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Now blogger has a Mobile template

January 24, 2011 by admin 1 Comment

Blogger mobile template released

Yes that’s right , the much wanted feature of mobile enabled templates for blogger is now available in blogger.. Blogger has just upgraded their features to enable your blog to be seen on most new smartphones , so that you dont have to do extra work on your blog for it to show on a mobile properly ( like Iphone 4 or Samsung galaxy s or any new smartphones)

Blogger releases Mobile template to make blogger blogs Smartphone enabled

All you need to do is login to blogger , got to settings and enable the Blogger mobile template like in the figure below

You can check out these 2 blogs on your mobile ( http://bankrepossession.blogspot.com/ & http://nakedseo.blogspot.com/ ) to check out the new blogger Mobile template and have a idea of how the new “blogger mobile template” works

Here is a example of how your blogger blog will look like on a “Smartphone”

Blogger Mobile website

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Blogger tools – get the Digitech Photo magazine scanner

January 1, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

Remember that time when you saw that magazine in that waiting room and wanted so bad to somehow get a copy of that page in that magazine to take back home or then this old family photo that you want to copy in a hurry to send digital copies to everyone , well now you can do it with this tool.

Handy Blogger tools – Portable scanner

The “Digitech Portable scanner” can scan a magazine page with that nice recipe or hot photo, or then can scan that family photo or document ( just like in the james bond movies) OR INTERESTING ART OF GRAFIITI .. whatever captures your eye.

The digitach scanner saves the image or scan to tthe Micro SD card or straight to your laptop / PC via the uSB cable. Get it here

This can be a very handy told for bloggers to get graphics and text instantly transferred from magazines or newspapers as well to then reference or use ( with permission of author off course) for their blogs or website. Now days a smartphone is also well equipped to do these sorta tasks , but unfortunately they can scan only to a certain resolution and transferring to pc can be a bit messy and time consuming , as with this scanner you can just take the mem card out and insert in your pc to transfer or then attache the scanner to your pc via usb.

Scanning on the go for your blog / website

The scanner has two scanning modes medium resolution at 3000 x300 dpi or then higher resolution at 600 x600 Dpi. The built in LCD displays your scanning status, selected resolution, remaining battery lifespan and memory status. It also features an auto power-off after 3 minutes so you don’t drain your power for no reason.

It retails at AU $149.95. The gadget is available at latestbuy.com.au or you can browse Amazon for more listed options Here – > Portable scanners

Buddy press and wordpress Multi user – Part 2

June 19, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Well if you are looking for part 1 its here – Part 1 Buddypress and WPMU

Getting to know WordPress multi user and Buddy press

Part 1 talked about the basics features and differences between these two blogging softwares ( WORDPRESS MULTI USER AND BUDDY PRESS )as i try and get more familiar with them. i installed the wpmu and did everything right thanks to hese 2 links on You tube .

Installing WPMU or wordpress multi User tutorials on you tube

Installing WordPress MU (WPMU) Part 1

Installing WordPress MU (WPMU) Part 2 ( the guy plugs hostgator , but the tutorials arte pretty good and actually works ..pls do everything in sequence as mentioned for it to work in the first go )

So everything was installed beautifully , then i created my first blog from within the admin panel of wpmu and “SHUCKS” . it just kept giving some internal eror.

At this stage i was starting to lean towards the simple buddy press plugin that does a nice job of encouraging people to register with your site with its nice features like creating your profiles, interacting with each other on the blog , and able to post to the blog as well ( though members cant start thier own blogs on the server like you can do with WPMU )

WPMU INTERNAL EROR FIX – Solution

So with the internal eror problem appearing i did a bit of google searching and found out this file fix. Apparently if you change the .htaccess file to this it will work . Here is the link to the fix i got http://www.thepowerofk.com/blog/help/wpmu/wordpress-mu-htaccess-file-change/

This definitely fixed it and my blog was appearing now . I think it was probably something to do with my wpmu being installed in a sub directory other than the main blog and the change in the htacess file 1st line as mentioned in the link above fixed it up.

The blog is working now but it takes and awful lott of time for the subdomain blog to load up now ,,i have to figure out if its the server problem ( dre3amhost ) or then a configuration problem that is lowing it down ..more in part 3.. 🙂

Part 1 Part 2 ( this one ) == Part 3 to come

Get Multi user blogs on wordpress

June 6, 2010 by admin 1 Comment

I wanted to create something like this for a long time and i was looking in all the wrong places. I searched for “wordpress cms themes” on google I searched for “forum blogs” and “multi user blogs” etc but got nowhere. The suddenly while browsing one of my favorite forums i chanced upon a thread “wpmu Blogs” and ended up doing more research.

Buddypress & WPMU for multi user blogs

Turns out , its just what i was looking for so long. With “WPMU” or “wordpress Multi blogs” you can install it have have thousand of wordpress blogs from that one install and give permission to their people to run blogs of their own under your domain or hosting.

in my quest for this new multi user blog i also came across the “buddy press plugin” , for which i did not know much about and got it added to my wordpress install. Turns out it give nice added functionality like unique user profiles can be set up, and you can have your own activity rss feed and connect to other users of the blog. So buddy press is certainly a good plugin for a more interactive blog.

If you install buddy press on a WPMU which is a multi user blog , you get many more added benefits liek a very large blogging community that can speak and interact with each other.

So follow me as i experiment more with Buddypress and WPMU “wordpress Multi User blogs”. in the meantime check out some blogs that are online that use buddy press and WPMU

Blogs on Buddy press and WPMU

1. Harvey Norman Gadget blog

2. Tosh O

3. H mag

4. New York Times

5. Crikey.com.au

Here is what wordpress MU does !!

Features

Everything WordPress does.
Scaling to tens of millions of pageviews per day.
Unlimited users and blogs.
Different permissions on different blogs.
Ambiguity about how to pronounce its name

- A campus wide social network for your university, school or college.
- An internal communication tool for your company.
- A niche social network for your interest topic.
- A focused social network for your new product.

What can I use BuddyPress for?

BuddyPress is built to bring people together. It works well to enable people with similar interests to connect and communicate. Some of the fantastic uses might be:

Part 1( this one ) Part 2 == >> Part 3 to come

Now blogger has a Mobile template