Saturday, July 31, 2010

Fiat Idea Adventure 2011

Fiat Idea Adventure 2011 Totalmente redesenhada, a minivan da Fiat ganhou um visual muito mais interessante desde a versão básica. Mas um dos destaques da linha é mesmo a versão voltada ao fora-de-estrada leve. Partindo de R$ 56.900, ela já incorpora o novo 1.8 16v E.torQ, de 130/132 cv assim como a inédita Idea Sporting, e pode vir com o câmbio automatizado Dualogic (R$ 59.010).

Se o visual das Idea mais urbanas já ficou muito mais moderno e elegante, a topo-de-linha ficou um show à parte. A frente ganhou faróis com máscara negra e grade exclusiva, aliada ao parachoque todo renovado, que mantém os quatro faróis auxiliares mas em suportes agora quadrados. Nas laterais, os apliques de plástico preto ficaram um pouco menores, mas mantêm a sensação de robustez, agora aliada à elegância dos novos retrovisores com luzes de direção incluídas. E a traseira remodelada apresenta as elegantes lanternas ladeando o renovado suporte do estepe em duas cores.

Por dentro, ela apresenta uma cabine exclusiva, que inclui bancos com o logotipo da versão e volante em duas cores, e até console central em cor diferente, conferindo um visual condizente com a proposta da versão. O bloqueio de diferencial Locker agora é opcional, entrando numa lista que já incluía volante de couro, inclinômetros e bússola. Mas na lista de série o conteúdo enche os olhos: ar-condicionado, direção hidráulica, computador de bordo, vidros elétricos, freios ABS, rodas de liga leve, faróis escurecidos e sistema de som com leitor de MP3.

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Showing image-only AdSense ads in your blog

This article is about how to show image-only AdSense ads in your blog.

Blogger and AdSense

It's easy to Set up AdSense on your Blog: Just go to Monetize > AdSense - and then follow the prompts to apply for an account.

Once you've been approved, it's easy to put AdSense ads into your blog:
  • Design > Page Elements > Add a Gadget > Adsense - for ads in your sidebar, header, footer etc
  • Design > Page Elements >  Blog Posts (edit) - for ads in between posts

But the advertisement format options that Blogger provides for are limited: you can only choose either text-only or image-and-text ads.  There is (currently) no option for image-only ads.

To guarantee that your blog displays image ads only, you need to get the ad-code from AdSense, and put it into an HTML-Javascript gadget or inside a Post (or Page)


How to display image only ads:

1  Log into AdSense with the Google-account that you use to manage your ads.   (There may be some cases where this is not the same Google account that you use to manage the blog where the ad is displayed)

2 Go into the AdSense Setup > Get Ads tab.

3  Choose AdSense for Content

4  Configure your ad:

Work through the items in the wizard to (I like to choose single-page, so everything is visible at once).   If you've chosen the Ad Unit radio button, then beside it there is a drop-down that lets you choose:
  • Text-and-image, 
  • Text-only, 
  • Image-only.

5  At then end of the wizard, you are shown some HTML code.    Copy and paste that code.

6  Go to Blogger (with the account you use for the blog).

7  Place the ad:
  • If it's going in a gadget, Choose Design > Page Layout > Add a Gadget > HTML-Javascript     and paste the copied code into the Contents field.   Save the new gadget, and drag-and-drop it to wherever you want  

To request image-only for the ads that are shown at the bottom of individual posts (via Design > Page Layout > Blog Posts/edit), you would need to edit the design-template.  Instructions for this will vary depending on what template you have, and are beyond the scope of this article.   But you can put a gadget at the bottom of all the blog-posts that are shown on a screen - just make the gadget the usual way, and drag it to underneath the Blog Posts gadget



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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Changing the case of your Label values

This article is about how to change the case of the Labels in your blog.  For example, from lower to initial case ("cats" to "Cats") or even all capital-letters ("CATS").

Why change case?

When some people start using Blogger, they apply labels to posts without much thought:  they just type "cats" into the label field, and don't consider how it will look later on.   Even worse, they type in "Dogs" for the next post and "FROGS" later on.

This gives an untidy, unprofessional-looking labels gadget.

And it's a bit hard to fix:  you can change the labels on individual posts, but if even one other post has "cats" as a label, it doesn't matter how many times you add "Cats" to new posts the label will always be recorded as "cats".

The only approach I've found is to apply a unique temporary label to all posts with the value you want to change, then to delete the initial label and use the temporary label to select the posts to apply the correctly-formatted value to.


How to change the case of existing Labels

Log in to Blogger, and go to the Posting > Edit Posts tab.

Select all the posts with the label you want to change (eg "fred"), by clicking on this Label in the left-hand panel, and then clicking Select All.

Use the Label Action... drop-down menu (just above the list of posts) to:
  • Give them a new temporary label that's not already in use (eg "xxx-temp") - when you have done this, they will all have at least two labels.
  • Remove the label that you want to change
  • Select all the posts with the temporary label
  • Give them the label that you want to change to (eg "Fred")
  • Remove the temporary label that you added in the 2nd step.




Warning:

Blogger blogs have a maximum of 5000 labels.   Some problems that have been raised in the Blogger-Help-Forum make me think that this is a life-time limit, and that a label is still included even if no current posts have it, though I haven't tested this personally.  I suspect that applying the procedure above will use up to three labels:  the original, the temporary one and the new one.   You may not want to use it if you think that your blog might ever reach the limit.



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