For the geeks out there (oh wait, that’s all of you) this gadget is for you.
The Wave Dice Gadget generates a dice-roll for you, and supports “standard PnP dice types”.
Go get your game on in-wave!
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For the geeks out there (oh wait, that’s all of you) this gadget is for you.
The Wave Dice Gadget generates a dice-roll for you, and supports “standard PnP dice types”.
Go get your game on in-wave!
Reply to a message at the end of a wave. The new message will appear at the same indentation level, at the very end of the wave.[… But also has the …]
Just this one shortcut has made my experience of Wave a thousand times better. You might find something that helps you out too!
Don’t get what all the fuss is about Wave? Don’t have the time to watch the original hour-twenty demonstration? Lifehacker has chopped the presentation up into bite-size chunks to highlight the parts they think are most important.
Waveboard is an app for the Mac (and coming soon for iPhone) that puts Google Wave into it’s own application window. Observant readers might recognise that this is not really all that different from using Fluid or Prism to create a stand-alone site-specific window. Links from the site suggest it is related to Mailplane, a similar concept for Gmail.
Additionally, the demonstrated iPhone application seems to be no different from what Google has already made possible simply by bookmarking your Wave page to the home screen.
If however you don’t wish to worry about setting something like this up yourself you may wish to give it a try.
Waveboard is free software (at time of writing). Waveboard
One of the biggest complaints from first time Google Wave users is the tidal wave of information and updates that threatens to suck their precious time away as they watch the chaos unfold.
In a carefully tended wave, the noise and chaos are minimal, but in some of the larger (public) waves, users have given up hop of ever keeping on top of it all.
Charles Lehner has created a simple chat gadget that might help calm the swell, by focussing some of the chat into a form most of us will recognise: IM. By introducing this gadget to a wave, you can give people an outlet to speak that brings in years of built up convention for managing the flow. People understand Instant Messaging, so you can add this gadget to bring normalcy to the new medium.
Perhaps you could embed this in a wave and encourage people to use it for idle chitchat, leaving the rest of the wave for the real-time collaboration on the task at hand.
As with other gadgets the Playback function records every new person who gets to the chat, and every message, so be aware that this can blow the size of your wave recording out with a lot of extra updates to wade through if necessary.
If you’re wondering where to start when you first open Google Wave, try these 11 simple tasks that will give you a feel for the interface and the design decisions that went into it. For example, Tip 7 is:
Google Wave Tips7) Creating Folders in Google Wave allows you to create categories for your Wave documents. This is also useful to clean the Google Wave Inbox of older Waves and file the Waves documents. To move a Wave document to a Folder: click on a Wave document and dragdrop it to the Folder name.
Also check out this simple tip to add video to a wave
Using the WaveVotely bot, people can vote on which public waves are useful or fun. The results are collated at the Waverz site.
Gina Trapani (who is fast becoming one of the foremost experts on Wave) has collated 14 use cases for Wave that were put forward by Lifehacker readers. Top of the list? Education!
Some useful robots and gadgets that aren’t so well known