g+ Plus Minus

Mike Downes  -  Aug 29, 2011 (edited)  -  Public

ALERT.. before my very eyes just came EXPAND SHRINK NORMAL WIDE along with some little grey triangles clickable expand/contrcats features..

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25 comments

Brian Turner  -  Hey Mike, what's allowing you to do that?

Aug 29, 2011   

Marc Jansen  -  same here... is it the plus minus extension? (I had just installed it)

Aug 29, 2011 (edited)   

Brian Turner  -  Ah, I think it's G+Me, good extension ;)

Aug 29, 2011   

Mike Downes  -  I have no G+Me extension, just noticed photos can be rotated too (that been there very long?)

Aug 29, 2011   

Brian Turner  -  I don't know for sure, Mike. I don't really use Google to edit photos :P

Aug 29, 2011   

Brian Turner  -  Btw, Plus Minus and G+Me work well together with a couple of minor tweaks.
If you install G+Me be sure to configure Plus Minus to "Disable Stream Layout", or they'll interfere with each other.

Aug 29, 2011   

Mike Downes  -  It's clicka photo, then ACTIONS, and there are ROTATE LEFT/RIGHT buttons, def not there before

Aug 29, 2011   

Brian Turner  -  Handy stuff. I'll have to play with that at some point ;)

Aug 29, 2011   

Mike Downes  -  +Alexandra d'Avila Bakker from your Plus Minus extension, did you have the WIDE EXPAND NORMAL options on your machine, or is it a Google Roll Out?

Aug 29, 2011   

Mike Downes  -  +Brian Turner these screens are exactly like the Blogger EDIT POSTS screens, with drop down VIEW POST options...

Aug 29, 2011   

Marc Jansen  -  Seems to be part of the extension, Mike. I installed it right after you did, and am only finding these things as you ask (these options are not in my Firefox window)

Aug 29, 2011   

Brian Turner  -  I'm betting there's a lot of code reuse between them. So Google is repurposing some backend code. Cool ;)

Aug 29, 2011   

Brian Turner  -  Oh, I'm loving the Plus Minus options, Marc's right, these are parts of that extension only. Although it'd be nice to see them implemented natively. I've had the extension for a while, but I had stream layout disabled so it'd work with G+Me, seems I was missing some recent upgrades til now ;)

Aug 29, 2011 (edited)   

Mike Downes  -  +Marc Jansen You are right, no show in a very slow Firefox, will fire up IE now

Aug 29, 2011   

Mike Downes  -  Moral of this escapade is anything is possible within Chrome, so with all these expand/wide options, stream looks like some twitter layer with ring pull grenades ..cool

Aug 29, 2011 (edited)   

Brian Turner  -  Don't give people ideas about grenades... They'll make them ;)

Aug 29, 2011   

Mike Downes  -  re-editt strikethrough, see above

Aug 29, 2011   

Brian Turner  -  Lol, nice ;)

Aug 29, 2011   

Mike Downes  -  That's me done, 3am in the UK, when will you be in the hangouts with full video and a mic?

Aug 29, 2011   

Brian Turner  -  When I can replace my good laptop's power brick, no date on that one. Kinda broke. Sleep well :)

Aug 29, 2011   

Alexandra d'Avila Bakker  -  Sorry +Mike Downes .... just NOW I saw this post.... Yes that expand shrink and grey arrow things you now see, ARE from the Chrome Extensions!!! I have the "Plus Minus" which I suggested on my other post... and I also have the "G+Me" and the "Replies and more for Google+" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fgmhgfecnmeljhchgcjlfldjiepcfpea

The things you are seeing are from the G+Me... http://huyz.us/google-plus-me/

Aug 29, 2011   

Alexandra d'Avila Bakker  -  Oooh... forgot to say that the ability to Collapse a Post also works well for those who post Animated Gifs that you don't want to see (or make it stop).... though if you Mute the post, it does the same thing.

Aug 29, 2011   

Brian Turner  -  There's an extension that can kill animated GIFs now as well. Here's the link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eaebhojnielfeoillcfnbmkgliokndkm

Enjoy ;)

Aug 29, 2011   

Craig Thornton  -  Some great tools discussed here, thanks. Have installed G+Me, Replies and more for Google+ and Plus Minus. They work well together.

Aug 29, 2011   

Brian Turner  -  That they do. Have fun +Craig Thornton ;)

Aug 29, 2011