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Contest Suggestion: 31 Days of the Dragon

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'lo. After a long time I am posting some thing here for you guys. I hope until now you have enjoyed the existing set of Blogger mods that I had published. While this is not related to blogger mods, I am sure those of you who were unaware, will definitely love it. The other day I came across a big contest while browsing some of sites I read ...

Cool Technorati Add-ons for your Blog

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Hello Readers,I have come across two cool add-ons for your blog. They are:1. Technorati Rank display widget by purplemoggy2. Technorati Blog reactions link from imessengr.com1. PurpleMoggy has posted a very useful add-on with which one can display their real-time Technorati rank in the blog's sidebar. To get a preview of the add-on and learn the code click here.2. Deniz from imessengr.com has provided the Blogger Beta code for ...

New hacked template for Blogger beta and return of "flag-blog"

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Dears readers,The topics covered in this post are:1. A hacked sand-dollar template (with widebar) for blogger beta by imessengr.com2. "Flag blog" option now available for Blogger beta blogs.1. Hacked Sand Dollar TemplateDeniz from imessengr.com (the one who presented the recent referrers hack for blogger beta) has released a hacked sand dollar template for blogger beta. This template contains a variety of hacks and is based on the widebar ...

Feed, Social Bookmark Drop-down and a Recent referrers hack

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Hello Readers,In this post, I have presented the following add-on for Blogger-Beta:1. Subscribe drop-down (on-hover) for presenting feed subscription options.2. Social Bookmark drop-down for Blogger-beta post footers.3. Extreme Socializer – A Social Bookmarking alternative.4. Recent Referrers hack by web-messenger.1. Feed Subscribe Drop-down (on-hover)You might have noticed the Javascript-based subscribe drop-down (activates on mouse hover) in my blog’s widebar. I had got this one from here. Just go to ...

A Firefox extension and PurpleMoggy’s hacks

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Hello readers,I have been using a Firefox extension by name fasterfox. If slow browsing speed has been a problem for you, I recommend that you give it a shot.Coming to beta hack, this blog now uses two hacks which I picked up from PurpleMoggy's blog. It appears that a tutorial has been put up for the search box. Please find the tutorial on implementing a 4-in-1 search box ...

Auto-hide blogger navbar like Windows taskbar

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Hello Friends,Avatar from Bloggeratto has put up a comprehensive post on how to get your blogger navbar to auto-hide like the Microsoft Windows taskbar. This means that after using the code from his post you can make the blogger navbar hidden and it appears only when one hovers the mouse cursor over the navbar section.To view what I am talking about, just view Bloggeratto in Firefox and check ...

Blogger template anatomy (non-beta bloggers)

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Hello readers,I was browsing through instabloke and in it I came across a link which contains a very good explanation of a non beta blogger template. If one wishes to learn blog hacking, one must know thy template well. I recommend you go through this article to learn more.The writer(s) have actually use a picture of a sample blog and provided each section of the blog with its ...

Cluster maps finally

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Yesterday, I was finally able to secure a clustermaps account for this blog. The registration service was blocked for a long time and I did not know any one who would invite me. However, they have reopened the registrations for now and those who wish to use this service, your time is now.Clustermaps is a free online service that allows a website/blog to display the locations in the ...

Rake in feeds with blogger beta and OPML (updated)

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I am not sure about classic blogger, but I can definitely tell about blogger beta, that it has a number of options to choose from as far as feeds are concerned. If you have the right idea, you can use all of these feeds to offer your readers the flexibility to choose what they wish to read and how.Full posts feed of your blog:http://[your blog].blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full (updated as ...

Label feeds and peek-a-boo for sidebar (blogger beta)

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Hello all,I had read about label feeds somewhere a while ago but ignored the idea thinking that I won't need label feeds. Little did I realize that label feeds is a very good feature for a blog like mine where I got multiple categories that are fundamentally different.So finally I implemented label feeds after reading about it from Phydeaux3's blog. Now, readers who are not interested in the ...

Hack updates

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Hello all,Here is your round of hack updates which covers recently introduced new hacks for blogger beta.1. Expandable/collapsible post with Peek-a-boo style (updated to Super peek-a-boo)Ramani has come out with another hack where in users can provide their reader with a summary view of their post and a peek-a-boo style link to view the rest of the post. This is a very good hack for people like me ...

Linklists don’t open in a new window and new hacks

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Just a quick update. I found that links added via the link list feature do not open in a new window. This might take away traffic from your blog. The solution to this is however, very simple. Open up you template's HTML code in expanded widgets format. Copy the entire code into notepad or some text editor and search for a particular link list using its title. (In ...

From rags to riches and hack updates

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I found this article on rediff.com. It's about a man who came out of absolute no where and completed his engineering/MBA from premier institutes in India to become an entrepreneur. A very inspiring and touching tale. Click here to read the article.On the hacks front:Please make a note of Hacks Wiki. This is a one stop database which contains most of the hacks that are available out there. ...

Hacks from Hoctro’s place and other hacks

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Hey all,There is a nice add-on or improvement to Ramani's original hack on sorting and display of search, label and archive results available here. Here is a description of the hack:"My improved hack is based upon not showing the date at which a post is created, and make the posts indented as a nice bulleted list" - HoctroHowever if you do want the date header on the label ...

Hide your Nav bar, add search and other blogger beta hacks

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Hiding the navbar in blogger beta is not much of a task but it has been made a piece of cake by praveen of apt thinking.... Click here to learn how to hide the nav bar in a jiffy.The search box on my blog has been picked up from here. Simple code and no scripts make it light and cool . You might also want to checkout that ...

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