Threaded Comments for Blogger Blogs (Custom templates & Blogger templates)

The Blogger has announced the Threaded comment style commenting widget for official blogger based blogs, which now makes the commenting style much simpler and easier to differentiate direct comments for the post and reply comments for a comment.





The Threaded comment activation for the blogs are different for both blogger based templates and custom blogger templates.The following steps are required to enable threaded comments in the Blog


For Official Blogger Templates ---->

Enabling threaded comments in official blogger templates is much easier and simpler and can be done by just enabling the blogger feed to full and embedding the comment form below posts automatically enables the threaded comments in the blog.

To check or change the settings in Draft.blogger.com view select: Settings > Other >, and then Full from the Allow Blog Feed dropdown

To check or change the settings in blogger.com view select: Settings > Site Feed >, and then Full from the Allow Blog Feed dropdown





To check or change the comment form settings in draft view select: Settings > Posts and Comments, and select Embedded from the Comment Location dropdown.


To check or change the comment form settings in normal view select: Settings > Comments, and select Embedded below post in comment form placement option.





With the above steps done the reply link can be seen below the comments and threaded comment action takes place with replies to comments automatically in official blogger templates.

More info can be found out about this in google support.


For Custom Blogger Templates --->

As most of the blogger users use custom templates and not the default blogger based templates depending on their uses so the threaded comments for custom templates doesn't get active after following the steps for enabling threaded comment form like mentioned for default blogger templates.

Enabling of threaded comments widget for custom blogger templates requires a additional steps after following the steps of that mentioned by blogger or mentioned here above in official blogger templates. Here HTML code must be added(or replaced) for the threaded blogger comment widget to work.

The step by step procedure are

1) Follow the above steps mentioned for official blogger templates
2) Then Design > Edit HTML
3) Expand Widget Templates
4) Download Full template (As a precautionary measure before editing)
5) Search for the following Codes

Code 1

<b:if cond="data:blog.pageType == "item"">
<b:include data="post" name="comments">
</b:include></b:if>

and

Code 2

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;static_page&quot;'>
<b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'>
<b:include data='post' name='threaded_comments'/>
<b:else/>
<b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
</b:if>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'>
<b:include data='post' name='threaded_comments'/>
<b:else/>
<b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
</b:if>
</b:if>

6) Now Replace the Code 2 with Code 1 while keeping the Code 2 which appears before Code 1 untouched.

7) Save your Template.

Now Visit the Blog, The reply links are found for each comments and threaded comment widget is been activated in the blog and threaded replies can be posted for comments in the blog .

Finally if one has applied The threaded comment on to their blog and want to remove it, then they can must follow till step 4 and in step 5 they must search for Code 2 which will appear twice. replace the code 2 with Code 1 the 2nd time Code 2 is appearing which will remove the threaded comment feature. If finding out Code the 2nd time becomes confusing then just replace Code 2 both the times also with Code 1 to make the stuff removed.

Note: The disadvantages of present form of blogger threaded comment is that author comments cannot be highlighted, custom smiley's cannot be activated, comment cannot be numbered and so on and this minor problem can be fixed with change in the code which is inserted by blogger automatically while enabling threaded comments and will come up with a solution for all these things very soon in the blog so that customized threaded comments will be better and used. This is the main reason Tipsntweaks is not using threaded comments as of now in its blog but will use it customized threaded widget shortly which is gonna be posted on the blog very soon.

Any Queries or Questions regarding the trick use the comment form below.

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Searching Google From SMS through Mobile phones

For those people who want to search Google through their phones which isn't web enabled or for finding information through SMS itself can be done with Google SMS service. The service is already there from many years and is offered for free of charge for the users, The SMS charges applicable for sending SMS to the number is applicable and google doesn't charge people for sending the reply messages back.

The service now is present in many countries of the world while the service number for it being common mostly for many countries while it being of different numbers also exist in some countries like India, china, UK etc.. The service can be used for finding out nearest restaurants, pizza huts, train schedules, currency conversions, weather of the place and weather forecast, movie timings, stock quotes, cricket scores etc...

Sending the SMS with the search term to Google will get a reply from Google with search results while the reply SMS could vary from 1 to 6 SMS depending on the search query been done.


For USA and most of the countries(includes European countries also) --->

SMS <Your search term> to 466453 (GOOGLE)

For India --->

SMS <Your search term> to 9773300000

For China --->

SMS <Your search term> to 1069999333

For European Countries --->

SMS <Your search term> to 17605370537


A SMS query for currency conversion of 1 USD to INR gets this result  gets the following result.





Similarly a SMS query for Bangalore weather gets the following result.





Google Mobile website has more details on this regard while a demo search to find out how the SMS result replies will be there can be found here.

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Rajinikant's website now runs without Internet

The fact that this new Rajinikant's website running without internet might sound like another joke of rajinikant but this website really can only be accessed without internet connection only and cannot be accessed with internet connection being live.

http://allaboutrajni.com when visited greets with a warning "He is no ordinary man, this is no ordinary website. It runs on Rajini Power. The only way to enter this website is to switching your internet off." and only after the internet connection is disconnected the website can be explored by the visitor.



Once the internet is disconnected the website can be explored of rajinikant's story from the beginning, reading his inside scoops and behind the screen actions of his movies while enjoying his famous jokes which only rajinikant can achieve those feats.

The reconnection of the internet when browsing the rajinikant's website causes the website exploration to stop there and a error message popping up in rajini's humouristic style "Aiyyo! That was unexpected. To keep browsing, switch off your internet" and again with internet disconnection the website can be reaccessed.

Gurbaksh Singh the website creator for desimartini.com had said that- "The unbelievable spectacle of running a website without the Internet is a tribute to Rajinikant's larger than life image, After a few iterations and testing, we cracked the code required to build the world's first website that runs without the Internet - a website that runs offline - which is as awesome and unbelievable as miracles and stunts associated or performed by Rajni himself".

Some mobile devices cannot run the website when offline but all the pc connections do access the websites when visited and internet been disconnected.

The basic concept of the website is that it is a flash based website and when visited the flash is loaded fully and the conditional factor makes the web program to be accessable only when internet is disconnected are browser settings are changed to browse offline setting but still this is the 1st of its kind of websites which works only when offline.

Update http://www.allaboutrajini.com/ website which was also getting forwarded to the same domain for the rajini effect is now a parked domain will upadate on any later updates on this regard.

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Internet sharing Concerns raised with Megaupload website shutdown

The Justice Department of the USA has ordered the closure of Megaupload.com website for web policy violations and anti piracy acts when concerns of SOPA and PIPA are already making buzz these move is also a blow for anonymousness among the internet with a good move of helping to stop piracy at the same time.

People visiting Megaupload.com website gets a notice displayed saying the domain being seized under the pursuant order of the US district court. With the federal grand jury indicating several individuals and entities allegedly invovled in running of the website while charging them for crimes under several sections of law listed below it.The logos of Department of Justice, FBI Anti-piracy warning with NIPR centers are present in the notice seen on the website.




A more detailed report on this regard is on the washingtonpost news website.

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Nicolas Steno's 374th Birthday Google doodle

Google releasing Doodles to celebrate occasions like birthday of famous personalities, festival celebration and so on is common from 1998 since when the google started releasing doodles.


Now on January 11th it has released 1 more doodle on the occasion of Nicolas Steno's(11 January 1638 – 25 November 1686) 374th Birthday and   he was a Danish pioneer in both anatomy and geology. By 1659 he had decided not to accept anything simply written in a book, resolving instead to do research himself. He is considered the father of geology and stratigraphy.




As Nicolas Steno is considered the father of geology and stratigraphy the Doodle released by the google is similar to that of different layers of the earth from atmosphere to innercore of the earth with different layers of rock, water, sand and so on present in each of the "Google" words which are shown as elements.

In this Doodle

1) The Element "G" is Basically a 5 layered particle having the environment with plants,birds, fossils and greenery on the top layer followed by minerals and sand in 2nd and 3rd layers and then the water in the 4th layer representing the underground water and finally the hard rock element in the 5th layer.

2) The Element "o" is of 4 layered where the 1st layer has the greenery and environment with rivers whereas plants and birds are missing here like it was in the previous element and the 2nd and 3rd layers of minerals and sand like in the previous element is represented as a combined composite mineral layer in the 2nd layer itself here, the water and the hard rock element layers are 3rd and 4th layers and are similar to that of the previous element style.

3) The Element "o" is also a 4 layered stuff and similar to that of the 2nd element o and the difference between these two elements is this element is having plants and birds along with the greenery in the upper environment layer while the rivers are missing here and the rest of the layers are similar with that of the other layers like in the 2nd element.

4) The Element "g" is also a 4 layered stuff and the 1st environment layer has greenery and birds in it with the below 3 layers being exactly similar to that of 2nd element o with the difference of each layers being more deeper here than of the "o" element.

5) The Element "L" is a 5 layered stuff where the 1st layer of environment has greenery in it while the remaining 4 layers below is similar to that of the element "G".

6) The Element "e" being the final element of the series is a 3 layered material with the 1st layer of environment having greenery, plants and birds in it, unlike the other elements before here the sand and mineral layers embedded to the water layer of the element while the hard rock soil layer being the last layer like in previous elements.

The Cursor when placed on the Google doodle icon on the google homepage tells it as Nicolas Steno's 374th Birthday.

Here's more information about Nicolas Steno and his research. The Doodles of the googles from wayback in 1998 can be accessed here.

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Adsense now displaying other AdNetwork Ads

Recently i noticed that Adsense is displaying Ads of other Ad networks for those sites which have a decent amount of traffic. The Adsense ads are competed with ads of other Ad networks and finally the highest paying Adnetwork's Ads are displayed in the Ad space and in general most of the times Adsense is the highest paying Ad network so Adsense Ads are displayed most of the times.

The other adnetworks Ad display with impressions, clicks, earnings data can be checked out by checking full reports in the adsense login page then the Adnetwork link present in the left sidebar.





here is the report of my last week earnings having data of impressions,clicks and earnings displayed in adsense reports which basically has Adsense based Ads earnings highly than the other types





The system might be running from a long time but i noticed it very much recently so sharing it here and finally the system is a welcome move because we publishers get a bit more of earnings from these things.

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New year day Google doodle of 2012

The Google has just released  1 more doodle on the New year today called as New years day doodle. 2 days back google had released New year wish doodle for 2012.

The New year Day Doodle when clicked just shows the google search for "New Year's Day".




The each characters G-O-O-G-L-E are in different mood this time unlike the previous doodle which were all in the same celebration mood. In this doodle

1. The character G is listening to the music via its walkman
2. The character O is dancing with 1 hand on the floor with other on its back
3. The character O is jumping in joy 
4. The character G is playing the music through its guitar
5. The character L is busy reading the books while sitting on a pile of book
6. The character E is busy cleaning the Floor for the trash spread out there with a calendar behind it where jan 1st is rounded via a green circle.

 The Doodle also says Hello, Hi, Hola, Namaste(in Hindi similar to Hi), Bonjour, ahoj and chinese, japanese and korean wishes similar to that of Hi for the users via the doodle which is present right behind the 1st character.

The doodle of googles are so famous that google releases it many times a year on many occasions with doodles being particular for that occasion. The last year Top 50 Google doodles were presented on the year end yesterday.

The doodle concept of Google is not that something new it is from 1998 from when on the doodles are released by google and only getting increased in more and more numbers with years on the line till now. The link shows the previous years doodle of the google till date from its 1st doodle of 1998 till date of 2012's 1st doodle.

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