This is so fun!
Google is adding an extra sparkle to photos posted on Google+ and look what they did to my rosemary tree!
Embed a Post from Google +
You can now embed a post from Google+ into your blog! How fun is that!?
Several days ago, I created this post in Google about my pretty little Maple Leaf Dictionary Page Wreath. To embed it here, I simply clicked on the drop-down arrow in the upper right corner, chose “Embed Post”, copied the code, and pasted it into my blog! It doesn’t display until you preview, or publish your blog post (I was a bit baffled at first because I thought it wasn’t working). *NOTE: after publishing my post, I can see that there is no image showing in Feedly. From what I can tell, that is because the embedded posts are not really on your blog. Next time, I would upload an image first, then publish it (live and learn).
Here’s one of my daughter’s posts:
Too fun! And by the way, this fruit dip is “to die for”… I had to laugh when she said you are going to need a shovel to eat it!
Anyway, this is the “something new” that I learned today. Hope you find it as exciting as I did :)
InstaBG for Twitter and Google+
Caution! geek post alert!
I discovered this neat site, InstaBG that generates a cool image of an Instagram feed. It’s so simple to create, I just signed in with my Twitter account, and let InstBG access my images in Instagram. Seconds later, I had a snapshot to use as my background. How cool is that?! I first saw it on my daughter’s Twitter page, and I knew I needed to have one too!
Well, I took it one step further and I am also using it as my Google+ header. Many of you will know that the Google+ header is ginormous, so ginormous, that at first I decided not to put anything on it… until now. This background works because the images are so tiny, and it kind of balances the ginormity of it all… is that even a word?
Next, I went on to optimize my Google+ header, following this great advice from Ann Drake at On Sutton Place. Make sure you scroll down and read comment #8 by Stephan Hovnanian, before you decide on what to name your header. He hadn’t left that comment when I was naming my header, or I might have done it differently. I’m not going to bother now, sometimes, things are better just left the way they are.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!