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Custom Search Engine

Visit Annie's Blog to learn how you can add a custom search engine to your Blog. And check out my sidebar for the Beautiful Beta Search Engine, that searches both the Blog and the Wiki for your hottest...

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Picasa Album Widget

Picasa is the free-to-download, easy-to-use, and Google-Pushed software tool to manage all your digital pictures. You can upload your pictures to your Picasa Web Albums. Now, wouldn't it be nice to...

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BlogToC Widget Released

The job is done. We now have a complete interactive Table Of Contents. Click the button in my sidebar to display the TOC. You can sort the TOC by Post Title by clicking the column header. Click it...

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Beyond the 100 posts limit

After a lot of trial and error, and without having any success to develop a decent piece of programming to call JSON-feeds recursively, I suddenly had a flash of insight in how we can cross the 100...

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Feed Gadget for Vista Sidebar

I finally switched to Windows Vista, and so far without any problems. A thing I particularly like in Vista, is the Sidebar, and the Gadgets you can have there. It is very easy to create a gadget, it is...

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Google Calendar Widget

On the brink of the New Year we all update our calendars, and shred the old ones. Perfect timing for a new Blogger Sidebar Widget, that shows events from your Google Calendar in your sidebar. It is...

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Pipe Your Plaxo Pulse Into Blogger

Well, I suppose that you know at least one word from this title: Blogger. Then it is time to get acquainted with Plaxo and Yahoo! Pipes. Again, as in many other Widgets I have created, the Widget might...

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Aorta Widget

If you like mashups, you probably will like my new Aorta Widget as well. It displays your life's bloddstream, your Aorta, in the sidebar of your Blog. What is in your Aorta? Your Blogger Blog feed, to...

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Speeding Up BlogTOC

Some of you who are using my (much appreciated) BlogTOC widget have mentioned the long load times of their blog as a result of the BlogTOC widget. Also, some of you want to display the Table of...

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Please change URL's

In my last post I have informed you of my ISP changing my homepage URL. I hve repaired most of the links in this blog, but if you have installed my widgets (such as Recent Posts and Recent Comments,...

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Google Books Widget

Want to share your library with friends, family and even the rest of the world? If that's the case, you can use my new Google Books Library Widget. Please take a look and experiment with this new...

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A New Skin

I finally got completely BORED with the old look-and-feel of Beautiful Beta. It was so totally not 2009. And besides that, pageloading had slowed down tremendously because of all the javascript-widgets...

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Breadcrumbs for Blogger

With my new Blog Skin I also introduced a "Breadcrumb Trail" to my Blog. If this doesn't ring a bell, don't worry. Remember the Hansl & Gretchen fairy-tale? Hansl and Gretchen were 2 kids from a...

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Selective display of widgets

Here is a small tutorial on how to display your blog's widgets selectively on your pages. Let's suppose you only want to show your Profile Widget on your blog's Homepage, but not on the other pages....

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Admin Widget

In my last post I taught you how to remove the ugly Blogger navbar from the screen. One minor setback is that now you don't have access to your dashboard, settings, layout and posts, because the navbar...

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More If Then Ideas

Now that my train of thought has started on how to use the <b:if> - <b:else/> constructions to enhance the Bloggger experience, I got some new ideas that really need some investigation....

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Removing the Blogger Navbar

It is an oldie, but worth mentioning. You can remove the blue Blogger navigation bar that is at the top of each page by adding a single line of CSS to the skin of your blog. From your dashboard go to...

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Post Summary And Read More

My old friends here are very well aware of the Peek-A-Boo-Posts hack that Ramani and I came up with several years ago. It required quite some template hacking and javascript too. In this tutorial you...

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New Look on Blogger HTML Editor

Blogger HTML Editor now changed since April 9, 2013. With the presence of a new look, Blogger automatically adds the latest features to pamper the users. The following is the new look of Blogger HTML...

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Submit XML Sitemap for Blogspot

Google finally released an XML sitemap for blogspot. Usually to indexed quickly, you are prompted to put atom.xml or RSS Feed to Google Webmaster Tools. With the release of XML sitemap for blogger, now...

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