I’ve just removed live fyre comments from the blog because they were giving some error!

Are other people using the same comment system getting the same error too?

Btw, my adsense account got blocked too! so no more ads!

Hello guys! how are you!

Well tech part of the blog is now nabtron.com

Well it’s not new though, quite old (older than the domain ninja.pk too)

From now on, please support and follow us on nabtron.com for tech related stuff and posts.

Ninja.Pk’s fate is under consideration yet and no definite plan and strategy has been devised currently!

Just wanted to inform you guys so that those who’re hoping for new posts to come and might be wondering why there isn’t any update on the blog lately should now start following us on nabtron!

But ofcourse all posts and comments on ninja.pk are entertained and replied too! :)

Cheers!

This Android Market update includes performance, and +1 button on application pages, new custom PIN settings for purchases and few other GUI changes.

This update is highly recommended, comes with performance improvements for both application network access and software speed.

Download Android Market version 3.1.3 .apk package http://www.multiupload.com/S0MX1G8HP9

Google+ team is doing fast updates to improve and add more features for Google+

Weekly report created by me on Google+ updates.

Start hangout from YouTube: Now Google+ users can start hangout directly from YouTube while viewing any video. Then they can watch the YouTube video together with Google+ friends. To start hangout from YouTube while viewing a video, click on Share button and then click on Start a Google+ Hangout. While watching YouTube with friends in hangout, everyone is muted by default. Click Push to talk button to talk. If you unmute your mic, the YouTube video will be muted.

Disable reshare option have been renamed to Lock post: Disable reshare option to stop re-sharing of your posts have been renamed to Lock this post. Once a post is locked, it cannot be reshared, cannot mention names and cannot tag photos of the people who are not shared the locked post with.

Comments system have been updated: Comments system’s live updating have been tweaked. Comments counter have been given animation to the numbers. Comments can be collapsed and expanded on stream, posts, notification bar. By default they are collapsed. Collapsed comments also show commentators names.

Google profiles verified badges: I am one of those many others who loved Google’s real name policy. People must use their real names instead of loving some movie, cartoons characters names etc.Going forward on real names policy, Google have launched verified badges for profiles. Initially Google is giving verified badges to celebrities and other famous people. Google currently is not accepting verification requests, but in future everybody will be able to get their profiles verified. You can see a tick mark next to the names of verified profile while visiting their profiles page.

Upload profile photo directly from your webcam: Now you can upload your profile photo directly from webcam. Go to Edit Profile, click on your profile photo and choose Upload from Webcam

Animation to the notifications counter on top bar: Google+ team have added small but beautiful slide-in animation to the notifications number. Watch video of 3 seconds to see it working.

Google+ have updated their comments with new collapsing and expanding option in Stream, Posts and Notifications bar.

Today announced by Google+ team member Jonathan Terleski

Today we’re rolling out the ability to collapse and expand comments in your stream, as well as a few tweaks to the way real-time comments are displayed. Thanks again and let us know what you think!

#googleplusupdate

Video Transcript

It’s been great to hear that one of your favorite parts about Google+ is the dynamic nature of the Stream. In real-time, posts and comments arrive in your stream — no refresh required.

While this is pretty awesome, it can sometimes be overwhelming. You’ve said that really active conversations with lots of comments can take over your stream. And comments appearing in real-time can sometimes make updates hard to read.

Well, today, we’re fixing all this.

First, we’re making it so you can easily expand and collapse comments in the Stream. Just click once to expand, click again to collapse.

And when comments arrive in real-time, we’ll automatically collapse them. But, we’ll still keep track of which comments you’ve read and which you haven’t. This way, you get to choose when to engage and when not to.

We hope both of these features make your stream more pleasant to read. These are just two of the many improvements we’re making based on your feedback.

Thanks again for all your great ideas and keep them coming!

Google to buy Motorola Mobility in 12.5 Billion Dollars. Deal will be completed by late 2011 or in early 2012. Deal will be approved by government.

Before Google have been letting other companies to manufacture handsets with their Android platform. Now also Google’s Android platform will remain open source and available for other companies to continue manufacturing Android handsets.

Google is now more like Apple who will have its own software manufactured smartphones.

Google have adopted this strategy because of the competition with Microsoft and Apple.

Motorola and Motorola mobility are two parts of same company. Where Motorola mobility focus is phones and telecommunication. Motorola Mobility was already manufacturing Android handsets. Motorola will help Google in Android smartphones, Google TV and other products.

Other Android handset manufacturers are welcoming this deal between Google and Motorola. And they are calling it a defense against Microsoft and Apple.

“We welcome today’s news, which demonstrates Google’s deep commitment to defending Android, its partners, and the ecosystem.”
– J.K. Shin
President, Samsung, Mobile Communications Division

“I welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.”
– Bert Nordberg
President & CEO, Sony Ericsson

“We welcome the news of today‘s acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to defending Android, its partners, and the entire ecosystem.”
– Peter Chou
CEO, HTC Corp.

“We welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.”
– Jong-Seok Park, Ph.D
President & CEO, LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company

About Motorola: Motorola from America. Motorola Mobility products categories are Mobile phones, including smartphones, mobile computing devices and tablets. Motorola Mobility company is part of Motorola company but focused on phones.

About Google: Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Owns Android smartphones software.

Click here for complete list of Google acquisitions on Wikipedia.org

Google+ have finally launched 16 web based games for their users.

Google+ team is gradually rolling out games for all users. Once games are available for your Google+ account, you will see games tab button as shown in the image below. Google+ games are not available for everyone.

Google+ games will not spam your notifications or stream unlike Facebook games because Google+ games are in separate page and they wont show any notifications in your main stream. If you want to play games and want to see games notifications, go to games page.

If you are not interested in games, just don’t go to games tab and stick to your main stream.

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Games tab will allow you to browse available games by categories. You can also see names of the games recently played by your friends.

Following games have been launched and these are the first games launched on Google+ :

1. Angry Birds
2. Bejeweled Blitz
3. Bubble Island
4. City of Wonder
5. Collapse! Blast
6. Crime City
7. Diamond Dash
8. Dragon Age Legends
9. Dragons of Atlantis
10. Edge World
11. Flood-It!
12. Monster World
13. Sudoku
14. Wild Ones
15. Zombie Lane
16. Zynga Poker

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Games link is https://plus.google.com/games (wont work if games aren’t available for you yet)

Watch Google+ games launch official below

Google team member Eric Cattell announced few updates today in his post at Google+

Some more Google+ experiments that are rolling out as we speak:

You can now + reply anyone who commented on your post regardless of whether they have “find me in search” enabled. Hey, if they wrote to you, seems to make sense that you should be able to write back, right?

We removed the “blocked circle” and added a new menu for managing your blocked people.

We added a new invite dialog that provides a URL you can give out to your friends so they can join. I know, Vic already posted this one. Just re-posting in case you missed Vic’s post.

For technical reasons, the little black bar across the top of the page, and the rest of the page, used a different event system. Now they don’t, which means that if you add a friend from the notification bar on the top of the page, they will immediately show up as a friend on the bottom of the page. I know, crazy.

Fixed the count for # of followers. The number used to be capped at 10,000 in the people editor (even if you had more), now it is accurate. Also, we used different algorithms for calculating your followers in profiles vs. the list on your circles. We now use the same algorithm for both so they should always match.

My team just got a list from our consumer operations group of over 25,000 suggestions of great stuff we should be working on. Almost 6,000 of those were about the #s not matching in profiles and the circle editor (fixed!). A couple hundred were questions about whether sharing to your circles included your block circle (fixed!). Needless to say, much of what we do is based on what you guys ask for. We even had a few people tell us it was just cruel to show photos of their X’s in their block circle, so, we removed photos for people you’ve blocked =)

Google team is trying their good to make Google+ a better service everyday. But still this service needs a lot improvements.

Hope to see more soon in coming days from Google+

Link to his original post

Listing (all old and recent) changes or new features of Google+. I post them regularly as they happen at twitter @NiNJAdotPK

• Now you can invite friends with just sharing invitation link with them, click Invite button on Google+ web to check it out. Go to http://goo.gl/br5nd if you are looking for invitation link.

• Control which of your circles or friends can chat with you. From Google+ web, Click on Status icon > Chat Settings and tick people or circles. (This will share your email with them) [update: I no longer can see these settings, seems like Google+ team have removed]
• New Google+ Android app released (1.0.5) . Download from Android Market or direct apk download from and read detailed change-log http://goo.gl/1EXLW
• Search someone by name using search box in circles tab.
• Now you can re-order your circles by going to Circles page and dragging dropping them to positions which you want.
• Now in name tagging, G+ will prefer the people in post first, then your circles & then rest of the Google+ , makes tagging fast.
• Official Google+ updates page by Google+ team http://goo.gl/0fcNs
• Now you can rename albums [Go to one of your albums/photos click an album and click on the album title.]
• Google+ team is suspending accounts of fake profiles or profiles with fake names.
• Now your Google profile image will be shown in Google search results
• Now control who can add you to huddles, change settings from Google+ Web settings.
• Now import contacts from any address book exported file by going to circles tab.
• Google+ updates: Now you can +1 comments from notifications bar. http://j.mp/peO5P2
• Google+ update: Now you can get more people suggestions by clicking Get more Suggestions in circles tab in Find and Invite.
• Google+: Web update, now comments will not repeat a post in your stream. Instead post will appear once in your stream.
• Live hangout video broadcasting coming with youtube to Google+
• Several more hangout features coming soon to Google+ like opinion sharing widgets etc (reminds me of Google wave widgets and being used at http://goo.gl/BBoKW)
• Now you can’t mention names of those people in Private posts who are not shared the post with.
• Send your posts automatically to Twitter, Facebook http://goo.gl/fb/ey2ZL
• Google+ next two months coming major updates: performance, fans page like feature, facebook like games and apps, developers API.
• Age requirement will drop to 13 for Google+ once it is open to public.
• Google Picasa: Google Picasa has now unlimited storage for Google+ users http://goo.gl/fb/Yd6jH

If you know or you use Google documents (http://docs.google.com). Google documents web have gotten new Gmail web like look. Now its more fun and simple to use Google documents on web.

To switch to new Google documents site, click on Try new Look at the right upper side of your documents homepage.

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Google Docs is a free, Web-based office suite, and data storage service offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. Google Docs combines the features of Writely and Spreadsheets with a presentation program incorporating technology designed by Tonic Systems. Data storage of files up to 1 GB each in size was introduced on January 13, 2010, documents created inside Google Docs not counting towards this quota. (Source: wikipedia)

Google documents are available on mobile and desktop browsers, also on smart phones by official Google applications.