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If you are using Blogger as the platform for your blogs you may noticed that the Blogger follower widget, if you have one, has been replaced with Google Friend Connect. Yes, Google has integrated the Blogger follower feature with its Google Friend Connect service. With this features it will be easy for anyone to follow a Blogger's blog. Your blog will have an added exposure since anyone can sign up not just with a Google account but with a Yahoo, AOL, or OpenID id's. If you already has a Follower widget you wont have to do anything it will be automatically migrated to Google Friend Connect.

Do you want to know what is the status of your favorite Google Apps like Gmail so you won't get caught by suprise just like the Gmail outage that occurred recently. Google has launched Google Apps Status Dashboard where anyone can check the status of the various Google apps. This is in response to the recent Gmail outage that has affected millions of users recently. Check it out here .

Google has released a new Google toolbar for Internet Explorer. The Google Toolbar 6 now includes a Quick Search Box that provides search functionality outside the browser. You can also launch applications using the Google Toolbar Quick Search box. The search box also provides suggestions and relevant bookmarks as you type your query on the box. It can also customized and adapt itself to your browsing pattern and making it easier for the user to navigate their favorite and frequently visited site. You can download the new toolbar here .

If you want to show your ads conditionally. For example , say you want to show the ads only on its permalink , there is a way to do that. You will be using conditional statement like the one shown below. <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> From my previous post, we learn how to put ads inside the blog post. Here we want to display the ads, only when the blog post is viewed on its permalink. You can do that by using the code below. <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> The above code test what type of page is being displayed. To use that in our previous code you will do this. <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <div id-"adsensecode" style="float:left;"> <!--replaced this with your adsense code--> </div> </b:if> <data:post.body/> The above code will display the ads only on the permalink of the post. If you want to display the code o...

One of the most effective way of generating clicks from your ad is to place it inside your blog post. This post will show how you can place your ads inside your blog post on a blogger template. Go to your blogger template>Layout>Edit HTML. But before modifying the template, always download your original template as a back up. On the template search for the following line of code: <data:post.body/> This code is the placeholder for your blog post. You should place your code before the second <div> element so that your adsense code will appear just before the blog post entry and after the blog post title. Copy the code below: <div id-"adsensecode"> <!--replaced this with your Adsense code--> </div> <data:post.body/> After placing your code as indicated above, published your blog and see the result. The modification above will place the Google Adsense just above the post on all your blog entry. So if your default homepage d...

You can now customized your Gmail account theme's color with a new feature added by Google. Unlike before where you can only select themes from a preselected choices. Now you can modify background color, text and text links. The modify themes color features can be accessed on the lowest part of the Gmail themes setting.

I just finished polishing my blogs template. Its called the Revolution Churchh template, and I just tweak the colors to suit my blog's topic.Its a tech blog so I guess the color blue is more appropriate. This is a Wordpress blog converted to a blogger template, I got this this template here .

Gmail now allows you to have multiple panes on your inbox pane. It lets you define what will be displayed on the pane based on your filter search settings and labels. Say you want to display all messages with a certain label; it can easily be done using the multiple inbox feature. My first impression when I saw this feature is that you can manage multiple Gmail account with this feature, but I was mistaken. But if you have multiple Gmail acount and you want to view it in a single account, this will be possible by using this feature. To view your other messages, just follow the step and you can view it at no time. Enable first the Multiple Inboxes by going to [Setting]>[Gmail Labs]. By the way Gmail Labs is another feature that has been recently added. Here you can add many features on your gmail accounts but these features are still experimental , so just be careful. Find the Multiple Inbox on the list and check to enable. Log in to your other accounts. Go to [Settings]> [F...

If you been using Gmail for quite sometime you may notice some of the features that has recently been added . There are a lot of changes you may notice. One feature that has been added recently is the action toolbar located in the inbox pane. This is a handy features that can help alot when managing your labels. You can apply label easily by just clicking the toolbar. Unlike before where you will have to click on a drop down menu to apply your labels. You can also mark. move , delete, archive and mark messages as spam. These are only some of the new feature that has been added recently to Gmail. There are more but, I'm still playing with some of them.

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Windows will ship its newest version of Windows into six different flavors. Microsoft has confirmed to some sources that its newest offering will be having six different version aimed for different markets. Windows 7 Starter Edition This version of Windows 7 is primarily aimed at emerging markets and netbook users. Since this is the basic edition, users can only open 3 applications simultaneously. An improved task bar and a Jumplist are also included in this version. Other feature includes sharing of media files on the local network. Windows 7 Home Basic Windows 7 Home basic version is the equivalent of the of Vista's Media Center. This version features include internet connection sharing on wired and wireless LAN, use of unlimited application at the same time, live thumbnail previews and other UI improvements. Windows 7 Home Premium Features such as Aero Glass UI, advanced window navigation, touchscreen support handwriting recognition and multi-touch support. Improvement for media...