Three new languages and a whole new direction for Blogger
29 January 2008
We are excited to announce that Blogger is now available in three more languages: Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian!
Supporting these languages is a huge milestone for us because — unlike the other 37 languages Blogger is translated into — Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew are written from right to left. As you can see from the above screenshot, we had to flip the whole interface around.
Besides localizing the Blogger interface into these three languages, we have right-to-left templates and have added new toolbar buttons for bi-directional text editing in the post editor.
The effort was worth it, however, and we’re tremendously happy to be a part of the growing Arabic-, Hebrew-, and Persian-language blogging communities.
Changing your language preferences and settingsTo see the Blogger interface in one of these languages, just use the menu on your Dashboard. You can also choose your language on Blogger’s homepage and via the “Language” link in the footer of most pages.
From then on, all new blogs you create will default to using your new language choice.
If you need to change the language of an existing blog, just go to Settings > Formatting and select a new language there. Your blog language affects date formatting and other blog text, and, with today’s release of Blogger, your blog’s comments form as well.
Right-to-left templates
For Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew blogs, we will also rearrange your template to read more logically from right to left. So, a blog that once looked like this:
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posted by Abu71 @ 23:14,
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Donald Trump
12 January 2008
Birthplace: New York, New York
Birthday: June 14, 1946
Few could lay claim to living the American Dream of fame and financial success, but hotelier and casino mogul Donald Trump did – though his prosperity was not without its consequences. Trump, or "The Donald" as he was famously dubbed by ex-wife Ivana, mastered the art of deal making, starting with utilizing his inherent ruthlessness and cunning. A success in the business world, Trump also managed to become famous for his brazen and unabashed personality, allowing him to be both darling and dupe of the media. Never one to miss the hottest trend, Trump jumped on board the reality TV bandwagon, starring in and producing the NBC series "The Apprentice" (2004- ); a surprise hit that forever etched Trump's infamous catchphrase, “You’re fired!” in the cultural lexicon.
A native of New York City, Trump represented the third generation of businessmen in his family – his father, Fred Trump, having turned to real estate to support his family when his own father had died prematurely. Young Trump assisted his father with various business ventures, and in the process, learned how to recognize the art of a good deal. After graduating from New York Military Academy in 1964, Trump studied finance at the renowned and first-of-its-kind Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Upon returning to New York, Trump eased his way through the upper crest by joining an exclusive club – on the one condition that he not try to steal the wives of older members. He used his membership as a means to an end – to make all the right contacts from whence his empire would be born.
The membership was a good move. Trump became one of the premier real estate tycoons in the early 1980’s by amassing properties in New York City, including Trump Tower and Trump Plaza. He also delved into the casino business, where his name was emblazoned on the only three five-star casino/hotels in Atlantic City. Trump continued to score with the publication of his first autobiography, The Art of the Deal, which sold in excess of 3 million copies, settling on the best-seller list for a comfortable 32 weeks. Three more books followed, though none were as successful as the first: Surviving at the Top, The Art of the Comeback and his first political manifesto, The America We Deserve. Also on Trump’s plate was his role as Executive Producer for the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA Pageants, airing on CBS. Throughout the 1980’s, the mogul also saw the downside of fame firsthand, watching as his name was continually splashed across tabloids due to his rocky separation and divorce from first wife Ivana followed by a subsequent relationship with second ex-wife, Marla Maples.
Despite a long-string of daring successes and a life at the top of the real estate world, Trump’s fortunes came crashing down in 1990 when he was forced to file bankruptcy after a loss of over two-thirds of his net worth, or $1.5 billion. True to his hard-edged style, Trump fought back and returned his net worth to a more relaxing $3 billion. But for most of the late 1990s and into the 21st century, Trump remained largely out of the public eye.
His comeback arrived in the form of a new reality program, “The Apprentice,” which captured the public’s attention from the first. On the show, 16 contestants – eight men, eight women – competed against each other to become the president of one of Trump’s companies and recipient of a $250,000 annual salary. Each episode featured Trump assigning the teams with tasks to complete, including everything from selling lemonade on the NY streets to renting swanky apartment buildings for $20,000 a night. At the close of each episode, Trump brought all the contestants to the board room where he summarily “fired” one in business-like fashion. The surprise hit become one of the leading lights of reality series TV and a tent-pole property for NBC, which later launched a less successful spin-off version starring Martha Stewart.
"The Donald's" public profile was reestablished and he reveled in the limelight, using his pop cultural cachet to fuel projects big and small, from merchandising tie-ins to major corporate undertakings. However, he was never without his controversies. Trump found himself in financial trouble yet again, when the threat of bankruptcy loomed over his empire once more. His ailing Atlantic City casinos were swamped by $1.8 billion of debt. The entrepreneur again fought to stave off bankruptcy proceedings by seeking a $400 million cash infusion. Helpful was his continued "Apprentice" success and his continually colorful personal life, following his over-the-top, star-studded marriage to Slovenian model-actress, Melania Knauss, in January, 2005.
posted by Abu71 @ 08:54,
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Help find sharlinie
11 January 2008
It was made by the Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil who stressed the importance of finding the 5-year-old girl as quickly as possible.
"If we have learnt anything from Nurin's case, it is that time is of the utmost importance and we don't want Sharlinie to be in any danger," she said.
"I hope TV stations will flash pictures of Sharlinie every hour or half-hour so that everyone will know and remember her face."
She also revealed that she had enlisted the help of Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin to publicise the girl's disappearance.
"We also want to remind the abductors not to harm her," she said at a press conference at the Petaling Jaya district police headquarters.
Also present were Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan, Petaling Jaya Selatan MP Datuk Donald Lim and Taman Medan Assemblyman Abdul Wahab Ibrahim.
Shahrizat then reminded parents that the safety of their children was in their hands.
"It is not the responsibility of the police. Don't assume a playground is safe. From what I see, no area is safe."
Shahrizat also did not rule out the possibility of taking action against Sharlinie's parents for negligence.
"The parents are being interviewed by the Welfare Department and they will come up with their findings soon."
Later at the Lembah Pantai Maal Hijrah celebrations, Shahrizat urged local councils, the Federal Territories Ministry and relevant parties to install more sophisticated closed-circuit television (CCTVs) cameras, especially in high-density areas.
"We must have good quality CCTVs that can enhance the images and provide security. If we want to install CCTVs, then they should be the best, like in London and New York.
Shahrizat also suggested that local councils could make CCTVs part of their requirements for building approvals.
However, she pointed out that even with the best security system in place, the public must still take care of their own safety.
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posted by Abu71 @ 18:00,
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World's Slimmest 10MP Camera
This week Casio is rolling out its EX-S10 digital camera, which it claims to be the world's thinnest with 10 megapixels of resolution.
At 15mm thick, it is, indeed, awfully svelte. On paper, the specs range from good to impressive, too: 2.7-inch LCD; 3X optical zoom; sensitivity up to ISO 1600; weighs only four ounces without the battery; available in four colors; and priced at just $250.
A lone sore spot: No image stabilization. I don't know about you, but I've come to rely on image stabilization to rectify my shaky-cam shots and turn blurry, running children into crisp action shots.
The cameras look good, but the proof will be in testing how well it performs at taking actual pictures. (It's impossible to judge based on an LCD preview, of course.) Stay tuned for hands-on coverage after CES wraps!
LINK: Casio Press Release
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posted by Abu71 @ 11:43,
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Sexy Picture
09 January 2008
Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia prepares to serve to Dinara Safina of Russia during their match at the Sydney International tennis tournament, 07 January 2008. Hantuchova won 5-7, 6-4, 6-4. AFP PHOTO/Greg WOOD (Photo credit should read GREG WOOD/AFP/Getty Images)
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posted by Abu71 @ 00:35,
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Search Engine Optimization - Inside Google Page Rank
07 January 2008
At present Google is the leading worldwide search engine, it supports multiple languages and has one of the most sophisticated search engine algorithms around. If you bear in mind Google's unprecedented popularity and simplicity you will see that your site needs to master its rankings for your particular key phrases, this will usual mean that other search engines catch on to your website with similiar positionings. It isnt easy to understand such a complex system but you need to master it to give your site an edge in an increasingly demanding market.
Google is a mystery as far as search engine theories go, you essentially have to try and understand what makes one site rank better than another. Although the forementioned algorithms are constantly changing Google themselves have shown link backs play a large roll in a search engines view of any web page, in order to do well a website needs to have links from other sites directly to it. Not only that the websites that link to it are usually respected by search engines themselves. PageRank is google's own measure of a website, there is much speculation on how it is composed but a key factor is proven to be back links, below is a scale that is widely believed to be the backbone of how it judges your website. The amount of PageRank distributed around the internet is believed average at 1 for every website, thats why we begin this at PageRank 2.
PR 2 = 0-6 Link backs
PR 3 = 6-60 Link backs
PR 4 = 60-600 Link backs
PR 5 = 600-6000 Link backs
PR 6 = 6000-60000 Link backs
PR 7 = 60000-600000 Link backs
PR 8 = 600000-6000000 Link backs
PR 9 = 6000000-60000000 Link backs
PR 10 = 60000000-600000000 Link backs
We used a base number of 6 for this example although it is disputed whether it could be 5 or lower. The amount of back links your website recieves plays a large role within your search engine positioning but a strong anchor text and title tag for your links is also key to success, you can see how to do this as demonstrated below.
a href="http://www.linkhere" title="Keyword Title Text" Keyword Anchor Text
PageRank analyses more than link backs. External links are known to "leak" page rank from your website, in simple terms - your website can cast one vote against each websites it links to, if these are external links it takes from a pool of PageRank that your website has to offer. It is recommended you either seek recipirocal links from websites you link to or use other methods like javascript to prevent your PageRank from being dispersed from your website.
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posted by Abu71 @ 23:58,
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5 Steps to Get Top 10 Website Search Engine Rank
1. Step One: Select right keyword for web SEO Optimization.
You must choose your keywords carefully. This is the most important step of the SEO. Wrong or ineffective keywords mean invalid keyword optimization. You should find popular keywords and phrases related to your business, then know search popularity and competition number of every keywords. The keywords with more popularity and less competition will be your targeted keyword phrases.
Resources:
Best Promotion Keywords - http://www.websitepromotionsoft.com/bestpromotionkeyword.html
Overture - http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
Google - https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=KeywordSandbox
2. Step Two: Optimize your website ranking factors.
Once you have finished keyword analysis and selected specified keywords, you should optimize your web site to improve search engine position. The important ranking factors including website title tags, description tags, meta keyword tags, heading text, link url, link text, image alt, comment and web page body text.
Every keyword frequency, weight, size, prominence
and proximity all affect the ranking. You should optimize all these factors carefully. The top 10 ranking website content and ranking factors will give your more help.
Resources:
Web Optimization Angel - http://www.websitepromotionsoft.com/weboptimizationangel.html
WebPositionGold - http://www.webposition.com/d2.pl?r=TBI-55EC&FN=download.htm
3. Step Three: Submit url to search engines directories.
After search engine optimization page design, Submiting all your web sites to Google, Yahoo, MSN, DMOZ and the other major engines. Manual free submit url is recommend. At
http://www.websitepromotionsoft.com/submit-url-free.html you can find top 588 search engine list with homepage, submit url address, alexa rank, google page rank, google inbound links and google including site pages.
Resources:
search engine PageRank order list - http://www.websitepromotionsoft.com/search-engine-list-page-rank.html
4 .Step Four: Link Exchange and Manager.
Link popularity is the total number of websites that link to your web site, and is an extremely important method of improving your site's relevancy and position as many engines are using
this information as a ranking criterion. Both the quantity and quality of link popularity is important. The best links are "relevant" links from web pages related to your keyword or topic.
Resources:
External Link Promotion - http://www.websitepromotionsoft.com/external-link-promotion.html
5. Step Five: Monitoring and ReOptimizing.
Often checking your website search engine position of your targeted keywords, if not satisfied with optimization ranking results, you should do more SEO to achieve higher search engines ranking position.
Resources:
Agent Web Ranking - http://www.softwarekey.com/products/info.asp?A=31147
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posted by Abu71 @ 01:31,
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3 Freebies That Guarantees Constant Traffic
02 January 2008
3 Freebies That Guarantees Constant Traffic
In 1931, Ted and Dorothy Hustead decided to move to a town that had four things; a good school, a Catholic Church, a doctor and an opportunity.
They wanted to open their own pharmacy.
They eventually chose Wall, South Dakota, as the perfect location. To others, however, Wall seemed to be in the middle of nowhere - somewhere between the Black Hills and the Badlands.
The first year was a tough one - thick dust, intense heat, and strong winds.
In their desire to move on to a more welcoming place, tired, throat - perched travellers rarely stopped. Then, Ted and Dorothy came up with an idea.
They made a sign that read: Free Ice Water At Wall DrugStore.
The sign became something of a novelty. They made more sighs and put them farther and farther from Wall - eventually, as far as other countries of the world.
All druggists, of course made "free" ice water available for their customers. Nobody however, had thought of advertising the luxury.
Eventually, some 4000 to 6000 customers a day stopped at Wall DrugStore.
Josh Billings remarked, "Common Sense is instinct and enough of it is genius.
"When it comes to attracting traffic, everybody has ideas BUT it all seem not to work!
" I was almost ready to quit when I found a blend of strategies that work. Top Internet marketers use it to achieve tons of results, brand their names all over the Internet, explode sales and achieve record breaking list size in minimum time with little or absolutely nothing spent.
It is all captured in the word FREE and truthfully, if you have nothing FREE working hard for you out there, it is time to get down to work and get up with one!
Here are 3 easy to implement freebies you can start with right now.
1. Give Out A Collection Of Free eBooks.
Go around the web and harvest a collection of free ebooks, then give it away for free on your website in exchange for people doing something e.g. signing up for your newsletter.
2. Write Articles and Give It Away Free.
I wrote 2 articles last year and got 700+ subscribers from it without lifting a finger after submitting it to a few article submission sites. It is surprising to note that my list still grows today as a result of those articles.
3. Pull Your Articles Into A Report and Give Away Reprint Rights To it Free.
This sounds insane but if you are smart, it can make you a success overnight.
All you need to do is bury your other programmes in the middle of your ebook and "wham," you start getting dangerous results.
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posted by Abu71 @ 12:37,
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Online Free Games
Explore the ancient ruins of Mayan civilization while discovering hidden treasures and priceless artifacts. In this unique new take on the classic-style matching game, you must rearrange valuable relics to turn sand tiles into gold.
When all of the tiles in a puzzle board are golden, you win! As you venture deeper into the jungle, you will encounter increasingly difficult puzzles containing secret twists, cursed items, and buried artifacts. Earn the respect of your fellow archaeologists and collect oodles of treasure and jewels!
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posted by Abu71 @ 02:42,
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