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Deja Vu? If you think you may have read a post on this blog on one of my other blogs I can explain. Some of my posts are pecificly inline with the blog's topic it's appearing on, however some cross over to other blog's topics so I publish them their too.

Saturday 26 November 2011

Wondered what celebrity you look like? Well http://www.myheritage.com/ has a feature that aims to tell you. Click http://celebrity.myheritage.com/celebrity-collage to go their. Here you can try out myheritage's face recognition technology where after uploading a photo of yourself, you can create a collage of your celebrity lookalikes and upload them to profiles, blogs or send them via email. I'm going to have a try on a photo of me, the ones I have seen so far of other people's matches I can see why it's picked the celebs it has for them. After your matches are shown you get a percentage of how much you actually look like them. Good little website to try out. 

Sunday 9 October 2011

OK, so here we are with Google+. Well once you have signed up( if you have already signed up with any of Google's other services you can use the same username and password) you can now check out your homepage which will have this kind of layout.I have edited out any parts from my contacts that I don't have permission to include in the screenshots, other then that this should look just like your page, focusing on the 'stream' area. Maybe without a profile photo of me, if you have got that profile pic then you have some explaining too do, don't you?


So, here we have a familiarly set out layout to those who have used the likes of facebook, with the 'box' to update your status and add to your stream pics, movies, ect. When you decide to add something to your stream you then need to decide which of your contacts to send the update too.  Now, this is where Google+ is a different from other social networking websites like the mentioned facebook.. When you want to add something to your stream and then decide who to send to, you need to decide which 'circle' to send to.

In The Circle

Now 'circle' is the name Google + gives to a group of contacts. You create these groups under the 'circles' section. These are where you store your contacts-you add them to a circle that represents the group of contacts they are. For example when you sign up you will already be given some circles, one is Friends, so you can add your friends to that circle. Say you were uploading a photo you wanted to show the contacts in your friends circle, you would select their circle and the photo would then be sent to that group. If you then wanted to send the photo to another group of contacts, then you would also need to select their circle.

So that's the circle system in brief. Now what you can add to your stream is the classic social networking fare; text, videos, photos and they have also gone the way of the likes of forsquare in that you can post the location are at with the messages you send to your stream.
Next, I'll post on the other features of Google+.











Wednesday 21 September 2011

Google+facebook=ANew Social Network Winner?
Earlier on, I had my first try of the Google+, the new social networking website from Google. It had been invite only, but as you may have found like I did, on Google's homepage  an invite can appear (displaying an arrow) showing you how you can try Google+. So if you have not yet had an invite by email to Google+ you may find you can try it through that way. Now Google+ is still in it's beta stage, so everything may not be as the makers want for when the complete version is ready to be rolled out. But this beta gives you a chance to see some of what Google+ has to offer and try out what could turn out to be a very different style social networking website. Coming up on my next post, a look at what I have found Google+ has to offer at the moment, as well as what I think of it so far.


Google+ Pictures, Images and Photos
So here it is, Google+. Wonder what those facebook creators are thinking of Google's entry in their territory?






   

Thursday 20 January 2011

Email Service-Spam,Lot's Of Bras And Mail.com

Hello their, just been shifting through my emails over at Gmail and was wondering if I was the only ones who's emails seemed to be very bra themed. I'm not talking about websites I have signed up to that are about bras, it's emails from such sites as ArcMax which I signed up for their jokes for example, who today alone I have an advert from one of their sponsors telling me to 'Find the bra you'll just love' under the title of 'Sexy and supportive bras' as well as ArcMax also offering me a sponsor advert urging me to 'Find the perfect bra that's stylish and beautiful'. After their, I've been getting more increasingly often, I regularly get bra related emails from a number of companies and if I ever find myself needing help on bra related information (for example if I do decide to launch a new blog;  Blogged On Bras-I may well be thanking the senders of bra themed emails for sending so many to me. This got me thinking about Spam (as I also get many bra emails in spam) and noticed how a web based email provider-www.mail.com that I recently signed up for is lacking Spam in my Inbox or anywhere else.
Mail.com is I think a great web based email service provider and if you're looking to open a new email account I recommend trying them. What I have found with Mail.com more then any other email provider is how good their Spam detector is. Since opening the account I have had no Spam. So far, after being with them for getting on for 3 months I have had no Spam at all, not in my Inbox, not in my Spam folder, no where. This is without submitting my email anywhere but to one person so far regarding a business venture on my CV (I use the email I'm talking about as a work email). Now, when ever I have signed up to a new email account in the past, after checking back for the first time since starting the account a few hours later, I have been flooded with Spam, whether I have given the email to anywhere else or not. Giving out the email to certain websites then can increase the spam received massively to.
So it's either that by chance no one has tried to Spam me, or it's that Mail.com have very good spam filters. I plan on posting some email service provider reviews soon and Mail.com will be rating very high. So, if you're interested in looking at what Mail.com has to offer head over to
www.mail.com