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The new Google+ Comments feature isn’t limited to Blogger and can be used for other websites or blogs if a special code is used, Browsing the Net points out. Google announced the new feature, which can be used with Blogger sites, last week. In order to make this work, you simply had to enable it from t... |
22 April 2013
04:36 GMT |
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Facebook scams that lure users to survey sites or other malicious domains by promising them raunchy videos of celebrities are not uncommon. However, those who run the schemes seem to be constantly working on improving them.
Sabari Selvan of E Hacking News has come across Justin Bieber and Rihanna adult tape scams in... |
14 March 2013
18:01 GMT |
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Google Takeout isn't some restaurant put together as a perk for Google employees, it's a tool for exporting your data out of various Google products.
The team behind it has been working on adding more products so you can get everything you need in one go.
The latest to be added are Blogger and Google+ pa... |
15 February 2013
06:41 GMT |
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Google+ features have been seeping into Blogger ever since the social network was launched and it's only going to continue. It's one small feature at a time mostly, so the change is slow, but it's steady.
The latest addition is the ability to mention someone in a blog post via the same mechanism as o... |
19 December 2012
09:22 GMT |
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Google’s popular Blogger platform is now fully supported on the iPhone 5 and features updated “save post” options, Google Analytics, and bug fixes. The official Blogger app, which lets you blog from your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, now supports four-inch displays natively. This means that users on... |
19 December 2012
04:18 GMT |
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If for whatever reason you're still using Blogger, but don't want to look like you're completely out of the loop, there's now a Google+ followers gadget. Presumably to let visitors know where everyone else is, i.e. not on Blogger, but on Google+.
Gadgets like this aren't new; Facebook has t... |
28 November 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Gina Crosley-Corcoran, feminist blogger and mother of an 18-month-old baby, is fighting Facebook regulations, which got her account suspended. Gina posted a picture of herself during the act of breastfeeding on Facebook.
The photo features Crosley-Corcoran nursing, while her child holds a piece of bacon.
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19 November 2012
05:34 GMT |
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WordPress 3.2 is now out for iOS platforms delivering one of the most requested features for a while now – support for featured images. Blog authors can now upload a Featured Image for their posts as long as their theme supports it.
Developer Automattic is happy to deliver the first of many updates in a faster seque... |
24 October 2012
20:41 GMT |
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Deaf paraplegic blogger David Rose captured the world's attention with a tragic and heartwarming post of his last words before dying of pneumonia. It turns out there is no David Rose, the blogger is not paraplegic, and he is not dead.
A man presenting himself as a 24-year-old cerebral palsy sufferer, blogging u... |
17 October 2012
04:57 GMT |
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Google is extending Blogger's affiliate feature, making it possible for people in the UK to earn money shilling products. Or, put otherwise, linking to places where people can buy the things the bloggers talk about.
The Affiliate Network was launched in the US on Blogger earlier this year and Google is expandin... |
9 October 2012
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Blogger, mostly neglected for a decade despite being Google's first ever acquisition, finally got some love and some changes last year. One of the big new features was the Dynamic Views, blog themes for the 21st century.
Dynamic Views are built on HTML5 and, as the name implies, they're dynamic, i.e. they... |
29 August 2012
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The awesome blogging application WordPress on iPhone and iPad now features a slidable sidebar menu just like the popular social apps Twitter and Facebook. WordPress 3.1 also brings a lot of other visual enhancements that longtime users are sure to receive with their arms wide open.
Automattic, the developer of the i... |
10 August 2012
07:31 GMT |
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Blogger users have been noticing this for a while now, Google+ is slowly being built into the blogging platform, one small step at a time. But Google went all out in the latest update and added a Google+ page to the dashboard. From there, users will be able to control all manner of Google+ settings.
"Blogger lets yo... |
31 July 2012
10:54 GMT |
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Blogger is enabling users to exert more control over their accounts. It is now making it possible to create custom permalinks for any post. This way, if you want a specific URL for a particular post, to help it stand out, you'll be able to provide whatever you like. "When you write a post, Blogger automatically... |
18 July 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Since 2006, the fine gents at Google have maintained an Apple-centric blog with relevant Mac and iOS announcements for their fan base. That’s no longer the case, starting this week.Before you jump off the roof of your house, know that Google isn’t pulling the plug on any of its products for the Apple fanb... |
23 June 2012
15:41 GMT |
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The developers of Tumblr are telling fans to “get ready for a faster, completely-rebuilt app that’s better in every possible way.” And they’re not wrong. Users who update today will be greeted by a completely re-imagined dashboard view which makes it much easier to navigate the app, including... |
22 June 2012
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Google has been very bullish over its "social layer" Google+. It's constantly promoting it, building it into its other products and generally making sure that anyone who uses any Google product stumbles upon, if is not outright forced to use, it.
Blogger has been no stranger to this, the site has gotten quite a... |
22 May 2012
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Blogger is continuing to add new gadgets for anyone that uses dynamic view themes. Gadgets were one of the biggest things people missed when they made the switch to the new high-tech templates.
Blogger added support for gadgets along with several of the most popular gadgets a few months back. Now, it's adding s... |
2 May 2012
08:11 GMT |
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Blogger is introducing a new monetization scheme, affiliate ads. These ads enable bloggers to get paid every time one of their readers buys a product mentioned in one of their posts.
"When you share your words, thoughts and photos on Blogger, you are sharing your passions with the world. Sometimes, you’re pass... |
18 April 2012
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Blogger is getting even more Google+ features, but the two additions make sense. The first is a +1 button for the blog, making it easier for people to recommend and share it, the second is a Google+ badge to link to a Google+ profile or page."Imagine being able to share your blog with like-minded people across the we... |
4 April 2012
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Blogger is getting ready to make the revamped dashboard the default. The blog-hosting site introduced a brand-new dashboard a few months ago and has been working on it ever since.
It's been an optional feature so far and will continue to be for a while, but Blogger has announced that it will switch on the new i... |
3 April 2012
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Blogger is getting some power user features that a lot of people are going to appreciate. Users can now create meta tags for their blogs, add redirections and even custom 404 pages.
Serious bloggers, those that haven't switched to WordPress yet, are going to enjoy the flexibility the new features provide as it ... |
22 March 2012
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Blogger is continuing to evolve the Dynamic Views it introduced last year, a set of modern layouts and themes for the site. One of the big things missing, so far, has been gadget support. That's no longer the case as the latest update to Dynamic Views enables users to customize their blog with some of the gadget... |
28 February 2012
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Blogger is making a move very similar to Twitter, allowing for the removal of content on a country-by country basis, to be able to conform to law requirements in certain places but still offer as much content as possible to as many people as possible.
The move comes too fast after Twitter's for it to have serve... |
1 February 2012
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Google is building Google+ into everything it owns, for better or for worse. With Blogger, it is already pretty far along. It has added the option of merging a Blogger profile with a Google+ one and introduced support for things like the +1 button.Now it's making a change that should come in handy for those that... |
25 January 2012
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Blogger has finally gotten some love in 2011 and the venerable blogging service has gotten a well-deserved update. There are new dynamic themes, a completely new dashboard and plenty of new features. But Google is not done, there's still plenty to do to bring Blogger up to spec.
One new feature just introduced ... |
12 January 2012
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Google is building Google+ into more of its products. The venerable Blogger is getting a social infusion with a new Google+ integration feature, users that have linked their blogs to their Google+ profiles will have the option of sharing anything they post to Google+ as well.
"Back in October we made it possible for... |
13 December 2011
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The main reason why people choose a blogging platform rather than setting up their own WordPress install, hosting, domain name and so on, is precisely because they don't want to or don't know how to set up their own WordPress, hosting, domain name. But even if you choose a hosted platform such as Blogger, W... |
18 November 2011
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Ignoring a lesson that Blogger learned the hard way, WordPress.com is now introducing a new lightbox viewer for photo galleries. WordPress calls it a carousel, but it's the same feature, a way of browsing through a set of photos through a full screen viewer.WordPress.com's carousel feature is pretty run of ... |
9 November 2011
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A while back, Blogger started thinking about people visiting blogs on their phones and introduced mobile templates about a year ago. It made them available to all last summer and has added a few more abilities aimed at these readers in the meantime.Now it's making another big step by enabling bloggers to customi... |
9 November 2011
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Google is very keen on mobile, it's been working on building mobile alternatives for all of its products and is already seeing quite a lot money coming from mobile ads. No surprise then that it wants everyone to keep up and build mobile sites that its Android phones can use and its advertising can reach.Google i... |
1 November 2011
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A few weeks ago, Blogger debuted the very slick and modern Dynamic Views templates. Built on HTML5, CSS3 and AJAX, they do a lot to improve the look and feel of the oldest blogging platform.But, like with any new technology, there were limitations and some bugs. The big issues were fixed early, now Blogger is working... |
26 October 2011
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Google has made it official, it's now offering Blogger users the option of switching over to a Google+ profile to replace their existing Blogger profiles. This is just for the Draft version of the site, which is sort of a Beta version, and users can switch back at any time.The plan going forward is to offer more... |
25 October 2011
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When Google says that Google+ is Google and the other way around, it means it. There are plans to integrate everything under the Google umbrella with the social site. Some products are more obvious than others, Blogger is in the first camp.As Google's first, best known and still biggest social web product, Blogg... |
24 October 2011
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Blogger has been undergoing quite a transformation this year. It debuted a brand new dashboard a couple of months back, the biggest evolution to date. It started out slow, enabling users to check out the new look and get accustomed to it, without forcing it on anyone.It's now moving to get more people upgraded t... |
18 October 2011
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Recently, Blogger has rolled out the flashy Dynamic Views templates. Built on top of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, they're the latest word in blog design. But they're also slow and sometimes buggy. And some of the features, while looking great, offer very poor usability, like the 'pop-up' posts in t... |
15 October 2011
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Contrary to what it may seem like in many cases, Google does listen to its users. As long as there are enough of them. A few weeks ago, Google rolled out a Lightbox feature across the many millions of Blogger blogs, with no prior notification and no way of turning it off.
Apart from the fact that many people simp... |
13 October 2011
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Blogger debuted the new Dynamic Views last week, a great-looking new set of templates for Blogger blogs that are built on top of modern web technologies, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. But, as with any big launch, especially for something as technical as this, some issues have only now surfaced.
So Blogger has now up... |
7 October 2011
07:20 GMT |
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Blogger Robert Scoble, a former Microsoft employee who runs his own tech blog and has some connections in Silicon Valley, claims he’s heard Steve Jobs will not be attending today’s festivities in Cupertino. The reason? He’s not feeling very well.Steve Jobs, as avid Softpedia readers should well know... |
4 October 2011
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After debuting the very modern and nice looking new dashboard to everyone, Blogger is not done with the big announcements. It is now making available seven dynamic templates built with AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3, the latest web technologies.
The templates are a huge step forward from what has been available until now an... |
28 September 2011
04:31 GMT |
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The WordPress iOS application used by thousands of iPhone and iPad owners to manage their blog has received a major update this week, to include text-formatting abilities, a new full-screen editing mode, and more.“We’re excited to give you the next major version of WordPress for iOS. The focus of this rel... |
27 September 2011
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A couple of days ago, Blogger introduced a Lightbox style feature for blog photos. While it may be a few years after Lightbox was trendy, it's an attempt to modernize the aging blogging service. However, Blogger first rolled out the feature and then made the announcement. Blogger has tens of millions of blogs, ... |
21 September 2011
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Google has made it official and announced the Lightbox view for Blogger. The feature had been live, at least for some users, but possibly for all, for several days now.The official announcement doesn't really add anything we didn't know, except perhaps for the fact that, while enabled by default for all blo... |
19 September 2011
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Blogger, which is in the midst of a grand redesign and revamp, has introduced a new slideshow feature for photos in posts. The feature is enabled by default for all images. Clicking on any image in a post will open up a larger version in a lightbox along with a thumbnail list of all photos in that post.
The slides... |
19 September 2011
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RAGE Software have unleashed a new piece of Mac software called iWeb to WordPress. As its name implies, the program facilitates moving your iWeb blog to WordPress.Those of you owning a blog created with Apple’s iWeb creation tool may have heard that MobileMe is transitioning to iCloud.Apple gave customers 1 yea... |
12 September 2011
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Blogger has been with Google for a long time now and it has remained one of the biggest websites on the planet. It didn't get a huge amount of attention for quite a while, but Google seems to be a lot more interested in its blogging platform lately.
It's gotten a fresh new dashboard, with plenty of impro... |
9 September 2011
07:30 GMT |
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Google has launched its official Blogger application for Apple customers wielding an iPhone or iPod touch. It’s available as a free download from the iTunes App Store and, as its name implies, it will facilitate blogging. On the go.Over at the Google Mobile blog, Chang Kim, Product Manager, is “excited to... |
9 September 2011
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Google is rolling out the brand new Blogger to all users. It's been testing the redesigned and revamped site for several months now and Draft users have had access to it for a while. But now, all Blogger users will be switched over to the new site.
It's not available to everyone yet, it's a gradual ... |
1 September 2011
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In an attempt to comply with a court order and block a single blog, some Argentinian ISPs have enacted a filter that actually makes over a million websites inaccessible to their customers.The whole situation started with Argentina's National Telecommunications Commission (CNC) issuing a directive to ISPs to bloc... |
20 August 2011
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Google has announced that it is integrating Google Scribe an experimental text editor with word completion and suggestions, with Blogger, albeit the experimental version, Blogger in Draft.Google Scribe is an interesting tool, though it's more a solution looking for a problem than the other way around. As you typ... |
9 August 2011
11:39 GMT |
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