Here is a list of software i use on a every-day basis on my HTC Diamond

• emoze basic [link] to get push mail from my gmail account
• goosync client [link] to sync my google calendar (and all my contacts) over the air on a scheduled basis
• tomtom 7 [link] as a perfect navigation solution
• NoData [link] to be save when i travel abroad (disable all data transfer to save money)
• s2u [link] to do a couple of things ... hav a look

this list is just to get a list of software which i have to reinstall as soon as i have enough time to upgrade my diamond to windows mobile 6.5
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I was waiting for this feature for a long time. Especially if you are searching for linux related topics, it's usefull to restrain the results.

Google's web search toolbelt has been updated and it now includes an option that lets you find web pages from a user-defined period of time. After performing a search, click on "Show options", select "Custom date range" and enter at least one of the two dates.

here you get more infos
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Here is the solution ...

check out this link (while you are logged on on google): http://code.google.com/hosting/settings

GoogleCode does have a generated password instead of using your general google password - took me about hours ... at least it felt like ;)
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if you wonder how i choose the tiltle of the post "how to create the LyteBoxify widget" without actually explaining how to create the widget ... watch the tutorial ...



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a video you should see if you want to know, wyh design is way more harder than maths ;) ... have a look





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Since a couple of days youtube supports embedded high quality videos. Therefore youtube added a option to switch to 'HQ' mode via the video player.

Until that release of the video player you had to do a little hack to get hq videos embedded into your site.

You can find the (meanwhile obsolet) hack easily by asking Mr. Google about it.

Further information and image source: link

just to give you an idea - one of the best TV-Series i've seen

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[edit]for an example you could have a look on my about me page[/edit]

Unfortunately it took a long time till i tried to simplify my former "how-to: Static Pages in Blogger ARE possible" [link], but here we go ...

I use the HTML/JavaScript widget to get the impression of static pages


Step 1: Layout -> Add a Gadget

Step 2: Basic -> HTML/JavaScript

Step 3: Add your static content and save

Step 4: Place it above the "Blog Posts"-Widget

Step 5: save your changes

now we have to hide this gadget (otherwise it would appear all the time before your blog actually starts - see screenshot below) – therefore we have to change the template (do yourself a favour and backup the template before you change something!!!)

Backup your template

Step 6: Activate the checkbox "Expand Widget Template"

Step 7: Search for the string “title='Blog Posts'” – that’s the first line of the post-widget
Your HTML/JavaScript widget should be direct above this widget

Step 8: To hide the widget we have to add a line of code

This way – you will only see the static content if you link to [YOURBLOG].blogspot.com/label/xxx

Step 9: To hide the Blog Posts while you are displaying the static content you have to add the following lines of code

Search for "id='nextprev'" and add the code directly under that line

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Because of the fact that i got my htc diamond recently, there are some topics i won't spend to much time on yet (like the static blogger page widget).

Here is what i want to do

• get rid of the f*cking vodafone theme (htc's black theme is much cooler)
• sync the diamond with my google calendar
• use htc diamond as a modem for my laptop
• use htc diamond to chat via skype, icq and msn using just one client app (like miranda on windows xp)
• write and publish posts for detect-it.blogspot.com
  

i already found ways to do some of the mentioned "wanna-have-points", but i'm not quite satisfied yet
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This how-to is still "under construction" I just published it, because i think lots of people are suffering the same problem

[update]New Version available![/update]

Watch out my static 'About me' - page

'cause of a mysterious motivation boost i sat down yesterday night in front of my laptop, and tried to find is a way for "real-looking" static pages on blogspot.

and to make a long story short there is a way, to get professional looking static pages!

... i will still invest some work into this topic, but for now i will show you how it works with my 'quick-and-dirty' method (the breaking idea comes from hoctro's adding a frontpage tutorial).

here we go ...


1) let's start
add a page element (HTML/JavaScript) somewhere in the layout and drag it to show up before the 'blog post' section

2) change the layout
go to Layout - Edit HTML and enable the checkbox for Expand Widget Templates (do yourself a favour and SAVE your template before you change it)

3) search for the head-tag
and add the following lines of code directly after this tag

4) after the closing head-tag
you should find the body-tag - there you add onload='doIT()'

[body onload='doIT();']

5) now the magic happens!
search for your widget you added in step 1 (title) and add line 4 and 12

[b:widget id='HTML5' locked='false' title='About me' type='HTML']
[b:includable id='main']
[!-- static content starts--]
[b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://[YOURBLOG].blogspot.com/search/label/xxx"']
[!-- only display title if it's non-empty --]
[b:if cond='data:title != ""']
  [h2 class='title'][data:title/][/h2]
[/b:if]
[div class='widget-content']
  [data:content/]
[/div]
[/b:if][!-- static content --]

6) we are nearly finished ...
search for widget blog1 and add lines 3 to 5

[b:widget id='Blog1' locked='true' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog']
[b:includable id='nextprev']
[b:if cond='data:blog.url != data:blog.homepageUrl']
[script]document.getElementById('Blog1').style.visibility='hidden';[/script]
[/b:if]

7) last one ...
edit your HTML/Javascript Widget you added in step 1
open the html view and add these lines

after that step, you can finally add your content!

So That's IT ... i know - it's not the easiest way, but i'm thinking of rewriting it to make it a bit easier. Maybe i even create a own widget to make it more comfortable to use



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By MIGUEL HELFT

Published: December 15, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO — Google is testing a new Web service intended to become a repository of knowledge from experts on various topics, one that could turn into a competitor to Wikipedia and other sites.

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I was curious what addresses are displayed in the "To:" Field in gmail and started to guess ...

are those the e-mail addresses from

• the contact-list
• the sender field of received mails (read/unread mails)
  
• the receiver field of sent mails
• a combination of sender/receiver field (all of inbox/outbox, history, recent ...)
• ...
  

after reading some discussion group threads it seemed to be the first option - contact list

but how does it work that a email-address gets into my contact-list without doing anything? ... or better - when does google save the e-mail address into the contact-list?

I started a test and

• set up a new gmail account
• wrote an e-mail from the new account to myself
• checked when the e-mail address gets into my contact-list
  

here is the result

• received email from email-address not in contact list
• e-mail address didn't appear in the "To:" field neither in the contact-list
• opened email from email-address not in contact list
• e-mail address didn't appear in the "To:" field neither in the contact-list
• replyed to email from email-address not in contact list
  
• e-mail address is saved in contact-list & appears in the "To:" field

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after some debugging i found the reason for the js-error ie reported all the time ...

here is a simple solution ... ignore the Statement 'Don't change anything past this point ----------------- ' in the script-part and replace

function s(a,b,i,x){
  if(a>b){
      var m=(a-b)/Math.log(x),v=a-Math.floor(Math.log(i)*m)
         }
  else{
      var m=(b-a)/Math.log(x),v=Math.floor(Math.log(i)*m+a)
      }
  return v
}

with

function s(a,b,i,x){
 var m = 1;
 var v = 1;

 if(a>b){
    if (Math.log(x) > 0)  {
       m = (a-b)/Math.log(x);
    } else {
       m = 1;
    }
    var v=a-Math.floor(Math.log(i)*m)
 } else {
    if (Math.log(x) > 0)  {
       m = (b-a)/Math.log(x);
    } else {
       m = 1;
    }
    v=Math.floor(Math.log(i)*m+a)
 }
  
 return v;
}

now you shouldn't have any problems ...
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Here is a short description of how to embedding a labelcloud into blogger ...

The originally script was written by phydeaux3 and modified by Seige ... i just wrote this post to try how the syntaxhighlighter works you'll find more informations regarding this topic here (phydeaux3 & Seige)

1) CSS. Goes anywhere between the tags b:skin and /b:skin, preferably right before the end tag

/* Label Cloud Styles
----------------------------------------------- */
#labelCloud {text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;}
#labelCloud  .label-cloud li{display:inline;background-image:none !important;padding:0 5px;margin:0;vertical-align:baseline !important;border:0 !important;}
#labelCloud ul{list-style-type:none;margin:0 auto;padding:0;}
#labelCloud a img{border:0;display:inline;margin:0 0 0 3px;padding:0}
#labelCloud a{text-decoration:none}
#labelCloud a:hover{text-decoration:underline}
#labelCloud li a{}
#labelCloud .label-cloud {}
#labelCloud .label-count {padding-left:0.2em;font-size:9px;color:#000}
#labelCloud .label-cloud li:before{content:"" !important}

2) Widget. Goes anywhere between b:section id="'sidebar'" and /b:section (replacing the first b:widget id="'Label1'" ... line)

    








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regarding to internet explorer 6, there is a js-problem (illegal statement) but the script works fine with Safari&FF - i'll chase the problem when i find some motivation - sorry

Problem solved - here you can find what to do

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