Have you heard about the new Blogger Play?

Blog Play is a new real-time slide-show of pictures which bloggers have uploaded recently onto their blogs. It's real fun to watch. It's like a random image viewer, worth wasting your few minutes on it. It shows the images from the public listed blogs. As of now there is no clean way to stop your blog's pictures from getting displayed here.

Here is a screen shot!

Enjoy!!!!

How to hide or remove the navbar in blogger

OK...I know many of you blogger might be already knowing this. But, many others are there who still dont know. So, this is for them...

Technique for Old Blogger:

Insert this piece of CSS code into your blogger template into the style tag which will be inside the body tag.

#b-navbar
{
visibility:hidden;
height:0px;
display:none
}

Technique for the new Blogger beta :

Again insert this piece of code into your blogger template into the style tag!

#navbar-iframe
{
visibility:hidden;
height:0px;
display:none;
}

That's it. The blogger navbar will be hidden now.
Note: This is the technique used in my blog too !!

A list of good and free blogger templates providers

Blogger templates are available for free on many sites.
But many of them often don't suite our taste!!
Here are my small list of "good" sites giving free blogspot templates.

freetemplates.blogspot.com
An Indonesian blogger has a good collection of three column template designs

www.bloggertemplates.org
A very good collection of 2 column blogger template. It is really cool and
nice!!

blogspottemplates.blogspot.com
A Singaporean student has given out some good blogspot templates for free.
Vaious themes like Tour De France, Desperate Housewives, Harry Potter and Yoga

www.blogskins.com
A huge repository of user contributed template for blogger and other sites like
xanga also.

blogger-templates.blogspot.com
Very good collection of 2 columned templates for blogspot !!

blogtemplates.noipo.org
Contains both text only and graphical version of Blog templates. There are also
instructions on how to use Blogger templates.

www.geckoandfly.com
This site has some popular blogspot template designs

These are just some site which I found useful !!
You can post any other links, if you have one !!

Integrating Adsense into free Wordpress.com blogs

I have a wordpress.com blog (free version blog)
It has really good and look and feel and a lots of features compared to our blogger blogs!!
But it don't have some important features which Blogger provides. It don't have the facility to integrate Adsense into their blog. I tried everywhere to insert a piece of adsense code into my wordpress blog !!
Alas!! Finally I found that they dont allow any kind of advertisement in their free blog.
May we they might allow in the future ? But who knows!!
We have to wait and see for their updates.
Thumbs up for our Blogger.com blog as of now.