New Domain Of This Blog

Yesterday - Jun 8, 2010 -, I had bought a domain for this blog. Like what you see now, http://www.panoet.com. With this new domain, may spur me to be more dedicated to managing this blog. By providing quality articles and certainly useful. Of course I expect support from you, as a visitor of this blog. In a way that's easy, just leave a comment, follow this blog, subscribe the feed of this blog, share this blog through social networks or in any way you like. Certainly with more and more visitors this blog, I became more excited again to manage this blog.
You can also exchange links with me, please leave a comment anywhere (because I have not created an email account for this blog yet) with your link.
Note, you can still access this blog from the old address. Both http://panoet-blog.blogspot.com or http://www.panoet-blog.co.cc because I've set all to forward this page here.
Thanks, and keep blogging.

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How To Add Custom Font To Blogger (Like This Blog Header Font)

Adding Custom Fonts to Blogger can improve the look and feel of your blog. Before getting into font embedding lets know how this works. In your templates you can use any font you want, but these would be properly displayed only if the viewer has those fonts installed on his/her System. Font embedding Techniques allows you to use any font on your Blog and these fonts will be viewable to the viewers even if they don’t have the font installed on their Systems. @font-face is the best Font Embedding technique in my opinion but it wont easily work with externally uploaded fonts unless the server has special Access Control Headers for your blog .(blogger wont allow you to upload the font to it’s servers :) So here are certain simple alternative methods to add custom fonts to your blog. These are listed out in an order of my preference :

1. Google Font API
2. Kernest Font API
3. Cufon JavaScript Font Embedding

1. Google Fonts API.

This is the best and robust method to add custom fonts to your blogger blog. It uses the @font-face technique but you needn’t worry about the backend things. You can see a list of available Fonts at the Google Font Directory . When you select a particular Font, Google will provide you with the Embed Code which looks like

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=FontName' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

Copy out this code and you have to modify it by changing > at the end of the code to /> That is you have to change the code to something like

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=FontName' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>

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Blogger In Draft - The Blogger Template Designer

You liked my blog template? Do not think I made it myself, because you can make it now with ease. How do you? Where? The answer is in Blogger!

Blogger In Draft!

Blogger In Draft, a new innovation from Google. Where we can easily customize the template according to which we want to use the tools provided. It's hard to explain, better to direct you to try it and I guarantee will not be disappointed!

How To Use It

Sign in to http://draft.blogger.com, look exactly like http://www.blogger.com with additional features template designer. Of the additional menu that we can customize the template that we use very easily, but with very satisfactory results.

• Fully customizable template - that we can actually change according to our desire
• 15 new, highly-customizable templates - from Google design team, split into four families: Simple, Picture Window, Awesome Inc, and Watermark
• One-, two-, and three-column layouts for each template - with complete control over the size and arrangement of the columns
• Hundreds of background images and patterns from iStockphoto - the leading microstock image marketplace

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Jose Chess Game

Looking for a good chess game software? I have a suggestion for you, Jose!

Jose, a chess software. In my opinion, this is the best chess software that I use on my computer. Created using JAVA programming language, so it can run in any OS that has Java Runtime Environment installed.

Features

• graphical frontend to MySQL database
• read and write PGN (Portable Game Notations) files
• 2D and 3D view
• edit games, insert comments, variations
• plug-in chess engine for play and analysis; supports both XBoard and UCI protocol.
• Play Fischer Random Chess / Chess 960, or Shuffle Chess
• Opening Books
• ECO opening classification
• Position Search
• Create HTML and PDF files.
• Web Servlet interface

You can download Jose here. There are also many other additional downloads such as sample databases, opening books, bonus textures and sound files.
Another excellent feature on Jose, you can install other chess engines as plug-in. Jose is packaged with the Toga and Spike chess engines. However, there is a huge number of freely available-and commercial-engines that also can be used with jose.
My last suggestion, for you who love the game of chess must try this software.

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