Actually the method is quite simple. If your theme includes a direct jQuery call from the header.php (usually will be written like

<script type=’text/javascript’ src=’http://domain-name.tld/wp-includes/js/jqueryjquery.min.js?ver=2.9.2′></script>

or something similar) just delete the line.

If your theme designer had adopted efficient programming practices, he would have used the wp_enqueue_script() function. It can be identified by going to your Theme Functions (functions.php) file of your theme.

Now to include the script from Google`s Ajax Libraries API servers, just insert the following code into the Theme Functions (functions.php) file of your theme:

// smart jquery inclusion
if (!is_admin()) {
wp_deregister_script(‘jquery’);
wp_register_script(‘jquery’, (“http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js”), false);
wp_enqueue_script(‘jquery’);
}

Once done, save the file and your done. To check if the change has occurred, load your blog’s home page (or any other page for that matter). Now press Ctrl+Shift+R to force refresh the page.

Now take a look at the page source (Ctrl+U or View => Source). If the following line appears, you have successfully included this hack into your wordpress blog:

<script type=’text/javascript’ src=’http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js?ver=2.9.2′></script>

The advantage of this hack is that your page loading times will get faster and in lieu better!

The new feature is called as Earth View. To enable it, first go to the Google Maps website, click on the Earth button on the upper-right corner of the maps and if you haven’t done so already, download the Google Earth Plugin.

After that just select the Earth button, to enable the Earth Mode and surf in 3D!

Just view the following video to learn more about it:

To check out the Google Maps Earth view, click here.

Much has been said about Google wanting more and more user data et al. With the advent of Gmail, Orkut, Voice, Wave and of course search, your online life literally belongs to Google!

But one thing that Google lacked was in making a social interaction system. Twitter and Facebook in their own rights proved how people can interact and discuss a great deal on a social wavelength.

So where does Google Buzz make the difference then? Yes you can follow others, you can get all their latest updates, share links, photos, videos etc., but so also on twitter, facebook, Yahoo meme etc.

The interesting twist that GB made was that to follow you, people must first access your Google profile. That sure is an interesting twist. Google, oh so desperately, was trying to promote public profiles, but who wanted it when they had Facebook?

Surely Google’s trump card lies in the fact that once a user enable’s his profile to be searched publicly, it’s a two way gain. The almost-perfect search could provide the profile’s of targeted individuals to perspective employers. This would make more and more people to join Buzz as well as Google profiles.

Also, its not a secret that Gmail is one of the most widely used web-based email apps. So why not interact socially with everyone, while checking your email?

View the official Google Buzz introduction video here:

This sure is gonna rock, what say? Follow me on buzz @sajan.richie

The message reads as follows:

Update your templates

Your templates include links to files hosted on Google Page Creator, a service that is soon migrating to Google Sites. Do you want Blogger to update those links now? Learn more

There is a ‘Update and review‘ link at the bottom of the message. Once you click it the new domain,’bloggerhosting.appspot.com’ would ask you to allow permissions to access your account. Just approve it.

Once done, you will be redirected to a page that will show all your blogs and check which one’s have references to googlepages (in their template.)

If any of your blog has a reference to googlepages in it, just click on the ‘Update References >>‘ link. It will now ask you to download (and backup) your template.

After clicking on ‘Next‘, all your references (like the scripts or css files or images) will be automatically uploaded to bloggerhosting.appspot.com. For eg. my script, that was previously hosted on http://myfreehouse2.googlepages.com/lightbox.js would now be moved to http://bloggerhosting.appspot.com/serve/myfreehouse2.googlepages.com/lightbox.js

Now all you need to do is click the ‘Update‘ button at the bottom, and your template will be modified with all the new links. Pretty neat!

So don’t wait much, as it seems the Google will now hurry up the closing of GP, and you wouldn’t want to lose any of your data, eh?

The (3rd) green bar indicates Chrome while the (4th) blackish one below it represents Safari. At the time of posting their share in the browser market was 4.78% and 3.54% respectively.

Another image, from theappleblog also states a similar story:

One of the major reasons for this increase was that Chrome had been released for Mac, thereby stealing Apple’s monopoly in the Mac’s browser market. Also the coming-out-of-beta of Chrome for Linux has helped it. The newly released themes and extensions have also helped its cause. Last but not the least, it’s a Google product!

But all’s not bad for Apple. Their share in the mobile OS segment just got strengthened even more, with the iPhone OS increasing its market share.

Image Credits: 1st, 2nd, 3rd

Goo.gl

The name of the add-on is goo.gl lite 1.0 by Matthew Flaschen. You can download the add-on via AFO, from here.

Usage:

Well this is a slightly tricky part if you are especially a new FF user. After installing and restarting your browser, right click anywhere above the URL box (in the blank section). Now select the Customize option from the menu.

Now search for a logo like this: , and drag it anywhere you like. (eg. next to the search box.)

That’s it. Now anytime you want to create a shortened Goo.gl URL of the current page, just click on that icon. The short URL will be created and copied to your clipboard. Just paste it anywhere you like!

Of course you could use the ‘exactly’ option to search for the image, for an image to fit your exact size requirement. However an easier and faster method would be to just add the ‘imagesize:wxh’ parameter to your search phrase, where w is the width and h is the height of the image.

Example: imagesize:300×250 brad pitt, shows you images of brad pitt, with the image dimensions as 300 width and 250 height. Certainly save me a lot of time!

Its very easy to add this search box to your site. In fact if you don’t prefer to install it directly and want to test it, just go to their site sikbox.com and enter your blog’s address. There is a live preview search box, using which you can test the results. A live preview of makeuseof.com yielded the following results:

To add the widget to your blog just go to http://sikbox.com/ and fill in the preview form. Then just click on the ‘Get the Code’ button. Now you will be asked for your name and email. Fill it up and click on the ‘Customize and Generate Code’ button. Now you can customize the search-box (actually you customize how the results appear) and then select the code generated below and add it to your blog.

Advantages:

• Free and fast
• Ease of use, no complexity
• Easy to install and use
• No programming required
• Extremely fast and lightweight
• Fully customizable via skins or CSS
• Image search support

Disadvantage:

The only disadvantage that I found was that for the search results to appear properly, your site must be indexed by Yahoo. This is because the  widget uses Yahoo API to get the results. Otherwise its a great plugin

You can try it out by visiting sikbox.com

The methods found here have been tested by me and are working. Note that I recommend the 6th, 7th and the 8th method, simply because they are so easy and yet so brilliant!

• Related Posts for BlogSpot Bloggers Using jQuery

  Swashata, from intechgrity.com, has posted a well-written and detailed tutorial of implementing the related posts system in a blogspot blog using jQuery.

  You can read and refer to the tutorial at devilsworkshop, from here.

• 3 Ways to implement related Posts from Mohamed Rias

  Okay, I’m cheating over here. Althought the post screams ’8 Ways to implement…’, I’ve combined three methods into a single point. That’s because the original article is also a single post.

  Mohamed Rias, in his blog techieblogger, has shown three methods to implement his version of the related posts. Although the framework and logic behind the related posts of this type is the same, the ways of implementation differ. It has been separated by being specified by method one, two and three.

  Personally speaking, this was one of the best related posts solution that was available out there for quite some time. I myself used the third method for more than one year. You can refer to the guide from here.

• Google Related Links

  This is a relatively new entrant into the field of related posts for blogger. Many even don’t know of its existence, mostly because it is only invite-based for the moment.

  As stated earlier, currently, only invited users can use Related Links. To apply for an invitation, please send an email to relatedlinks@google.com stating your Gmail address, website domains and approximate pageviews per day.

  In the mean time you could try it out by filling out this form

• Blogger Related Posts Service

  This is what I’m talking about. The easiest and most convenient method of implementing related posts in blogger. Its so simple, just follow the steps below:

  Step 1: Go to Layout => Edit HTML => Edit Template
  Step 2: BACKUP your template! Do not skip this!
  Step 3: Check Expand Widget Templates, then find for a block like:
  
<div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3">...</div>

  At the end of the </div>, add the following line:
  
<div id="related_posts">

  so that the final product will look something like this:
  
<div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3">
/*some code*/
</div>
<div id="related_posts">

  Step 5: Go to the end and search for </body> and replace it with the following code:
  
<script src='http://www.google.com/jsapi'/><script src='http://brps.appspot.com/brps.js' type='text/javascript'/></body>


  Alternatively you can just click on the button below:

  <script src=”http://www.google.com/jsapi”></script> <script src=”http://brps.appspot.com/brps.js” type=”text/javascript”></script> <div id=”related_posts”></div>

  You can read more about it from here.

• Related posts using jQuery + GData API

  Another great method that i found out was the one posted at moretechtips.net . It’s simply a super and easy method to implement this widget. Just refer to this tutorial.

• Related Posts using LinkWithin

  This one is slightly different from the one’s posted above. All the above related posts show text links as related posts. However the LinkWithin widget shows an image from the related post as the link, as shown in the picture below (click on the image to view a larger version):

  

  You can register at their site, and get the appropriate installation method. Go to LinkWithin.

Hope you liked the post. If you’ve got any doubts, don’t hesitate to comment.

The process of submitting your sitemap is quite simple. If you are a blogger user (blogger.com) the link to your sitemap would be your-blog-address.blogspotcom/atom.xml. For eg http://myfreehouse.blogspot.com/atom.xml

But theres one problem here. A standard sitemap must contain all the links in your blog. However if your blog is hosted on blogger, your sitemap will contain only the 26 most recent posts. But there is a simple workaround to this.

Suppose that your blog (taking an eg. myfreehouse.blogpsot.com) contains 200 posts. So for the first 100 you can use http://myfreehouse.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100

For the next 100 you can use http://myfreehouse.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=100&max-results=200 and son on.

If you are a wordpress user you can just install the Google Sitemap Generator Plugin for WordPress. Your sitemap will be auto-generated at your-blog-address.com/sitemap.xml. For eg. http://techwithric.com/sitemap.xml

Submitting your sitemaps:

So now to the main part Submitting your sitemaps. Just follow the following steps. Remember to replace the text in red with your sitemap’s address:

• Google

  You can follow this tutorial to submit your sitemap to Google.

• Yahoo

  1. http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=SitemapWriter&url=http://techwithric.com/sitemap.xml
  2. http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://techwithric.com/sitemap.xml

• Bing

  1. http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://techwithric.com/sitemap.xml
  2. http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://techwithric.com/sitemap.xml

• Ask

  http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://techwithric.com/sitemap.xml

If submit your sitempas to the major search engines, it is more likely that they will crawl your website more quickly. So do it! Hope you liked this tutorial. More to follow!