Bloggeratto

To take advantage of this day Opera promotion, let me also plug my Good Friend Gaby "Outsider Even With The Outsiders" De Wilde Google Toolbar Widget that you can find here:

Opera Google Toolbar

The relevant part is that is has a shortcut to Blogger and some other Blogging Aid related shortcuts.

And not the he actually need the Buzz, since it has been downloaded almost 50,000 times and is at version 4, and 5 very soon to follow.

Or if you can take my word for it just click to load:

Well, i have not talked about it yet, but triying to have always bloggeratto look right corssbrowser, i currently use 3 browsers every day:

1.-Flock 0.74

Flock has been quite a experience with the recent upgrade and i plan to do a post on how blogging with it can improve a lot your blogger blogging.

2.-Maxthon 1.51

Maxthon is based on the IE 6.5 engine. i use it waiting for IE7 to clear out of beta and also waiting to check out maxthon 2.0

3.-Opera 9

Opera 9 is the prettiest browser ever, it just look so cool that it makes me cringe to look at the other default browsers looks.

and it also has a Bittorrent engine (mostly recommmended for quick liteweight files) and a Widget engine that works so good that it really consumes very little ram.

And that is where this post comes into Bloggeratto.




Widgetize!

The Opera Widgets team, has released a automatic Opera Widget engine that in just 3 steps can turn your blog feed into a widget.

You can either select the supported option (Blogger), or you can input it yourself if you want to put any other feed not in those options.

That is to either use your Blogger RSS Feed

Or if you want that everytime someone use your feed to create a widget to count to your feedburner readers mark, then you can use your feedbuner feed.

Here is the link to Bloggeratto widget, just click to load:

Link



What is not to like?

Aditya is at it again. and his latest Blogger hacking is on Blogger Backlinks.

So, if you wanna play with your backlinks and make your blog lighter to the initial load have a look at Aditya´s Post

Ok, this is not a Slackerscript, this is more like a Oddscript (it exist just becuase it could be done) that my cranky pal Phydeaux3 has done just because he could (duh!) and to have something to shut up some people (don´t ask)

The concept is very simple, in blogger you have a limit range in wich you can date your posts, this script breaks the limits giving you the freedom to post from the distant future or from the distant past.

See?,i said it was odd.

However, i myself are responsable to have advised many times to mess with the dating system in blogger to make certain things possible, that is why i am buzzing this, i put the money where my mouth is.

So here is the script link:

Phydeaux3 Time Warp GM Userscript

And to read all the detail on the script please go visit that old man in this Post

Bumpbox has just released a upgrade to their system, meaning you can now get a Bumpbox Button, without logins and that they have adjudted their code page so you can get the code with the Blogger $TAGS$ to fire away and use so.

Also some automatic customization, now it comes with four colors:



like you can see in the post of the testblog i made for it:

Bumpbox Blogger Blog 2

You can also check the login version in the prior post about Bumpbox here:


Bumpbox: Web 2.0 Voting For Blogger Blogs

And the login version tesblog that is:

Bumpbox Blogger Blog

So, give it a new try:

Bumpbox

xFruits is other of those Web 2.0 Start ups that works not servin one service but various service at the same time in the way of a online ToolBox, in this case serving serveral services to work with Feeds.

Lets take a quick look to them:





1.-RSS Aggregator

This serves as a Feedigest kind of thing that will allow you to make a mix of upto to
3 Feed in one go.

The Further Review of this will go in a new post.

2.-RSS To Web

A RSS Landing page, only useful to those that are not in Feedbuner already (so, not many), but if you wanna have a look at one, take a look at

Bloggeratto xFruits Landing Page

3.-RSS To Mobile

A RSS Landing page for Mobile phones, that is more useful to the overall user, it serves for PDA, CellPhones and Old Smartphones.

So wel, you know what follows:

Bloggeratto Mobile xFruits Landing Page

4.-Post To RSS

A Mail To Feed service, well that is also promising considering this is another option that can be used to either to collaborations with other by e-mail or to play with it.

I will put the review of this in the Mail To Feed Services Post.

5.-RSS To PDF

Another service following a growing little niche, the Feed To PDF services and you can use it with ease, it is as good as the rest.

6.-RSS To Mail

Not Active yet, will update when it is usable

A Online ToolBox Service to compete with full blown Feed To mail services?, not really, it will only be useful for those that like the simple services.

7.-File To RSS

Not Active yet, will update when it is usable

My guess is that this will be a either a Podcast Enabled Feed or That rolled with a File Hosting solution.

I hope for the later.

8.-RSS Composer

Not Active yet, will update when it is usable

The big incognita of the services, the one that really makes me want it already.

Time will tell.

So, in the end Xfruits, is a Web 2.0 because it has social featured enabled for the user of it, and it has a map, tags and searchable profiles.

Here is mine:

xFruits Avatar Profile

The front of the service is that, the people that use the service, you search the people to take a look at how they are using the tools, and this usage can either be Public or Private. so it is worth of a visit and a try.

xFruits

I am testing this Dpoll thing, after doing a review of 10 different Poll Systems.

wich i will publish shortly.

Well. it shows that it´s time for site upgrades, and the update of today is Technorati renovating not only its Look, GUI and some minor new features but also adjusting its accuracy wich was way way needed for the past months.



I like the new look, and i hope they are rolling even more new fetures soon.

So take a look and if you don´t haven´t claimed your blog, what are you waiting for?

Blogger is supported and completely automatic.

Technorati

If you like to be ahead of everyone, like to tinker with things and have a thing for Atom Feeds (or Feeds in general), now you can upgrade your Hosted Blogger blog to it.

AtomEnabled.org

will offer you the way to do so, and it is not only to upgrade from Atom 0.3 to 1.0, you can do another things with it.

So,go an have a look.

Many Bloggers by now will have an idea of what Cocomment, is and do.

And they have upgraded the system: Anouncement

However, if you had never heard of it yet, well, let me tell you what it is about:

Cocomment, tracks the Blogosphere and beyond for what you say in it. allowing you to have your own track line on it, meaning you will always know what you said and were you said it but, also letting you to know if someone else said or replied directly to what you said.

Confusing?.

Not at all, Cocomment is for Comments, what Blogger is for Push Button Publisihng, The easiest and the best way to be integrated into your thoughts, ideas and opinions at any given time giving you the choice to share them abroad.

There are others options out there like co.mments and commentor but they still not come close to Cocomment, so if you have never tried it, maybe is time you would now that it has been upgraded to stay ahead of the pack.

Check it out:

Cocomment

A very simple curiosity, the option to have a animated feedroll in your sidebar or to carry as a badge anywhere else.




However, i can think of others ways to use it.

But first, have a go at it, as it is in here:

Powered by

A quick note to point to no to the new Uber SlackerScript (extra work prevention userscript) That Singapolyma has merged up into one for the use of anyone that wants to have a go at it.

GM SlackerScript Intall Link

For all the details and history of how it came to be visit his Blog

A voting system with the same principles as Bumpbox that worked on Blogger were something i was recently thinking in, and well, the first one of it´s kind that works Blogger seems to be this, more important is that it not only offers the option for the kind of vote button you want like shown here:



but that it offers the css file for the Vote Button to whoever want to grab it and hosting it elsewhere to have your own look specifications.

This service offers a specific version for wordpress and a custom version to modifcate that is the one that works with Blogger of course.

So, i took the time to make you and aready adjusted custom version that works with Blogger, that really only needs the Blogger $tags$ to work:

CODE:

Copy the code below


<script type="text/javascript">
link_url = "<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>";
title= "<$BlogItemTitle$>";
site_url = "<$BlogURL$>";
type = "box";
customcss = "none";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.bumpbox.com/beta/bbxbeta.js"></script>


INSTALLATION:

Go to Settings - Template and then look for the place where you want it to appear, (in this case it would be recomended for it be at the post footer)

Paste the code there and that´s it.

USE

In this case the only Bad/Good thing is that to vote the user has to have a account in Bumpbox.

GOOD

This is Good because that way people cannnot abuse that easy of the system and having an account in bumpbox will also give them a My Bumps list holding everything that they gave their good mark for, like in Digg and other Systems like it being able to track those items.

BAD

This is Bad because that way if they are not signed in they will have to sign in there.

OBSERVATIONS:

An added perk for using Bumpbox is that everytime someone Bump a post whenever that be, it appears in the general Bumpbox Board giving you some posible extra traffic.

So the only shortcoming i see for the system is that the service work in the behalf of the user only, and it works in a public way for the Blog Bumpbox user.

Wich means that the Bumpbox user that has a blog cannot opt for a RSS feed, for remote checking and to have the option to play with it, for example, to have a lastes bumped items.

This also means that for the moment you cannot think right now of having a widget for doing the same from the Bumpbox Service.

But this observations are really just nitpicking about it because this is easy to fix, if they get a claim this blog into the system that will get you added features and tools.

DEMO:


This is a Blogger Testblog with Bumpbox enabled:

Blumpbox Blogger Blog

RATING

Ease Of Use: 10.0
Reliability: 9.0
Features: 8.0

Score: 9.0

Bumpbox

And here are the self explanatory pictures of it:

1.-Dashboard:





2.- Comment Window:








*Updated:

But it seems that i can only see it from the computer at work, maybe because of some changes i made to my Blogger account (don`t ask) recently.

Here is the description of it:

There is a new comments link that is just at the right of the delete link in the edit post section of the posting tab, when clicked,it will give you the comment window (opens in the same tab/window) for that post and there will be a "X" red pointer and a Pencil as the edit icon at the side of it in each of the comments of that post.

And that is it. now, who wants to know about the other 4 confirmed changes to blogger i know about? =D


*Updated 08/07/06: Now with photos

(yeah, i knew that last line would put this blog and my mail going on, hehehe)

*Updated 11/07/06: Note

The comment control is no more, i don´t see it anymore.. and i really was left weird out of it because after looking at jasper userscript, and i noticed there were exactly the same and began having doubts, i mean i had not intalled or seen it before but how about it somehow the broswer catched it recenly while iwere using others userscripts? i am using flock at the moment.

so unless it returns i have decided to only link at jasper

Bloggeratto has reached v0.2 with not that much differences from v0.1 and here it is the changelog:


Bloggeratto v0.2

Issues:

- Some Bug fixes
- Removal of Gaby De Wylde Categories v1
- Re-Adjustment of the blog.
- Deactivation of Commenters Photos
- Deactivation Of Quoting System

New Features:

- Cocoment integration
- Asynchonic Comment Form
- Recently Updated post list, ( that uses the Blogger Rss feed)
- Custom Yutter Reader Counter

however since i did´t put the list of the v0.1 here it is:

Bloggeratto v0.1

Issues:

- General Script Stability
- Adjustment of GDW categories v1
- General Adjustment of the blog

Features:

- Native Blogger search
- Multi-Purpose [TAG]
- Peek-a-Boo Hovering Blogger Nabvar
- Video [tag] for Comments
- Quoting System
- Ghostbar
- Commenters Photos
- Comment Numbering
- Comment Author Highlighting

And finally how it opened to public as Zero

Bloggeratto v.0.01

Template:

Bloggeratto Minimatik

( modification of a Thur template that is based in the blogger minima, even if the actual designer still deny it)

Features

- GDW Categories v1
- In-line Peek-a-boo Comments
- In-line Peek-a-boo Backlinks
- In-line Peek-a-boo Comment Form
- Comments Image [tag]
- Expandable Post Zone Script

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I will Add the complete list inside the Blogger Template statement later on so, it can bee seen what is inside the Blog every month.

In future posts refering to Bloggeratto version status, of course i will only refer to the version in question.

On the Road to v0.3

I am loking forward to v0.3 becuase that one will have lots of changes again:

-New Categories
-Tag Index
-New Comment funtions
-New Template Skin
-New Logo
-New general Features.

So, stay tuned

Well, i recived some mail asking where the hell i was. the thing is that my health was not OK the last 10 days so i were a little M.I.A on the Blogging scene because of it, it is sad becuase i have lots of stuff that i am holding because i have them in my notes.

It is also sad becuase it takes me out of my self marked schedule for the blog i wanted to keep when i started it.

But since i have to work in the day, it can get hard to do.

However i have done a lot of thinking and i have been distracting myself translating the rest of the post that i need so the spanish version of this blog can be in synch with this blog at all times

So, sorry about the hiatus but that is how life is.

But i am in no way letting go of this Blogger Craziness.

Thanks for the ones who sended me a e-mail.

I have recived some e-mails about where & when the Bloggeratto side-proyect i talked about a month ago is, and the answer is: I will release it a soon as i can and it will be worthy the wait i hope. and i already have planned the next 2 proyects after that one.

Well, it seem Efendi Kwok is aboard this Blogger Monkeying we love so much here in Bloggeratto, so as he is a good lad and i consider him a friend i am glad to see he is at it already, great to know.

Anyway Efendi has cooked up a clever and simple Hack to be used if you want to have as the title of the post says: Scrolling Prev/Next Button Links.

When pressed it will just do a scroll transition from post to post very smoothly adjusting to the lenght of the post.

If the post is short the transition will be moderately fast and if the post is long the transition will be fast. you get the idea.

The hack is implemented using a Effect library that weights as little as this very post.

So go give Efendi a Visit at that Post .