Five Tip Friday – BBM Tips and Tricks

Happy Friday! To kick off the weekend here are some popular BBM Tips and Tricks that you may want to take advantage of! Retract messages using BBM for BlackBerry 10, Android & iPhone Did you now that you can now retract messages sent using BBM? This feature can help prevent some awkward conversations like sending ‘Love you sweetie pie’ to a coworker or friend instead of your significant other! Retracting a message is really easy, too. Just tap and hold the message you’d like to retract and you’ll see a Retract Message option appear along the right. BBM for Android Widget Whenever I meet up with a friend who uses BBM for Android I always ask if they have tried out the BBM widget because it’s a really fast way to access your BBM conversations. To try it out, look for the BBM chat widget in the Apps page under the Widgets tab. You can also resize the BBM widget by tapping and holding it on your home screen followed by adjusting the size using the resize bars ☺ Enable Chat History By default, using the End Chat option will close a chat and delete the conversation history. You can turn on the Save Chat History feature if you want to save the content of your BBM chat. Doing so will allow you to view your previously sent and received messages with a BBM contact, even after you have ended a chat with them. Using BlackBerry 10 Open BBM and swipe down from the top of the screen Tap Settings and toggle the Save Chat History switch Using BBM for Android, iPhone Open BBM and tap followed by Settings Set the Save Chat History switch to On Using BBM for Windows Phone Open BBM and tap in the bottom right corner Tap settings and followed by chats Set Save chat history to On Tip: To learn more check out our post on how to save precious memories using BBM Chat History! Note: Chat history is only saved locally and does not allow you to recover your chat history if you reinstall BBM or move BBM to a new device. Contact List or Contact Grid, you decide! When you sign into BBM you’ll notice that your contacts are displayed in a listing, but you can have your contacts shown in a grid layout, instead. Using the listing option makes it easy to see a contact’s status message, but if you would rather have a bigger view of their display picture, consider using the grid option. To find which view you prefer most, complete the following steps. Using BlackBerry 10 Open BBM and swipe down from the top of the screen Tap Settings and within Contacts Layout, select Grid or List Using BBM for Android, iPhone Open BBM and tap in the bottom right corner Tap Settings and within Contacts Layout, select Grid or List Using BBM for Windows Phone 1. Open BBM and switch to the contacts view 2. Tap in the bottom right corner followed by list / grid Hide the Timed Messages icon With the introduction of Timed Messages for those using BBM on BlackBerry 10, Android or iPhone, a new icon was added to the chat screen that allows you send a Timed Message. Tip: Check out Get the new BBM for Privacy, Control and Much, Much More on Inside BlackBerry to learn more about Timed Messages! If you don’t use the Timed Messages feature, you can optionally hide the Timed Messages icon. Using BlackBerry 10 Open BBM and swipe down from the top of the screen Tap Settings and toggle the Timed Messages switch Using BBM for Android or iPhone Open BBM and tap in the bottom right corner Tap Settings and toggle the Timed Messages switch Got a question? Leave a comment and let me know!

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How to Tell if Google Considers your Website as Mobile Friendly

You can no longer afford to not have a mobile-friendly website that isn’t readable or usable on a mobile phone. That’s because Google is now clearly marking websites (screenshot) in mobile search results that it considers mobile friendly and if that tag isn’t getting displayed around your content, your website may see a drop in mobile traffic. Responsive design is definitely the way to go but will that be enough. How do you confirm if your web pages are considered mobile friendly by Google? There are quite a few options. One, you can do a site:domain.com search in Google on any mobile phone to check if that tag is displayed around the most popular web pages of your website. This is the quickest way to check mobile-friendliness of multiple pages without using any of the tools. Google also offers an online tool to help you understand if it considers your website as mobile friendly. You’ll have to run it against all the pages of your site. Sometimes a website may be responsive and readable on a mobile device but it may not be usable. For instance, the links may have been placed too close to each other making it difficult to tap (like on this page) or the videos may have been embedded using Flash that doesn’t play on mobile devices. These factors may also prevent Google from marking your website as mobile friendly. You can use your Google webmaster account to know if your site suffers from any of these usability issues. Open Webmaster Tools, choose Search Traffic and select Mobile Usability. Here you’ll see all the pages on your site that are indexed by Google and need your attention. Alternatively, you can use the PageSpeed tool to detect usability issues as well without logging into Webmaster Central. Put the URL in the input box and check the User Experience report under Mobile. If you see anything in Red, it needs to be fixed. You can also explore other online tools to test your website on a much wider range of mobile phones. The story, How to Tell if Google Considers your Website as Mobile Friendly, was originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal on 19/11/2014 under SEO, Web Design, Internet.

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