Blogger is a great free blog platform that is improving every day. New useful hacks and widgets are being created on a regular basis. Here is a list of some of the very best blogger widgets and blogger hacks that will improve the usability of your blog.

Blogger Hacks

Related Posts Widget
Display related posts beneath each of your blog posts. Links are displayed based on labels given to each post.

Tag Cloud Widget
Display a simple tag cloud in your blog's sidebar. The tags are displayed based upon the labels given to each post.

Random Posts Button
This widget creates a link for your template that directs users to a random post when clicked on.

Change the Favicon
Are you tired of the regular organge favicon provided by blogger? This tutorial will teach you how to display your own customized favicon.

Top Commentators Widget
Reward your readers for commenting on your blog with this widget. The widget displays the names of the top commentators and will direct you to their website when clicked on.

Change the Title Tags for More Search Engine Traffic
This tutorial teaches you how to make your post title show up before your blog title in Google search results. This is very important when it comes to Search Engine Optimization!

Recent Posts with Thumbnails
Grab your readers attention with an appealing recent posts widget which includes thumbnails.

Recent Comments Widget
Make your blog look alive by displaying recent comment discussions.

Digg Vote Button
Let your Digg readers Digg your posts directly from your blog with this handy little widget.

Search Bar for Blogger
This widget displays a small search bar in your blog's footer. Your readers will be able to easily search your blog for specific content.

Table of Contents
Allow your readers to easily navigate through your site with an interactive Table of Contents.

Blog Widgets

Facebook Widgets
Connect your blog or website with your Facebook Account using these powerful widgets.

Currently Online Readers Widget
A small widget which display how many users are currently online. The widget also indicates which pages are currently being looked at.

Contact Admin Widget
Let your users stay in touch with you with this contact form.

Post Ratings by Outbrain
Let your users give your post a star rating from one to five.

Social Bookmarking Widget 
This widget lets your users to easily bookmark your blog posts at the bottom of each post.

PageRank Buttons
 Showoff your blog's Google PageRank with this small widget.

Google Talk Chat Back Badge 
A Google Talk chatback badge will let visitors to your web page chat with you. They'll be able to chat with you whenever you're signed in to Google Talk.

Twitter Widget Tools 
A great post containg 502 twitter widget tools, buttons, and icons for Engaging your followers.

PayPal Donation Button
If you've got a loyal reader community that might be willing to sponsor you as a blogger, this would be the way.

Google Buzz Share Button
Another way to share your content across a great social network.

Performancing Ads Widget
Another way to make some money from your blog by letting others advertise on your site.

Sudoku Puzzle Widget
Have some fun on your blog with this interactive sudoku game that will easily go in the sidebar.  The sudoku has five different levels of difficulty.

Other

Change Your Template 
Choose from a huge list of custom blog templates. Providing your blog with a new design will make it look fresh and new.

Having the latest weather updates on your blog keep your site alive and fresh for your visitors. The easiest way to show off your local weather forecast on your website is with weather widgets, which can easily be implemented in your blog. Each weather widget displays the temperature, wind details, and much more.


Ibegin Weather Widget
Just enter your City, Zip Code, or State to show your local weather forecast. This weather widget will show the current weather and weather forecast with small icons.

Blogger has not too long ago introduced 3 new functions - Import blog, Export blog, Delete blog accessible via Dashboard > Settings > Basic (see screen shot below):

If you want to delete the blog, just click on Delete blog and it will be done. Now Blogger has also made it easier for you to recover (undelete) your deleted blog. If you go to the Dashboard, you will see a list of your blogs, some of which may be hidden (at the bottom of the list of blogs may be the statement for example - "displaying 4 of 5 blogs" with 1 hidden):

Click on "Show All" and the whole list of blogs, including the deleted blog, will be displayed:

 Just click on "Undelete this blog" and you would have restored your accidentally deleted blog.

You must have seen a lot of "Translate This Blog" Widgets on other wordpress and blogger blogs.So i thought of making a once click installable widget for the same.To install this language translation widget you just have to use widget installation button over here.



How to Install the Blog Translation Widget For Blogger   


1) Make sure that you are logged into your blogger account
2) Now clisk the widget installer button below.
3) A new page will open up.In that New Page Opt to save the widget
4) Now you will be taken to the Blogger Page Elements Page
5) You can drag the newly installed widget to the position which you want.

Note: If you are reading this in a Feed Reader the widget installer wont be displayed properly.So visit the actual article on the site to install the widget.



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Smokers who are inclined to take a few puffs soon after waking up may face an increased risk of developing lung, head and neck cancers than smokers who do it later.

Joshua Muscat, from the Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, and colleagues investigated whether early morning puffing boosts smokers' risk of lung and head and neck cancers.

"These smokers have higher levels of nicotine and possibly other tobacco toxins in their body, and they may be more addicted than smokers who refrain from smoking for a half hour or more," said Muscat.

The lung cancer analysis included 4,775 lung cancer cases, all of whom were regular cigarette smokers, according to Penn State statement.

Compared with those who smoked more than 60 minutes after waking, those who smoked 31 to 60 minutes after waking were 1.31 times more likely to develop lung cancer, and those who smoked within 30 minutes were 1.79 times more likely to develop lung cancer.

The head and neck cancer analysis included 1,055 head and neck cancer cases and 795 controls, all with a history of cigarette smoking.

Compared with individuals who smoked more than 60 minutes after waking up, individuals who smoked 31 to 60 minutes after waking were 1.42 times more likely to develop head and neck cancer.

This must come up as a wake-up call for young girls starving to be size zero. Scientists have found that under-nutrition during adolescent years is associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease in later life.

A study of almost 8,000 women who were children, teenagers or young adults during the Dutch famine in 1944-45 conducted by researchers from the University Medical Centre in Utrecht, the Netherlands, has shown that under-nutrition - particularly in adolescent years - is associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease in later life.

Women, who were between 10 and 17 years at the start of the famine and who had been severely exposed to it, had a statistically significant 38% increased risk of coronary heart disease in later life. After incorporating factors like age at the start of the famine, smoking, and education, there was a 27% higher risk of heart disease for the severely exposed women as compared to those unexposed.

The study published on Thursday in the European Heart Journal has provided the maiden direct evidence that acute under-nutrition during the time that children are growing up can have an important impact on their future health. Doctors recommend that women eat 2,000 calories a day to stay healthy. But an increasing number of young girls in India are starving "to stay in shape".

Dr Sujay Shad, director of cardiac transplant at the Gangaram Hospital, said, "Young children sometimes aren't happy of their own body image or may emulate models by starving themselves, not growing at the age when they need to grow. Parents should be careful not to put undue pressure on them. "

"The Dutch famine of 1944-45 is a natural experiment in history, which gave us the unique possibility to study the long-term effects of acute under nutrition during childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood in otherwise well-nourished girls and women," write the authors of the study. This trend of youngsters not eating enough has also led to India facing an acute problem of osteoporosis, which is a result of young girls cutting down on food in order to have a good figure.

To design the logo that was simple to complex, as to convey messages through simple layout is not easy. The Designer uses the letters to form the desired icon. The big brands are there hidden messages in their logo. For example, the FedEx logo is a logo design is simple and straightforward. But if you look closely you'll see an "arrow" between the letter "E" and "x" with the rate implied by this courier company.

Amazon Logo

When looking at the logo of the online bookstore Amazon the world's largest, it is easy to think of a friendly smile. However, if you look closely, the arrow running from A to Z letters implied in Amazon's store, customers can find everything from A to Z.

Sun Microsystems Logo

Logo of the company's world-renowned software includes Sun Microsystems Sun 4 letters interwoven and can be read when viewed from all directions, the great present for a logo with symmetry.

NBC Logo

NBC Broadcasting owns one of the most famous logo in the world, including the shape of a peacock tail is spread wide, she looked to the right, expression implies the company is always looking forward, not back follows.

Five Ten Logo

Five-Ten is a famous company specialized in producing sports shoes, based in the United States. The logo makes it impossible to forget the name Five Ten, when viewed from a direction they see the numbers 5 and viewed from another direction to get the number 10.

Forkware Logo

Logo's unique online food service Forkware bearing plate (fork) as a wire wrapped round the network (wire). The logo also looks like the @ symbol, nature of high technology.

Carrefour Logo

Carrefour is the name for a French retail group, Carrefour, the French word meaning "crossroads". Its logo consists of the letter "C" in the middle and two arrows indicate two opposite directions.

FedEx Logo

If you look you will see arrows are created by two letters E and X in the final. Arrows imply its speed this delivery.


Via Rail Logo

Logo of the Railway Service Canada - Images of the railway is shown skillfully through the characters.

Families Logo
The subtle combination of character i, l, i create a clear image of the family that wanted to show this logo.

E2 Logo

Very impressed with the very compact layout for two characters in a

ED Logo

Logo shows two characters ED over the image the plugs designed by Gianni Bortolotti for a power company in Italy.

Eight Logo

Logo very creative design from different parts of the eight.


Summit Logo

Stability, safety Is the logo for a clothing brand climbing.

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The best time to share this article on the social network to achieve the maximum connection What you usually post in the morning? During lunch, or is the last working day when people are present at home? A chart information from KISSmetrics answered these questions.
Here are some test of time sharing information on social networking sites:

• The best time to tweet is at 5am?
• 1-4 tweets per hour is ideal?
• The best day to tweet a mid-week and weekend?
• The best day to share on Facebook is Saturday?
• The best time to share on Facebook is in the afternoon?

Please see chart below information and to hear from you! Do you think you will start paying more attention to the time of the social network as a result of these findings?

(compiled from source: socialtimes)