Bloggeratto

Merry Christmas – Feliz Navidad

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:34:00 PST

(New Christmas Tree in Mexico City for 2009)

I just wanted to wish everyone Merry Christmas – Feliz Navidad. I hope everyone have a great Christmas dinner and a night full of good memories with the people you love.

Happy holidays!, now i leave you with this nice image that was part of this year Mexican Christmas Spirit .

Best Wishes,

-Avatar X

Blogger In Draft: Compose Mode Now Comes With A Dictionary At Hand

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:00:06 PST

The guys over the draft version of Blogger have been busy lately and they now present another nice little feature that will find its way into the Blog Post Editor:

A Dictonary that can be used in the Compose Mode and that lets you Define words and phrases in 12 languages and look for synonyms in English.

A very nice feature to have and that has been very well integrated. Given the last new features for Blogger in Draft have been all about the Blog Post Editor. It looks like Blogger really wants to revindicate it for everyone that has been unhappy with it in the last i would say two years. They are right, one of the most outdated parts in Blogger has been indeed the Blog Post Editor. In my case i don’t really have used it in the last 2 years thanks to Windows Live Writer that is the very very very best Desktop Blog Editor that exists. This will not sway me but it should prove useful for everyone using Blogger since only 15% or less of Bloggers use a Desktop Blog Editor.

But i would truly like if they dedicated more time the most outdated thing in Blogger: The Comment System.

However, a new feature is a new feature and this one is also a good one to boot.

via Blogger In Draft

Retractable Blogger Navbar

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:30:35 PST

This little mod comes from Russia (with love, i hope) and it has been waiting for over a year in a comment that was posted in the Peek-A-Boo Blogger Navbar post.

Unfortunately Russian is one of the languages i truly don’t know anything about and it just puzzles me. So there is a bit of a language barrier there. But the guy who developed this is called Артем Ивлев and looks like he is a Lotus Expert (Domino, Connections, Quickr, etc) and he has this blog with the name Homo Ludens that i guess refers to the “Play Theory” of the dynamic of Society and Culture and how that dynamic create art that reflects on the society that at the same time creates culture around the art as time passes and the circle goes over and over.

So this nice Mod (or Hack to a degree) comes with a instant Blogger page element install button. So thanks to that i can now offer it to you all since then the language barrier is not much of a problem but merely a bump.

This comes as a Blogger Navbar Mod that makes it retractable for 5 seconds.

So you can have the Blogger Navbar without having to remove it and without having to show it. It only will be shown if the visitor of your blog wants to access it. To do that he only needs to click a little rectangle in the top left corner of your blog that shows as this:

Once it is clicked, the navbar shows.

5 seconds pass and it hides.

The hiding happens in a nice one second motion.

An Actual Ideal Way To Hide The Blogger Navbar.

When i remember back on my idea of the Peek-A-Boo Blogger Navbar thing. The truth is that it was not the first take. My first take was exactly a Retractable Blogger Navbar just like this. It was never done because it required more of anyone wanting to use it since they had to install it themselves. So it didn’t had the mass appeal of my other idea. That i must say that it is heyday i would not be surprised if it was used by at least a 1000 blogs.

That is quite a high number because it still needed to be installed but since the installation was only two lines of css code, it was adopted very well. Another reason why it was chosen over is this was because it didn’t needed JS so there were not going to be issues with it.

This in the other hand don’t has that problem because the code needed for it (JS) auto-installs for the user thanks to the fact that it uses the One Click Install Button concept brought by the Blogger Page Elements and Blogger Gadgets. This also reminds me to think that every single new Mod and Hack to Blogger should be archived this way. As a Auto-Installable Blogger Page Element or Gadget.

So i take my hat off because while the whole thing is simple, it is very well executed.

How To Install

Well, you only need to visit Артем Ивлев blog post and look out for this button:

You click it and it will ask you to log into your Google Account and then will take you to this Settings page:

Since the Page Element calls for a function that positions the little rectangle in the Top left corner of your Blog to show the Blogger Navbar. The little space it uses in your sidebar don’t shows a thing. For that reason i recommend you to leave the title field blank or just put a “.” or a “-“ simple to identify the element in your layout. You can then just drag it down to the bottom of your sidebar and leave it there.

Some Notes

While the Retractable Blogger Navbar mod is very well done. One of the rough things about it is that you cannot customize the text in the rectangle that serves as the “show navbar” button. So it will show as it is in Russian. Another thing is that it would be great if it not only the text could be customized but you could add a little favicon sized element you could link to that would really make it stand out, or that it already came with a arrow pointing down as a way to better indicate the action of what it does.

But at least i can tell you that it works very well and in my test of it cross browser. It worked perfectly in every current browser and that when it came to IE6 or IE7 the times it didn’t worked it just didn’t do nothing. So it will not get in the way of your blog if someone visits with a old browser. They simply don’t see the feature and that is that.

So a good feature to have if you are willing to look away from the peeve it has of not being customizable.

Linkage

Retractable Blogger Navbar

Technorati Tags: Retractable Blogger Navbar,Blogger Navbar hack,Blogger Navbar Mod

Blogger In Draft: Better Picasa Integration In Image Posting And Better Blogger Video Uploads

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:26:51 PST

If you are using the draft.blogger.com dashboard or stopped using it because previous new features didn’t convinced you. Maybe better media handling will. It looks like Blogger is finally trying out seriously needed upgrade for those that use the Blogger Dashboard as it now will offer full Picasa integration in the Image Posting option and that you will also have a better looking dialog for when you want to use the Blogger Video Service and upload a movie into your posts.

The Image posting dialog will now let you:

Upload Pictures

Add multiple Images
Choose what Picasa Album you want to save the picture you are going to upload
Choose a image from url and preview it in the same space before posting it.

Picasa Web Albums

See all your Picasa Web Albums
Choose any picture from any Picasa Web Album for image reuse
Search a photo if you know the name or search for format.
Choose a photo from a url

The video posting dialog will now let you

Upload Video

Simplify the uploading of the video with a better selecting and uploading window.
Mark it
Post it

If you are thinking how on earth this was not already there or why it is still in the draft version of Blogger..you must be new here since you should know that Blogger works on its own special pace.

But at least the features are not finally there and that means they should be added to everyone soon.

Better Image Posting on "Blogger In Draft" via Blogger In Draft

Blogger In Draft: Geotagging Back On

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:02:48 PST

If you have been wondering if Geotagging is still off in your Draft.Blogger.com dashboard. It is not. You can use it again.

via Blogger in Draft

Basic Health Tips For Bloggers

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:15:13 PST

kranthi from BloggerTricks.com got a nice reminder of some basic health reminders for Bloggers and i would say anyone that is 6 hrs and up in front of a computer every day.

Some of the reasons for these health risk are:

» Carelessness on their own health
» No time to take care of themselves
» Long hours work
» Mental strain or stress

But as with everything, it is not as simple as that and there other many factors to take in, some are not even politically correct to discuss nowadays. What it is simple are the Tips Kranthi gives in, so go and give that blog post a read:

Must Know Health Tips for Bloggers via Blogger Tricks

Technorati Tags: Blogger Health,Bloggging Health. Helth Tips

Blogger Says: Next Blog Button To Be BloggerUpon

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:39:06 PST

One the new improvements Blogger is touting that is going to apply soon will be in the Blogger Navbar by making the “Next Blog” button actually useful, instead of just a mere novelty as it has been since introduced.

So in order to do that, it will behave more like StumbleUpon does and will try to bring you similar Bloggers Blogs to the one where you first clicked the Next Blog Button.

In Your Language

The good thing about it is that it should bring you blogs only in your language or in a language you understand. If you are logged it should take the language settings as reference from your account, if you aren’t it should take the browser language. This is the part that should pretty much always be accurate. That along is a improvement since before if you clicked the Next Blog Button, you usually ended up in not only a random blog, but a random blog in a random language.

Within The Subject Of The Blogger Blog You Were On

The second part i guess would be trickier, If it is based on Labels. It should work very well, but many have done some serious Label abuse or lack labels completely and that could took you to pretty much to any blog. The other way is if Google is looking for specific keywords based on the blogs you clicked the Next Blog Button to take you to the next one and they get to be similar. My guess is that it will be based on the Labels, Blog Title and Sub-Title. Only because i think the second option is harder to tune up and also because i doubt they would went with such a trouble for such a feature.

More Value Added To The Navbar, More Incentives To Keep The Blogger Navbar?

As i have said many times before. Blogger seem to be avoiding to make any clear statement on those who remove the Blogger Navbar. But may be instead looking for ways to make more and more Blogger users to keep it as the last updates have been centered on that. But like i also have said before. Unless they let you fully customize it, that is never going to happen effectively with the most prominent and most popular Blogger users. Still good they finally got around to update it.

Coming Up Next... via Blogger Buzz

Blogger Says: Simple, Fun And Easy Today. Tomorrow Maybe Better, Integrated And Customizable.

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:12:36 PST

Actually more of Blogger saying what those that took the survey of describing Blogger Today and for the Future in 3 adjectives according to what you thought of the service said.

TODAY

The 3 adjectives that users thought that better described Blogger TODAY were:

Simple, Fun and Easy

Runner-ups for the 3rd place were Free and User-Friendly.

Absolutely impossible to disagree i must say.

THE FUTURE

The 3 words that Blogger users thought that should better describe Blogger in THE FUTURE were:

Better, Integrated and Customizable

Very close Runner-ups for 3rd pace were Interactive, Innovative, Flexible, Accessible and Easier.

(Hell, you can even change the third place for whatever other adjective from the runner-ups as it will be a matter of opinion since it is so close to call it with 100% certainty)

So the opinions on the future were more diverse and in my case. I think, that if i had to choose from this set of adjectives i would go with:

Customizable, Flexible and Innovative.

Overall a good exercise from Google. Now lets hope they deliver.

via Blogger Buzz

Bloggeratto On Widgets, Gadgets and Mashlets

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:02:35 PST

I decided i will return to covering them. After blogging about them for 2 years in Widgets Lab and previously to that Blogging about them sparsely on Bloggeratto for almost 1 year before the 2 years on Widgets Lab. I could be considered one of the few expert bloggers on the subject not working or developing them for a widget company. After all, i wrote around a 1000 blog posts on the subject and i have seen and tested thousands of them.

The Category for that will be “Embeds”. Otherwise you can look at the Labels for the specific words that i will keep separated according to source.

I do must note that there will be a cross posting of the widgets that make sense to review them in Appatic and those that make more sense to review them here. I will sort that out with weekly compendium posts in order to keep the cross pollination to a minimum.

Technorati Tags: Bloggeratto,Appatic,Embeds,Widgets,Gadgets,Mashlets

Blogger Says: We Should Have Told You About The Recent Service Interruption

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:50:03 PST

No, it was not your imagination and yes, if your blog was not behaving normal in the weekend is because Blogger had a unannounced Service Interruption last week that they should have said someone about:

After a recent service interruption, we started talking about how we could improve our communications about these (hopefully infrequent) issues. Going forward, in the case of significant service interruptions, we plan to publish a post mortem on the Blogger Status blog within 3 business days to provide details about what went wrong and what we're doing to help prevent similar problems in the future.

I didn’t put much mind to it since it is not that rare, even just before writing this post i experienced a mini-outage as i found that some blogs including this one was not loading up correctly.

But Blogger statement is worth a read so have at it:

Improving Our Communication of Blogger Service Interruptions

via Blogger Buzz

Technorati Tags: Blogger,Service Interruption

Blogger In Draft: Geotagging Turned Off

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:21:36 PST

If you were using geotagging via Blogger in draft or was about to start using it, you should know it is now off:

“We’ve temporarily disabled the geotagging feature in the Blogger in draft post editor due to it not working and showing that annoying JavaScript alert.

The feature will come back once we fix it up. Sorry about the inconvenience.”

But it must be said that it always had its glitches. No wonder it has not been added to the regular blogger. Another thing is that i don’t think it is compelling enough unless a handful case scenarios.

via Bloggerindraft

Technorati Tags: geotagging,bloggerindraft

Some Notes On Bloggeratto

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:18:33 PST

Now that i have finally finished in cleaning every single bad comment, bad backlink and formatting issue. I will start the long and boring task of fully Categorizing, Labeling, Tagging, Updating and Editing every single post in the Blog Archive. There are some notes on the last two to know:

1.-It may shake up the blog feed, mail subscriptions and the blog twitter stream. I seriously hope that don’t happens and if it happens please let me know.
2.-There may be some blogs appearing and disappearing while i do this general boosting of the blog,if you happen to find a inexistent blog post that you were directed to via the archive or feed. Tell me about it.
3.-Blog will change with new features and tweaks here and there. Something may break in the process. Also let me know if that happens.

All the comments on the last 3 things should be posted in this entry.

In the meantime new content to come on what i hope is a almost daily basis.

-Thanks.

Blogger Says: New Transparent Navbar Styles, Light or Dark.

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:31:11 PDT

While there has been a bit of time since the navbar mimalistic update, about a month ago also appeared a “Transparent Light” option. Now Blogger is making the release official and also adding a “Transparent Dark” option. Both are a clever attempt of pleasing as much people as possible doing the less amount of work on part of the Blogger Team.

Why?. Because while allows it blend it with a template theme color, it also makes it a little bit diffuse looking. Something that many are not going to like at all. So for those that are ok with that compromise. It will be a welcome update. Even i still don’t know why Blogger don’t lets you design your own color scheme for the navbar. However i remember that someone had built a navbar changer that could be updated to that end. So i will look into that.

The other good news is that Blogger continues without issuing a statement for removing the Navbar. So everyone with a custom template can continue to rock it as they have done so far.

Here are the new Navbar Styles:

Transparent Light

Transparent Dark

They can be found at:

Blogger > Your Blog Dashboard > Layout > Navbar

I still hope that Blogger will eventually open up the blogger navbar for true customization so it can be easy to bear with.

via Blogger Buzz

Technorati Tags: Blogger,Blogger Navbar,Blogger News

Google Followers Gadget Now Displays Information Only Via A Lightbox.

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:33:18 PDT

Before today, If you saw a Google Friend Connect Gadget in a blog, when you clicked the photo of a follower in that blog, It would load the details of that user within the blog gadget. This is no longer the case. No you will get each user detail in a Lightbox. Before you could also get the whole widget in a Lightbox by clicking the full screen icon in the gadget. Now this same mode is for all uses of the gadget.

At first i thought: “Oh, ok. So this is the new default mode. I guess they added the other mode as a option”. So i went to the layout settings of the Followers Gadget but there is nothing there. So this mode is now THE ONLY mode you can have. My problem with it is that it happens to be very slow in any browser that is not Google Chrome (1-3 seconds vs 3-10 seconds in other browsers). Maybe they decided to go this way to end the problems the previous version has on actually showing or making the transitions within the gadget frame. Something that happened often.

I still wish there was the option to have the other mode from the gadget layout settings. In the meantime i will start looking for a third party made Google Followers Gadget to see if they support this option. But well now you know.

Technorati Tags: Google Followers Gadget,Google Friend Connect,Google News,Blogger News

Lijit Search Gadget For Blogger: Makes Your Blog Social, Has Multi Purpose Value [Review]

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:09:51 PDT

Lijit is a company that i know very well since it was a widget that was used over at WidgetsLab.com at a time and i covered some news on it. Lijit also happens to be a Blogger developer partner and they got a specially designed for Blogger version of their search gadget. The best way to describe lijit on layman terms is that it is a advanced contextual for blogs with a social angle. It is also a Ad Network for blogs, something you can read about on another post later on.

The lijit Search Gadget For Blogger has been around for a little while but it is now also a featured gadget in the Blogger Gadgets Catalog that you can find when you click “Add A Gadget” in the layout tab of your Blogger Blog Dashboard.

Lijit says that you can set up your Lijit account directly from the Blogger Gadget if you are not registered and that it will look this way:

But i found that with a failed attempt at least in the 3 browsers and at the two resolutions i also checked, i got this instead:

But you still do can set it up directly. By entering your Blog name as username so Google takes care of doing the account for you.

Once you see the success message, you hit save and the element will be added into your blog like this (you can of course return to your layout tab and move it wherever you want it to appear too):

After you have done this you need to wait from 1 to 3 minutes and refresh your browser so you will see this:

Now you need to set what E-mail and Password you want for your Lijit account and click the “Register Now” button. Once you do it will start loading your gadget:

Then you will have to wait another 1 minute for it to show this:

Now refresh your blog again and it will be there in its default look:

When a user does a search with the lijit search gadget, it will show up in a Lightbox unless you customize it to be implemented differently:

This is the basic functionality of the lijit search gadget. But it got a lot more that you will need to find about and enable from the lijit website. Overall if you are considering using the Lijit Search Gadget For Blogger, it is because you are going to replace the Google Blog Search with it. You can have both if you want but depending on your template and the browser, broadband line and pc your readers visit your blog in, that will add from 3 up to 15 seconds of total load time for your blog. If you only conserve one of them, then you will not add that extra time. And the best recommendation i can give is that your blog should never take more than 10 seconds to load so it gets visited as often as possible. Blogs that take 10 seconds to load or less will always be 3 times more visited or generate more page views than those that take over 10 seconds to load.

In the Lijit website you can customize the gadget overall look, functionality and implementation mode you want to show in your blog:

As you can see from the screenshots it also can serve as a multi purpose gadget, that includes a Recent Readers Map and Recent Readers Location List. Lijit also offers analytics so it can serve as a way to track visitors plus all the activity that gets done in the lijit gadget. The other big value of the gadget is if you got a blog network or you promote your blog in Social Sharing Networks, Social Networks, Social Messaging Networks you frequent or got a alternative commenting system. You can also connect that content into the Lijit Gadget. Here they show with how many providers beyond being able to add RSS feeds (when you got a blog network) they support:

I like the lijit search gadget, i think it a good addition if you want your blog not only have extensive search, but make it more social and networked. Even then, it is not always recommended to do this depending on your habits, blog subject, etc. So it is up to you to decide that.

I would have liked that the Gadget worked better, played nicer with IE8, was customizable from the Blogger Gadget Dashboard. But if you were wondering about other Blog Search options; This is one of the two main alternatives worth a look.

Linkage:

Lijit <—Homepage
Lijit Feature List <—Search Feature Guide

Technorati Tags: lijit,lijit search,lijit search gadget for blogger,blogger,blogger gadget,blogger search gadget,blogger advanced search gadget

Blogger Says: Use Six Adjectives. 3 For The Present, 3 For The Future

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:57:43 PDT

Blogger Team getting a little bit philosophical about Blogger next ten years. So they want Blogger users to use Six Adjectives. 3 For The Present, 3, For the Future (why not 3 for the past too?). They say you search what you hope of it in the next decade and what it means for you Today.

And if you are willing, they put up a form for you to fill here.

I wish they also made a form like this to ask for new features to be put in the highest priority of release while they are at it.

via Blogger Buzz

Technorati Tags: Blogger,Bloggerosphere

Restarted

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:48:37 PDT

After i put myself to erase over a 1000 spamments and odd comments polluting the blog, i had the chance to look back to pretty much every post that has been publishing so far and those post i didn’t publish.

Doing so brought me lots of nostalgia about the good times when i started the blog and the months before i started it back in early 2006. The best part of that nostalgia is about the people i meet via this blog. Some of them i even still talk with and some other that either became preoccupied or changed too much (some not for good) and i no longer talk with them.

Until today only i know that Bloggeratto was actually a refresh of a blog i had before back in early 2003 that precedes FreshBlog merely by 3 months or so. But i erased it in a tantrum even after i had already posted around 30-30something posts into it. I cannot for the life of me remember why.

That was a personal failure that i came to face 6 or so months later when i first saw FreshBlog up and running. Later on i decided to refresh the idea by making the blog better than the one i had before and Freshblog. I of course archived it and Bloggeratto was a mile better in many ways in how it focused hard on the community of those making hacks, mods and tweaks to blogger. And i still find it better than most blogs of its genre from its time up to early 2007 when Amanda Fazani (who i find truly amazingly good) and Blogger Buster pretty much replaced Bloggeratto (in the same metaphorical way i replaced BlogFresh) after in another tantrum that i do remember but will not comment on closed Bloggeratto for public viewing for half a year. I tried to restart in mid 2007 and then in mid 2008 without finding the energy for it because i was already working on some other things.

Right now, I decided to share those little anecdotes and history bookmarks because i no longer fear or get angry about failure. I no longer care too much about satisfying some of the crazy whims i used to think about back then. The facts will remain on me failing to keep this blog going at those times when i should have done so. But then comes the fun part when i look back to the stuff that i chronicled being done and what i can see right now. Because of the new Blogger (v.3.0) that now it not new at all. I noted that the level of hacks right now are EXACTLY of the same level they were in 2006 because of the general reboot that happened when the current Blogger was introduced. What did changed was that now Blogger got thousands of templates and that everything is now Blogger Gadget Powered, Related or Inspired. Then you got the third parties (startups mostly) that now offer widgets or addons to replace or improve any part of your blog.

Finally, that while Blogger is nowhere near where it should be. Google is now updating it often little by little and even if Wordpress now leads the pack in terms of features (and has done so for the last 2 years). Blogger continues to be Free, super easy to use, set up and customize. But more importantly is that now it is even less Spam/Hack prone than a hosted Wordpress blog and way way way easier to maintain (just use a excellent password). So there are now many reasons to use Blogger and now there is no way anyone using Wordpress or any other blog platform could say that Blogger don’t got pretty templates or that it lacks Plugins. And who needs a plugin system when you got a Gadget System and as many Widgets or services you want that can reproduce pretty much any useful integrated feature in any other blog platform?. That argument is passe.

It will take me at least a month to be able to edit and update every single blog post in the blog and make the template even better, But i am here for the long haul. Will not take it hard if you don’t believe me at this right now. I would not blame you if you know the history of the blog. You don’t have to believe me, just hope you give the blog a chance and that you find it useful to you.

Sorry for the strange rant, but i don’t think there was a more fitting way to restart this blog.

Welcome to Bloggeratto.

www.Bloggeratto.com

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:18:51 PDT

That is right. FINALLY.

As of 22/10/09 http://bloggeratto.blogspot.com is now:

www.Bloggeratto.com

Restart very very very soon

Bloggeratto Now Mobile

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:33:07 PDT

Thanks to MoFuse. A RSS-To-Mobile service from my old friend David Berube (yutter, scoopr, dawrfURL, etc) now you can now read Bloggeratto on the go via any mobile or smartphone on a Mobile friendly site.

I added the address to the Top Menu but i put it here too for future reference:

http://bloggeratto.mofuse.mobi

Please let me now if it looks right in both Standard and Smartphone views.

New Bloggeratto Template: Urban Snow

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:48:30 PDT

Yeah, No need to check your eyes. Bloggeratto got a new template and it lives to the eerie look of the first one. The original one:

The original was a direct homage for Blogger since i insisted in built it up from the White Minima Template. That as you know is pretty much the most common template ever in all the world. At the of that template Categories in blogger didn’t existed, nor tags, nor labels, not blogger gadgets/widgets, no asynchronous search. elements like floating date timestamps and perfectly clean 3 column layouts were also custom. Yet Bloggeratto had it all. While only those who looked into the code of Bloggeratto back then would know. The template was called “Minimatic”.

That Template was done by me and Aditya Mukherjee.

This new one is called “Urban Snow” and it in itself a homage to Minimatic. With the distinction that there is no shared code of the Minima Template or any other template.

This one was built from zero with a program called Artisteer. So i at this point didn’t had to script or scrap out not even a line of code yet. Artisteer is for Templates what SketchFlow-Blend is for Silverlight/WPF code. So i designed it, but it was generated by a App. It’s not that progress or what?

The template is still not finished since i have yet to heavily customize the details and has not been' “debugged”. But the design is pretty much final. The new Logo is not going to stay around forever but since it was done for Bloggeratto quite a long ago. I decided to put it to good use.

Appatic

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:49:08 PDT

That is the name of one of my new blogs and that by now there is no doubt that i am updating often and with serious content. You will find me there often and it will crossover via news bits into Bloggeratto when applicable.

www.Appatic.com

Merely a note before starting anew here at B!

Restoration

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:09:17 PDT

NO statements

NO more jinxing it talking about what could be or will be and then not happening.

YES to Bloggeratto returning

…..Now hold that thought and it will happen.

Happy New Year -Feliz Año Nuevo 2009

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:44:32 PST

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Lets hope for 2009 to be great and for use to be better.

Salud!

Blogger User Feedback Survey

Bloggeratto@gmail.com — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:55:48 PST

Blogger is currently doing a general Feedback Survey. so if you have not answered the survey. please do so. you may also have not seen it if you are using Windows Live Writer or Scribefire instead of the Blogger Post Editor. so here i drop the link. tell them what you think and what you want.

Blogger User Feedback Survey

Bloggeratto

Merry Christmas – Feliz Navidad

Blogger In Draft: Compose Mode Now Comes With A Dictionary At Hand

Retractable Blogger Navbar

Blogger In Draft: Better Picasa Integration In Image Posting And Better Blogger Video Uploads

Blogger In Draft: Geotagging Back On

Basic Health Tips For Bloggers

Related Links Of The Week

Silvester: A Silverlight Twitter Badge For Your Blog

If you are wondering it the widget works in Blogger blog, don’t worry you can see it live in the linked post. it is fully customizable in terms of size and color too.

Mag.ma: Now With Bookmarklet, Widgets, Video Importer, Feeds And API

Blogger Says: Next Blog Button To Be BloggerUpon

Blogger Says: Simple, Fun And Easy Today. Tomorrow Maybe Better, Integrated And Customizable.

Bloggeratto On Widgets, Gadgets and Mashlets

Blogger Says: We Should Have Told You About The Recent Service Interruption

Blogger In Draft: Geotagging Turned Off

Some Notes On Bloggeratto

Blogger Says: New Transparent Navbar Styles, Light or Dark.

Google Followers Gadget Now Displays Information Only Via A Lightbox.

Lijit Search Gadget For Blogger: Makes Your Blog Social, Has Multi Purpose Value [Review]

Blogger Says: Use Six Adjectives. 3 For The Present, 3 For The Future

Restarted

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