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Restore a Wave to a former state, or make it Read-Only.

In Post on 2010-01-23 by Joshua Tagged: , , ,

In the first major update to the Google Wave client in what feels like ages, the Wave team have imple­mented two new fea­tures that will make a big dif­fer­ence in man­ag­ing your waves. The first fixes one of the most shock­ing things about the first release: that any­one you invited could come along and edit any part of your wave. Of course the point of Wave is col­lab­o­ra­tion, but some­times it was con­ceiv­able that you might not like any­one to be able to hack away at a wave, par­tic­u­larly once a wave was made pub­lic. Many good use­ful waves were effec­tively destroyed by grant­ing the pub­lic edit­ing rights.

the read-only tool in action
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Add characters quickly to a wave

In Link on 2009-10-27 by Joshua Tagged: , , ,

Wave has a WYSIWYG inter­face for styling your blips. For those of us used to work­ing on the web how­ever, the default Bold/Italic/Dot-point tools can leave a lot to be desired. Many wont have a char­ac­ter pal­let handy, or remem­ber the windows/mac key­board codes for pro­duc­ing var­i­ous glyphs either. But if you’ve worked on the web long enough, you might be famil­iar with HTML/unicode char­ac­ter enti­ties such as & (&) and • (•).

If you need to add var­i­ous char­ac­ters to your waves, and are famil­iar with HTML enti­ties, then the Char­ac­ter Entity bot might be what you need. Add character-entity@appspot.com to your wave, and when­ever you write a char­ac­ter (in the for­mat &code;) the bot will hap­pily con­vert the code into the cor­rect char­ac­ters for you.

Here are a few to try:

  • © becomes ©
  • ↔ becomes ?
  • ∴ becomes ?

(A more detailed list can be found at Intu­itive Sys­tems)

Char­ac­ter Entity Bot [Google Code]

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