Something I Found Today

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I recently reformatted my PC due to it's slow performance and for some reason, the Calculator tool is missing. I hit the calculator button on my keyboard and it shows that it's opening, but it never does. I have already made all of my adjustments and downloaded my programs again, so I don't really want to reformat again any time soon.

I was looking for a good online calculator to use and discovered that I can use Google as a calculator! Where have I been?

It's super easy too. Simply enter your math problem into Google search and it gives you the answer.

This may be an old feature, but it's new to me.

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How To Remove "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)" Link

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Whenever you start a new blog on Blogger, you are lucky enough to get that link at the very bottom that invites reader to Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Some of you might like it and that's fine. Some of you, like myself, have opted to put a flashier subscribe button some where else on your blog, and who needs two subscribe to RSS links?

It is a very simple operation to remove it form your blog.

Simply go to Design> Edit HTML> Expand Widgets
From there search for this code: <b:include data='feedLinks' name='feedLinksBody'/> and delete it. Done!

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Websites Going Black In Protest Of SOPA & PIPA And How You Can Too

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Have you been to Wikipedia today? Craigslist? How about Reddit? If you have you undoubtedly notice something different about them.  These sites along with hundreds of others have gone "black" in protest of two anti-piracy bills currently under consideration on Capitol Hill, SOPA and PIPA.

Supporters of the bills claim that the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Acts will protect the rights of the music industry, movies studios, and the television industry. Those who don't support these bills see them as censorship of the internet. If you would like to read more about these bills, I found a good article over at Forbes.com.

Here is a small list of websites participating in the protest today:

Wikipedia.com

Reddit.com

Wired.com

Google.com

Craigslist.com

Firefox's Start Page

Techcrunch.com

These are just a few out of thousands of websites.

If you don't agree with SOPA and PIPA, click the link below and sign the petition.
https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/


If you'd like to "Black Out" your blog for the day simply go to:

Design> Add A Gadget> HTML> and add the following code;

<script type="text/javascript">var a=new Date,b=a.getUTCHours();if(0==a.getUTCMonth()&&2012==a.getUTCFullYear()&&((18==a.getUTCDate()&&13<=b)||(19==a.getUTCDate()&&0>=b)))window.location="http://sopastrike.com/strike";</script>

This works great and you can remove the gadget easily when you want to stop the protest. I blocked the rest of my blogs and this code worked great.

How to Create an "Email Me" Link

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You know when you go to a fancy website and they have an "email me", or "contact us" link that you click on and it opens your email program? Want to put one on your blog? Sure you do!

But Why?

One thing, it makes it a lot easier for your visitors. They don't have to copy your email address, open their email, and paste your address to send you an email, one click and they're done.

Another great reason to use a link is to avoid junk mail. Spammers search the internet for email addresses to send their crap to, so if you post your email address on your blog, they will find it. Using a link for your email will help to hide your address from these junk mail junkies.

All you have to do is copy and paste this code anywhere you'd like to have an "email me" link.

<a href="mailto:youremail@gmail.com">Email Me</a>

Make sure to change the part that says "youremail@gmail.com" to your email. You can also change the "Email Me" text to whatever you'd like.

Hope this helps!

Blogger's New Lightbox Image Viewer, And How To Remove It!

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I'm sure a lot of you fellow bloggers have noticed that Blogger has decided to add a new feature to your blog, a lightbox style image viewer. The bad thing is, nobody knew it was coming and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to disable it if you don't like it. It might be a great feature for some people, but it seems that the majority of bloggers don't especially like it.

On this blog for instance, I occasionally post example images with a caption stating to click the image for a larger view. I do this because some images are quite large and if I posted the full size image on the blog post it would be huge and wouldn't work. With Blogger's new feature, when you click an image it opens the lightbox, and you can't zoom in on larger files like you could before.

So here is a trick to disable this new feature.

Click Design > Edit HTML


At the very bottom of your template you will see </html>, right before that enter this code:

I got a tip from Mark over at http://englishjavadrinker.blogspot.com, He has a couple of codes for you to try. After reading his blog, I realized that you can add this code right from Design > Add A Gadget > HTML. Just paste in the code and you don't have to mess with your blog's main HTML code, and you don't have to wait for the entire page to load before the code works. Thanks Mark!

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
function killLightbox() {
var images = document.getElementsByTagName(


'img');
for (var i = 0 ; i < images.length ; ++i) {
images[i].onmouseover=function() {
var html = this.parentNode.innerHTML;
this.parentNode.innerHTML = html;
this.onmouseover = null;
};
}
}

if (window.addEventListener) {
window.addEventListener('load',killLightbox,undefined);
} else {
window.attachEvent('onload',killLightbox);
}
//]]>
</script>

Voila, now your images will open as they always have. This is a good workaround until Blogger gives us the option to disable it manually. Hope this helped!

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