Thursday 16 May 2013
Google+ upgraded to a New Look!
Google+ has upgraded to a new look Today (16/05/2013). Till now, Google+ upgraded 2 times. Now, It is the 3rd time. A funny thing happening here. Whenever Google+ upgrading to a new look, The new features disappointing the users. However, After few days, Users are addicting to the new look! In the new version, Google+ upgraded more features. Let's read on.
What Google developed in the new Version of Google+ ?
Hash Tags:
In the new version of Google+, They are developed Hash Tags, Which helps to explore all content throughout all users among the globe about a Topic. Twitter having this facility already since starting. Let's see the following video to know more information regarding Hash Tags.
The stylish and Modern look:
Google+ changed the entire look. In this version, Google+ integrated The Multi-column layout like Facebook pages. However, This facility works well for Small screen and Large screen users. This will not works well for medium Screen users. Because, For small screen users, 2 Multi-columns will appears. And for Large screen users, More than 2 multi-columns will appear basing on the Width of your Monitor. But, For medium users, The screen is quite larger than 2 Columns and the rest gap is not good.
Hangouts:
- Messaging is richer, and more responsive. Photos and emoji make conversations more fun, while real-time activity indicators really bring them to life.
- However, The Emoticons are not attractive.
- Your conversations can last. With conversation history, you can swipe back in time and relive all your favorite moments. (You can also turn off history, if you want.)
- No more annoying notifications. Once you see a notification on one device, we'll clear it from your other Android devices and computers. You can also snooze notifications when you don't want to be interrupted.
- You can always say hello, face-to-face-to-face. Whether you’re 1-on-1 or with a group of friends, you can always make a free video call to everyone you're with.
- The app is available in lots of places. You can download Hangouts from Google Play, the App Store, and the Chrome Web Store. It’s also part of Gmail and Google+. Once watch the below video, Which explains you about the new look of Hangouts.
Photos:
- Auto Backup (aka Instant Upload): Too many pictures stay stranded on the phone, so with your permission, we’ll automatically back up your mobile pics as you snap them. Everyone receives unlimited free storage at standard size (2048px), and 15GB of free storage at full size (up from 5GB).
- Auto Highlight: Sifting through vacation photos to assemble the perfect album can take hours. Auto Highlight helps you find your favorites faster by de-emphasizing duplicates, blurry images and poor exposures, and focusing instead on pictures with the people you care about, landmarks, and other positive attributes. Simply visit the Photos page, and you’ll see your Highlights ready to share.
- Auto Enhance: Taking a good photo and making it great is a task generally reserved for professional photographers. That’s why, for example, we continue to support and improve tools like the Nik Collection. For everyone else we’re introducing Auto Enhance: a new way to improve brightness, contrast, saturation, structure, noise, focus... and dozens of other factors automatically. Simply upload some photos, then open the lightbox to see Google's enhancements. And that’s it. (And of course: you can undo the changes at any time.) Here’s some sample images to get you started.
- Auto Awesome: Sometimes we’ll create a brand new image based on a set of photos in your library. For example: if you upload a sequence of photos, we’ll try and animate them automatically. Or if you send us a few family portraits, we’ll find everyone’s best smile, and stitch them together into a single shot. Likewise with panoramas, filmstrips, and a whole lot more. We call these kinds of enhancements Auto Awesome.
- Take a look on the below video to know more about the Photo Gallery optimization.
Disadvantages:
- Emoticons.
- Multi-column system. Even though, Google+ gave the single column facility, It is not well when compared to the previous version. This system works well only for Large screen users only.
- Slow loading.
