Google Dashboard - a summery look of google products

Google recently introduced their new feature. Google Dash board.
This enables users to snap look at their all Google products within a compact view.

Google Dashboard provides information of Google account, contacts, blogs, Gmail email inbox-sent items list-spam, Picassa albums and other Google products you encountered.

Google blog says "Designed to be simple and useful, the Dashboard summarizes data for each product that you use (when signed in to your account) and provides you direct links to control your personal settings."

However still 19 Google services are not yet available on the Dashboard. These include Analytics, Checkout, AdSense, AdWords, Wave, App Engine, and Mobile, to name a few. These products recently available in the google dash board.

Google Dash Board

How to add custom favicon in new Blogspot blogger

Few months ago Google's blogspot or blogger have disabled custom favicons.
So most blog masters lost their favicons that previously enabled. Many blog owners have seen the classical blog icon again.
However there is a hack or a trick to enable custom favicons in blogspot blogs.
You have to move the url of the favicon between the Style (CSS) part and closing head tag.

Here is how to do it.

Login to dash board --> Layout --> Edit Html.

Now search for the code : ]]></b:skin>

then place the url to the blogger favicon right after the above code.
Here is how it should see after you finalize it.

]]></b:skin>
<link href='http://path to icon' rel='shortcut icon'/>
<link href='http://path to icon' rel='icon'/>
</head>

If you successfully done this, you should seen the blogger favicon in browser address bar.

Export Your Blogspot blog to Wordpress

Google's Blogspot service used by bloggers around the world to share and express their thoughts and events. Google developer team now allows you to export the blog to wordpress, LiveJournal and MovableType.
Now Blogger or Blogspot allows users the ability to export all contents of their blog, the Data Liberation team would like to announce the Google Blog Converters project. This new Open Source project provides the ability to easily move blog posts and comments from service to service. This initial release provides Python libraries and runnable scripts that convert between the export formats of Blogger, LiveJournal, MovableType, and WordPress.

For more info.
Blog converter Home
Download Google blog converter here.

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