The new dark Google bar is already a really cool navigation bar when combined with Google+ and it has one of the best notifications area I have ever seen.

You can now integrate these notifications in your Google Chrome browser. In this way, you won’t have to be on a Google website in order to access your notifications. You will be notified and can check for new notifications while surfing any website.

Integrate Google+ Notifications in Google Chrome

Download Surplus Chrome extension and install it in your Google Chrome. After the extension is installed, it would show you the icon next to other Chrome extensions. Click on it for the box to pop open and show you your Google+ notifications.

A very simple, but quiet useful Chrome extension. Have fun!

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Google+ currently allows sharing posts only within itself – on your own Google+ profile. Thanks to a Chrome extension, you can enhance this functionality and add an option to share on Facebook and Twitter as well.

Most people when share posts would love to share it with their Facebook and Twitter friends as well, because most of their friends and contacts are still on Facebook and have not yet been able to join Google+.

How to Share from Google+ to Facebook and Twitter

Google+ does not have a quick way sharing your posts to Twitter and Facebook, this extension will add a link “Send to …” to each post. Once clicked, it will bring up an internal dialog asking you where to share your post.

Download Extended Share for Google Plus extension and install it. Then open Google+ to see the new changes made.

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Google introduced the new dark Google navigation bar at the top of all the Google services, and it turns into your quick update and access to notifications for Google+ after signing up for it.

When you scroll down to look for more updates in Google+, sometimes you go so down and when you have to scroll up just to access the Google bar, it gets annoying. You can now fix the Google navigation bar at the top of the screen as you scroll down as much as you want.

There is a simple trick to fix the new Google+ bar at the top of the screen. Download Google CSS tricks extension for Google Chrome and install that. Now when you visit Google+ and scroll down, the Google+ bar will stay fixed at the top of your screen.

This Chrome extension makes some changes to the main Google.com website as well for better usability. You can see this extension live in action in the screenshot above!

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Google+ is the next big thing trying to take over the social network game on the Internet. Google+ revolves around circles (friend lists), hangouts (groups) and sparks (interesting stuff). A very neat and clean interface. I’m already in love with it.

We’ve been sharing various Google+ tips and tricks since morning, and here is another one. You can get a big Chrome app shortcut link for Google+ to quickly access it from Google Chrome.

Get Google+ App Shortcut in Chrome

I myself use the Chrome apps area to quickly access my favourite websites. You can do the same with Google+ as well. It is certainly faster than typing the complete URL (plus.google.com) in the address box.

Download and install Google Plus shortcut app for Google Chrome. It quickly takes you to Google+ without having to type the URL in the URL box. You can see it in action in the screenshot above.

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This is something we’ve been trying to get rid off since Facebook. Random, anonymous or mostly unwanted friends tag you in photos where you really don’t want to be tagged.

Google+ sorts out this issue with a very neat option in privacy settings and all thanks goes to circles in Google+.

Disable Photo Tagging in Google+ by People You Don’t Know

Follow the simple steps below to disable photo tagging by random people in Google+.

1. Click on the gear icon at top-tight and go to Google+ settings.

2. Scroll to the bottom and look for Photos.

3. Under “People whose tags of you are automatically approved to link to your Profile:”, you will see “Your circles” circle added in the list.

4. Remove that circle and customize/add friends/circles according to what you want. Leave the box blank if you want to completely disable photo tagging by anyone else on your photos.

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It has been a very busy day with new features being uncovered in Google+. After tons of other Google+ tricks, we now have something for those who like to highlight and format their text while updating status.

This trick is very simple and works in the same way as in Google Talk. The list to bold, underline and italicize your text is given below.

How to Use Rich-Text Formatting Features in Google+

You can type in bold, strike or italics in Google+. Awesome, eh? Use the following to write you text in that way.

• Write your text between * * for bold.
• Write your text between – - for strike.
• Write your text between _ _ for italics.

Thank you Badar Khushnood for sharing this tip!

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Google+ has some pretty decent privacy options for users to set how and what part of their profile should be visible to others. Just like how you can hide friends list on Facebook, you can do the same on Google Plus as well.

Hiding your Google+ circles from general public will stop stalkers from creeping on your profile, just in search for new contacts to add to their Google+ circles. Continue reading below to know how to hide your circles.

How to Hide Friends in Google+ Circles

It’s quite easy. See the simple steps below to hide your Google+ circles:

1. Go to Google+ Profile.
2. Click on the blue “Edit Profile” button.
3. On the left side of the page, under your profile photo, click on the Circles box.
4. Uncheck both the options: “Show people in” and “Show people who have added you to circles”.
5. Click the blue ‘Save’ button.
6. Now click on “Done Editing”.

That’s it! You Google+ friends in circles are not visible anymore! You can tweak this setting according to what you want to show to the public.

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One of the strongest points that Facebook has over Google Plus at the moment are the privacy settings and controls it offers its users. Google+ has a decent Privacy dashboard to tweak and set what  part of content you want to show to which Google+ circle, but again, it took years for Facebook to get this (kinda) right and Google+ will take time too.

You can go through the privacy options and set what part of your profile is to be visible to what people. You can completely hide everything, or set as you want. How to do that? Read below.

How to Edit Google+ Privacy Settings for Profile Visibility

You can follow the steps below to edit your privacy settings for Google+ circles:

1. Go to Google+ Profile.
2. Click on the blue “Edit Profile” button.
3. Now click on any box to edit content and profile visibility settings.
4. When you are done, click the “Done Editing” box at the top to save your edits!

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Google is slowly bringing all the Facebook features and experience right on Google+. Apart from the usual notifications in Google Bar, email notifications and mobile push notifications – you can also get SMS notifications on your phone!

These SMS notifications are not enabled by default. Just like Facebook SMS notifications, you will have to add your phone number so that Google could send you Google+ notifications.

How to Get Google+ SMS Notifications

NOTE: SMS notifications are currently only for the US and India.

Follow the steps below to enable your free Google+ SMS notifications:

• Go to Google+ settings (click the gear icon at top right).
• Under “Set delivery preferences”, look for the option for Phone.
• Click on the option “Add phone number”.
• Choose your country from US or India. Enter your number and click Send for verification code.
• Verify, and you should be able to get Google+ SMS notifications now on any phone!

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Google+ is the latest attempt by Google to get into the game of social networks. Google+ revolves around circles (friend lists), hangouts (groups) and sparks (interesting stuff). A very neat and clean interface. I’m already in love with it.

A few users have already been tweaking with CSS and trying to make Google+ even better with their own custom designs and Google Plus themes that you can also use for changing your Google+ theme interface. Download free Google+ themes from below!

So far, there has been only one Google+ (Plus) theme and I’m sure, more are on their way. I’ll compile a list of all the available cool themes for Google+ for free download. If you remember, we also wrote about Orkut themes and Facebook themes long time ago.

So let’s go with the list of free Google+ themes for download:

Google+ Theme: Facebook Theme

You can download Facebook theme for Google+ from here: Download Google+ Theme – Facebook

More Google+ themes will be added here as soon as they are available for download! Let us know if you find any cool ones.

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Google+ launched a few days back, and since then everyone has been comparing the new social network with Facebook. Well, of course, now there are some Google+ fans, and some still like Facebook and might don’t want to move away from there.

But for those, who love both ,and would love to see Facebook-ish interface on Google+ (Plus), we’ll here is an amazing theme for you to enjoy for Google+. Screenshot above.

Turn Google+ into Facebook with Google Plus Theme

Thanks to CSS, the designer Fabio Giolito has designed the first Google+ theme – which makes Google+ looks a lot like Facebook. It is a userscript addon that you will need to add to your browser though another extensions that enables you to run userscripts i.e Greasemonkey of Firefox.

How to Install Userscripts

The following articles may help you if you need to know how to run userscripts in your browser.

• How to install userscripts in Firefox
• How to install userscripts in Google Chrome
• How to install userscripts in Opera
• How to install userscripts in Mac OS X

Via Mashable.

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Google+ pushes out notifications to your mobile devices through push notifications on Android and iPhone. Of course, they are very useful and eat a lot less battery than a service running in the background eating most of your batter.

Push Notifications for Google+ can get annoying sometimes, specially if you have a lot of activity going on in your account. How to disable push notifications? Read below.

How to Disable Push Notifications for Google Plus

You can disable Google+ push notifications by following the steps below:

• Go to Google+ settings (click the gear icon at top right).
• Under “Set delivery preferences”, look for the option for push notifications.
• Select the option “Don’t notify me”.

That’s it! Your settings will be instantly saved and push notifications will now stop.

Also: Download Google+ Android App APK, Directly for Users Outside US

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