Posts Tagged ‘tip’

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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

Posted 2009-10-23 by Joshua

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Learn these now! [Keyboard Shortcuts]

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


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.

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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: , ,