Oktoberfest is a sixteen-day festival held each year in Munich, Germany during late September (and running to early October). It is one of the most famous events in Germany and the world’s largest fair, with some six million people attending every year, and is an important part of Bavarian culture. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations, modeled after the Munich event.
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Google has three more birthday gifts for blogger. They add the read more link , added more templates and now that its been sometime after blogger’s birthday, Google still wants to gift more new features to Blogger. Here are 3 more new features that were rolled out in blogger recently:
For just $15 you can can print out a blog as a book. This amount includes 20 pages.Also, if you want to print more? you can pay more $ 0.35 per page.
The Blogger team has worked with Widgetbox and you can now create a widget with a few clicks.
From now on anyone can submit, upload a profile picture while commenting. The admin of the blog needs to unlock this option in the settings.
Do you have any new features that you want to share? let us know by posting comments below!
Google has released an update for SketchUp. It is the first major update since November 2008, has appeared as SketchUp 7. SketchUp 7.1 brings several improvements and bug fixes and will also have some new features.
Some of the new features are:
– Large Model Handling
– Better File Exchange
– Modeling in Context
– Dimensioned Drawings in Google SketchUp Pro
The exact details of this and for more info on pro-users, free updates can be found in Google LatLong blog.
A few days ago, Google has announced a specific Blogger app for the iPhone..It basically would be a lite version of Blog. The Iphone app seems to be available through the Apple AppStore for download.
If one uses the app for the first time, you have to log in to the Google account and can then select a blog and a Picasa album. Contributions can then publish directly from the iPhone. If you save the article as a draft, it is only stored on the iPhone and not online. A Draft Will have a small icon next to “Title” and the editor can choose to publish it directly anytime.
Wanna give it a try? Are you an Iphone fan? Download it here
The results are then presented. Click it then has a face to enter the name. If one is logged into their Google account, then the information is automatically downloaded from Google Contacts, which saves some typing.
If you have provided some pictures with names, also makes proposals. This saves a lot of time again. If you already tagged photos to Picasa Web, you can import this data with one click.
There were also improvements in geotagging. From now on you can directly add geotagging in Picasa. You no longer have to use Google Earth, but can directly use Google Maps. Images can also be arranged via drag’n’drop.
You can download it here
Google launched a new service called Sidewiki Google, a new feature in the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox. With Sidewiki visitors can add a page more information.
To use Sidewiki, make sure you have installed the latest toolbar (version for Firefox 6.1, Internet Explorer 6.3), and a Google Account. With the help of Sidewiki users can share knowledge and experience with users from around the world. You can write comments, share knowledge and communicate additional information when you visit different web sites. All they need do is open the sidebar on the left of the browser window. The contributions are visible to other users and help them to find desired content quickly.
People with a website always have the option to exclude page editor to write a note which is always the first note to the page in question appears. They should be claimed through the website webmaster center.
Notes can be seen when you go to Google.com for example, when you visit the homepage is in the browser pane on the left side of the screen that you can collapse the comments placed to view. The Wiki Side button in the toolbar is also yellow when there are notes available. The button remains white if no notes are available but can be placed. When you visit pages for which no notes could be placed the button turns gray.
Twitter has four new themes added and the number of available themes now to 16. Twitter has also updated the default theme and avatar to match the twitter front page.
Finally, you also get new default avatar when creating a new account . This is also updated and available in six colors.
To change your Twitter page design, visit Settings > Design.
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Did you know that you Blogger blog is an OpenID which can be used to sign into other websites? well now you know :) … Plaxo has always been friendly with Opensocial stuff like OpenID, Auth which provides more ways to sign in to your Plaxo online account in a secure way.
Here’s how to use your Blogger URL as an OpenID to sign in to your Plaxo online account:
1. Click on Sign in using OpenID
2 Enter your Blogspot URL (Eg. http://sharath-g.blogspot.com)
3. Grant permission (proving you’re the owner) by signing into your Google account
4. Vola, you’re done. You should be signed into Plaxo :)
If you use any of the services such as Google, Flickr, Yahoo, Blogger or Myspace you already have your own OpenID. When you see bold text, you should replace it with your own username or screenname on that service… No more forgotten password problems :D … Also the same works for any valid OpenID!
Now you should be able to sign in to your Plaxo account using your blogspot URL in the future… Cool and easy eh?.. What’s on you’re mind? do you have any such simple How-to’s? send me tips and i’ll be glad to publish it!