Use Your Own Photo For Your Blog’s Background

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After we launched the Blogger Template Designer, one of the most requested features was the ability to upload your own background image. Though we provide hundreds of professional stock photos from iStockPhoto, we know many of you are serious photo buffs and would like to use your own beautiful photo as your blog’s background image.
And now you can! Go to Design | Template Designer | Background, click on Background Image, and you’ll notice a new “Upload image” option, which will allow you to select and upload your image.

For images that fill the entire background, we recommend using a resolution of 1800 pixels wide and 1600 pixels high, and file size less than 200KB to minimize the loading time of your blog pages. We support JPEG, GIF, and PNG format images.
After uploading a photo, you will see additional options that are not available for the built-in images: Alignment, Repeat, and Scroll options.

• Alignment: You can adjust horizontal (left, center, right) and vertical (top and bottom) alignment of your background image.
• Repeat (Tile): If you have a small image, you can have it repeat horizontally and/or vertically to fill the page. Otherwise, we recommend that you choose a page background color that blends in with your background image.
• Scroll: By default, your image stays in place while readers scroll the page contents. By selecting the “Scroll with page” option, both the background image and page contents scroll together. We recommend that you use an image that blends into your background color or set your image to tile vertically if you choose this option.

This feature is available on Blogger in Draft right now, so please go ahead and check it out! As always, thanks for using Blogger in Draft. We will welcome your comments, and if you have any questions, please send them our way through the Blogger Help forum.

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Simplest Way To Convert *.mp3 Format To *.aac Using Ubuntu

Yesterday I just bought a "second hand" iPod Suffle 1st Generation. Obsolete, but it's my first gadget from that I have :)
Because iPod can play audio files with *.mp3 and *.m4a format, and then how to convert audio files from *.mp3 to *.m4a since *.m4a is the most common format used today?
Just use Nautilus Script Audio Converter, very simple! Run this command to install it:

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Google Tests Multiple Accounts Sign in

Google tests a feature that allows you to sign in to multiple Google accounts in the same browser. Multiple sign-in only works for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Code, but it's likely that other Google services will be added when this feature will be publicly available.
If you use a service that doesn't support multiple sign-in, it will default to the first account that you signed in using your browser. Google suggests to use a different browser, but you can also use Chrome's incognito mode to sign in to an additional Google account. Another limitation is that Gmail's offline mode is disabled if you turn on multiple sign-in.

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Multiple sign-in will let you open Gmail in multiple tabs, log in using different accounts and read the messages from all your accounts without opening another browser. Right now, you have to log out before logging in to a different account.

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Easy SEO Tips, Using Alexa + Google Keyword Tool To Increasing Your Traffic

There are so much teory about SEO: determining new domain name, writing great content, building quality backlinks, etc. And one of them is determine best keyword for your blog, content or anything on your blog. You need to know, I'm new comer in SEO. But here I just want to share method that I've been used to determining best keyword for my posts :)
Go to the point, how do I determine best keyword to my blog posts? Simple, I use 2 great websites (maybe can be called tools), Alexa and Google Keyword Tool
There's 2 easy (very easy) steps how to determine best keyword:

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