Write Your Own Blogger Digest

I am thinking to register a personal domain name for Blogger Digest and sign up a web hosting package to move Blogger Digest from New Blogger to WordPress platform.

But, it's a bit difficult for me to materialize the idea, mainly because I don't really have extra times and efforts to read, digest, and write on Blogger Digest.

Blogger Digest, as the blog name implies, is about what a blogger understand from a learning or experience in life. That's what I thought when I registered bloggerdigest.blogspot.com almost 2 years ago, apart from the motif of earning some pocket money with Adsense.

So, I wonder is anyone out there who happen reading this blog would like to write on Blogger Digest, to make this "new" blog alive with its motif - a blog that recording every blogger's digest (not spam or splog) and earn yourself some bucks from Adsense!

Do you want to write your own digest at Blogger Digest and earn some side incomes with your own Adsense code? Please comment.

Windows 7 Build 6519 Screenshots

Previous called Blackcomb and Vienna, the next major version of Microsoft Windows is now better known as Windows 7.

Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) expects it to replace Windows Vista on time at late 2009 or early 2010.

Here are some of leaked screenshots that taken on the latest build - Windows 7 Build 6519:

(Click the image to enlarge. For more high resolution screenshots of Windows 7, please refer to here)











Technorati Tags - Windows 7, Microsoft, Screenshot

Add Logo To Windows Vista System Properties

How could you add a logo or portrait of dream girl to Windows Vista System Properties?

Well, this is just a little Vista trick that involves editing Windows Registry and preparing a BMP file format in a size measured at 120 x 120 pixel.

How to add a logo or portrait to Windows Vista System window?

1. Using your favourite image editor to resize or crop the target image (logo or portrait of your dream girl) to 120 x 120 pixels in size and save it as BMP file format.
   
   
2. Copy / move the 120x120 pixels BMP file to System32 directory, e.g.
   move Logo.BMP C:\Windows\System32
   (assuming you've saved the BMP file as Logo.BMP)
   
   
3. Open up Windows Registry (i.e. click the Vista Orb button, type regedit.exe in the Start Search textbox, click the regedit.exe shortcut listed in the Program list)
   
   
4. Browse to this Registry key path:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OEMInformation

5. While at the OEMInformation Registry key, right-click on the right-pane, select New then String Value and name it as logo
   
   
6. Double-click the logo Registry and enter the full path of BMP file in System32, i.e. C:\Windows\System32\Logo.BMP

Now, the Windows Vista System window should display the new logo/portrait immediately.

Technorati Tags - Windows Vista, Vista SP1, Howto

Goodbye To Netscape Netvigator

AOL has officially stopped the support for Netscape Navigator that the enterprise had brought on 1998.

In 90s, Netscape Navigator was the leader in Web browser market share. At that time, almost every novice recognized the N brand and it was highly recommended for Net surfing.

But now, Netscape Netvigator only command less than 1% market share in the web browser arena, will definitely see its life ended soon after AOL stop any kinds of support that is effective on 1st of March. (Also thank you to Microsoft Windows and the well integration of Internet Explorer on every releases of its flagship operating system.)

Netscape Netvigator was developed by Marc Andreessen, who was also one of the key developer of the world's first browser, Mosaic.

The immediate future of web browser market share is still likely divided by three key players of the time writing, i.e. Microsoft IE, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera. (Apple Safari might be a rising star provided Mr. Steve Jobs takes some efforts out from iPod and iPhone to Safari web browser.)

Technorati Tags - Netscape Navigator, Browser, AOL

How To Make Blogger Mobile Friendly

You might not aware how many people find or read your blog from mobile devices, unless you've kept an eye on the web statistics.

As the smart phone (especially the iPhone) is no longer a luxury gadget among the geeks, sooner or later you'll have to make sure your blog is mobile friendly, i.e. render the pages rapidly and properly on the tiny mobile web browser.

How to make Blogger blog mobile friendly?

Without investing or recoding the CSS, the Google Mobile Reader and the Blogger blog feed URL can do the magic immediately:

http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/<Full-Blog-Feed-URL>

Replace the Full-Blog-Feed-URL with your own blog feed URL! For example, my Blogger Digest could easily, rapidly and properly rendering on a Nokia N73 web browser:



Technorati Tags - Blogger, Mobile, RSS, Feed, Howto

ShareThis Social Bookmarking For Blogger

Social Bookmarking is one of the many ways to improve site traffic. For example, an article with good vote in Digg or StumbleUpon could easily improve site traffic in a crazy manner.

Thus, there is a big demand to add in social bookmarking function on website/weblog.

Unfortunately, New Blogger template still missing of social bookmarking widget! Though, there are not short of third party widgets, such as Alex King's ShareThis 2.0!

ShareThis 2.0 available as Wordpress plugin and JavaScript for HTML website (such as this New Blogger!).

How to add ShareThis JavaScript widget in New Blogger HTML template?

Generate the ShareThis Button (JavaScript widget).

Although the ShareThis JavaScript widget is "compatible" with New Blogger, you'll likely get an error message when trying to Save Template with original ShareThis JavaScript snippet (see also How to wrap Adsense code into New Blogger template?)



To resolve this problem, copy the original ShareThis JavaScript to Notepad and replace all the <, > and & characters with their HTML code respectively, i.e.

< as <
> as >
& as &

Login to New Blogger and proceed to Template Tab > Edit HTML > Expand Widget Templates.



Decide where the ShareThis Button should appears. Suppose the ShareThis button will be shown at the bottom of each blog posts, then copy and paste the tweaked ShareThis JavaScript right after this line:

<p><data:post.body/></p>

Click the Save Template button to save change.

From now onwards, each of the blog posts will display the ShareThis social bookmarking button (where the readers can easily share and bookmark their favourite articles to Facebook, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Newsvine, TailRank, Yahoo! MyWeb, Technorati, BlogMarks, Digg, Del.icio.us, Blinklist, Furl, Ma.gnolia, Google Bookmarks, Windows Live).

Technorati Tags - ShareThis, Blogger, Social, Bookmark

Windows Vista UAC Prevent Blue Screen

The multi-billion dollars of programming development cost for Windows Vista has made it the most advanced operating system from Microsoft.

As shown in this attachment, that the Windows Vista UAC or User Account Control feature is able to prevent the deadly, infamous Windows Blue Screen (i.e. Windows OS hangs up that can only be "rescued" by resetting the computer power supply)!



:-) Don't believe me! This is only a joke, a forged picture that my friend had forwarded to my Gmail account!

Although the Windows Vista UAC is one of the notable (yet is arguable) security feature, it never happen to prevent the Windows Blue Screen!

Since the installation somewhere around March, my Windows Vista machine has had encountered numerous times of this deadly Blue Screen!

According to Windows Vista Help system...

User Account Control (UAC) can help you prevent unauthorized changes to your computer. It works by prompting you for permission when a task requires administrative rights, such as installing software or changing settings that affect other users.

We don't recommend turning User Account Control off. If you do turn it off, you should turn it back on as soon as possible.

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