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Google Wave Checker Extension for Chrome

In Link on 2009-12-05 by Joshua Tagged: , ,

If like me you find Chrome gives you the most sta­ble, enjoy­able expe­ri­ence of Google Wave, you might also be pin­ing for the noti­fier exten­sion Fire­fox users get.

Well now Chrome has a neat lit­tle exten­sion that does the same thing. Jeremy Selier has built a neat lit­tle plu­gin that shows you how many unread waves you have in your inbox. It checks every thirty min­utes by default (at the request of the Wave team), but you can set it to check more fre­quently in the exten­sion options.

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Some­thing that makes a sound, or pops up a noti­fi­ca­tion box (Growl-style) would be even more use­ful in some cir­cum­stances (Fire­fox is still my main browser of choice). How­ever, if you need a sim­ple way to see new Wave activ­ity with­out check­ing the win­dow every cou­ple of min­utes, this might just be the thing.

Chrome Exten­sion — Google Wave Checker

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Follow, Follow, Follow, Follow the Waves You Choose

In Post on 2009-11-12 by Joshua Tagged: , , ,

Prob­a­bly the most impor­tant part of the Wave expe­ri­ence for new user has been the abil­ity to search for pub­lic waves to join. With­out Pub­lic Waves many peo­ple would not have enough of a net­work to really expe­ri­ence Wave in full, and the Wave com­mu­nity may not have grown as quickly as it has. Pub­lic Waves have allowed quick access to tips and tricks, unof­fi­cial sup­port and gen­eral chit chat on a diverse range of topics.

The down­side of this was a sig­nif­i­cant gotcha: just click­ing a pub­lic wave was enough to add you to the Wave per­ma­nently and drag the wave into your inbox. From that point, your only recourse to silence the wave was to mute it (archiv­ing only works as long as no one else con­tributes), and mut­ing does not remove you from the wave.

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Expectations

Set suit­able expec­ta­tions. Despite the months of buzz, and blo­gos­phere– and Twitterverse-wide clam­or­ing for Google Wave invites, the prod­uct is still in pre­view and has some rough edges. There­fore, it does all par­ties good to be real­is­tic, even if every­body is psy­ched to be the first kid on their block to use it on a live project.

6 Tips For Using Google Wave On Your First Project.

This is the first of six excel­lent things to keep in mind when using Wave for the first time, let alone on a project. Wave is full of poten­tial, but peo­ple seem to for­get it’s still just get­ting off the ground.

I love that peo­ple are using it for projects already.

Posted 2009-11-10 by Joshua

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Find Local Waves

In Post on 2009-11-10 by Joshua Tagged: , , ,

By now if you’ve been using Wave long enough you should know that a search for [with:public] gets you a big long fast updat­ing list of all the Waves that peo­ple have shared with the world. If you’ve been read­ing the Com­plete Guide to Google Wave you might know to nar­row down the search with tags and terms too.

But were you aware that Local Waves have popped up every­where as well, and you can find users near you just by plug­ging your city/suburb into the search (with the pub­lic wave search) eg. [with:public city name]. If you can’t imme­di­ately find a Wave for your loca­tion, you can start one! Just cre­ate a crafty title, and make the Wave pub­lic. Encour­age peo­ple who join to mark them­selves on a map, and shout out their Twitter/social details for peo­ple to con­nect elsewhere.

Have a tonne of fun, and stay safe!

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Five Things to Do When You Get Google Wave

In Link on 2009-11-09 by Joshua Tagged: , , ,

You can spend ages get­ting used to Wave and what it can do, and still not learn the best way. Fer­nando Fon­seca has jot­ted down five things that he rec­om­mends you do when you first fire up wave, to help you break in.

Don’t Miss These 5 Things About Google Wave! [Bit Rebels]

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Where to Start

In Link on 2009-11-07 by Joshua Tagged: , , , ,

Gina Tra­pani, Adam Pash and the Wave com­mu­nity have put together a short ebook on Google Wave. I’m cer­tain as Wave becomes more com­plex and use­ful, this guide will grow and change to match. Gina and Adam are two of the clever­est tech­nol­ogy writ­ers on the web today, and their book is set to become one of the most author­i­ta­tive doc­u­ments on Google Wave.

The Com­plete Guide to Google Wave

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3 Things you should know about Wave

I use portable Fire­fox for brows­ing at work with a mod­i­fied user-agent (pre­tend­ing it’s Inter­net Explorer, of course!) and Google Wave keeps alert­ing me the browser is not sup­ported. To bypass this annoy­ing check, go directly to https://wave.google.com/wave/?nouacheck. Of course, some browsers just can’t han­dle the storm: in my expe­ri­ence so far, Opera 10 fails to load Wave every time with a nasty error.

Fors: Short­cuts and searches in Google Wave.

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Posted 2009-10-23 by Joshua

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Learn these now! [Keyboard Shortcuts]

In Link on 2009-10-23 by Joshua Tagged: ,

The Wave expe­ri­ence can quickly become frus­trat­ing as your con­ver­sa­tions get longer. It can take a cou­ple of mouse-clicks to reply in the mid­dle of a blip and then again to fin­ish the blip. If you’re con­stantly shift­ing from key­board to mouse and back again, your pro­duc­tiv­ity can quickly suffer.

But take the time to learn some of these handy short­cuts and you’ll find the user inter­face less baf­fling and the use­ful­ness of Wave will increase (I guar­an­tee it!). For exam­ple, you can use “Shift + Enter” to:

Reply to a mes­sage at the end of a wave. The new mes­sage will appear at the same inden­ta­tion level, at the very end of the wave.

[… But also has the …]

Same func­tion as ‘Done’ but­ton — sig­ni­fies you are fin­ished edit­ing your addi­tion to a wave.
Just this one short­cut has made my expe­ri­ence of Wave a thou­sand times bet­ter. You might find some­thing that helps you out too!

Key­board short­cuts [Google Wave Help]

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11 + 1 Google Wave Tips at Nethead

In Link on 2009-10-19 by Joshua Tagged: ,

If you’re won­der­ing where to start when you first open Google Wave, try these 11 sim­ple tasks that will give you a feel for the inter­face and the design deci­sions that went into it. For exam­ple, Tip 7 is:

7) Cre­at­ing Fold­ers in Google Wave allows you to cre­ate cat­e­gories for your Wave doc­u­ments. This is also use­ful to clean the Google Wave Inbox of older Waves and file the Waves doc­u­ments.
To move a Wave doc­u­ment to a Folder: click on a Wave doc­u­ment and drag­drop it to the Folder name.

Google Wave Tips

Also check out this sim­ple tip to add video to a wave

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More Wave Searches

In Link on 2009-10-18 by Joshua Tagged: , ,

With so much hap­pen­ing at once in Wave it’s easy to be over­whelmed with it all. Save your­self some grief and use these handy searches to make man­ag­ing the flood easier.

Three Google Wave Searches Worth Sav­ing [Smarterware]