Category: hacks news

I found this article on rediff.com. It’s about a man who came out of absolute no where and completed his engineering/MBA from premier institutes in India to become an entrepreneur. A very inspiring and touching tale. Click here to read the article.

On the hacks front:

Please make a note of Hacks Wiki. This is a one stop database which contains most of the hacks that are available out there. However, the latest hacks or a few others might not be in there. Many if not all of the old blogger hacks can be re-engineered to fit in the new beta blogger interface. Also check out some interesting links I have found:

Add calendar navigation to your blog

E-mail icon generator

Scroll lists in your template (used in my sidebars)

RSS chicklet creator

Chicklet drop-down creator (javascript based and used in my blog)

Hey all,

There is a nice add-on or improvement to Ramani’s original hack on sorting and display of search, label and archive results available here. Here is a description of the hack:

“My improved hack is based upon not showing the date at which a post is created, and make the posts indented as a nice bulleted list” – Hoctro

However if you do want the date header on the label search pages, just insert the line in red, in that code, as show here:

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType != “item”>
<h2 class=’date-header’><data:post.dateHeader/></h2>
<ul><li><a expr:href=’data:post.url’><data:post.title/> </a></li></ul>

In addition, if you are trying to get to terms with the beta blogger code (like me) and wish to understand more of it, there is a tutorial by Hoctro on defining and calling functions in beta templates. Do check it out here.

Ramani has come up with another hack. Blogger, by default limits the number of posts that can be displayed on a single page when a label’s contents are viewed. This has been modified to show upto 100 results per page (useful if you have Ramani’s search hack through which only post titles are shown instead of the entire post, on label and search pages). check it out here.

Hiding the navbar in blogger beta is not much of a task but it has been made a piece of cake by praveen of apt thinking…. Click here to learn how to hide the nav bar in a jiffy.

The search box on my blog has been picked up from here. Simple code and no scripts make it light and cool . You might also want to checkout that blog for it’s unique design and look.

Have you tried Ramani’s new Multi style widget labels? It offers reader to select from a zoom view, a menu view and a list view to view the labels on a blog. My labels box is using this hack. Check out the hack here and stay tuned for more of such hack from hackosphere.

Phydeaux3 has presented code for developing a label cloud which you can check out from here. Nice work there!