Hello Friends,I have developed a simple little add-on for your blog. To know what I am talking about, just see the labels in my post's footer. Notice the tiny Technorati pic beside each label. When clicked, it shows you all the posts from bloggosphere that have been tagged with the label in question. (See end of this post for Del.icio.us how-to)It is a good way to allow your ...
Nov 26, 200642
Allow your labels to be searched in Technorati and Del.icio.us tags
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Nov 25, 20064
What’s with the backlinks?
(For full text with comments please click on the title)On recently published posts across all blogs I am seeing similar backlinks pointing to some page2rss thingy. The mess of links in there, led me here.What's up with Blogger? What new feature or bug is this? :DTechnorati Tags: blogger search, blogger, backlinks
Nov 24, 20060
JSON, customizable widgets and other applications
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello Readers,There is some really good stuff happening in the Blogger hacking world. This comes after the recent announcement on Blogger buzz regarding Blogger (or I can say all of Google) moving to JSON (JavaScript Object Notification) data format for feeds.The hacks I am referring to are:1. Hoctro's Recent Comments/Posts widget.2. Ramani's Customizable Recent Comments Widget.3. Hans's Customizable Recent Comments Widget with date and post title (offered in ...
Nov 21, 20062
Cool Technorati Add-ons for your Blog
(For full text with comments please click on the title)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 ...
Nov 17, 200612
New hacked template for Blogger beta and return of "flag-blog"
(For full text with comments please click on the title)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 ...
Nov 13, 20062
Feed, Social Bookmark Drop-down and a Recent referrers hack
(For full text with comments please click on the title)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 ...
Nov 12, 20060
A Firefox extension and PurpleMoggy’s hacks
(For full text with comments please click on the title)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 ...
Nov 11, 20068
Host HTML pages for Frames in a blogspot address
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Dear readers,If you were a regular visitor to my blog, you might have noticed that I was using frames to display all the link-exchange chicklets until some time ago. I discontinued the use of frames, because they don’t display by default in Internet Explorer or IE (which still seems fairly popular).I was hosting my frame HTML document at Google pages (as Blogger does not allow HTML file uploads) ...
Nov 9, 200656
Adding a wider-sidebar to your blog
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Impressed by Wordpress’s Andreas04 template, I wondered if we can have some thing similar for Blogger beta. The answer is yes. Please view the image to understand the layout I am referring to:It is much easier to play around with the template in Blogger beta because of its easy to understand template script language and the flexibility to view the template in collapsed and expanded widgets view (about ...
Nov 5, 200686
Displaying widgets only on comment, label, search and archive pages
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello Friends, From certain site tracking services, I have been looking at the way people come to know about my blog and I realized that only few of them access my blog directly (using its main URL). Most of them come looking for some hack (like social bookmarking, Google Translate etc) and land on an individual post page. When they land on such a page, a lot of space ...
Nov 4, 20065
The Goal – Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox (Book Review 009)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)ISBN: 8185984131Tagline: A process of ongoing improvement.The Goal was not on my reading list. However, it was lying around in the house and I decided to go ahead with it. The size of this book was very uninviting and from all the text on the covers and in the intro pages, I thought that I’d be better off reading this book during or after my MBA even though ...
Nov 1, 200616
Auto-hide blogger navbar like Windows taskbar
(For full text with comments please click on the title)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 ...
Oct 30, 20060
The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell (Book Review 008)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)ISBN 0349114463Tagline: How little things can make a big differenceI was looking forward to reading books by Malcolm Gladwell and finally got my hands on The Tipping Point. It is not a very big book and I managed to finish it in three days, reading only in my free time. Most of you might be aware that The Tipping Point is popular bestseller and a highly appreciated book. ...
Oct 29, 20060
The World is Flat – Thomas L. Friedman (Book Review 007)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)ISBN: 0141022728Tagline: The Globalized world in the Twenty-First centuryHanging around for almost a month with The World is Flat, I finally completed it despite all the time constraints I was under. I have never read such a thick book back-to-back in my life until this one and this book is very special not just in that sense. I could have completed it within a short span but the ...
Oct 13, 20062
Google Docs & Spreadsheets (updated)
(For full text with comments please click on the title)You might have come to know by now that Google has released a service called Google Docs & Spreadsheets . In this service, one can use an online text editor (similar to Microsoft Word and others) to create posts and publish it to their blog.With this service, you can:- Have your documents published online (as a webpage) to share it with others (dedicated URL to each document, ...
Oct 12, 20060
Google blog ping service in FeedBurner
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello Friends,While browsing though A consuming Experince, I came across this post regarding Google Blog ping service being added to FeedBurner's PingShot utility.You might want to add this option to your FeedBurner feeds to increase the chances of appearing prominently in Google search.
Oct 9, 20064
Now about phishing
(For full text with comments please click on the title)I wrote a post on spam, praised Gmail and now I get a phishing e-mail that even Gmail couldn’t block.Whosoever wrote that mail was such a dumbo. It had a glaring spelling mistake. They “tanked” me for my patience :)). Here is a picture of the e-mail with a link pointing to a bank’s website. The link appears to be legitimate and normal at first glance.And once I ...
Oct 8, 20064
Do spammers use crawlers like search engines do?
(For full text with comments please click on the title)Hello all,I have been receiving a huge number of spam E-mails in my inbox and I was wondering how these spammers work.I don't know much about how spammers work and the title of this post might sound crazy. Those who have been following my blog closely might have noticed that I have changed the default e-mail address associated with this blog. The reason was incredible amount of spam ...
