Once you get tired of Googlewhacking, there’s still more fun to be had with Google. Mo Morgan’s Stupid Translator uses Google’s translation service to translate your choice of url from English to another language and back to English, with amusingly less than perfect results. For your snickering pleasure, this page in English-German-English, featuring helpful phrases […]
Posting to the future and the past: type a post, then click the Options… button, check Set post date/time, and enter a date and time in the future, then post or post & publish. The post will go to your Future tab, and wait until the next time you publish after that date and time, […]
Once I get the hang of Drafts, I think it will be quite useful, though I fear that it will be a lot like todo lists are for me: out of sight, out of mind. Drafts in a nutshell: it has always been possible to use “Post” as a sort of draft, to save a […]
Ah. At last we have post titles in Blogger. Here are the fun things you can do with them: [this space intentionally left blank]. To use the new title field, go to the Settings page, Formatting tab (gotta find an easier way to say that), and change “Show Title Field” to “Yes” and save changes. […]
I can’t remember if the old free version of the spellchecker let you add words or not, but the new version does: when you spellcheck a post with unusual words like “blog” in it, click “Add” to teach spellchecker.net that you didn’t mean “bog” or “log” or even “oblong”. (Note to spellchecking purveyors: it would […]
First things first: go to the Settings page for each of your blogs, and at the bottom of the Publishing tab, change “Ping weblogs.com” to “Yes”. Congratulations: you just became more popular. <edit>Note that you will be pinging with your Settings for Blog Title and Blog URL, so if you use Blog Title to affect […]
Blogger Pro
What are the last six words any Blogger supporter wants to hear about Blogger Pro? The archive issues remain the same.
Dragging another crumb about Blogger Pro features back to my lair. Biz Stone, Genius : Among the features I’m looking forward to: email posting and email publishing. I have to say I’m underwhelmed by email publishing so far (mostly the fault of Yahoo Groups, though), but email posting is another matter. And Biz? Permalinks don’t […]
Robert Scoble’s notes on the Blogger Pro demo, as posted on Dave Winer’s Radio weblog