Monday, January 31, 2011

Citroën C3 Sonora

Citroën C3 Sonora E mais uma série especial surge no país. Seguindo o estilo do Peugeot 207 Quiksilver, dessa vez é a Citroën que coloca em voga o combalido C3, na parceria com a loja online de músicas Sonora, e que oferece o mesmo carro de sempre, com motores 1.4 e 1.6 16v, mas com um pacote de benefícios que vai agradar a todo e qualquer internauta amante da música.

Por exemplo, os compradores têm direito a downloads gratuitos de até 250 músicas por mês do acervo completo da Sonora por um ano, além de o carro receber um sistema de som exclusivo, da Pioneer. A versão com o 1.4 (80/82 cv) recebe o aparelho com entrada auxiliar P2 e leitor de MP3, enquanto a 1.6 16v (110/113 cv, sempre com gasolina/álcool) traz Bluetooth, entrada USB e a tecnologia Hi-Fi Like, para melhorar a qualidade do som. As versões seguem o restante dos itens respectivos de GLX 1.4 e Exclusive 1.6 16v, e ambas trazem rodas de liga leve de série.

Read more > Citroën C3 Sonora

Friday, January 28, 2011

Ford Focus Titanium

Ford Focus Titanium Apresentado no último Salão do Automóvel, o Focus Titanium finalmente chega às lojas como hatch e sedã. Substituindo a antiga Ghia, ele vem custando R$ 70.595 para o hatch manual, R$ 75.275 para o hatch automático, e R$ 77.275 para o sedã, que só vem com o segundo tipo de câmbio, preços cerca de R$ 1600 maiores que os das versões Ghia, mas que também representam a adição de alguns equipamentos de série.

Os Focus Titanium trazem farois direcionais, rodas de liga leve exclusivas, porta-luvas refrigerado, retrovisor interno eletrocrômico e sistema de som multimídia My Connection, estes três últimos também incorporados à lista de série do GLX 2.0. De resto é o mesmo Focus de sempre, com uma qualidade de construção impecável e talvez a melhor dirigibilidade do segmento, ainda melhor com as novas caixa de câmbio e embreagem. Seu motor é sempre o 2.0 16v flex, com 143/148 cv.

Read more > Ford Focus Titanium

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Mini Countryman

Mini Cooper CountrymanQuem diria que, depois de tanto tempo, o carrinho urbano desenhado pelo sir Alec Issognis iria criar sua própria família? Depois do S, Cabriolet e da perua Clubman, agora é a vez do SUV Countryman chegar ao país nas versões Pepper e S, com preços que começam em 107.700 reais.

Este é o maior dos Mini atuais, medindo 4,10 metros de comprimento frente aos 3,63 do pioneiro. Seu desenho não nega as origens, o modelo parece um Cooper anabolizado, que ganhou linhas em geral mais imponentes e até as portas traseiras, mas sem jamais perder o charme que o caracteriza. Sua cabine segue o estilo, com cores vivas nos revestimentos e um estranho console central que lembra o Mickey Mouse.

Seu pacote de equipamentos é bem extenso; a versão de topo S chega a ter ar-condicionado bizona, bancos de couro, sistema de som Harman-Kardon, freios com ABS e EBD, sistemas como o de frenagem em curvas e controle de estabilidade, e a tração nas quatro rodas ALL4, que trabalha monitorando a demanda para direcionar a tração na melhor proporção – se for necessário o sistema direciona tração total para um eixo só.

O motor é todo novo também, uma unidade BMW 1.6 com 122 cv na versão básica e 184 cv na S, graças à adição do turbo. Esta pode chegar a uma velocidade máxima de 208 km/h, e é comandada por um câmbio automático sequencial de seis marchas. Chamado de Steptronic, ele permite trocas pela alavanca ou por comandos no volante, para as trocas manuais. Resta saber qual será o próximo integrante desta crescente família.

Read more > Mini Countryman

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Honda Fit DX

Honda Fit DX Desde seu lançamento, o Fit demonstrou que é o típico carro para quem não se interessa por carros; é o tipo de modelo que se preocupou tanto em ser bom em tudo que acaba não tendo nenhum aspecto sobressalente.

Exemplos disso são seu desenho, bonito em geral mas sem chamar a atenção, seu motor, que tem um consumo bom mas sem brilho algum no desempenho, e seus itens de série, pacotes generosos mas que só contêm o comum, além de cobrar um preço alto por isso.

E é justamente pelos altos preços das versões do Fit que a Honda agora lança a versão DX, que ao custar R$ 51.805 com câmbio manual (R$ 55.805 com o CVT), vira a nova versão de entrada da gama. Seu pacote de itens ainda é interessante; o modelo traz de série airbag duplo, vidros, travas e direção elétricos, e o sistema ULT de modular os bancos.

Os sinais de simplificação são poucos, como não trazer sistema de som de série, e as rodas aro 15’’ agora de aço, com calotas. O motor é o 1.4 i-VTEC das versões LX e LXL, de 100/101 cv, (gasolina/álcool).

Read more > Honda Fit DX

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Putting text and pictures side-by-side in blog posts

This article is about lining up text and pictures side-by-side in your posts - and about how to add a "break" so that some text goes beside a picture and some goes underneath it.

The post editor's picture menu:

When you have put a picture into a post  in Blogger, (either using the Insert-picture option on the toolbar, or by adding the HTML for it some other way), the Post Editor gives you options for picture size, and for aligning the picture to the left, right or centre. 

You cab see these options by clicking on the picture.  This opens a "mini-menu" under the picture, like this:



This one mini-menu has options for:
SizeOptions are small, medium, large, extra-large, and original-size
Alignment:Options are left, right and centre (default is center)
Caption:Add caption, and Remove
Properties:Where you can add the hover-title and alternative-text for the picture
Remove:Taking the photo totally out of the post


The alignment options:

When you first add a picture, the alignment is set to "center".

Choosing Left or Right moves puts the picture to the far side of the post and, if the picture isn't as wide as the window it's being displayed in, the text that was after the picture fills up the space on the other side - like this:



Stopping all the text from flowing around the picture:

Many bloggers want to have pictures left or right aligned, and to have some words showing beside the picture.

But they also want to control what text is shown beside the picture, and what text doesn't start until underneath it.   Many people spend a long time putting extra lines into their posts, so that the text and pictures are set up in a way that's "just right" - and then they're disappointed when they publish the post and their hard work is all lost, because the screen is wider and more text fits into the area beside the picture.

There is a very easy way  to control this.  You just need to edit the HTML that is behind the post.  Luckily, this is very easy to do:

1  Put some place-holder or "marker text" where you want the flowing-text to stop.
(eg BREAK HERE  or  XXXXX  - use some words that won't be anywhere else in the post)


I've made it bold and with a yellow background to make it show up in the picture - but I don't recommend that you do this, because it makes it harder to find and replace exactly the correct text later on.

2  Choose the HTML option (top left or top right of the post-editor screen, depending on which version of blogger you are using).

Find the place-holder text
(hint:  use your browser's search function - in Firefox, it's Edit > Find)

Replace the place-holder text with this code:
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div>
5  Choose the Compose tab  (to get back to the regular post-editor screen).  The text after where the marker text was is now underneath the picture - and it will be there when you publish the post, too, no matter what size of screen your reader has.


Troubleshooting:


Extra blank lines:

At the bottom-left of the post-editor, there is a link for Post-Options.  Clicking this opens an options panel, where you can choose what effect line-breaks (ie pressing the "enter" key) have.   I always put it on "Use <br /> tags", so that I can put extra empty lines into the HTML to make it easier to read.   If it's on "Press Enter for line breaks", then each extra line put into the HTML will also show up in the Compose-mode view, and in the final post.

Editor versions:

The pictures and instructions in this article are based on Blogger's "updated" post editor, not the old one.  The technique will work in the old editor too, but things may look a little different.



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Read more > Putting text and pictures side-by-side in blog posts

Friday, January 21, 2011

Audi A1

Audi A1Apresentado ao país no Salão do Automóvel, o A1 finalmente aporta oficialmente por aqui, colocando até a Audi no segmento dos compactos de imagem. Antes se dizia que a inspiração eram os modelos antigos, como os pioneiros Fiat 500 ou Mini Cooper, mas depois o que passou a importar foi mesmo o charme, caso do smart fortwo, e do compacto vermelho destas fotos.

De qualquer ângulo que se olhe, não existe nenhum tipo de saudosismo. Muito pelo contrário, o A1 tem todas as qualidades dos Audi, como o desenho com a frente característica, mas sempre em miniatura. É o conceito seguido pelo seu motor também, um 1.4 de 122 cv com câmbio automatizado de sete marchas. Mas o salgado preço de R$ 89.900 oferece mais.

Seu interior é equipado com tudo. A cabine mistura o DNA Audi com os traços herdados da plataforma do VW Polo europeu, mas ainda assim exala requinte. Sua única versão traz ar-condicionado, freios com ABS e ESP, airbags, sistema de som multimídia e faróis bixenônio. Já entre os opcionais temos itens como teto solar, sistema Start/Stop, GPS e bancos de couro.

Read more > Audi A1

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Lenovo Showcase LePad

Lenovo's first tablet computer exhibit, LePad, and will soon launch more tablet later this year to seize some part of this product market dominated by Apple iPad.

LePad has a 10.1-inch screen with 2.2 output Android operating system Google and Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 1.2 GHz.

LePad will be sold first in China this quarter at a price between 399-430 U.S. dollars, said Liu Li, a senior manager of Lenovo products.

The company is not sure will sell LePad worldwide but may be offered in the U.S. who has close links with the Android market, he said.

Lenovo also plans to launch a tablet-based Android operating system in the U.S. and possibly others performed in the first half of this year, said Li. He did not elaborate on this further.

Lenovo is China's dominant PC maker, so LePad exposed specifically to this market area, including gaming, news and other local content.

LePad supported Flash, given that most online gaming and video applications in Cgame online generally and video applications in China using flash technology.

Lenovo IdeaPad U1 also showcase a hybrid device that converts LePad into products such as netbooks. LePad serves as a monitor, but also can function as a tablet.

IdeaPad U1 using the Windows operating system and Intel Atom. U1 will dilego at a price of about 1,000 U.S. dollars. The company could not provide further details about the availability of this product.
Read more > Lenovo Showcase LePad

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Samsung Camera WB700

Samsung camera WB700 features a 24mm ultra wide lens from Schneider KREUZNACH to capture a broad picture perfect, and incredible 24X zoom function, consisting of 18X optical zoom and 1.3X Smart Zoom.



Samsung digital camera WB700 gives sharp images with incredible detail that rely on 16 Megapixel CCD sensor camera.

Samsung Camera WB700 is also equipped with full manual control and the ability to record 720p high definition video in H.264 format.

Samsung digital camera WB700 also features a Smart Filter 2.0 - in a mode of artistic filters such as 'soft focus' as 'half-tone dot' and 'cinema' in addition to traditional features such as 'sketches', 'fish-eye', 'miniature' of all providing entertaining and professional finishing touch with a touch of button.
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Read more > Samsung Camera WB700

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

CES 2011 Best Gadget "Motorola Xoom"

Various electronic gadgets become the latest generation of future trends exhibited complete, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 in Las Vegas

Among the brands and products on display, Motorola is able to suck more attention from visitors, especially tablet computer Xoom.


Xoom, a tablet that runs on Android operating system 3.0 Honeycomb, even crowned as the best gadget in the exhibition once a year.

Motorola Xoom has a 10.1-inch wide screen with a resolution of 1280 × 800 pixels. Reinforced Nvidia Tegra processor 2 dual core processors that can generate power to 2GHz.

In addition, there are two embedded cameras. Front of 2-megapixel camera for video calling and rear 5-megapixel camera, which supports 720p high-definition video.

Motorola Xoom plan began to be marketed in March 2011. But not yet known how the selling price of the tablet is touted as the main challenger to Apple iPad.
Read more > CES 2011 Best Gadget "Motorola Xoom"

Monday, January 10, 2011

Ford Fusion Hybrid

Ford Fusion E finalmente o Brasil dá mais um passo rumo ao Primeiro Mundo. Ainda que nosso mercado já tenha recebido o Mercedes-Benz S400 BlueHybrid, não se pode negar que o Fusion tem um preço muito mais acessível, de forma que é com ele que os carros híbridos devem começar a florescer pelo país. Se os quase 134 mil reais pedidos pela Ford parecem muito comparado ao 2.5 comum, o Hybrid traz um excelente pacote de equipamentos, além de todo o sabor de novidade de um legítimo motor híbrido.

Por fora o carro é um Fusion como outro qualquer, salvo por detalhes como os logotipos da versão e as novas rodas. Já o interior é bastante requintado, com uma tela de 4,3 polegadas no console central, além de itens como teto solar elétrico, sistema de som Sony com a tecnologia multimídia Sync (que comanda o Bluetooth, leitores de mídias e um disco rígido do próprio carro), além de sistemas de auxílio a manobras, entre outros.

Mas o grande destaque deste carro são realmente seus dois motores. O elétrico pode produzir até 35 cv e 22,9 kgfm, enquanto o de combustão é um 2.5, totalizando 193 cv e 41,7 kgfm. O motor elétrico traz vários sistemas que tornam seu uso prático, como as baterias que podem ter a recarga interrompida sem problemas, e o sistema de recuperar a energia das frenagens, além do conhecido Start-Stop. Além disso, seu câmbio é do tipo CVT (de relações continuamente variáveis), o que torna as diferentes combinações de uso dos motores algo que não interfere na condução do veículo.

Seu sistema de gerenciamento dos motores é um pouco diferente dos híbridos tradicionais. Aliado ao câmbio CVT, eles podem funcionar os dois em qualquer período, segundo o que seja mais eficiente. Entretanto, até 75 km/h o motor elétrico pode levar o carro sozinho, e é exclusivo das partidas e da marcha a ré, o que simplesmente anula ruídos de motor nestas ocasiões. Os dois trabalham em conjunto nas situações de necessidade de mais força, como em arrancadas fortes e uso na estrada.

Read more > Ford Fusion Hybrid

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Getting a list of people who have asked (via Feedburner) to have your blog-posts emailed to them

This article shows how to get a list of the people who have subscribed to receive the items in a Feedburner feed in their email.  It's written for Blogger users, but applies to anyone who uses Feedburner.

Overview:

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Previously, I've explained how to set up a feed with Feedburner, and that for your feed to be useful you need to give people a way to subscribe to it.   The options for subscribing to your feed include using RSS feed-reader software (eg Google Reader) or, if you provide the option, subscribing via email.  And Google has now provided the Follow-by-email gadget which makes it even easier for you to add the email subscription option.

Some bloggers prefer people to subscribe by email, because this gives them access to the list of email addresses of their subscribers - making it possible for them to send messages to subscribers separately from posting to the blog.

Getting a list of subscribers-by-email is easy, but you do need to have software that can open a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file to see the list - Microsoft Excel is a tool that lots of people use, but there are many others.


Warning:  
I have not investigated if there are any Feedburner Terms and Conditions about what you may or may not do with the list of subscribers.  I expect that there are some - it's up to you to make sure that anything you do with the extracted list meets these rules.




How to see your list of email subscribers:

Log in to Feedburner, using the Google account that owns the feed.

Click on the name of the feed you are interested in:  this opens the Feed Stats Dashboard in the Analyse tab.

Click on Subscribers from the menu on the left

Scroll down to the Email Subscription Services area

Click on Feedburner Email Subscriptions

Click on Manage your Email Subscriber List

Click on Export - CSV

The download starts:  depending on how your machine is set up you will probably be asked what you want to do with the file (mine opens it in Excel)


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Read more > Getting a list of people who have asked (via Feedburner) to have your blog-posts emailed to them

Friday, January 7, 2011

Fiat Uno Sporting

Fiat Uno SportingA Fiat do Brasil definitivamente resgatou sua veia esportiva. Para quem já teve em sua gama versões Turbo de Uno, Tempra e Marea, alguns anos depois os italianos feitos em Betim tiveram os ânimos refreados, como com o “morno” Brava HGT. Entretanto, se no Brasil o uso de motores exclusivos se torna caro em excesso, a série Sporting da Fiat vem enchendo os olhos. Primeiro pelos acessórios de muito bom gosto, e segundo pelo fato de que ela não pára de crescer.

Sim, depois de Stilo, Punto, Idea, Siena e Strada, agora é o caçula Uno quem adere à nova estirpe. Nada mal para quem já tinha a versão de baixo custo Vivace, requintada Attractive, e aventureira Way. O exterior do carro encanta à primeira vista. Seja pelas novas cores como o laranja exclusivo, ou pela frente com a grade de três quadrados com aros vermelhos, em qualquer lado o carro cativa. É o caso da traseira com o spoiler sobre o vidro e lanternas fumê, e das laterais com o adesivo próprio, e as belas rodas aro 15”, que ficam bonitas mesmo com os paralamas largos.

Fiat Uno SportingO interior não traz tantas novidades, mas as que tem são interessantes. A cabine ganhou detalhes laranja pelos botões do ar-condicionado e no puxador das portas, que por não serem grandes dão um ar bem jovial. Os bancos também mereceram atenção, ganharam revestimento exclusivo com o nome Sporting. A lista de itens de série não é das mais generosas, mas com os opcionais o carro fica muito mais atraente, e sem chegar a um preço abusivo. Outra vantagem é que todas as versões ganharam a opção do pacote de adesivos Run, com a mesma quantidade de itens dos anteriores.

Mas como era de se esperar, sob o capô não há novidades. O 1.4 Fire Evo também equipa este modelo, com todos os seus 85/88 cv e 12,4/12,5 kgfm de torque (gasolina/álcool) e oferece 0 a 100 em até 11,2 segundos, com máxima de 172 km/h. Seu preço inicial é de R$ 33.970.

Read more > Fiat Uno Sporting

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Adding a "share this to LinkedIn" option to your blog

This article is about putting a "professional share" button onto your blog, to let viewers share a post on LinkedIn.  Although it's written for Google Blogger users, most of the information applies to any website that wants to encourage visitors to promote the site on LinkedIn.

Blogger and LinkedIn - a strange combination?

LinkedIn is a professional social networking site:  it's like Facebook for people's working lives, and it is a place where they can interact with current and former colleagues, peers, counterparts from other companies, and other professional (rather rather than personal) connections.

If your blog isn't related to your job, then LinkedIn may not seem relevant.

But chances are that your hobby is of professional interest for some of your readers.   Giving them the opportunity to share your content to LinkedIn may be valuable for you (promoting your blog) and them (growing their credibility by sharing good information with their associates).


"The art of the professional share" - LinkedIn's share buttons

LinkedIn now offers official sharing buttons.

Even if you don't have a LinkedIn account yourself, you can go to their Publishers page, and get the code for a sharing button.   Currently they have options for:
  • Vertical button with count
  • Horizontal button with count
  • Button without a count (looks the same horizontal or vertical)

There is also an optional field where you can enter the URL to be shared:  this could be useful if you want to give readers to opportunity to promote a different page or website from your blog.

The code that LinkedIn provide is simple, and you can install it just the same way that you install any social-networking sharing button onto your blog.


What your viewers see:

When one of your viewers clicks on the "Share to linked in" button, they are shown a new window (even if they already have LinkedIn open in another tab).

If they're not currently logged in, they are asked to log in or to join if they don't already have an account.   (For a while, LinkedIn was exclusive:  you could only join if you were invited by a member.  those days are long-gone.)

Once they are logged in, the window looks like this:


The LinkedIn user can choose:

To edit the details of the shared item:
They can change the title (which defaults to the title from the window where the link was clicked), and also add some supporting text.

Which picture to show with the shared item:
Like Facebook, LinkedIn pulls the various options from your blog-screen, both the post and also the sidebars.   The << and >> buttons let the user move between the possible pictures.  The option for "no picture", is under Edit.  Some people may miss this, and think that the picture is compulsory, so you should make sure that there's always at least one good picture available on your posts.

Whether to post the shared item as:
  • An update.  This is the LinkedIn version of sharing to the wall.  It can include a comment, and whether to send the update on to Twitter (if the person has a linked account) and who the update should be visible to (anyone or connections only).
  • A message to a LinkedIn Group that they are a member of:  in this case, they need to enter a subject and a message, to go with the link.
  • Individual messages to existing contacts, or even to people (email addresses) that they aren't connected to.   This option includes a check-box for whether or not recipients can see each other's email addresses.
Your reader can choose one or more of these options.   When they have entered the details, pressing Share sends updates and message as specified.   Then the user must choose between to continuing to Share the item (ie setting different options), going to view it themselves, or closing the window.



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Read more > Adding a "share this to LinkedIn" option to your blog

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Fiat Punto Essence 1.6 16v Dualogic

Fiat Punto 1.6 Dualogic Recentemente atualizado, o Punto sempre foi um modelo impressionante, de desenho irretocável e requinte condizente com seu segmento, mas o problema estava sob o capô: o 1.4 Fire do Palio nunca combinou com seu peso maior, e o 1.8 da Chevrolet não estava à sua altura. Agora que a Fiat já criou as versões Essence e Sporting com dois motores totalmente novos, ela amplia a gama do compacto premium para explorar melhor todo o seu potencial, com uma versão que começa em R$ 47.350.

De início apenas as versões de motor 1.8 16v ofereciam o câmbio Dualogic, então agora a novidade é que o 1.6 16v também pode ser automatizado. De resto é o mesmo Punto Essence de antes, com itens de série como computador de bordo, piloto automático e retrovisores elétricos. Já seus opcionais são muitos, como o conhecido sistema de som multimídia, rodas de liga leve aro 16’’ e spoiler traseiro. O motor produz 113/117 cv (gasolina/álcool), suficientes para levar o carro de 0 a 100 km/h em até 10,5 segundos, e a 182 km/h de máxima.

Read more > Fiat Punto Essence 1.6 16v Dualogic

Putting "Share this on WHATEVER" button(s) into your blog

This article shows you how to put "share this on XX" (ie any of  Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or any  other social networking sites ) buttons etc into your Blogger blog, including having individual buttons inside post.
 
Overview:

Thumbs up symbolPreviously, I've described the different ways of linking your blog and the social networks.

And I've described options for sharing-to-Facebook so that readers can share your posts on their wall (etc).

This article is about the options for putting share-buttons from any of the social networks onto your blog.    (fyi, the Facebook article describes why I think you should only every use official share gadgets provided by the site that you want to share with - though I have softened this attitude a little since ShareThis and AddThis started re-directing people to the social-networking site concerned before asking for a password).

So far, I've found five options:
  • Option 1:  Sharing button as a gadget
  • Option 2:  Sharing button in the post footer
  • Option 3:  Sharing buttons in a floating button-bar 
  • Option 4:  Sharing button in the post header
  • Option 5:  Sharing button (looking like) it's inside the top of the post.

Option 1:   Sharing button as a Gadget

To add a share-button as a gadget (ie in your sidebar, header or footer):

1  Go to the social networking site, choose the options you want and copy the code they provide

2  Follow the instructions in Option 1 of Putting HTML code from a third party into your blog.


Issues and Disadvantages:
If you put the Share button into a gadget, what will (usually) be shared is your blog overall, not the specific post that is being read.

The 3rd party code article also has instructions for putting code inside a post, and for putting code into your template.   You can put share-button code into individual posts if you want, although this would make it very difficult to change the button options later on.


Option 2:  In the Post-footer

This (or Option 4) is currently my preferred option, because it lets your viewers share the post they are reading at the moment, no matter whether the screen they are reading is showing one post or lots.

However you do need to accept the disadvantages of editing your template.

To set it up:

1  Go to the social networking site, choose the options you want and copy the code they provide

2  In Blogger
  1. Choose
    In post-Sept-2011-Blogger (ie the old fnterface):     Layout > Blog Posts (edit)
    In pre-Sept-2011-Blogger (ie the old fnterface):   Design > Page Elements > Blog Posts (edit).
  2. Look at the footer (the area below posts which you can drag items to). 
    Pick one of the footer lines (ie 1, 2, or 3) to put the share-button (s) on.
    Make sure there is nothing else on that line.   Remember which line number it is.  Cancel from editing Blog Posts.
  3. Choose
    In post-Sept-2011-Blogger (ie the old fnterface):   Template > Edit HTML > Proceed
    In pre-Sept-2011-Blogger (ie the old fnterface):   Design > Edit HTML. 
  4. Download a full copy of your template, and put it somewhere safe.
  5. Tick the  Expand Widget Templates check box.
  6. Find this code (where N is the number you remembered in step 2):
    <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-N'/>
  7. Paste the code from the social networking site immediately underneath that line.
  8. Click Preview, to check that the code is correct and your blog looks the way you expect.  Correct any problems.
  9. When you are happy, choose Save Template.
  10. It at all possible, test the sharing button, so you are certain you are happy with how it works.    It's best to make sure you are signed out of the social networking site before you do this.

    (This may mean that you put some entries about the blog on your own LinkedIn or Facebook status, since those systems don't let you have test accounts.  If your blog is a hobby not related to your profession, then it's a judgement call about whether to do this with LinkedIn, or whether you just take the risk that the button isn't working properly.)

Option 3:  In a floating gadget bar

This is a popular option, because it lets viewers share the post they are reading, not just the whole blog, although I've had issues with the bar appearing at strange places on some sites.

Blogger Sentral has written an excellent description of how to implement it:  See his instructions for installing buttons in a floating gadget-bar.


Option 4:  In the Post-header

This is very similar to Option 2 (in the post-footer), except that step 6 becomes:
Find this code :

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>

And paste the sharing button code immediately after it.


Option 5:  Sharing button "inside" the top of the post.



Note this isn't "inside" the post at all - it's actually immediately to the right (or left) of it, as shown in the picture.   But to your readers, it looks like it's inside.   Follow these steps:

  1. Choose
    In post-Sept-2011-Blogger (ie the old fnterface):   Template > Edit HTML > Proceed
    In pre-Sept-2011-Blogger (ie the old fnterface):    Design > Edit HTML. 
  2. Download a full copy of your template, and put it somewhere safe.
  3. Tick the  Expand Widget Templates check box.
  4. Find this code 
          <data:post.body/>
  5. Add this code immediately before it:
    <!-- START OF SOCIAL SHARE BUTTONS ...  -->

    <div style='float: right;'>

    <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;static_page&quot;'>

    <div style='padding:3px 0px 8px 2em;'>
    CODE FROM SOCIAL NETWORK GOES HERE ...
    </div>

    <div style='padding:3px 0px 8px 2em;'>
    CODE FROM SOCIAL NETWORK GOES HERE ...
    </div>

     <div style='padding:3px 0px 3px 2em;'>
    CODE FROM SOCIAL NETWORK GOES HERE ...
    </div>

    </b:if>
    </div>

    <!-- END OF SOCIAL SHARE BUTTONS ...  -->

    You can customise this:

    If you want the buttons at the left of your post instead of the right, change     <div style='float: right;'>    to     <div style='float: left;'>

    Also experiment with the amount of space around each button:   notice that each "button holder" has  this in its "div" statement:      style='padding: Tpx Rpx Bpx Lem;

    This controls the amount of space at the Top, Right, Bottom and Left of the button.  

    In the example above, I've put zero space on the right (since the templates other margins do this), 2 em's of space (roughly two characters of the font used) between the post and the buttons, 8 pixels between buttons, and 3 pixels at the top of the top one, and bottom of the bottom one.

    Also, some things to note about the code:

    There is a <div> </div> pair around the outside - this is important, because it controls the button "section" and puts at the right (or left) of your post.

    The buttons are only put on posts, not on Pages.   If you want to change this, remove the
    <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;static_page&quot;'>   and    </b:if>     pair. 
  6. Paste the code from the social networking site in the places shown - you can add more <div> ... </div> blocks for it if you want more share-buttons, I've just shown two to get you started.
  7. As with any template editing click Preview to check that the code is correct and your blog looks the way you expect.  Correct any problems.
  8. When you are happy, choose Save Template.
  9. It at all possible, test the sharing buttons, so you are certain you are happy with how they work. 




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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Samsung W899

Samsung launched its latest gadget devices intended for enthusiasts smarthone newfangled clamshell, the Samsung W899. comes with dual 3.3-inch Super Amoled multitouch.

Samsung W899 has two five-megapixel camera. rear camera, and a second camera to the front. The camera on the front for video calls.

Rear camera has a flash, auto focus and more than a geo-tagging. Geo-tagging can be turned off in the menu of the W899 for the security and privacy if desired. Rear camera can produce video in high definition format.

The first screen located on the front and when the phone is opened it will appear both on the top screen and number pad on the bottom. That means you can choose between a virtual keyboard or a physical keyboard on the inside.

Not only two screens, W899 also features dual connectivity namely CDMA / EVDO and GSM / UMTS. Pacunya own kitchen reinforced with 1 GHz processor and 512 MB of internal memory that runs on the Android operating system 2.2.

To complement the charm, the Samsung W899 sank two cameras (5 megapixel camera and VGA Front Rear facing camera), as well as WiFi connectivity, Bluetooth, mobile hotspot, GPS, and microSD card slot.

Read more > Samsung W899
 
 
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