Owner: Vivek Sanghi URL:http://stubborn-fanatic.blogspot.com/ Join Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 06:08:06 -0500 Rating:1 Site Description: This blog is documenting the life and views of Vivek Sanghi, a student from Hyderabad whose areas of interest include computers, finance, philosophy, religion, politics, war, origins of mankind (anthropology), history, astronomy and music. Site statistics:Click here
The Goal - Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox (Book ... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 ISBN: 8185984131
Tagline: A process of ongoing improvement.
The Goal was not on my reading list. However, it was lying around in the house and I decided to go ahead with it. The size of this book was very uninviting and from all the text on the covers and in the intro pages, I thought that I'd be better off reading this book during or after my MBA even though it seemed like a best-seller.
Displaying widgets only on comment, label, search ... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Hello Friends,
From certain site tracking services, I have been looking at the way people come to know about my blog and I realized that only few of them access my blog directly (using its main URL). Most of them come looking for some hack (like social bookmarking, Google Translate etc) and land on an individual post page. When they land on such a page, a lot of space under the article +
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Adding a wider-sidebar to your blog 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Impressed by Wordpress's Andreas04 template, I wondered if we can have some thing similar for Blogger beta. This answer is yes. It is much easier to play around with the template in Blogger beta because of its easy to understand template script language and the flexibility to view the template in collapsed and expanded widgets view (about which I will discuss a little later). Please view the
Host HTML pages for Frames in a blogspot address 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Dear readers,
If you were a regular visitor to my blog, you might have noticed that I was using frames to display all the link-exchange chicklets until some time ago. I discontinued the use of frames, because they don't display by default in Internet Explorer or IE (which still seems fairly popular).
I was hosting my frame HTML document at Google pages (as Blogger does not allow HTML file
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A Firefox extension and PurpleMoggy's hacks 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Hello readers,
I have been using a Firefox
extension by name fasterfox. If slow browsing speed has been a problem for you, I recommend that you give it a shot.
Coming to beta hack, this blog now uses two hacks
which I picked up from PurpleMoggy's blog. It appears that a tutorial has been put up for the search box. Please find the tutorial on implementing a 4-in-1 search box (like I have) here.
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Feeds, Social Bookmark Drop-down and Link referrer... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Hello Readers,
In this post, I have presented the following add-on for Blogger-Beta:
1. Subscribe drop-down (on-hover) for presenting feed subscription options.
2. SocialBookmark
drop-down for Blogger-beta post footers.
3. Extreme Socializer - A Social Bookmarking alternative.
4. Recent Referrers hack by instant-messenger.
1. Feed Subscribe Drop-down (on-hover)
You might have noticed the
Get socially bookmarked! (blogger beta) 1970-01-01 00:59:59 See the image links to the social book marking sites under each of my post footers?
Working on Ramani's original post regarding adding hotlinks to Del.icio.us and digit!. I learnt how to rearrange the stuff that appears under each post using the widget code in the template and also added images instead of plain text links for hot linking purpose. Thanks to one Cal Evans I was able to get all the
New hacked template for Blogger beta and "flag-blo... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Dears readers,
The topics covered in this post are:
1. A hacked sand-dollar template
(with widebar) for blogger beta by imessengr.com
2. "Flag blog" option now available for Blogger
beta blogs.
1. Hacked Sand Dollar Template
Deniz from imessengr.com (the one who presented the recent referrers hack for blogger beta) has released a hacked sand dollar template for blogger beta. This template
Cool Technorati Add-ons for your Blog 2006-11-21 17:51:00 Hello Readers,
I have come across two cool add-ons for your blog. They are:
1. Technorati
Rank display widget by purplemoggy
2. Technorati Blog reactions link from imessengr.com
1. PurpleMoggy has posted a very useful add-on with which one can display their real-time Technorati rank in the...
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JSON, customizable widgets and other applications 2006-11-24 10:03:00 Hello Readers,
There is some really good stuff happening in the Blogger hacking world. This comes after the recent announcement on Blogger buzz regarding Blogger (or I can say all of Google) moving to JSON (JavaScript Object Notification) data format for feeds.
The hacks I am referring to...
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Allow your labels to be searched in Technorati tag... 2006-11-25 19:50:00 Hello Friends,
I have developed a simple little add-on for your blog. To know what I am talking about, just see the labels in my post's footer. Notice the tiny Technorati
pic beside each label. When clicked, it shows you all the posts from bloggosphere that have been tagged with the label in...
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What's with the backlinks? 2006-11-25 18:46:00 On recently published posts across all blogs I am seeing similar backlinks
pointing to some page2rss thingy. The mess of links in there, led me here.
What's up with Blogger? What new feature or bug is this? :D
Technorati Tags: blogger search, blogger, backlinks
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Show recent post titles in navigational drop-down ... 2006-11-28 00:41:00 Dear readers,
Based on the new JSON format and the JavaScript code for displaying recent posts from Hans of beautiful beta, I now present horizontal navigational menus with auto (activates on mouse hover) drop-downs which display the most recent posts under each of your labels (say...
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Control your Layout editor's layout 2006-12-05 15:53:00 Hello Readers,
I was going through the stock dots dark template when I came across a section labeled "Page structure tweaks for layout editor wireframe" just before the closing skin tag in the template head. Soon I realized that I can use this section to modify the looks of my layout editor in the...
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Hack Round-up 2006-12-10 21:12:00 Hello Readers,
Well, I had no new ideas (except for a few which require CSS knowledge) so I have no new hacks of my own as of now. However, this post points to some good hacks/add-ons/template mods that I have seen in the neighborhood recently:
1. Hacked Son of Moto template by Deniz of...
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Google page creator: headache 2006-12-14 21:07:00 Google's Page Creator software is seriously pissing me off:
I hope I don't end up breaking my monitor, keyboard or mouse the next time I see this:
BTW Google should hire someone who has written error messages for Microsoft :)) Coz: "oops! I don't like your error messages". Better still don't...
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Add background colors to comments 2006-12-15 04:11:00 Hi all,
This is a quick & dirty or a simple hack (if you want to call it that) that allows one to add a background
color to the comments. I have this set in my blog and you can simply check the post page for one of my posts that has comments to see what I am talking about. Here is an image for...
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Adsense inside your posts and only on post (item) pages 2006-12-16 09:39:00 Loui$$ from Blogging Secret just asked me how I was displaying adsense ads only on post (item) pages and inside
the post i.e. in the beginning and the end of each post. For this I use the same if statements from my hack Display widgets only on pages you prefer but widget are not involved in this...
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Blogger News: Welcome the "New Blogger" 2006-12-20 02:59:00 Hello Readers,
Just a quick update here. Blogger
has announced that they are out of beta. This is shown by the change or URLs. The sign-in link on beta blogs no longer points to the beta.blogger.com link. It now points to www2.blogger.com.
Classic Blogger users can learn more about Blogger Beta...
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Blogger Feature or Bug: Edit link disappears and Blog unable to recognize its admin 2006-12-20 20:14:00 For quite a while now I have been facing problems with my Blogger
blogs and layout editor. Every time I edit a widget and save the changes the edit link for that widget disappears from the layout. To understand what I am referring to have a look at the two images below.
Once I update the...
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Tamed rounders template now hacked and downloadable 2006-12-24 07:48:00 Hello all,
Deniz of imessengr has taken the three column rounders template
and hacked it to include most of the popular hacks currently available for the new Blogger. He has done this for all the variants of rounders that are available on Blogger.
Visit here to download this template and install...
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IQ tests on tickle 2006-04-30 22:19:00 Ever heard of Tickle.com. I gave an IQ test on this website a few days ago (just for fun types). The told me that my intellect type is Visual Mathematician ;-) and my score: 131. I then gave another test where in my true color came out as black (as if I did not know. BTW black happens to be one of...
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More hackers now on the new blogger hacking scene 2006-12-31 15:17:00 Hello Readers,
Life has been very busy for me in the last couple of weeks and therefore I have not been posting any new hacks or code. However, the the hacking scene
has not gone cold. Lots of stuff has been happening in the blogger hacking space.
1. You might have looked at Ramani's lightining...
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Translate your post into 13 languages 2007-01-01 08:35:00 Dear Friends,
This is my first add-on goody for the year 2007. Hope you will like it. Brainiac came up with a suggestion to add more languages to my Google translate for posts hack. As the number of languages provided by Google is limited, I decided to use the BabelFish code, offered in a language...
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Poll result 2007-01-03 21:16:00 I had conducted the following poll a couple of months ago on my blog, but forgot to post the poll results after ending the poll. Better late than never:
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Contest Suggestion: 31 Days of the Dragon 2008-05-19 18:54:26 'lo. After a long time I am posting some thing here for you guys. I hope until now you have enjoyed the existing set of Blogger mods that I had published. While this is not related to blogger mods, I am sure those of you who were unaware, will definitely love it. The other day I came across a big...
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