A Cool Flash Animated Label Cloud for Blogger!

"Blogumus" is an Flash based tag cloud widget which uses scripts converted from Roy Tanck's WP Cumulus plugin for Wordpress. That original plugin was converted into the Blogger widget by Amanda Fazani you see on my sidebar. Hover your mouse over the Flash object to see the animation begin.In this post, I'll explain how you can add Blogumus to your own Blogger layout with ease!How it worksThis widget uses a combination of JavaScript and Flash animation to parse and display your blog labels. Once installed in your template, it should work "out of the box" without any additional tweaking required, though of course you may prefer to change the variables for color, background and size if appropriate :)You should also be able to move the Label...

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On-Screen Keyboard on Windows XP

Heres a neat function which you may find some use for sometime. Windows XP comes with a built in on-screen keyboard. Basically a graphic of a keyboard comes up and acts like your keyboard, you can use your mouse to hunt and peck around on it. It's perfect for people with disabilities, where it would be easier to use a mouse than trying to type or it's great to use when your keyboard goes kaput. Works also if you have multiple language settings setup on your computer. You will see that the keyboard changes languages as you do, ie Russian language setting will present a cyrillic keyboard. Here is how you launch it: * Go to start * Go to run and type OSK * Then the keyboard comes onIt's really just that simple. It's best to make...

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Program Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts

We'll show you how to save time, keystrokes, and mouseclicks by making your own customized shortcuts.Pressing buttons isn't particularly good for you. Jane Jetson knew it as early as 1962, and your friendly neighborhood orthopedic surgeon would be hard-pressed to argue with her today. Problem is, you can't very well answer your daily deluge of e-mails without typing, and as if to add insult to injury, odds are you're pretty much typing the same thing again and again. One approach is the macro: a tiny program you write (or have generated automatically) that can lift the burden of repetitive tasks—like...

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Create Navigation Buttons for your Blog

Many blogs and websites feature "navigation button" links like a menu at the top of the page or beneath the header. This can be really helpful for readers to navigate to areas of interest in your blog, such as the home page, about page and contact links.In this tutorial, I'll explain a very simple (but effective) method of creating such a "navigation buttons" for your own blog, which you can use to add easily accessible links to your post pages.To create these buttons for your blog, we don't need to use any external images! With a little CSS styling, you can easily create navigation buttons which change color when your mouse hovers over them, making it easier to see that these are indeed clickable links. This style of button is helpful to your...

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Stop Blogger from turning all your text into CAPITALS

Blogger makes your post footer, blog footer, profile widget and header text turn out in uppercase letters by default, and this of course, sucks like a black hole for some (I know it does for me). To remedy this, just do the same procedure as with eliminating borders (see above) but instead of searching for "border:", search for "text-transform:" and eliminate every instance of it. Change "uppercase" to "non...

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Web Color Calculator: Find the Hex Values for your favorite colors

Use this color calculator to find the HEX and RGB values for the colors you would like to use in your blog or website.ColorCalc 1.0 is a freeware Javascript applet written by Hendrik Schreib...

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HACKED!!! Supercharge Firefox For Speed Surfing

Nowadays THE most popular freeware is the Mozilla Firefox browser. As a huge Firefox fan, I wanted to give you some tips on increasing the speed when surfing the web using Firefox! First of all I suggest you to download and Install Mozilla Firefox. In my opinion, its the best browser available. Download it here. Some obscure preferences exist that affect the network performance and display performance of Firefox. They're the equivalent of special hardware tweaks that enthusiasts use to make your CPU run faster. There are security implications to modifying the network performance....

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