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Show Popular Posts Gadget in Blogger

Alex Jose — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:07:06 +0000

The new Popular Posts gadget can be added to your blogger blog right now from the Gadget Directory by clicking Add a gadget from the Design.

The Popular Posts gadget will automatically find and display your blog’s posts that have the most pageviews. You can choose whether to display image thumbnails or post snippets in addition to the post title. You can also choose the time period to be used for calculating pageviews and the number of posts you’d like to display.

WordPress 3.0 Named “Thelonious” Released

Alex Jose — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:58:56 +0000

Today morning WordPress had released its latest version of WordPress blogging system. WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress is now available for download. Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.)

From now onwards there will not be a separate WordPress MU for the multi user functionality, instead it is merged into the standard system. Creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation.

Geotagging Introduced In Blogger

Alex Jose — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:11:38 +0000

Blogger (Also called blogspot) in draft has recently announced a new feature called Geotagging or location labels which enables you to add locations to each of your post through Google Maps. It is similar to time stamps of blogger posts which help to browse using specific date/month whereas Geotag give your readers a way to browse posts near a specific location.

As per official blog of Blogger in draft

We’ve just added geotagging to the new post editor on Blogger in draft. With geotagging, you can add a location to your each of your blog posts. Just as time stamps help readers find posts from a certain date or time, geotags give your readers a way to browse posts near a specific location.

Adding a geotag to your post is easy. Log into draft.blogger.com, open the post editor, and click the ‘add location’ link below the main text field.

Use the location editor to search, drag, click and zoom on a map to choose and save a location. Google says- “We’ll try to label the location you choose using our reverse geocoder, which looks up a name for a point on the map”. You can also edit the location name by clicking the blue location name text below the search field.

As said earlier, you can see clearly, this feature is integrated with Google Maps:

Use Microsoft Word 2007 For Offline Blogging

Alex Jose — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:37:29 +0000

Many of the bloggers use Live Writer or some other offline blogging applications to work with there blogs. Most of the offline blogging tools lacks many features that when compared to a Word Processor. But what happend if you come to know that the most powerful word processor Mocrisoft Word can help you in this case. Microsoft word 2007 came with this option, that allows the user to publish the post made to the blog. If MS Word has this facility then why should we use an appilcation just for this purpose that too with little features.

Here’s how to go about it.

The first time you fire it up through – Office Button —> New —> Blog Post, MS Office asks you to setup an account. You can also get around to your account through the ‘Manage Account’ button on the menu ribbon. The Blog accounts box allows you to add, delete, and set passwords and picture options for your accounts.

If the blog API allows the direct upload of pictures, you can set the picture uploading options too or keep it at ‘none’.

With the account setup completed, writing and posting is a cinch. The intuitive Word interface gives you two tabs to work with your posts – Blog Post and Insert. These two tabs bring all the user friendliness of Office to structure your post. After finishing the post, one can either ‘Publish’ or ‘Publish as draft’.

Blogger Introduces new Transparent NavBar Style

Alex Jose — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:20:14 +0000

You may have noticed the NavBar on the top of every blogs in blogger. Till yesterdaythe blog author have only four choices of style for that NavBar.

Today Blogger announced two new style for NavBar to match the style of NavBar with your blog’s theme. “Transparent Light” and “Transparent Dark.” These new color schemes take advantage of the ability of modern browsers to render transparency (a technique known to web designers as “alpha blending”). This allows the navbar background to blend together with your blog’s background color and pattern. The “Transparent Light” color scheme has a semi-transparent white background, producing subtle pastel colors, while the background of “Transparent Dark” is a semi-transparent black that produces a shaded look.

In addition, Blogger simplified and slimmed down the look of all the navbars, so that they will be more likely to harmonize with the aesthetics of your blog.

To enable the Transparent Light or the Transparent Dark navbar, go to Layout | Page Elements, then click Edit next to the navbar widget: