Show related Posts in Blogger

Its essential tactic to show related Posts in Blogger , to improve usage statics and page views . If a definite number of related articles are shown at the bottom of each posts,there is chance for the reader to click on those links and head over to the next page . Related posts widget on Blogger depends on how you name your post labels .

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Here’s how you can do that ,
1. Open your Blogger template’s Layout and select Edit HTML .
2. Download full template for future use .
3. Click on expand widgets templates.
4. Press Cntrl+F and search for tag and insert the following script above that line .
Download
5. Similar to step 4 , find out section .<p><data:post.body/></p> . Anything you post under this line would appear at end of each posts.
6. Now paste the following code below that line .
Download
7. Save your template

Now if everything went fine , your post pages would show related articles depending on the applied label.You can customize the color and font size of the widget by editing the bold elements in the CSS code(download 1).

#related-posts .widget h2, #related-posts h2 {
color : #333333;
font-size : 13px;
font-weight : normal;
margin : 5px 7px 0;
padding : 0 0 5px;
}

The default number of related posts are 5 as set on the code . You change it by editing max-results=5 in the JavaScript ( download 2) code to a suitable value .

Credits: Rias

Google added Voice and Video chat to Gmail

Google team recently added Voice and Video chat feature to Gmail that can maximize the potential of its users . You can see a “video and more” link on your Gmail account (Make sure that your in the standard view) . There are options on that link to choose video or audio chat . The height,width and position of the chat window can be adjusted manually .

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Here , you need to download a simple plugin (an executable file)to make this working . Installation is online and your browser should be restarted after completion .

Sell/Transfer Blogger blog

Just like selling a website , you can sell /transfer your Blogger blog . First step is to invite the other user as a contributor/author of your Blog . Here’s how you you can do this ,
Go to Blogger template’s settings section and open permissions.
Now as shown below, enter the Gmail address of the person to whom you want to transfer your blog .

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After inviting , ask your client to verify the confirmation email to accept invitation .
Now, the permission tab in your Blog settings would have changed as shown below .

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Grand admin privileges to the invited user and remove your account just above that . Now you have successfully completed the transaction of your Blogger blog.

Christmas Blogger template

Christmas WordPress Theme was originally released by amazing-christmas-ideas.com .Though , many sites already converted this beautiful theme into Blogger template , it was messed up with unnecessary CSS and JavaScript codes . I agree that its not a professional Blogger template , but worth if you plan for a simple blog to spread your thoughts at Christmas .

119 Christmas%2BBlogger%2Btemplate Christmas Blogger template Change from other Blogger conversions :
JavaScript based calender and date widget have been removed .
Unnecessary CSS codes were removed .
Changes in color scheme and fonts
Images are hosted on a faster image host .
Post page titles are optimized for better indexing and Search results .
Demo Download Christmas Blogger template

Internet Explorer 8 Shortcuts

Essential Internet Explorer 8 Shortcuts .

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ALT+RIGHT ARROW : Takes you to the next page .
SHIFT+CLICK : Open a hyperlink in in new window
BACKSPACE : Used in IE8 to go to previous page
ALT+HOME : Shortcut to go home page
SHIFT+F10 : Used to show shortcut menu for a hyperlink
CTRL+C : Shortcut for copy in internet explorer 8
CTRL+V : Shortcut for paste in internet explorer 8
TAB :Move forward through different boxes and controls items on opened web page.
END :Move to the end of a web page
ESC : stops opening a page
CTRL+A : Select all in the browser windows
CTRL+D : shortcut to Bookmark a website
CTRL+E : Open the Internet explorer 8 Search bar
CTRL+F : Shortcut Find a text on browser
CTRL+H : Shortcut to open internet explorer 8 history bar
CTRL+I : Bookmarks Folder
CTRL+N : Opens a new window in internet explorer 8
CTRL+O : Opens address
CTRL+P : Print the current web page
CTRL+S : Shortcut to save complete website in internet explorer 8
CTRL+W : Closes IE 8
F11 : Move on to the full-screen view in IE8
F5 : Refresh the current browser page
F4 : Shortcut to Display a list of former addresses
F6 : Internet Explorer 8 Shortcut to change the focus of address bar and page.

Update: Internet Explorer 9 shortcuts

Change Windows start button text and Icon

Here i will show you a trick to change the Windows XP Start button and Icon,

Change the Start text

step is to download Resource Hacker. It is a simple and easy to use application to edit 32 bit widows executable files . It can edit dll files ,exe files ,ocx and view their resources .

Now you have to search for explorer.exe in your h:Windows directory. Take a copy of the file in the same directory and rename it to explorer.bak.

Open explorer.exe in the resource hacker . From the String Table , select 37 >1033.

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Now i changed the start button to techknowl.com . Click on compile script to make the changes.

Wednesday 8th February 2012-Techknowl.com- Free software reviews, downloads and tech tips.