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So, it’s like one of those "can you spot the differences" puzzles. The original page is athttp://www.jessamyn.com/journal

This video from The ICE Marketing Group LLC builds on the video about Blogger templates. In this video we show you how to customize the look, feel and color of your blogger template.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Action Games – Chief Challenge

Game Objective:
Must win all challenges to become the chief.

Want to Know About Google Blogger?

Want to Know About Google Blogger?

Google Blogger is one of the easiest and most complete blogging solutions currently available on the Internet. Anyone can sign up and start blogging in a manner of minutes with the easy to navigate interface and tools it provides. But, there are a lot of things you probably don’t know about Blogger, hidden within the more advanced features of the site. These clever add-ons make it easier and more fun to post to your blog each day and can give you a slight edge over your fellow bloggers in drawing new traffic. No Bandwidth or Storage Limits In a world where storage has become incredibly cheap and video super sites are the norm, it makes sense that Blogger would not instill any limits on your website for storage. In addition though, Blogger makes it so you can receive as much traffic as you are capable of generating. No matter how much content you post and how many visitors you draw, 
Blogger remains free for the life of your blog and that’s a great deal considering how many features are built in. Free Catch Support for Anti-Spam Spam is a major problem, especially for bloggers.If you talk to anyone who owns a private blog on their own server, or even those individuals with blogs on other services, you will learn that they constantly receive large quantities of spam. Blogger, by default, is built with spam detection and blocking device that can keep your blog from getting over run by unwanted spam comments. You can not only turn on the CAPTCHA software that requires a code to be entered whenever someone makes a comment; you can also require logins to Blogger to post comments or put commenting in a separate window so that spammers with automated software are tripped up. All of these options are available from Blogger’s settings pages. 
Blog by Email and SMS By far one of the coolest additions to blogging in recent years, Blogger allows you to post blog messages from a cell phone or email inbox. From the settings menu of Blogger, you can set a specialized email address that will post anything you email to it directly to your blog.This allows you to make blog posts from a smart phone or via a work or school computer on which Blogger might be locked. SMS features allow similar functionality, posting remotely to your blog. Post in HTML you can get very creative with your posts if you desire and post directly in HTML. Most people choose to use the built in text editor in Blogger, but what few people realize is that they can change almost any feature on the page by using the HTML editor. This allows you to use different colors, change font sizes, insert tables, or use a template for posts from a third party website. The possibilities are endless. Themes and Skins When you sign up for Blogger, you are asked to select the visual depiction of your blog using a specific template. However, you can change this template any time you want by installing a new one. 
Located across dozens of websites are templates that allow you to change the color, number of columns, location of posts, and any number of visual features on your blog. 
Do a quick search on Google for “Blogger Templates” and you will find hundreds waiting to be used. Google Tool Integration Google operates countless services for webmasters and that includes some of the most useful ones for bloggers. AdSense integrates directly into Blogger through a simple to select Blogger option in the Template menu. Simply click on “Add new page element” and choose AdSense and you can add your AdSense account to your page. Other great tools offered by Google include Analytics, which allows you to track the visitors to your website, including where they came from, what keywords they searched for, what pages they viewed, and dozens of other statistic. Webmaster Tools is another essential tool that Google operates that allows you to track how your blog appears in the search engines.

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Switching from Drupal to Blogger pageload


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In mid October I switched my blog from a self hosted Drupal install to Blogger.

Try Easier and Affordable 3D Animation Software

Try Easier and Affordable 3D Animation Software

If you want the easy and affordable way to create 3D animations, movies and graphics then there are now a shed load of free and very cheap 3D Animation Software titles available to you. There’s now no usability or financial barrier to the ‘Jo Bloggs’ of this world. You CAN ACTUALLY create professional looking 3D Graphics and images for your projects with just a few clicks of a mouse and the minimum of training…. read on to find out more.

3D Animation Software Just Got Easier and Affordable!

Now that the modern computer / laptop can handle number crunching so much faster plus the massive take up of mega speed broadband, it’s no surprise that some computer technologies previously only available to the trained IT professional are now available and affordable to the ‘home user’, keen enthusiast or design student.

The other key mover of cheaper and easier software is ‘open-source’ which is a global movement by 1000′s of computer programmers who developer free and cheap software as an international co-operative. And you benefit from these great people’s work as they basically give stuff away!!

And 3D Animation Software is no exception!

So if you Google or Yahoo search for “3D Animation Software” you’re gonna see that amongst the usual big names like Maya, Poser, 3Ds Max, Cinema 4D and Lightwave, that you still have plenty of budget choices in 3D computer graphics that actually still cut the 3D mustard in terms of features and price.

Here are a few free / value 3D Software options we know of…

Blender:
Probably the most popular and established. Many reviewers and it’s 10,000′s of users would argue it is the best free 3D application available. Blender is a full featured 3D
production package featuring the kinds of tools you’d expect to see in a mid to high-end
application. It’s free to download and use and has an avid support network and online help system. So if you want to dip your toe without the financial investment then Blender is a good starting point.

Blender has a wide variety of tools, defining a complete work flow  (from modeling to sequence editing). it’s all controlled by a very flexible and consistent user interface.

Blender is available from www.blender.org.

3D Canvas:This is freeware tool from amabilis.com is a less feature-packed version of the company’s standard (paid version) of 3D packages. Canvas is a real-time 3D modeling and animation tool that incorporates an intuitive drag-and-drop approach. However, this lighter version is probably more suited to beginners anyway, and you can always upgrade to advanced or Pro when you become more ambitious and have climbed the 3D learning curve.

3D canvas is available from amabilis.com

Poser 8:
Poser isn’t free but it’s good value for money and comes with loads of models, support and possible upgrades as you need them.

Poser 8 can illustrate and animate (with Poser’s 3D universe). it claims to be for those that have just begun their journey into graphics and seasoned pro’s, Poser is infinitely creative and allows you to design your own 3D worlds, fully textured animals and humans, plus make them 3D and animated in minutes. Poser comes a well stocked library of model content. Check this out as it’s well reguarded in the graphics industry.

Poser is available from http://poser.smithmicro.com/

Illusion Mage Package:
A new 3D kid on the block! It has been developed over many years by 3D evangelist Seth Avery who now markets the product. It’s not free but exceptional value for money if you get the launch price. Not only does it pack high-end 3D tools and modelling it was designed with the ‘Jo Bloggs’ user in mind for both ease-of-use and price.

As 3D Animation Software goes, this baby can produce pro’ broadcast quality graphics, movies and animation in record time, straight out-of-the-box!. This package is also very flexible with its user interface and add-ons. And proof it’s no 3D fly-by-night, it comes with an extensive manual and 100′s of hours of video training to ease the pain of learning, essential to the beginner who will 100% find it fun to use and a great investment in their future job prospects or ‘home’ projects. It look’s a winner and worth a try.

Illusion Mage is available from buy3danimationsoftware.com

Take the 3D Animation Plunge – it’s a worthwhile and fun journey.

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[Blogger] Automatic Featured posts widget with Thumbnails using Labels

Featured Posts widget on WordPress is very easy to use. You just tag / label the post as ‘Featured’ and they end up in the Featured. Easy huh? Blogger users are not left behind! Here’s a tweak I could find out.

I was browsing through Aneesh’s Blog and could find out about a Recent Post Widget which uses feeds. Then I could find in Amanda’s Post that every single label emits its own feed. I combined both the widgets and TADA! – Amazing, Easy to use Featured Posts widget!! ..*cough* *cough*

Major Update:

This plugin has been updated to the newest version. Now, you are just a click away from featured post goodness.

If you want to change your label for your featured post, just edit the featured label column.

If you are looking for the thumbnail, you can change the “Snippet Style” to “Summary and Thumbnail” or whatever you want. Theres a lot of options to explore, do check them out.

Also, thumbnails from youtube videos, flickr are now supported. 

Some configurations and their corresponding settings:

[Show as slideshow]

Extra Tips:

Some of you might not want ‘featured’ label on your Label widget. To remove  it from the list, just press edit on the Label Widget and follow these steps:

Please do report of your successes, failures and doubts.

In case, you need the old version, here it is. This is outdated and is not very user friendly.

Post Updated: Finally, Blogger team gave us a standalone label specific blog feed. It’s now the easiest widget to install. 

1) Go to the Dashboard –> Layout –> Page elements –> Add a Widget –> HTML/Javascript

Now, add this

<style>img.recent_thumb {padding:1px;width:55px;height:55px;border:0;
float:right;margin:0 0 5px 10px;}.recent_posts_with_thumbs {float: left;width: 100%;min-height: 70px;
margin: 5px 0px 5px 0px;padding: 0;
font-size:12px;}ul.recent_posts_with_thumbs li {padding-bottom:5px;padding-top:5px;
min-height:65px;}.recent_posts_with_thumbs a {text-decoration:none;}.recent_posts_with_thumbs strong {font-size:10px;}</style>
<script style="text/javascript" src="http://blogergadgets.googlecode.com/files/recentpostswiththumbnailsv3.js"></script>
<script style="text/javascript">var numposts = 5;var showpostthumbnails = true;var displaymore = true;var displayseparator = true;var showcommentnum = true;var showpostdate = true;var showpostsummary = true;var numchars = 100;</script>
<script src="/feeds/posts/default/-/featured?orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=showrecentpostswiththumbs"></script>

If you want to change your label for your featured post, just change /feeds/posts/default/-/featured to/feeds/posts/default/-/YOURLABEL (Optional)

3) Now just add ‘featured’ label (case-sensitive) when you are writing any post and its on the featured post column. YAY!