54 sec screencast tutorial.

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I am using the same theme in this blog but for my requirement i have modified the theme and as a part of contribution i want to share this theme with every one Many of my regular visitors and some of DD visitors liked this modification and emailed me to share the theme and here it goes. Please find the download link below.

What has been modified:

1) Single post page has been single column now.

2)Landing page post content has more width then before.

3)Search box yellow background was breaking in various browser and that has been fixed.

4) Landing page navigation to older post has been removed as it was not working. A link has been added for navigation. Modify it with your link. Navigation works on other pages.

DownloadLink: http://www.mediafire.com/?3nnzmn3ejmj

You can suggest some mod and i shall try to make them happen

Some inspiration Emails worth publishing else i wont have published this theme :

Hi Kaushik,
I saw your msg at http://designdisease.com/blog/tipz-theme-released/ , Mate can you send me the increased width theme files? i would love to try that on my blog.

Email me them if you can, here: ************
Thanks,
Regards
Royan

hi, saw your comment over at Designdisease.com and saw the
changes you made to the Tipz theme. Can you pls share how you
increased the width of the 1st column? Also how do one make
this a 2 column theme?

–Lakshmipathy  Bhat

Hi Kaushik,

I saw your comment on the design desease theme page.
Seems you haven’t got any problem to use the feature
post and the feature-image function with the tipz theme.
Smarter than me … Could you give me a hint about choosing
the featured post and the featured image ? I tired to create the
category and a custom field but it doesn’t work. I can’t get any
answer on the theme page, so i try to find help among users of
this theme …
Thanks.

–Francois  Delattre

I am posting Francois email here because i know many of us faced the same problem.

2 steps to get the image on the top post:
1) Create a custom field for your latest post. feature-image
2) The content of the field should be as shown in the image below.The class used is

class=”alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2040″

Cheers!

http://classictutorials.com/?s=greet+box

Go to Google.com and search for search term like “techbhroom.blogspot.com” and navigate to this site and you will see a message saying that you came from google.

Now try this URL for stumble upon welcome message. Stumble Techbhroom

Feature added in this version:

The much needed and talked about close button has been provided. This uses cookie. Default cookie expiry time is 7days and can be configurable in the code below.

Screenshot:

Code:

Plain text code

<script src="http://bloggergreetbox.googlecode.com/files/TextToBeDisplayedDiv-minv3.0.js"
type="text/javascript">
</script>
<div id="mainDisplayDiv" style="background:#F8F8FF;border:1px solid #B6AFA9;display:none">
<div style="float: right; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px;">
<href a="#" onclick="closeGreetBox('7')"><img border="0" alt="x"
src="http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9837/closebutton.gif"/>
</href></div>
<div id="dynamicContentDisplayed">
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
// Give your feed url here
var feedURL = "http://feeds2.feedburner.com/blogspot/ct";
var dynamicHTMLText = displayRequiredText(feedURL);
document.getElementById("dynamicContentDisplayed").innerHTML = dynamicHTMLText;
</script>
</div>
<script src="http://bloggergreetbox.googlecode.com/files/HideShowDiv-minv3.0.js"
type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
showHideDiv();
</script>

Google Code Page:

Just in case.

http://code.google.com/p/bloggergreetbox/

According to Google:

Converts text and web pages written in one script to its phonetic equivalent in another script.

The definition was not that clear to me. I was not able to find out any difference between Google translator and Google script converter until unless i tried some practical experiment.

Google translator as we all know changes the language to make it readable to someone who knows the translated language. The pronounce and the spelling is same as the new language.

Example:

Lets try to convert English to Hindi “Kaushik is away”

In Google translator:

In Google script converter:

Do put your comments. Cheers!

Most of us know about Google Fusion Table. Its a cool thing to use and all your tables are on cloud and you never bother about any database server as this is free.

But as with every good work some one will be there to copy the idea here is YAHOO to do so this time with there Pnuts

So what does pnuts do?

Here is what yahoo has to say:

The combined effort aims to develop a family of data hosting services that will allow application developers to choose the right kind of storage and indexing service for each of their data collections. Individual product groups will no longer have to buy their own database technology or manage an army of administrators. In effect, they can store their vital data by renting space on the hosted PNUTS/YDHT cluster, which ideally will be deployed across all Yahoo!
………
………
For instance, if a particular application turns out to be a smash hit, the group could simply access more resources on the cluster, rather than going out and buying 1,000 new machines and then struggling to deploy them. Not only does this bring the total cost of database management down dramatically, it could also offer faster performance, better information retrieval features and improved quality of service.

Looks a good idea ha?
Let it come out and then we can give a ride.

For previous versions and descriptions please visit:

http://classictutorials.com/2009/04/19/wp-greet-box-plugin-for-blogger-blogger-greet-box-is-live/

Go to Google.com and search for search term like “techbhroom.blogspot.com” and navigate to this site and you will see a message saying that you came from google.
Now try this URL for stumble upon welcome message. Stumble Techbhroom

Screenshots:

Features:

As before I have kept the same features but the best surprise is now Greet Box for Blogger supports 30 Social Networks. You read it write its 30. Even Thaya Kareeson’s WP Greet Box for WordPress doesnot supports so many social networks.

List of Supported Social Networks:

1. general
2. google
3. yahoo
4. digg
5. stumbleupon
6. delicious
7. facebook
8. flickr
9. friendfeed
10. friendster
11. furl
12. lastfm
13. linkedin
14. livejournal
15. magnolia
16. mixx
17. myspace
18. netvibes
19. newsvine
20. picasa
21. pownce
22. reddit
23. technorati
24. twitter
25. vimeo
26. webshots
27. wordpress
28. yelp
29. youtube

Did i missed anyone?

Same as before. Just copy the code and paste it and it will show up. Just follow two configuration.

1) Search for “Give your feed url here” and replace my fed url with yours.
2) Search for “List your domains where you dont” and replace it with your domain name.

<script src="http://bloggergreetbox.googlecode.com/files/TextToBeDisplayedDiv.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<div id="mainDisplayDiv" style="background:#F8F8FF;border:1px solid  #B6AFA9;display:none"><div id="dynamicContentDisplayed">
</div><script type="text/javascript">// Give your feed url here
var feedURL = "http://feeds2.feedburner.com/blogspot/ct";var dynamicHTMLText = displayRequiredText(feedURL);
document.getElementById("dynamicContentDisplayed").innerHTML = dynamicHTMLText;</script>
</div><script src="http://bloggergreetbox.googlecode.com/files/HideShowDiv.js"
type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">
//List your domains where you dont want to show up. Suppose
//when people navigate within your site and you dont want to
// show up. This is , seperated
var myRestrictedDomainList = "classictutorials.blogspot";showHideDiv(myRestrictedDomainList);</script>

Get as plain text file

Google Code Page:

I know on previous release i told that all latest updates will be automated but one reason for code change is Google page BW limit. Now the code is hosted on google code page and if B/W exceeds i will buy extra space so it should be fine.

http://code.google.com/p/bloggergreetbox/

Please report any bug.

Kick 1) Any Mac explorer close button is opposite side of windows. Funny. I took an hr before getting habituated to it. I always try to search it on the right hand side. After a week now i try to search the same close button in my office XP on left side. We the end user always suffer

Kick 2) Where the hell is the maximize button. Being from windows i always used to open every application and maximize it but there is nothing called maximize in Mac. I suffer a lot for this. Tried to figure out some apps to do the same but after some day those digit forum geek friends (http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57559) actually explained me that there is no concept of maximize in Mac. Actually now i like the Mac concept. The “+” button on the top maximize the explorer only to the limit it requires. So if you have two folders in a folder why do you want the whole screen to show that up. So i feel that’s innovative. Mac rocks.

Kick 3) Mac don’t have a refresh thing on its desktop. Crap that was useless. Why the hell we need refresh on windows. Mac do the same without refresh.

Kick 4) Cool so far until unless last Wednesday when i took a 1/2 TB Segate Free Agent Go. I use windows on my desktop and mac on laptop and wanted to use my PHD(Portable hard drive) on both of them simultaneously but the big question. What will be the file format?

Try1: NTFS >> Mac can read NTFS and cannot write to it NTFS anyways is windows property so no problem with windows.

Try2: FAT32 >> Mac and Windows are happy with it. Both can read and write. But the tragedy is Fat32 supports only 1GB of max file size. Most of my movies are above 1GB. Sad i cant compress each and every movie.

So who came to my rescue?

NTFS-3G: This is a mac software which will allow to read and write NTFS on Mac. Download it here. http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ God bless ntfs 3g org.

Kick 5) I copied all my movies to my new drive. Now i can move around with my movies. But wait! How to search the whole thing. OK Mac support spotlight search but it doesn’t search external drives. What the hell! Windows is so good. I can search any file any where. But there should be some hack. Ya there is.

How to add external hardrives and portable drives to spotlight search?

Easy. Pull up Terminal. Write Sudo -s and enter your password. Now execute the following.

sudo mdutil -i “on” “/volumes/drivename”

Once this is done your new drive is added to spotlight index and again i say Mac rocks for Geeks!

Story cont….

We’ve added some features to your iGoogle homepage that will make it easier for you to enjoy your favorite web content and to share it with friends. Now you can add social gadgets to post updates, play games with friends, and more. Take a tour.

These new gadgets are real cool thing  :biggrin: and the best part is its so easy to integrate and use. For all iGoogle fan this is a boon.

Navigate to Admin Console
Now navigate to Plugins –> Installed
Select all your activated Plugins and from bulk action drop down deactivate all of them.
Now try running the update again and this time it will work.
Now activate all your plugins again.

Cheers!

Theme URL: Theme URL

In case you don’t have chrome or you don’t know what is chrome (leaving under a stone for years  :-O ) visit here.   Chrome

Just navigate to Settings –> Permalink and select anything except the default option.

Permalink

404 page should come up.

You name it you get it. All latest magazines for free and online.

1) Install Agent switcher plugin in firefox.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
2) Restart firefox and choose your agent as iPhone 3.0. Ref Image below

3) Navigate to http://zinio.com/iphone and click on the magazine you like.

Njoy!

WLP  is a social network from Microsoft India to help people find people with similar interests. Something like Orkut,Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, Hi5 and Tagged. Also you can invite more people and friends from other service providers. Also it has something like match % which is something we already use in OKCUPID.COM

But the worst part is its so buggy and damn slow. To login with existing user id it took me so time. It even failed to login for couple of times. Also each page takes so much time to load.And personally i feel the UI could have been done better.

Send or save as draft. 25MB is your birth right with gmail. Ya but you can send this fatty size only to gmail accounts.

Google says:

With Gmail, you can send and receive messages up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size.
Please note that you may not be able to send larger attachments to contacts who use other email services with smaller attachment limits. If your attachment bounces, you should invite them to Gmail.

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Also you can look here for more details: http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=gp6Wr8yTSvY

Google has launched the Keyboard API and its so easy to use on websites.
This is what google has to say:

It is often difficult for Internet users to input text in many non-Latin script-based languages for a variety of reasons. The correct keyboard layout may not be installed on the computer they’re using – sometimes such a layout may not be well developed or widely available. This poses a challenging problem for web developers because there is no way they can ensure that their users have access to this very basic input technology. Our Transliteration API can help, but requires that the user know multiple languages.

 To use and have a look at a live example follow the url:
http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/#virtual_keyboard

Things needed:

1) Windows 7 ISO image (Any version) + PowerISO software Installed. (http://www.poweriso.com/download.htm)
OR
1) Windows 7 DVD
2) A PEN drive preferably having space of 3GB

Step1) Install PowerISO and mount the windows 7 Image or if you have a windows 7 DVD insert it.
Step2) Plugin your pendrive.
Step3) Go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools\Computer Managment\Storage you can see your Disk layout. Check the Disk number for your pendrive.
Usually if you have one HD the the disk number is 1 else its 2.
Step4) Once you know your disk number open cmd prompt with Administrative privilage.
Step5) Execute the following steps one by one

1. diskpart
2. select disk 2
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Once you are done copy the files from your virtual Windows 7 drive or Windows 7 DVD using the following command.

1. xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\   where d is your windows 7 drive and e is your pen drive 

Thats all. Now you can boot through your pen drive. If its not booting check your bios for option to boot from pen drive. Cheers!

First want to thank Thaya Kareeson for his wonderful idea of WP Greet Box for WordPress.

I named it Blogger Greet Box.This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your visitors depending on their referrer url. For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a visitor clicks through

from google search they will see a message suggesting them to subscribe to your RSS feed. Having

these targeted suggestions will help your blog increase exposure, loyal readership, and reader

interaction so all together it should increase your page hits.

Go to Google.com and search for search term like “Classic Tutorials” or “WP Greet Box for

blogger” and navigate to this site and you will see a message saying that you came from google.

Now try the same with yahoo search and see the message changes.

1)Show a different greeting message to your visitor depending on the referrer URL.

2)Beautiful set of icons.

3)Greeting message can be inserted any where but better to use on the top as shown in classic

tutorials.

4)Shows a default greeting message if the user hits the URL directly or comes from a referer

which is not specified.

5)Ability to remove the message when the user navigates within the same site so we do not keep

nagging them with greeting messages.

6)Currently the following referrers are installed. I will update the list and the change will

automatically be reflected with everyone using this plugin. So its totally automatic and you dont

need to do code changes and staffs..

1. Google
2. Yahoo
3. Digg
4. Stumbleupon (26thApril,2k9)

You can help me know which referer you want urgently so that i add them first.

1.0

Initial release.

1.01 (26thApril,2k9)

Added Stumble upon.

Modified CT link to mouse hover

This blog has the plugin installed and so you can test it here itself.

Just copy the code and paste it and it will show up. Just follow two configuration.

1) Search for “Give your feed url here” and replace my fed url with yours.

2) Search for “List your domains where you dont” and replace it with your domain name.

<script src="http://kaushik259106.googlepages.com/TextToBeDisplayedDiv.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<div id="mainDisplayDiv" style="background:#F8F8FF;border:1px solid  #B6AFA9;display:none"><div id="dynamicContentDisplayed">
</div><script type="text/javascript">// Give your feed url here
var feedURL = "http://feeds2.feedburner.com/blogspot/ct";var dynamicHTMLText = displayRequiredText(feedURL);
document.getElementById("dynamicContentDisplayed").innerHTML = dynamicHTMLText;</script>
</div><script src="http://kaushik259106.googlepages.com/HideShowDiv.js"
type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">
//List your domains where you dont want to show up. Suppose
//when people navigate within your site and you dont want to
// show up. This is , seperated
var myRestrictedDomainList = "classictutorials.blogspot";showHideDiv(myRestrictedDomainList);</script>

All the best. You can mail me so that each time i do some update i can let you know. Put subject as “Update me with Greet Box changes” so that i can email as a group.

Also remember that this plugin is not only compatable with blogger but is compatable to any website where you can use HTML/JavaScript. So use it where ever you want.

I have named it Blogger Greet Box. I know like me many other blogspot users must have been frustrated as such a beautiful plugin was not available for blogger but now with this plugin we can use it very easily.

How easy is the setup?
You just need to add a new HTML/JavaScript gadget on your blog and paste few simple lines of codes which will be available in few days.

Future Updates?
I am managing the content from my hosted files. So for future updates you don’t need to bother. Updates will happen at back end. All content will be served from my hosting space.So its basically one time setup.

Is it Free?
Ya 100% free. If you like my work and want to buy me a beer or something always welcome.Just contact me through email

When will it be available to us?
Within this week. I am done with the work. I will do some testing and clean up the codes.So keep visiting.

ScreenShot:

Live Example:
No havent provided to public till now but ya wait for few days and it will be live on this site itself.
(20/04/09) NB: Plugin is live now at http://classictutorials.blogspot.com/2009/04/wp-greet-box-plugin-for-blogger-blogger.html
Cheers!