- If you’re not sure what is going on currently on Google+, don’t worry, the hottest topic is currently people are talking about Google+ as it’s full of early adopters.

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