Author Archive for Gili
How to personalize your Google Plus profile background and layout?
Going through our readers’ questions today, i have found a few Google Plus users asking about a possible way to customize the profile user interface to suite personal preferences. As Google Plus is still a pretty young tool, although being quite impressive as far as the feature set and the customization capabilities, it still lacks [...]
How to remove certain status updates in your Google plus stream?
Once you start gaining more friends into your Google+ circles, your stream might become sort of overloaded. At this point you might want to hide status updates from noisy people to make your stream more readable. As in Facebook and other social networks, Google Plus allows you to either mute (or delete) a specific conversation [...]
How to hide your Google Plus circles friends off your profile?
Here’s a note i got minutes ago from a good friend: After spending some time adding people to Google Plus circles, i realized that my circles members list are publicly visible to everyone. How can i remove my friends list off my public profile? Safeguarding one’s privacy might be a challenge in social networks. While [...]
Hide your default profile photos in Google Plus?
A reader sent me the following note: I just signed up for Google Plus and it looks really cool. one question though: Is there aw ay to hide the default profile pic and remove the Photos tab as it is possible on Facebook? Thanks for your question. From what i have seen so far, it [...]
How to set up an account for Google Plus?
With the recent launch of Google Plus, several readers have sent me a note about creating an account for the new service. Access to the service is being carefully controlled and it is mainly available for now mainly by invitation. It seems that there are two ways to make a Google Plus login: Filling up [...]