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Sexy Buttons : Free CSS styled buttons

Sexy Buttons documentation Download Sexy Buttons
When I see attractive buttons for “Download” , “Get the Code” buttons in several websites like this, I always wanted to get such buttons, but didn’t want to use images as buttons.

I have found a very easy way of adding beautiful buttons to the website/blog. Thanks to Sexy Buttons.
You can download Sexy buttons from here.

Upload the sexybuttons.css file, and the image folder to your domain, and start using it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dont forget to include the CSS file in your webpage.Try it, and let me know how useful it was.

Windows 7 Mobile - will soon be a Zune phone?

Learn More:
Windows phone 7 series

Search engine usage in January 2010 (U.S)

Below is an interactive chart containing the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com, AOL) percentage usage (for the period August 2009 to January 2010). (from Comscore)

Check Bing's growth over Yahoo since its launch.

3 different ways to get more followers [twitter]

Follow anyone whom you find to have a twitter account (at least someone will follow back)

or

Pay few bucks to nasty websites which will get you followers who never mind what you tweet

or

Keep your tweets interesting

Share on Google Buzz - link / button for your website

This is a redundant post .
Publicize your blog post, by adding a link for "Share on Google Buzz". Your readers can easily share the Page on their Google Buzz Shared items, even if they have not subscribed to your blog's feed.

Add any of the below code snippet to add "Share on Google Buzz" button / link.

(Note: if you want a text only link, please use
customText : "Share on Google Buzz!" instead of
customImage : 'http://i50.tinypic.com/6hrqd3.png'
in any of the below code)

 1. Adding the default "Share on Google Buzz" link to any webpage

<script 
src="http://orkut-share.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/GBuzz.js">
</script>

2. Adding a custom Image with "Share on Google Buzz" link

<script>var GBuzz = {
customImage : 'http://i50.tinypic.com/6hrqd3.png'
}</script>
<script 
src="http://orkut-share.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/GBuzz.js">
</script>

You can use your own Image by providing the Image url in the above code (In the place of http://i48.tinypic.com/9urbs9.png)


3. Sharing a custom URL, Page Title with default Image 

<script>var GBuzz = {
url : 'http://www.didiknow.com',
title: 'Did I Know?'
}</script>
<script 
src="http://orkut-share.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/GBuzz.js">
</script>

4. Sharing a custom URL, Page Title with a custom Image 

<script>var GBuzz= {
url : 'http://www.didiknow.com',
title: 'Did I Know?',
customImage : 'http://i50.tinypic.com/6hrqd3.png'
}</script>
<script 
src="http://orkut-share.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/GBuzz.js">
</script>

Do not forget to change the URL and Page title to your own URL and Page title.

Adding "Share on Google Buzz" link for Blogger blogs

1. Goto Blogger dashboard of your blog.

2. Goto Layout tab, click "Edit Html"

3. Check the "Expand Widget Templates" checkbox

4. Locate

<div class='post-footer'>

in the template.

5. Just below the above code, paste any of the below code snippet, and save the template.

Default Google Buzz Share link

<script>var GBuzz = {
url : '<data:post.url/>',
title: '<data:post.title/>'
}</script>
<script 
src="http://orkut-share.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/GBuzz.js">
</script>

Custom Google Buzz Share button

<script>var GBuzz = {
url : '<data:post.url/>',
title: '<data:post.title/>',
customImage : 'http://i50.tinypic.com/6hrqd3.png'
}</script>
<script 
src="http://orkut-share.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/GBuzz.js">
</script>

You can use your own Image by providing the Image url in the above code (In the place of http://i45.tinypic.com/25j9gue.png)


Adding Google Buzz share link to Wordpress blog
Paste the following code on your single.php file, within the loop:

<a href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?title=
<?php the_title();?>&url=<?php the_permalink();?>" 
target="_blank">Share on Google Buzz</a>

Instead of "Share on Google Buzz" text, you can use any image, like,

<a href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?title=<?php the_title();?>&url=<?php the_permalink();?>" target="_blank">
<img src="http://i50.tinypic.com/6hrqd3.png" 
border=0>
</a>

You many also want to add Facebook, Digg, Buzz, Tweet buttons or/and
Delicious bookmark button + Counter for your website, Blogger blog or/and
Orkut Share link/button

Google Buzz - google.com/buzz

 Google Buzz for mobile
 

Google Chrome comes with Google Translate by default

If you are using Google Chrome browser, you need not look for a translate option in the website you are trying to read.

You don't even need to use Google Translate extension for Chrome.

Chrome comes with an In-Build translation feature which automatically identifies the language of the webpage, and offers translation.

Try translating, and let me know how this works for you.

Google Auto Suggest - much useul results [only in Chrome]

If you go to Google.com from Google Chrome, the auto suggest feature, also fetches the results (while suggesting search string) for Unit Conversion, World Clock, Stock quotes and much more. Check out the video. Dont have Chrome installed? Download latest Beta version