Tricks Blogs: 9/1/09

Live Website Chat Widget

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A chat room is a great way to get your readers more involved in your blog. If you think about it, your visitors may end up spending the night chatting with other visitors. Now that's a great thought... The answer is Yaplet, which adds a chat room to every site on the internet!

For Example, here is the WidgetsForFree™ Chat Room . All you need to do is create a visible link or button to your site's chat room just like I have done above. Go to Yaplet.com to find your blog's chat room.

You can also create a pop-up version
If you go to yaplet's website, you will find some nice buttons which can be placed on your blog.

All the things this Widget can be used for:

Chat with friends
Make new friends
Build new communities
Collaborate on group work
Telepresent
Provide customer service
Offer real-time support
Educate over distance
Play games
Read/write reviews
and more...

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Blogger supplies every blog with the standard orange "B" blogger favicon. Having your own unique favicon is a great way to give your Blogger supplies every blog with the standard orange "B" blogger favicon. Having your own unique favicon is a great way to give your blogger template both a distinct and explicit brand. These small 16X16 pixel images will most definitely help your blog stand out from the rest of the blogspot blogs.

What is a Favicon?
A favicon is a small 16X16 image located at the top of your browser in the url bar.

How to Change your Favicon

First go to Layout >Edit HTML in your Blogger Dashboard.
Backup your existing template before making any changes!
Place the code below directly below the </head> tag in your template.

<link href='http://bsaves.com/HowHero/Blogger%20Templates/moonspot/images/favicon.ico' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/vnd.microsoft.icon' />
<link href='http://bsaves.com/HowHero/Blogger%20Templates/moonspot/images/favicon.ico' rel='icon'/>

Now save your template.
Once your template is saved view your blog and make sure to refresh the page and delete your cookies.

Creating your own Favicon

Replace the image URL (2X) with your own 16 pixel by 16 pixel image hosted on the internet.

http://bsaves.com/HowHero/Blogger%20Templates/moonspot/images/favicon.ico

You can host your own favicon blogger image at sites such as ImageShack; PhotoBucket; Flickr; etc.

Check out this Favicon Generator Tool which allows you to upload an image and it will format it for you!

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By default Blogger displays the blog title first, followed by the name of the post. As you might notice this is not good when it comes to SEO. It's important for the name of the post to come before the name of your blog, especially when it comes to google search results. Learn how to make your post title show up first so that you can reel in more traffic from the search engines.

Why Change the Titles?
It's quite important to have the Post Title + Blog Title arranged accordingly because this is how you would want your blog to be displayed on google's search results. This way more people will click on your link when searching google because the post title is more relevant than your post name.
Example Google Search Results:
You are most likely to click on the bottom image when searching google for the keywords "image reflection generator". The reason being is that your mind reads text from left to right. So it makes sense to have the more important title on the left.

How to Change the Titles:

Go to Layout>edit HTML in your Blogger dashboard.

Search for this tag: <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

Replace this tag with the following code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
</b:if>

Save your template and you should see the results in your web browser as depicted in the images below.

It may take a few days for the changes to show up on the google search results. I guarantee you that you will start receiving more traffic from google once you are re-indexed!

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This top commenters widget is a wonderful tool for giving back to your most loyal readers. It's a great way to inspire your constituents to keep making useful comments on your blog. The widget displays links to to the top commentators websites and can easily be implemented in your blog's sidebar.

Features:

Calculates the top commentators on your blog based on the last 100 comments.
Displays the Commenter's Name with a link to their Site URL.
You may also filter your own name so that you will not appear as a top commenter.
Choose the number of commenters you wish to display. The default value is 5.
This plugin functions differently from the Recent Comments Widget.

Installing the Top Commentators Widget:

When entering your blog's URL make sure to not add the "http://". The URL should be displayed as yourblog.blogspot.com

video embed code for your blogger

Flash MP3 Player Generator

Name of the different parts of the player are shown in this image:

Copy and paste the above code in your orkut scrap, blogger posts or in any other webpage.

Popular Posts (Most Commented) Widget for Blogger Blogs

Here is a Popular Posts widget for Blogger blogs which displays a list of the ten most commented posts. This works by parsing the last 5000 comments which have been made on your blog; the post titles and URL are extracted and displayed in descending order of popularity, followed by the comment count of this post.

Over the past few weeks, many of you have expressed an interest in such a widget, and I hope this will become a useful widget for you all.

You can see this widget in action and install this in your own Blogger powered blog using the widget installer below.Please note: if you are reading this post in your feed reader, you will not see the widget installer and will need to visit this page in your browser instead!

Widget by TRICKSBLOGS

On the right you can see an example of the Popular Posts widget, which displays the ten most popular posts from Blogger Buster (including their comment count). This widget uses Yahoo! Pipes to parse and display each item in the list using the last 5000 comments which have been made on this blog.

Update: I've just changed the mark-up of the widget to capitalize only the first letter of each word in the post titles (thanks to Angel's great advice!)

Installing this widget in your own Blogger blog is easy:

Change the title of the widget if you prefer.

Add your blog's URL in the input box (don't include the http:// part as this is already inserted by the script)

Click the "Customize" button to make the changes take effect, then click on the "Add to Blog" button.

At this point, you will be taken to the widget installer page where you can choose which of your Blogger powered blogs you would like to install this widge

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Tux'n'tosh
54593 downloads. 3.0 stars. Updated August 31, 2005
A cleaned up, refined, cross-platform version of the original Tux'n'tosh Widget by Bandar Raffa.

Tux'n'tosh waddles around your screen in the direction you choose.

iJam
53731 downloads. 4.0 stars. Updated December 13, 2005
Play drum over your favorite song. Click on different drums or cymbals to get different sounds, or use the following keyboard keys to play:

[space] - basedrum
[f] - snare
[r] - tom1
[t] - tom2
[y] - tom3
[u] - tom4
[4] - splash
[5] - cymbal left
[8] - cymbal right
[j] - hi-hat
[k] - ride
[g]- cowbell
ijam keyboard widget,

Dictionary
55148 downloads. 3.5 stars. Updated October 13, 2005
This is a dictionary/thesaurus Widget. It can get its results from several different dictionary websites, and allows you to set up custom dictionaries as well. It comes with several pre-set dictionaries to use, including Dictionary.com, Wiktionary, and Merriam-Webster Online.

[Editor's note] This Widget may not work as expected on some Macs.

miniMail
55242 downloads. 3.0 stars. Updated April 3, 2005
This Widget allows you to quickly send an email message without having to load your email client. You can either click on the small icon to start composition or use the customizable hotkey. You can also send a text message to a mobile phone (using teleflip.com) by simply entering the phone number in the address field. A few of the major improvements in 2.0 include file attachments, real names, a straight-to-blogger button, and a built-in address book!

miniIP
57505 downloads. 3.5 stars. Updated November 16, 2005
A very simple Widget that displays your *local PC* and/or *public facing* IP addresses, and fits nicely in the title bar of any Windows / Mac application.

New for Version 2.x:
Display other information in the title bar including CPU, memory, virtual memory, battery charge, WiFi signal strength. It is also possible to: cycle though the information over time, select specific information that is displayed/cycled through, set a visual alert on each of the above with configurable thresholds and now choose a background colour.Also a new context menu showing drive information.

iPlayer
58139 downloads. 3.5 stars. Updated June 19, 2005
iTunes widget for Konfabulator based on iPod shuffle design.

It features visible artist and track names upon mouseover which are removed when the cursor leaves the Widget, and the font and font colors can be specified.

[Editor's Note] To move this Widget more easily...
On Mac: Hold down the Command key and drag.
On Windows: Hold down the Control key and drag.

How Long?
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How Long?
58164 downloads. 3.5 stars. Updated November 9, 2003
How Long? is a modification of Michael Lynn's panthClock but instead of counting down to Panther it counts up from any date you specify. Great for showing how old you are in days!

Battleship
58585 downloads. 3.0 stars. Updated September 28, 2003
The classic lives again, complete with sound effects! Pit your fleet against the computer for all out naval war! Can you outwit that brand new dual-G5 system you just bought? Download and see! ship

Eldon Dice
59587 downloads. 3.5 stars. Updated October 20, 2005
A pair of shiny blue dice for the desktop. Click them to roll them. They're animated!

[Editor's Note] To move this Widget...
On Windows: Hold down the Control key as you drag it.
On Mac OS X: Hold down the Command key as you drag it.

SpeedFan Temperature Monitor
59836 downloads. 4.0 stars. Updated November 3, 2005
This Widget uses SpeedFan, a popular utility, to display your processor temperature simply and concisely.

[Editor's Note] SpeedFan requires quite a bit of configuration before this Widget works correctly. You will need to turn on the logging feature and choose what is written in the log before launching the Widget. system monitor

Multiple City Traffic Widget
60058 downloads. 4.0 stars. Updated August 30, 2005
Displays incident hotspots and/or traffic congestion for the various metro areas available on www.traffic.com. The user can select the city from the preferences window.

Based off the traffic Widgets by Justin Campbell and John Teague.

Paper
60308 downloads. 3.0 stars. Updated June 5, 2005
Minimalist note pad, without a huge titlebar, scrollbar, or margin, and the tiniest resize bezel. It remembers your notes between sessions, can read them aloud (command-space), or execute them in the Terminal (Command-enter).

Pure white, with no lumbering images, it takes up 12k, and you decide how much screen space. A bit better than physical paper, if you ask me!

Version 1.1 saves more often & allows you to seperately control background opacity, font size, & toggle the speech hotkey.

Create your own widget for your google blogger blog!
The newest version of blogger has adding a custom widget to a blog .
You can click on the example below called "Add our link to your Blogger Blog".

Outbrain Rating Widget
Give your readers the option to rate your blog posts.
Are you curious to know what your readers think about your site's content? By adding the outbrain rating widget you will get immediate feedback from your readers, and they will get easy and quick access to your best content. This widget works for Blogger, Wordpress, Drupal, a website/javascript, and Feedburner.

Just go to outbrain.com to get started with any blog platform.

Add Outbrain Ratings to your Blogger blog

Steps:

Click on "Template"
Click on "Add page element"
Click "HTML/Javascript"
Copy and paste the code below
Click "Save"

GeoLocation
60959 downloads. 2.5 stars. Updated March 1, 2005
Looks up an IP address and displays the known geographical location of that IP address.

Gmail Check
29838 downloads
This Widget will display the number of unread messages you have in your Gmail account. Based on Dion Crannitch's Gee-Mail Widget. Includes bits from Non-Obtrusive Mail Check by Michael Stephens and gCount by Nathan Spindel. email

Meteo by satellite
61834 downloads. 3.0 stars. Updated September 13, 2005
View meteo by satellite.
Zoom by click and drag on the image wherever you want. This is actually quite an amazing widget!

Fresh Badge
Quickly freshen up your site/blog, sales page, or scrapbook with your own uniquely designe

Fresh Badge
Quickly freshen up your site/blog, sales page, or scrapbook with your own uniquely designed, and very web 2.0 "fresh badge"! This is perfect if you are looking for a free way to make a very high-quality logo for you website. you can create numerous variations until you get just the right combination of color, font, gloss, glare and shadow. You even have your choice of shapes: retro flower, sawtooth seal, rounded flower, or circle.

Drugs
62325 downloads. 3.5 stars. Updated August 30, 2005
Detailed information on:
- Prescription Drugs
- OTC Drugs
- Herbal Medicines
- Nutritional Supplements

Look up a drug and read information about its use, side effects, warnings, food and drug conflicts, and more.

This information is being scraped from http://www.pdrhealth.com. The Widget itself may contain incomplete or incorrect

Kalculator
62624 downloads. 4.0 stars. Updated December 26, 2004
A Widget designed to behave very much like standard-issue pocket calculators. Includes trig, square root, exponent, logarithm and inverse functions. Controllable by mouse and keyboard. Some useful features are unit conversions, displays for memory content and repeated operations, hexidecimal display, and a minimized mode that snaps to screen edges.

Click-and-hold on the number display for unit conversion, copy, hex, and donations.

Fancy Goldfish
63647 downloads. 3.5 stars. Updated May 19, 2005
Watch the little fish swim around your screen.

I wanted to play with the Konfabulator API, and this is the result.

It took about an hour for coding/debugging and an hour to mess about with the (less than perfect) images.

Enjoy!
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systemDashboard - Battery Meter
64020 downloads. 3.5 stars. Updated June 26, 2005
The second in the systemDashboard series, this Widget keeps track of how much battery time you have left and returns it in both a percentage and in time left to empty. Inspired by the dashboards of fancy sports cars. cha

Have a nice day
64506 downloads. 3.5 stars. Updated April 3, 2005
This is the Have a nice day clock based on the Chrome Clock Widget by Ken Mastri. The wonderful graphics are by Scott Copeland. For all of those that remember the have a nice day smiley sticker from the 70's. Three chimes to choose from or let the computer speak it. Added themes also the ability to enter text for the clock to speak. Go on, check it out.

systemDashboard - Wireless meter
65924 downloads. 3.5 stars.
The wifi signal strength widget is the third in the systemDashboard series, this Yahoo powered Widget monitors your wireless connection, and returns it as both a percentage and as a series of concentric rings that dim and change color as your signal strengthens and weakens. Inspired by the dashboards of fancy sports cars.

systemDashboard - Wifi Status
1285 downloads. 3.3 stars.
This widget will display your wifi status nicely on your desktop. It lets you know which wireless network you are currently connected along with the signal strength of the connection. The widget displays the statistics data in both icons and percentage.

systemDashboard - Wifi Status
131254 downloads. 3.6 stars.
A simple wifi meter which also displays the network connection if desired. It's main feature: displays the strength of your connection in signal waves. The signal strength can also be viewed as a raw percentage.

systemDashboard - Wifi Meter
10237 downloads. 3.1 stars.
This is the WIFI signal strength meter that features the WIFI strength in percentage, the signal indicator and the network name.

systemDashboard - My Wifi
6271 downloads. 3.0 stars.
This wireless meter shows a small icon signal strength meter with the signal strength in numbers.

systemDashboard - Simple Wifi Meter
17406 downloads. 3.0 stars.
The simplest of all the wifi meters. Simply featuring a slender bar which displays the signal strength.

Blogger Search Bar Form

Add a search engine in the sidebar of your blogger blog. This searches all the posts on your blog, and displays them by latest posts first. Inside the search bar you will find the text "Search this Site", this can easily be changed to any text you desire. Such as "Search my Site", "Search", "Type and Hit Enter", etc. Just simply replace the code. You can also change the text "Go" on the button to something like "Search", "Find", etc.

SimpleMonitor
66836 downloads. 3.5 stars. Updated November 8, 2005
Simple system monitor.
- Monitors CPU, RAM, bandwidth usage

Widget Maker
67441 downloads. 4.0 stars. Updated January 6, 2006
Widget Maker is a construction tool for Konfabulator Widgets.

A form-filling interface is provided to assist in the generation of the xml script of a Widget. Users still have to create images and write the javascript needed to provide the Widget's functionality.

Multi Clock
67508 downloads. 4.0 stars. Updated January 5, 2006
A classy clock with a variety of backgrounds to choose from. Colour and chime options, Digital or Analog face, 3 hand styles and a removable date box.

What more could you want from a clock?

GasWatch
68740 downloads. 2.5 stars. Updated March 27, 2005
GasWatch shows you the lowest priced gas in your zip code. It also provides a handy button to show a map to the gas station. Maps for Mac users provided by Google Maps.

Please note that GasWatch uses data provided by http://autos.msn.com/. This data is only available in the USA and does not cover every area.

JC Sticky Deluxe
70765 downloads. 3.5 stars. Updated November 14, 2005
Sticky Deluxe is a cross-platform sticky note / post-it note / memo taker. It has a ton of cool and powerful features including:

? Multiple stickies
? Per-sticky window level control

? Global window level control
? Ability to resize sticky
? Customizable fonts, colors, background themes
? Hotkey to create new sticky
? Hotkey to show and hide all stickies
? "Hide paper" and just see text
? Print stickies
? Minimize Stickies
? Auto and manual version checking

? Show actual sticky text files

systemDashboard - Time Monitor (clock)
71024 downloads. 3.5 stars. Updated June 26, 2005
This is the 5th Widget in the systemDashboard Series. This Widget does exactly what its name implies... monitors the time so that you may know it at a glance.
Features include a digitized analog clock with a disableable second hand to keep cpu usage low, digital time readout and a digital month and day readout with two formats for our international friends, and a host of colors to choose from! di

Sudoku Puzzle Widget

The Sudoku widget generates random puzzles with five different levels of difficulty and shows when you have entered an incorrect answer. It can also check to see if you got the puzzle right. And many players think that the best part of this widget is that you can make it solve it self.
You might also want to try the Sudoku Board Game Set

Gadgets powered by GoogleGoogle Calendar makes it easy for you to share events and publish events and calendars on your website or blog. If your site mentions events — including reservations, appointments, conferences and shows, Google Calendar can help your users find this information and easily add it to their own calendars. This Google calendar code below works for any blog such as blogger, wordpress, or any website. Learn how to install and customize this widget
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You may be looking for the Blogger

You may be looking for the Blogger Tag Cloud Widget!

Ads-Click
This is a great widget if you want to display content that is related to your site. The even better thing about Ads-Cick is that you get money every time someone clicks on one of your tags. You can choose your own tags, or choose tags that generate the most revenue. All you need to do is sign up and copy and paste the Html code into your blog or website.

If you're not satisfied with this widget, give a shot.

You can search Icon Finder's growing selection of attractive looking icons. You can also look at their search cloud for some ideas. If you need icons for your blog, website, web app, or desktop, you'll probably find it here...
If not, take a look at Free Icons Download, they have 2700 + professional stock icons in Windows XP style and Vista Style.

Others Resources:

Fast Icon

Show off your blog's currently online readers in real time. When clicked on, this live widget will display which pages are being currently read by displaying the URLs. It's really easy to install, just Copy and paste the code from Whos.amung.us into your blog. Supposedly the code is suppposed to be on every page of your site, but it worked find for me in my blog post as you can see above. Go ahead and give the button above a click, and hopefully you will be able to see how popular this site is :)

Get the Bigger Button version (fully customizable colors)

Get the Smaller Button Version (like the one at the top of this post).
Get the Mozzila Firefox Plugin (you can always keep an eye on the activity of your visitors from the convenience of your firefox web browser)

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AddThis spreads your content across the Web by making it easier for your visitors to bookmark and share it with other people, again…and again…and again. This simple yet powerful button is very easy to install and provides valuable statistics about the bookmarking and sharing activity of your users. AddThis is the perfect tool to help your visitors create a buzz for your site and increase its popularity and ranking.

Features:

Installing the Top Commentators Widget:

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