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Blogger Hax!
Author: CallyJun 9
I have a blog at LJ I don’t use much any more; the one thing I thought it had over Blogger was the lj-cut tag. But after a bit of looking, I found a couple of offerings that make it all better.
Method One, from Vin at Beta-Blogger for Dummies is good if you do a lot of longer posts. Format of blog itself isn’t great, nor is the bright pink background, but the how-to is well laid out and easy to follow. (I suggest copy-n-paste to a document to save your eyes.)
Method Two, from Gaby at the Categories Blog, is the one I’m using now: better suited to a blog like mine that has posts of varying length.
Gaby calls these cuts “expandable post zones,” and that’s a good term for it: one click to expand the text, and another collapses it back into the Internet aether.
The best part is that it doesn’t add an unnecessary link when there is no text to reveal. That is just awesomeage.
To be fair, though, Gaby’s post isn’t as newbie-friendly as Vin’s. For example, my template doesn’t include the ” ” tag; so when I followed the instructions as written, the code didn’t work. I had to go back into the template and add the tag myself. Not a big deal, but for anyone unfamiliar with hand-coding, this omission might make them pass on this otherwise excellent tweak.
Both blogs offer plenty of other great stuff for bloggers: certainly worth a click or two to peruse.
Part of the 88.3%
Author: CallyJun 4
According to this article from AP (via Yahoo! News), McAfee has identified “the most dangerous domains” on the Internet.
(I have to point out first that, having used many different computer security programs, McAfee is hardly the best, but, whatever.)
Quote:
McAfee found the most dangerous domains to navigate to are “.hk” (Hong Kong), “.cn” (China) and “.info” (information).
Of all “.hk” sites McAfee tested, it flagged 19.2 percent as dangerous or potentially dangerous to visitors; it flagged 11.8 percent of “.cn” sites and 11.7 percent of “.info” sites that way.
The URL for this blog is “www.wildaspie.info” – I might get more traffic if I was selling cheap Prozac or Viagra, but I’m not. I’m part of that 88.3% of .info domains that pose no risk to your precious computer.
Regarding the safety of your mindset I make no promises, though.
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It’s quick and easy to do; one piece of code goes into the blog template, the other into the post template.
There are additional tweaks and twitters for link color, size, wording, and so on. Definitely worth checking out if you have a lot of long posts.
But since I don’t, I quickly found the “read more” link annoying on my short posts where there is nothing more to read than what has appeared on the main page.