Ainda não se pode entender por que ele demorou tanto, mas fato é que a espera valeu a pena. Numa época em que a Fiat está renovando toda a sua linha brasileira, a chegada do novo Bravo ajuda a reforçar a presença da marca no segmento dos médios, que há anos tem demanda cada vez maior por aqui. Ele também tem o mérito de compensar a frustração pelo homônimo dos anos 1990, que só não veio junto com o irmão Brava por causa de flutuações de moeda.
O modelo traz um desenho arrebatador, que conseguiu a proeza de unir as últimas tendências da Fiat com os traços do primeiro Bravo. A influência do antecessor se nota na traseira bem inclinada, nas lanternas redondas e nas laterais “musculosas”, garantindo um visual que transpira esportividade. Mas como o novo Bravo também é um Fiat dos tempos atuais, a frente esguia dos anos 1990 deu lugar aos belos e grandes faróis inspirados nos do irmão menor Punto, e já recebeu os leves retoques feitos no modelo europeu há pouco tempo.
Mas o espetáculo continua na cabine. O painel é futurista, os revestimentos são de alta qualidade, o acabamento impressiona mesmo para os padrões do segmento, os bancos podem ser de couro, e como se não bastasse, o Bravo pode vir também com o teto solar SkyDome. Só que agora a enorme lista de equipamentos oferecida pela Fiat ganha um item de alto luxo: A vistosa tela de 6,5 polegadas está a serviço do RadioNAV, um opcional que gerencia o sistema de som, computador de bordo e sistema de navegação do modelo.
O Bravo aporta no Brasil em duas versões. A Essence parte de R$ 55.900 e já traz ar-condicionado, airbag duplo, direção elétrica, rodas de liga leve aro 16’’, freios a disco nas quatro rodas, piloto automático e vidros elétricos, entre muitos outros itens. A Absolute começa em R$ 62.250 e adiciona ar-condicionado bizona, freios ABS, sensor de estacionamento, rodas aro 17’’ e volante em couro. Os opcionais são subwoofer, bancos de couro, teto solar, cinco airbags e sensor de pressão de pneus, alguns exclusivos da Absolute.
Sob o capô, as versões urbanas do Bravo trazem o novo motor 1.8 16v e.TorQ, que oferece 130/132 cv. As duas versões podem ser equipadas com o câmbio Dualogic, e com ele se recebe a oferta das borboletas atrás do volante para troca de marchas.
To use it, you need to establish an ChipIn event, finalise your ChipIn widget and install it onto your blog. The following notes describe the process.
There are four steps:
Setting up the details of the specific "chipIn"
Associating the new "ChipIn" with an existing ChipIn account, or registering a new one if you don't have one already.
Customising the widget to be used for the ChipIn
Placing the widget into your blog or website.
Note: ChipIn lets you use a page on their system to promote your event. This could be handy if you don't have a blog, or want to do something good that's outside your usual niche. This facility isn't covered here, as I'm assuming that people who are reading this article want to integrate ChipIn with Blogger.
How long it should run for (ie what date it should end on)
The PayPal account being used to collect the funds
Click Start your Event
Linking the ChipIn event to an account:
Either log in to ChipIn (if you already have an account) or Sign-up. To sign up for ChipIn you need to:
Enter a valid email address (which doesn't need to the the same as the PayPal account that's collecting the funds)
Receive a validation email
Click on a validation link in the email
Enter your full name, and (optionally) the organisation name that you'd like contributors to see
Set a password (the usual security precautions apply - I wouldn't be using the same password on this as I used on PayPal, given that I just told them my PayPal account name).
Do a simple text captcha test
Clicking Get Started implies that you accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy: you should review them.
Click Get Started.
Create your widget:
Click Get a Widget,
Select which of your ChipIn's to use (you can have several of them going at the same time)
Configure the widget:
Enter a title (which shows at the top of the widget)
Enter some background info (which shows inside the widget body)
Choose a size (many of the usual sizes for advertising items are available)
Choose a colour scheme (five options: Blue, green, brown, red or grey. You can't choose the colour of individual items within this)
Select where you want to put the widget:
If you click Blogger, you need to scroll down to see the code. The on-screen instructions say how to put the gadget into a post. But you can equally well put it into a gadget - it's just like adding other third party HTML to your blog.
Select Other if you just want the HTML code so you can place it into any website that you control
Note: currently, if you select Wordpress, the system just says "Note that the widget will not work on hosted WordPress blogs (blogs at yourname.wordpress.com), as widgets are not allowed there." - this suggests that no one has developed an add-on for it yet. But you may want to check with Wordpress support to see if anyone has done one.
Copy the code that is provided, and intstall it into your blog. It might look something like this:
Notice that the gadget doesn't say that payments are done using PayPal: I strongly suggest mentioning PayPal in the text near the gadget, so that you are giving readers assurance this is is something they can trust.
Some people believe it has advantages over the PayPal "donate" button and similar tools:
It organizes giving into campaigns (which can be used to motivate donors and organisers into giving "now" rather than "one day")
It has a progress bar, so everyone can see what's been donated already - again, this is another tool that can be used to encourage potential donors to actually take action.
It has tools for reporting on who contributed, so you know who to thank later on, and
If a particular campaign doesn't meet its target (eg "Let's raise $1000 to send Jimmy to Disneyland"), the funds can easily be sent back to the donors without the organiser having to keep records about who donated what. (I don't, yet, know if the organiser finds out the details of who donated what, or if this is anonymous.)
ChipIn Inc is the company that makes and runs the widgets, aggregates donations, gives you management reports, and (eventually) pays the donations to you. Though most of us think of "chipping in" as something we do (ie a verb), they've re-defined it as noun, saying that a "chipin" is
"an event in which funds from multiple participants are pooled and are either sent to a recipient, or are used to purchase a gift."
The ChipIn approach has these roles that a person, or business, can play:
Organiser: this is the person/business who creates the ChipIn event, puts the associated widget onto a website, and, when the fund-raising event is over, receives the donations. Organisers must register with ChipIn
Donor / Participant: a person or business who gives money using the widget. Participants do not have to register with ChipIn in order to donate.
Beneficiary: this is the target of the money. ChipIn has no connection with them at all.
A ChipIn event ends by reaching a the goal amount of money that was set for it, by reaching the end date, or because the organiser decides to end it. When it ends, ChipIn transfers donations from participants to the organiser "in the form of cash, gift cards, prepaid debit cards, services or merchandise". The cash is actually transferred via PayPay (or perhaps via a credit card account - I'm not certain if this is still an option).
But if the event wasn't successful (ie it hasn't reached the target), then the organiser decides what happens to the donations: if they want, ChipIn will refund all the donations to the participants.
Is ChipIn safe and reliable?
There are plenty of dubious third-party gadgets on the internet, so I'm normally fairly sceptical about ones I haven't heard of before.
I've done some Googling, and haven't found any negative reviews about ChipIn (yet). There are some positive reviews out there, and it looks like it's been around for a while. I've had a test widget installed for a week or so, and haven't noticed negative effects on my blog. And their donations and payments are done using PayPal, which is a service that most people now regard a trustworthy.
But there are a few issues you need to be aware of:
1) Most web-services like this ask you to log in first, and then to create the "whatever" that they are offering. ChipIn reverses this, making signing-up look very easy. But it means that ChipIn Inc collect the email address of your PayPal account before you find how much other information you also have to provide. This isn't enough to stop me from using it, but it's worth being aware of.
2) The email address you use to sign into ChipIn is displayed when people click ChipIn to start to make a donation. This is a good security feature if you're collecting among a group of friends (they know that the person behind the widget they're using really is their friend Fred@Fish.com). But it may not be the effect that a blogger who's trying to stay anonymous is looking for.
This can be worked around: just set up a single-purpose email address just for ChipIn, and set it to auto-forward messages to your regular address. But it's something you should be aware of.
But another weakness of the sign-up process is that there are some quite significant ones buried deep in the fine print, including:
If the organiser is an individual, he or she is 18 years old or older, and a resident of the United States
If the organiser is a business, they are allowed to do business in the United States
Organizers authorize ChipIn to confirm that a payment instrument listed by an organizer on the service registration web page is in good standing with the issuing U.S. financial institution by submitting a request for a payment authorization and/or a low dollar credit or debit to the payment instrument and by other confirmation means. This is close to a direct quote: It's basically saying that they can check out your PayPal account when they register by putting through a low-value transaction. It's possible that this condition is from a time when the service didn't use PayPal. But it does seem like a very broad condition for initial registration, especially since it's so deeply hidden.
Organizers also authorize ChipIn to obtain credit reports and to otherwise make credit or other background inquiries on organizers as ChipIn deems appropriate to assess an organizer’s eligibility for the service, or to review the organizer’s continued use of the service. This is also close to a direct quote: It's basically saying that ChipIn can do a credit check on you when you register.
Some other terms and conditions that aren't so significant, but are worth being aware of :
You can't use the ChipIn logo etc (except as it's shown in the widget) for anything else unless you get their permission.
ChipIn events may be deleted if they have frivolous content or unrealistic targets.
You can't post anything which might be offensive or illegal, or which affect the safety or rights of other users and members. This includes:
Things for commercial purposes, (eg contests and sweepstakes), without permission
Anything that misleads people
ChipIn doesn't get involved in disputes between organisers and contributors.
NOTE: this is an excerpt of my interpretation of the T&C's as at today. It may or may not be correct and up to date. It's most certainly NOT a legal opinion or analysis. Always consult ChipIn's official documents to get the true and correct statement, and a lawyer if you need legal advice.
Transaction Fees
Using ChipIn is free - I'd guess it's funded by advertising, merchandise sales, and (the biggie) interest from donations in between the time that they're made and when the event ends.
But PayPal is used for transactions, and regular PayPal fees apply. At the moment, these are
30c plus 2.9% if you're receiving $US,
30c + 3.9% if you're receiving other currencies.
These amounts are relatively small if you're getting reasonable-sized donations (eg receiving $US10 cost you 30 + 29 = 59c). But if there's any chance that people could donate very small amounts (eg 50c), you may find that most of the donation is used up in fees. Worst case, malicious people start donating less than 30c, meaning that their "donation" will actually cost you money.
For most people, this won't be enough to stop them using the service. But it is something to keep in mind.
Other things to consider:
Other items on your blog
If you also run other advertising or donation items on your blog, you may need to consider whether seeking donations for causes could conflict with the terms and conditions of your advertising. I don't think it conflicts with AdSense, although if you are encouraging your users to click your ChipIn widget, you need to be very careful that the couldn't get confused into thinking you were saying to click the regular ads.
Declare the proportion of donations that don't get to the cause
Many people consider that it's good fund-raising practice to tell potential donors about the proportion of their donations that are used for administration and so don't reach the beneficiary. If you do this, don't forget to mention the PayPal fees.
Widget Ownership
A ChipIn event or widget effectively belongs to your ChipIn account, and is tied to your PayPal account. If you ever transfer ownership of your blog to someone else, it would be good to remove all ChipIn widgets from it, so the new owner has a clean start. Or at very least make this a part of your negotiations over the change-of-ownership.
Getting a collection started
The system won't let you contribute to your own event, so (unlike most real-world collections) you can't pop in a few dollars to get people over the "I don't want to be first" factor. So unless you have two PayPal accounts, you'll need to ask a friend to make an initial contribution.
The widget doesn't show up in feed-readers
Readers who view your article through an RSS-tool (eg Google Reader, Bloglines) won't see the gadget: you may want to put in a sentence telling them to go to your blog to see it.
See how it works:
Click the ChipIn button in the widget on the right, to see what happens when a reader starts the donation process.
There's no need to donate.
But if you do have a PayPal account and fancy putting in 50c, it would give me the opportunity to investigate how the reports work.
This article is about how to stop people who read your blog from clicking on a picture and seeing a full-size copy of it.
Currently, if you put a picture into a blog post using the Picture toolbar item, and someone reading your blog clicks on that picture, then the person sees a full-size copy of the picture. There is no universal setting that you can apply to stop this happening, or even an easy way to stop it for specific pictures.
But you can stop it for each picture in a post by editing the HTML that is behind the post and removing the href part of the picture statement. If you're not sure what that means, read on.
2 Find some unique text that is immediately before (or after) the picture - you will use this to locate the HTML for the picture among all the other HTML used to make up your post. Sometimes, I put "XXX" or some other marker text (ie text that isn't used anywhere else in the post) just before it (and take it out again afterwards too!).
3 Click HTML - it's a tab at the top corner of the Post Editor window.
4 Find the unique text (use your browser's Find tool, eg Edit > Find in Firefox)
5 Then find the HTML-code for the picture which will be just before (or after) that. It looks something like this (some settings may be different in yours):
<img border="0" src="THE URL WHERE THE SOURCE PICTURE IS READ FROM" />
</a>
Job Done!
At this point, you might Publish your post, or you might want to edit it some more - for example by adding alt-text or a title to the pictures, or by showing your pictures in a slideshow.
Either way, I recommend switching back to Compose mode now (using the Compose button at the top right of the editor), so that you don't get confused the next time you edit a post.
This article is no longer current. It was about setting up AdSense on a domain that you own, but are not using. However this feature of AdSense was withdrawn in early 2012, so the feature is no longer available. The information below was correct until then, but has not been update since.
What is AdSense for Domains
Sometimes, you may own a domain, but not actually want to use it for a blog-site as yet. I'm currently working on one new blog for which I found a very appropriate, and available URL. It won't be ready to be public for a month or more, but I've purchased the domain-name now so that someone else doesn't take it: A lot of the design etc is based around the quirky name, and a lot of work would need to be re-done if I waited and tehn couldn't get the site-name that I want.
Or you may find you own a domain-name that doesn't actually work for what you wanted it to: either your don't want to keep the site on-line, or people don't like the domain name. But you still own it until the current paid period runs out. (Don't forget to disable auto-renewal in this case.)
An option that you have is to show paid advertisements on the domain in the meantime. This may earn some advertising revenue - and (for domains-in-waiting) it gives an insight into the number of "natural" visitors that a domain gets without any promotion or links. These visitors can some either through people guessing the URL, or following broken hyperlinks set up when the URL was used for something else.
If you're already signed up to be an AdSense publisher, then AdSense for Domain is an easy choice for putting advertising onto domain like this.
The Rules:
You need to check the terms and conditions: here are the full T&C's for AdSense for Domains.
As always with AdSense, clicking your own ads isn't allowed.
But there are some extra conditions too:
You can't use it with domain URLS that are adult/sexual, promote hate, are overly rude, relate to weapons, alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, about other illegal things or sensitive current events, or which infringe trademarks (even if it's just with apparent typos).
Also, with AdSense for Domains, you're not allowed to promote the domain. So when you're ready to start publicizing the URL on other websites, you need to take AdSense for Domains off it. I'd assume that this is true even if the publicity clearly says "available next week" or similar.
These are just some of the rules - make sure you read the full details before you get started.
Setting up AdSense for Domains:
(These instructions are based on the new - Nov 2010 - AdSense interface. The process is very similar in the old menus, although the command names and positions may be slightly different.)
Log into AdSense with your main account. (For me, this is not always the one that purchased the domain, but it is always the one that paid for it via Google Checkout. There may be some complications later on if your Google account that has AdSense wasn't the same one that paid for the domain.)
Go into the My Ads tab
Choose Domains from the left-hand menu.
Click the New Hosted Domain button, which is at the top of the list of domains.
Enter the name(s) of the domain(s) that you want to set up AdSense for Domains for (or upload a comma-separated-values file listing them, if there are a lot). Use the naked format, eg your-domain.com, not www.your-domain.com
Choose the language that most sense for people who might visit this domain. (eg the domain I've parked at the moment is named with a word from the English language, so I've chosen English).
Click the Add Domains button
The system shows a pop-up box, either telling you that the domain was successfully added, or that there is a problem you need to resolve.
There will also be a message that "To begin serving ads, you must now point your domains to our servers. Follow the Domain Setup Guide to complete the setup process for each hosted domain that you have added."
If you bought your domain through Blogger (and probably through other Google products, eg Sites as well) can ignore this message to start with and close the window.
But if you purchased the domain another way (including directly from GoDaddy or eNom), you need to read the Domain Setup Guide, and take whatever actions are recommended.
Clicking the View the Domain Setup Guide opens it in an new window/tab (depending on your browser). --- except that right now, it shows a message saying "We are sorry but the information that you have requested cannot be found. Please try searching or browsing the help centre". If you get this, just search for the Domain Setup Guide using the search field on the screen.
Closing the pop-up takes you back to the My Ads > Domains listing. There will be a new entry on the list, with status "DNS verification pending".
Under the domain-name, there are links for Details (which shows you what the DNS entries need to be), and Request verification.
After you have set up the correct DNS entries with your domain registrar (or immediately, if you purchased via Blogger et al), click on the Request Verification link. This sends a message to AdSense/Google, asking them to check that your domain setup is correct.
Wait: there will be a delay (perhaps 2-3 days), while Google check that it is valid for you to display ads on this domain (remember those rules from the Terms and Conditions section - it seems that they do check), and that your DNS settings are correct.
If a problem is found, this screen will show a message about this, and tell you how to resolve it.
And once AdSense for Domains is enabled, the status changes to Active.
Note: I said above that if you purchased the domain via Google, you don't actually need to do any further setup. This has been true for three of the four parked URLs that I've put AdSense-for-Domains onto. For the most recent one, I found that Google didn't automatically put the right value into the CNAME. I'm not sure if this was because I hadn't set up a domain administrator account when I tried to enable AdSense for Domains, or for some other reason. Either way, I had to go into the Google Apps control panel for the domain (logged in as the domain administrator), get the details for accessing the domain registrar (in this case GoDaddy), and then go in to the registrar control panel and edit the CNAME record to include my AdSense ID. This wasn't actually hard (Google and GoDaddy's instructions were good) but it may seem a little frightening if it's not the sort of thing you're used to doing.
Stay calm, read the error messages carefully, work slowly and if you get stuck pop into the Blogger (if you purchased the domain that way) or AdSense help forums.
Testing and customizing AdSense for Domains:
Once the status is Active, test your domain by viewing it in your browser: it should display AdSense ads. (Remember not to click any!)
Back in the AdSense > AdSense Setup > AdSense for Domains tab, you can customise the look of the screen by selecting the domain (use the check-box to the left of the name), and choosing Actions > Edit from the menu items just above the domain list. This lets you:
Put the domain into a custom channel (for tracking performance)
Edit the keywords that are used to help choose what advertisements to show
A fórmula mágica dos chineses parece ter fôlego inacabável. Dessa vez o modelo que chega é o Face, com a extensa lista de itens de série por baixíssimos R$ 31.990. Tal vantagem pretende fazer seu impacto no segmento dos hatches de entrada, cujos nomes principais são VW Gol, Fiat Mille e Uno, Chevrolet Celta, Ford Ka e Renault Clio.
O visual externo do Face não nega que ele é um verdadeiro upgrade do QQ, pois conserva o estilo hatch-minivan. Mas foi um upgrade muito bem-feito, pois se o mais antigo usa quase intocado o projeto da GM que gerou o Chevrolet Spark, o segundo passou pelas mãos do estúdio Bertone, e conseguiu essas linhas modernas e até elegantes, sem quaisquer traços orientais.
Isso condiz com a proposta do Face, de oferecer o espaço interno amplo com tamanho externo compacto do irmão mais velho, mas adicionando doses generosas de bom gosto. É o caso da cabine, que recebeu revestimentos em três tons combinados sem excentricidades, e do motor, 1.3 16v a gasolina de 84 cv que deve fazer o carro rodar com mais folga (e segurança) que o QQ com seu 1.1.
O pacote de equipamentos do Face é fechado e inclui ar-condicionado, airbag duplo, direção hidráulica, trio elétrico, freios ABS, sistema de som multimídia, rodas de liga leve, sensor de ré, faróis de neblina e pintura metálica. O modelo tem garantia de três anos, e sua marca possui serviço próprio de seguradora.
Quando a Fiat brasileira criou a primeira Palio Adventure em 1999, não é difícil de imaginar que ninguém de lá jamais poderia imaginar o tamanho do legado que ela criaria. Suas vendas cresceram bastante, depois surgiram outros “aventureiros” na própria marca, as concorrentes se interessaram e começaram a copiar a ideia…
Eis que se formou toda uma categoria assim, que depois passou até a ter as próprias ramificações, e que já motivou a criação de projetos inteiramente novos, e agora motiva a Citroën a trazer um modelo da Europa exclusivamente adaptado para esse “ringue”.
Isso mesmo, como o C3 XTR já não tem mais o (pouco) fôlego de antes, os franceses aproveitaram a inédita C3 Picasso da matriz, e aplicaram a receita consagrada pelos aventureiros urbanos, criando o interessante AirCross. O que antes era uma pacata minivan com cabine espaçosa e estilo que lembra o Kia Soul virou um mini-jipe com charme muito maior que o de clássicos como Ford EcoSport. Seja por detalhes como o parabrisa panorâmico ou pelos apliques e adesivos externos sem exageros, o AirCross inspira imponência sem perder o estilo.
Sua cabine também demonstra esmero, com materiais foscos e colunas finas para melhorar a visibilidade, e um pacote de equipamentos surpreendente, com ar-condicionado digital, computador de bordo, direção hidráulica, freios com ABS e EBD, airbag duplo e sistema de som com MP3, entre outros. Seu motor é o mesmo 1.6 16v flex já usado na marca, que gera 110/113 cv (gasolina/álcool), e ele oferece a vantagem da garantia de três anos. Seu preço começa em R$ 53.900.
