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The World’s Largest Ice Cave In Salzburg, Austria

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:21:08 PST

The Eisriesenwelt (German for "World of the Ice Giants") is a natural limestone ice cave located in Werfen, Austria, about 40 km south of Salzburg. It is extending more than 42km and though only the first kilometer is covered in ice, it is still the largest of its kind .

The cave is open from May to October, visited by approximately 200,000 tourists every year and only the first kilometer of the cave are allowed to be explored.

Eisriesenwelt Cave was formed by the Salzach river, which flowed through the mountain eroding passageways. The ice formations in the cave were formed by thawing snow which drained into the cave and froze during winter. Since the entrance to the cave is open year-round, chilly winter winds blow into the cave and freeze the snow inside. In summer, a cold wind from inside the cave blows toward the entrance and prevents the formations from melting.

Eisriesenwelt was discovered by Anton Posselt, a natural scientist from Salzburg, in 1879. Before his discovery, the cave was known only to locals, who, believing that it was an entrance to Hell, refused to explore it. One year later he published a detailed report of his discovery in a mountaineering magazine. And then later in 1912, a group of several expeditions into the cave was led by Alexander von Mörk, a speleologist from Salzburg, which were soon followed by other explorers.

How to Set Up a Custom Domain on Blogger for Name.com

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:46:27 PST

So this is step by step tutorial on how to set a custom domain to your Blogger account. Noted that this tutorial is for the domain that was purchase from Name.com, but does not necessarily useless for others domain registrar.

Here we go:-

1. Open your Blogger account, click on Settings and choose Basic

2. Then click Add a custom domain under Blog Address field in Publishing section.
3. Click Switch to advanced settings.
4. Put your domain name on the field and click Save.

Note: Blogger only accepts non-naked domains in the sign-up process; otherwise most probably resulting in error. Naked domain for example ~ yourdomain.com. So you have to put a subdomain as a prefix for example, www.yourdomain.com or blog.yourdomain.com

5. Once this process done, you will see two CNAME records which should be seen as shown in the picture below

6. Now login to your Name.com Account and click the domain name

7. On the right hand side under Control Panel in the Domain Management, click DNS Record Management

8. So this is a DNS Management panel for Name.com

9.Now using the data earlier, fill in the field and click Add Record.

Type	Host	Answer	TTL
CNAME	www	ghs.google.com	1800
CNAME	geXXXXXXXhzur	gv-XXXXXX.domainverify.googlehosted.com	1800

10. Now again add another 4 DNS record with the following value and hit Add Record

Type	Host	Answer	TTL
A		216.239.32.21	1800
A		216.239.34.21	1800
A		216.239.36.21	1800
A		216.239.38.21	1800

11. Now lastly go back to your Blogger dashboard earlier and click save.

And that's it! It may take up to a couple of hours for Blogger to verify the settings created for your domain.

Go0d Luck..

Related tutorial :-

- How to Set Up Google Apps for Domain (Coming soon)

How to Remove a Domain from Google Apps

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:26:31 PST

Before, I had my domain hosted on paid hosting for about a year. Later on, I decided to use Blogger.com for hosting. Anyway, I got the domain from Name.com for about $8.99 after a coupon discount. For me, Name.com is my first choice for a Domain Name Registration. The service is great and as for right now I already have two domain from this site.

Ok, back to the topic at hand. After purchasing the domain and hosted it on paid hosting, I have enable the Google Apps services provided by Name.com. But because of that, I got an error warning that says *Another blog or Google Site is already using this address when I want to set up the domain on Blogger.com. It means that I had to disable or remove the Google Apps first before I can proceed to the next step.

Noted that, when you remove your domain from Google Apps, any information you had created while using Google Apps will be erased. And you will not be able to access any of this information again. So, think carefully before you decided to delete them, make sure that this is what you want...

Here is the steps on how to remove your domain from Google Apps

1. Login to the Google Apps cPanel: https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/yourdomain.com
2. Click on Domain settings
3. Click Account information
4. Then click Delete Google Apps for yourdomain.com

5. After that, the last final notification will ask you to confirm your action. Then you can check the checkbox and click the button to delete the domain from Google Apps.

Note: You may want to change or delete the unnecessary record in your domain DNS Management panel.

After this process is done, you can now custom your domain on Blogger.com as usual and later set up your Google Apps again from scratch if you want.

Related tutorial :-

- How to Set Up a Custom Domain on Blogger for Name.com
- How to Set Up a Google Apps for your Domain - Name.com (Coming soon)
- How to Set Up a Google Apps for your Domain - DataKL Solution (Coming soon)

Instagram Socialmatic Camera Concept

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:31:22 PDT

Since Facebook has bought Instagram for nearly a billion dollars in cash and stock last April, a rumors emerged that Instagram will make its first own physical camera. To answer to that rumors, this is a concept camera made by ADR Studios called 'Instagram Socialmatic'. Its design literally taken from the design of the Instagram App icon. Yeah I know, cool right..

Instagram Socialmatic features

16 GB mass storage
Wifi and Bluetooth
4:3 touchscreen
2 main lens, first for main capture, second for 3D filters, webcam applications and QR Code capturing
Optical zoom
Led Flash
Internal printer to make your Instagram photos real
Paper cartridge with Instagram Paper Sheets
Dedicated 4 colors ink tanks
InstaOs 1.0, which put together Facebook and Instagram

Basically you can take a photo with Instagram Socialmatic, make your photo look cool and share it directly on Facebook. You can also print it directly on Instagram Paper Sheets using its internal printer like those good old Polaroid photos and share it in the real world.

As for now ADR Studios has not yet confirm this but lets just hope that this can be true..

via ADR Studios

Massive Solar Storms Trigger Stunning Northern Lights

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:32:07 PDT

These are some magnificiant pictures and videos of auroras that was taken due to the event of a coronal mass ejection, or CME, that hit our planet earlier this week. A CME is a cloud of superheated gas and charged particles hurled off the sun. The experts said that a strong solar flare had erupted from an active region on the sun triggered the strongest solar storm experienced since October 2003.

When a CME hits Earth, the charged solar particles can interact with gases in our atmosphere to produce the northern and southern lights [National Geographic].

Facts : Airplanes had to change routes, and the power grid and satellites were affected.

Photograph by Ole C. Salomonsen, www.arcticlightphoto.no
Taken in Lyngan Alps near Tromsø, Norway, on January 24.

Photograph by Thilo Bubek, www.bubek-fotodesign.com

Northern lights flow over the snow-dusted mountains near Tromsø, Norway, on January 21.

Photograph by Thilo Bubek, www.bubek-fotodesign.com

Bright green auroras light up the night sky near Tromsø, Norway, on January 21.

Photograph by Bjørn Jørgensen

Bright auroras seem to spread like wings over the mountains outside of Tromsø, Norway, on January 22.

More pictures and information on National Geographic..

Videos

Time-lapse movie of the coronal aurora appeared over Fairbanks, Alaska. Red aurora was also captured. (1:44 - 2:11am AKST, January 22, 2012).

Northern Lights 24.1.2012 (Solar Storm) Ylläs-Äkäslompolo, Lapland Finland.

www.northernlightsphotography.no

Amazing view of the aurora borealis in Sweden on January 24th, 2012. Chad Blakley, www.lightsoverlapland.com

[via National Geographic]

Casio G-Shock Smartphone Prototype

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:23:54 PST

Back then, we may only know G-Shock as a brand for a world renown rugged watches known for its resistance to shocks, designed primarily for sports, military, and outdoor adventure oriented activity [wiki]. Now, Casio has taken a huge step since the last attempt with its first Android smartphone models, G’zOne Commando..

G-Shock smartphone is a Casio pre-production prototype smartphone firstly introduce to public in CES 2012, Las Vegas. It been said that it has all its basic G-Shock line essential features with a rugged appearance and shock resistance.

Features :-

Android OS
Shock resistant to 10 feet
Water resistant to 1.0 bar = 10m
Pressure resustant to 1.0 bar
Metal caseback
Plastic / resin construction
Camera and flash

[via G-Shock Zone]

Fujitsu Lifebook 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:10:43 PST

Fujitsu Lifebook 2013 is a concept device, design by Prashant Chandra in a competition held by Fujitsu in which attracted more than 3500 designers around the world. Lifebook 2013 has been shortlisted in the top 100 in the competition.

Well enough talk, look just how well did Prashant transforming his idea to life. It is simply brilliant..

The proposed Lifebook is a laptop computer concept based on the principle of “shared hardware”. Currently a lot of hardware is wasted when we use separate devices, as there is often a lot of “repeat” of data stored and features. For example if I have my songs on my music player, why do I have to block the same amount of storage on my laptop? Similarly, if I have a processor sitting in my tablet, why can it not also run/assist my laptop? If I have a fully functional camera with its own memory and image processing power, why do I need to have it repeated in my laptop? ~ Prashant Chandra

via : yankodesign.com

How to Host Your Blogger Scripts and Files on Google Code

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:46:07 PST

Blogger tweaks or even adding a new widget to blogger template constantly require the use of JavaScript and CSS for customization. Hosting a JavaScript and CSS proven to be better practices than installing it directly to the HTML. This way, the load time will be more faster and more cleaner HTML template.

One of the free option to host a files is by using Google Code. Google Code runs a Project Hosting service that provides revision control offering Subversion, Mercurial and Git, an issue tracker, a wiki for documentation, and a file download feature [Wiki]. This means, with the 200MB file limit, you can upload any file - JavaScript, Image, Video, CSS, Documents etc with no restriction.

Before we go further, you must know that Google Code Project Hosting is a shared hosting rather than regular web hosting services. So all projects hosted on Google Code are Open Source, and are available for anyone to view or download.

Various licenses are used for the files served by Project Hosting including GNU General Public License (GPL), MIT License etc.

How To Host Your Files On Google Code

Step 1 : Go to Google Code Project Hosting and fill the required fields. Choose License as MIT License and Version Control System as Mercurial and press Create Project. [More on how to choose a Version Control System here]

Step 2 : Go to Downloads tabs and then click the New download button.

Step 3 : Now fill all the necessary field and select the file you want to upload and click the Submit file button.

If you're hosting a JavaScript file and want to get the source url, just click on on the files listed..

Now, right click the link highlighted in red and copy the source link..

Lastly, if you wanna make a change, make a new download or delete files, just go to Google Code homepage and click the My favorites link on the top-right corner and select your projects.

Go0d Luck..

Journey 2 - The Mysterious Island 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:14:34 PST

To whom who enjoyed the previous sequel of the movie - Journey To The Center Of The Earth (2008) or a hardcore fan of Jules Verne - the author, must be truly anticipate this upcoming movie on cinema this February (Malaysia - 19 January 2012).

The Mysterious Island is a story based on novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874 - basicly tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific [More info on Wiki]. While in the movie, Sean Anderson(Josh Hutcherson) partners with his mom's boyfriend(Dwayne Johnson) on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.

The book can be downloaded here : ManyBooks.net

Trailer

Photos

"BELIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE. DISCOVER TTHE INCREDIBLE."

How to Add Facebook Send Button on Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Hedy™) — Thu, 19 May 2011 10:36:22 PDT

Aside from Like button, Facebook now has introduce new features in its collection - the Send button. Its allow users to send your blog post to their friend in diffrent way. The option are :-

send message to the inbox of their facebook friends
send to the group wall of any Facebook group they are a member of
and send as an email to any email address

The message will include a link to the URL specified in the send button, along with a title, image, and short description of the link.

The best thing is, we can integrate it with the Like button in a single attribute. Apparently this only works with the XFBML version, so if you have the Like button on iframe before, you have to change it intirely. But not to worry, its very easy.

Now here is how to do it..

1. The Facebook Send button code in XFBML (if you want to add it seperately)

<script src='http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1'/><fb:send colorscheme='light' expr:href='data:post.url' font='arial'/>

2. Integrate with Facebook Like button (Facebook Like + Send)

<script src='http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1' type='text/javascript'/><fb:like colorscheme='light' action='like' layout='standard' expr:href='data:post.url' font='arial' send='true' show_faces='false' width='450'/>

3. As to where to put the button code

Step 1 : In your Blogger dashboard Click 'Layout' ► 'Edit Html' ► 'Expand Widget Templates'. Don't forget to backup your template by download it first.
Step 2 : Ctrl + F and find the following code in your blog Html

<data:post.body/>

Step 3 : Paste the code after the above code

4. Customize (button style)

layout = standard / button_count [choose layout]
show_faces = true / false [show picture]
action = like / recommend [option : Like or Recommended button]
colorscheme = light / dark [color]

And last but not least, use this if you want to make your button appear only in your post page and not in your index page.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
..The_Code_Here
</b:if>

You can also use the AND statement to avoid it appear in your static page

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "static_page"'>
..The_Code_Here
</b:if>
</b:if>

Or refer to this post for more choice of the button placement.
[Control your Widget Placement with Conditional Tags]

Go0d Luck..