Blogger

Google recently revamped Blogger, transforming the lagging product into a full-featured blog platform. With its quick initial setup and point-and-click template switching, Blogger most resembles WordPress, but it sets itself apart with its savvier handling of third-party plug-ins and online videos.

Blogger one-ups WordPress with the ability to modify templates, allowing you to drag and drop 12 different page modules onto them. You can also drop in external RSS feeds such as Yahoo news feeds, AdSense ads, blogrolls, and third-party HTML and JavaScript applications (such as Meebo's IM window). You can even customize your CSS by hand, which unfortunately is necessary if you want to add an image to your blog header.

In addition, you can post photos from your camera phone, blog using the mobile client, or send posts to a special e-mail address. The software sports a comprehensive set of controls and features for posts, comments, and feeds, and presents them in a simple interface that clearly explains what each does.

While Blogger will let you host your blog at your own Web site (including subdirectories and subdomains) by FTPing posts to your site, many of the new customizable layouts and modules will not work with external domains. Google says this arrangement may change soon, which would make Blogger a fantastic choice for small businesses wanting to add a new blog to an old site without spending much time customizing it.

On the other hand, WordPress's logging and statistics features put Blogger, which offers neither, to shame. It's especially embarrassing since Google Analytics is one of the best free offerings on the market. Fortunately, Blogger lets you paste Google Analytics code into its CSS, but the fact that it isn't baked in is a big oversight.

Nevertheless, Blogger is a great option for anyone who wants to trick out a blog with third-party ads and applications, or who wants to blog for dollars through Google's AdSense program. If it ever lets you use its design customization on third-party servers, it will be a fantastic way to run a blog on your own site without having to maintain and update blog software.

[via PCWorld]

MyBlaBla: For me, blogger have a lot of potentials to grow widely like wordpress if google allows the users to contribute in it's development or receive some opinion and thinks to do it. But the important part is blogger dare to change!Outside they, many blogger hacks created by the user to enable inordinary blogger do the ordinary things.

Proton-WBF World Championships 2007

Chong Wei against Eric Pang. Chong Wei won 21-7, 21-11.

Hafiz Hashim executes a smash in his third round match against Scott Evans of Ireland in the men’s singles event yesterday. Hafiz won 21-19, 14-21, 21-11

The World Championships is the main individual tournament in the Badminton World Federation's annual calendar. It offers sponsors an association with an exciting and popular sport and extensive exposure worldwide through television and media coverage. Badminton is a very television friendly sport as viewers can follow the pace and action of the game clearly. Venues are also visually attractive on television as the Badminton World Federation has introduced strict rules and guidelines on the colour scheme of court settings and players apparel.

The story of WBF World Championships
History of badminton in Malaysia
WBF World Championships winners
Gallery

[via Proton-WBF World Championships 2007 official website]

For the live results and score, you can go to this website.and for the up-to-date news about the championships, you can visit here.

Schedule of the tournament:

Monday 13 August 2007
1st Round
1 9:00AM
2 2:00PM
3 6:00PM

Tuesday 14 August 2007
1st Round
1 9:00AM
2 2:00PM
3 6:00PM

Wednesday 15 August 2007
2nd Round
1 9:00AM
2 6:00PM

Thursday 16 August 2007
3rd Round
1 12:00PM
2 6:00PM

Friday 17 August 2007
Quarter Finals 3:00PM

Saturday 18 August 2007
Semi Finals 2:00PM

Friday 19 August 2007
Finals 2:00PM

Wira new generation! Proton Pesona

The launch of the new Proton Persona has been long-awaited and departing from its usual paranoia and super-secrecy (which even led to getting the police involved when spy pictures of the Gen2 appeared on the Net), many details of the new model were made public well before today – including price indications. This is the right way of marketing and it didn’t take a genius to figure that out because people will find out one way or another before a model hits the market and rather than keep them in the dark so they will hesitate – and many do with Proton – providing advance information about a product – even a single image – can make a difference to their decision. So it’s not surprising that at least 2,200 bookings have already been received as of last night and even more impressive, 350 customers can start driving their Persona today.



Earlier, Proton had hinted that the new model might not be called a ‘Gen2 Sedan’, as most people assumed, even though it is using the same platform and styling. Instead a new name – Persona – has been chosen and when you consider how significant the changes made are to turn the Gen2 into a sedan, it seems justified that the model should get its own name.

'Persona’ is not exactly new to Proton as it was used for the Wiras sold in UK and Australia and in some ways, its adoption for this new model is appropriate. Using Wira was felt to be unsuitable because that model, Proton’s second one, was based on the Mitsubishi Lancer and Proton wants to break away from that era so a new name is necessary even though the Persona can be considered the true WRM (Wira Replacement Model).

[via MotorTrader]

FAQs On the Specifications, Design and Quality Standard

Question:
Is this a Mitsubishi based model?
Answer:
No, since the Waja, there has not been any Mitsubishi-based model.

Question:
Is this new car running on the Campro engine?
Answer:
Yes, it is running on the Proton Campro Engine, with improved TCU for better performance.

Question:
What is the engine specification?
Answer:
1.6L – Max Power: 82kw (110bhp) @ 6000rpm
Max Torque 148NM @ 4000rpm

Question:
What is the standard service interval?
Answer:
Every 10,000km.

Question:
Can I test drive before buying?
Answer:
Yes, please visit the nearest Proton showroom for test drives.

Question:
What colours will be available?
Answer:
Iridescent White, Solid Red, Light Gold, Tranquility Black, Metal Grey&Blueberry Tea.Solid White will be available from September 2007 onwards.

[via Proton-edar]