How to Customize Google Adsense for Blogger

monetizing it with Google Adsense Ads, it is very easy to customize the look of your ads so that they blend in seamlessly with your Blogger template color scheme. If you are a blog owner and don't currently have an Adsense account, and you would like to learn more about the Google Adsense PPC program, read Google Adsense: Monetize Your Blog.Why Should I Customize My Google Ads? When you are planning your PPC advertising initiative your goal is probably to make as much money as possible through clicks on each Adsense link. Simply throwing the ads on your site is not enough to fully realize your PPC potential when monetizing your blog. There are many factors that come into play to enticing readers to click your Adsense, or even look at it for that matter!Anyone who has spent time looking at a web page sees Google Adsense, making it easy to distinguish as an advertisement, and also easy to skim right over without a second glance. By customizing your ads, you are communicating to your reader that these links could be relevant, and while they are still going to look like ads (because they are of course!) they will at least stand out among the other Google ads bombarding internet users every day.Customizing Google Adsense for BloggerI assume you have a Google Adsense account and a Blogger blog to work with before beginning these instructions, otherwise you will probably be lost! 1. Sign into your Blogger account and click on the "Template" tab at the top of your Blogger backend.2. Underneath the "Template" tab you will see a link titled, "Fonts and Colors." Click on this link.3. From this view, you can see your Blogger blog, and you're also given a list of sections on your blog with colors and a color palette associated with these sections. The sections are titled things like,
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Scotland Yard to help investigate Benazir assassination:Musharraf

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has announced that elite Scotland Yard has agreed to help investigate Benazir Bhutto’s assassination even as Parliamentary polls scheduled for 8th Jan were deferred until 18th Feb by Election Commission.
“In the light of the circumstances (following the assassination of Bhutto), the new date for general elections is 18 February 2008 instead of January 8,” Chief Election Commissioner Qazi Mohammad Farooq told a press conference in Islamabad on Wednesday.
“I assure all political parties that the elections will be fair, free and transparent. I appeal to them to accept this decision in the supreme national interest and participate fully.”
The elections cannot be held now now because of the law and order situation in the wake of the assassination of Bhutto on 27th December and the ‘Moharram’ period starting later part of next week, he said.
Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) was not in favour of delaying the polls.
PML-N of another former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif also wanted the elections to go ahead as scheduled.
However, the PML-Q, which backs President Pervez Musharraf, had been demanding the postponement of the general elections.
The Election Commission announcement came hours before Musharraf’s address to the nation on radio and television during which he is expected to focus on the situation in the country following Bhutto’s killing.
After chairing a series of meetings since Monday to assess the situation across the country, Farooq said that another reason for postponement of elections was the disruption of poll preparations following the killing of Bhutto.
Asked if the army would be deployed for ensuring security during the polls, Farooq said no decision had been taken as yet in this regard.
“When the time comes, we will consult the provincial governments and take the law and order situation into consideration before making a decision (about deploying the army),” he said.
The Election Commission had earlier asked the electoral offices in the four provinces of Balochsitan, Sindh, Punjab and North West Frontier Province to submit reports on the law and order situation and poll preparations in their respective regions.

SanDisk adds automated online backup to flash drives

SanDisk Corp. unveiled a Universal Serial Bus flash drive that automatically copies files to an online backup service when plugged into any PC with an Internet connection.
The new Cruzer Titanium Plus flash drive
The new Cruzer Titanium Plus flash drive is priced at $59.99 with 4GB of memory. It will be available in March, said the Milpitas, Calif.-based company. The online backup capability is priced at $29.99 per year. The first six months of the service are offered without charge, said a SanDisk spokesman.
The new flash-memory product replaces SanDisk's older Cruzer Titanium line, according to SanDisk officials.
The files will be copied to Tel Aviv-based BeInSync Ltd.'s online backup service under an arrangement with SanDisk. The backup service will store up to 4GB for each product, effectively mirroring the capacity of the USB drive, said Motti Vaknin, CEO of the service provider. BeInSync employs Amazon.com Inc.'s hosted Simple Storage Service (S3) infrastructure to store all collected online data, Vaknin said.
The backup service currently supports PCs running Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4), Windows XP and Windows Vista. SanDisk has no plans to provide online backup support to Macintosh- and Linux-based systems, the SanDisk spokesman said.
The BeInSync service will automatically store copies of documents, photos, digital music and videos. During the backup process, a small icon will appear in the system tray showing the progress of the effort, the spokesman noted.
Any new or changed files copied to the USB flash drive while a PC is offline will be backed up during the next connection. Any files deleted from the flash memory product will be kept online for approximately 30 days -- as long as the amount of files backed up from the device and deleted files do not exceed available capacity online.
The spokesman said that SanDisk has no immediate plans to extend the online backup service to its other USB flash-drive products.

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Apple to Kill 17-Inch iMac in Next Update?

Rumors about the next generation of iMacs have resurfaced, and after several months still sing the same song. It looks like the smallest member of the iMac family will be left behind for good.Rumors that the next generation of iMacs will have a new redesigned look, but will drop the 17-inch model started surfacing in March. After almost three years since the current design debuted, a change of looks would not go amiss. However, the decision to exclude

the smallest iMac from the update, and even potentially kill it off altogether came as a surprise. While it is quite possible for Apple to refresh the iMac line and come out with a 20i-inch model around the same price as the previous 17-inch model, many prefer the smaller sized desktop.Dropping the 17-inch iMac altogether would leave rather a large hole in Apple’s lineup. For one thing, there is the educational market, where the mini is often not enough, but a 20-inch iMac would be too much. Apple needs a cheaper, entry-level model, and the mini – while great at what it does – is considered by many as a bad choice due to the fact that it is both dated and lacking a display and peripherals.Dropping the 17-inch iMac and offering the 20-inch model for around the same price could be done, but that would mean having to upgrade the mini because the gap between the two would simply be far too large. Conversely, Apple could do something totally unexpected and drop a bomb by introducing a new model that would be somewhere between the mini and the Mac Pros, without a display, and priced around what the former 17-inch iMac used to cost. This fabled ‘Mac’ has long been awaited by loyal Apple customers and potential switchers alike, and would go a long way to improving Apple’s computer line-up.

Microsoft to Release IE 8 Beta 1 in First Half of 2008

Microsoft plans to release the first beta of the next version of Internet Explorer in the first half of 2008, and said that IE 8 has passed a key Web standards test that ensures the browser won't "break" the Web.
IE8 has passed the "Acid2 Browser Test" from the Web Standards Project, which shows whether a browser renders a Web site in a certain way. If the browser renders the site correctly, it means the browser supports certain accepted Web standards.
Microsoft posted a video about the browser passing the test on its Channel 9 Web site.
Microsoft developed IE before some Web standards such as CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) were developed, and so older versions don't support some current standards. Developers would write applications to work with IE rather than to support Web standards, since the browser was the de facto standard for surfing the Internet for so many years. Microsoft also was lax in updating IE to meet the demands of Web standards, since there was little competition in the browser market for years.
With the release and subsequent popularity of open-source browser Mozilla Firefox three years ago, a browser's need to stay current with Web standards once again moved to the forefront. When Microsoft developed IE7, released in October 2006, the company had good intentions and decided to improved support of Web standards with the new release.
However, Web sites that were created for older versions of IE didn't work properly on IE7. Microsoft hopes to remedy this problem so the situation is not repeated with IE8, according to an IE Blog posting attributed to Dean Hachamovitch, a Microsoft general manager on the IE team.
"With respect to standards and interoperability, our goal in developing Internet Explorer 8 is to support the right set of standards with excellent implementations and do so without breaking the existing Web," according to the blog posting.
Hachamovitch said Microsoft is taking a cue in lessons learned from making improvements to CSS in IE7 that "made IE more compliant with some standards and less compatible with some sites on the Web as they were coded." The key design goal for IE8, he said, is compatibility with existing Web sites and Web standards supported in other browsers to provide a premium user experience.
"As a developer, I'd prefer to not have to write the same site multiple times for different browsers," according to Hachamovitch's post. "Standards are a (critical!) means to this end, and we focus on the standards that will help actual, real-world interoperability the most. As a consumer and a developer, I expect stuff to just work, and I also expect backwards compatibility. When I get a new version of my current browser, I expect all the sites that worked before will still work."
Microsoft said the final release of IE8 depends upon feedback received from the beta process.