[Recap] August 2007

August 2007 Recap is here ^^ for those of you who may have missed one or two posts here at zlythern ;)

1. Blogger

Blogger: Add Video Feature is Here !, August 24
With the mark of Blogger's Eight Birthday, we all have a present. A nice one. Yes, as the title suggest, Blogger Add Video Feature is here ! Simply click the icon, and then upload your video ;)

Daily Blog Tips's Pro Blogger Test, August 7
Becoming a professional blogger is no easy task. You will need to have a basic knowledge on several fields; including web design, SEO, online marketing and more. Do you think you have what it takes? Test your skills with these 20 questions!

2. Comic

Wikipedia as Cartoons, August 17
Greg Williams a designer and illustrator for The Tampa Tribune in Tampa, Florida, made a brilliant collection of cartoon versions of Wikipedia entries ^^

3. Freeware

Print Your Own Free Software Sticker Book, August 7
This one is for those of you who wanted to paste a cool sticker on your laptop or pc ;) The .pdf Sticker Book includes a set of stickers related to free software projects.

4. Games

Remember GAME & WATCH ?, August 3
I used to own one of these ! I played every single time when it's possible, even at schools :P

5. Icons

E Plus X Smilies, August 27
Recently i've been doin some smilies for E Plus X ^^ So i thought i will share my work here too, you may use it anywhere else ;)

6. Knowledge

Create and Memorize A Secure Password, August 20
some good points of how to make a secure password yet it's easy enough for you to memorize it ;)

Death by Caffeine, August 15
It provides a rough gauge of reaction to caffeine - and typically corresponds to the amount of caffeine in your system over a 4 hour period. There is obviously enormous variation between individual response - and this should be construed as entertainment only ;)

7. Personal

Enjoy The New zlythern v.3.3, August 17
Enjoy a whole brand new zlythern v.3.3 :D A PHOENIX one ;) This design should work really well on both FF and IE ;)

Republic of Singapore, August 8
Singapore is a nice small island which is a country ;) Since the first time i moved in to Singapore to find a job, this city, this country is a pleasant place to live in :)

8. Tools

How to Measure Your Post's Readability, August 22
One of the most important aspect of blog posts (in my opinion) is the READABILITY. Try this nice tool! And add another chunk of a good information to feed your brain ;)

Loripscream - Generatively Delicious!, August 6
Lorem Ipscream offers a whole lotsa new flavor for this Lorem Ipsum text ;) Basically it was a neat text-generator :D

Button Boost - A Real Nice Button Generator, August 1
With ButtonBoost.com you can create quick and easy professional looking buttons for your website, application or whatever you want.

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That is all folks, this month recap ^^ Hope you do all enjoy the posts ;)

E Plus X Smilies

E Plus X is a local forum in Indonesia. I joined the forum back in 2006, i found the site through another forum :P The other forum is babaflash, and indonesia flash forum :)

One of E Plus X administrator submit a flash game to babaflash, and because of it's cute and unique style of the art, then i came by and drop over at their forum. Since then, it was one of my regular stop ;)

I mean look at the above picture ;) who would've resist the temptation to meet those creator right ;) They are just so adorable ^^

The boy and girl there is the creator of E Plus X, which stands for Ernitan and Xhen, the name of the creator ;)

And they have a lot of goodies too, they have a calendar, and wallpapers, with E Plus X theme of course ;) You can grab 'em too (click the picture) below.

Anyway, recently i've been doin some smilies for E Plus X ^^ So i thought i will share my work here too, you may use it anywhere else ;) a link back here will do just fine :) no need to ask my permission to use it :)

The first two smilies are originally designed by Xhen from E Plus X, the rest is by me, i use Xhen's as a template for the head and body ;) Meanwhile there's still only Erni's style smilies, the girl version :)

So .. here you go ^^

hmm ... droll ...

LOL ... XD ... doh ... :D ...

cool (nerd version) ... T_T cry ...

swt ... :P tongue ... shy ...

:| ... jee ... mad ...

:) smile version 1 ... :) smile version 2 ...

:) smile version 3 ... :) smile version 4 ...


That's all for now :) Enjoy, and have a fresh start of the week ^^

Oh, one final bonus for you all on Blogger, Aditya has a great script to display Blogger Smilies ;)

Blogger: Add Video Feature is Here !

With the mark of Blogger's Eight Birthday, we all have a present. A nice one. Yes, as the title suggest, Blogger Add Video Feature is here ! Thanks to the brilliant observation from Orli at go2web2, i would've missed that little icon though ;P


Simply click the icon, and then upload your video ;)



This a great addition to all the Blogger ;)

Have a nice weekend everybody ^^ and happy video-blogging ;)

[via: go2web2]

Update: Check out the Official Buzz from Blogger the Add Video Feature;)

How to Measure Your Post's Readability

Everybody who blog, have a different style in writing their own blog posts. One of the most important aspect of blog posts (in my opinion) is the READABILITY. But this of course, went back again to the readers. Either the readers are the geeky type, the social type, the adult type, or anythin', they share different point-of-view of readability on a blog posts.


justwebcontent.com have a nifty Readability Analysis Tool.

The test will measure 7 aspects of readability :

Gunning Fox Index

A test designed to measure the readability of a sample of English writing. The resulting number is an indication of how many years of formal education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text. For example, if a passage has a fog index of 12, it has the reading level of a high-schooler. The lower the number, the more understandable the content will be to your visitors.

Flesch Reading Ease

An indicator of how difficult a reading passage is to understand. The test rate the text on a 100-point scale. The higher the score, the easier the text is to understand.

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level

Translate the Flesch Reading Ease's 100-point scale to an approximate representation of the U.S. grade level needed to comprehend the text.

Automated Readability Index

Index of understandability of a text which relies on characters per word, instead of the usual syllables per word. Its output is an approximate representation of the U.S. grade level needed to comprehend the text.

Coleman-Liau

Like the ARI but unlike most of the other indices, Coleman-Liau relies on characters instead of syllables per word. Characters are more readily and accurately counted by computer programs than are syllables.

Linsear Write

Based on syllable density within English text and was developed for the US Air Force to help calculate the readability of technical manuals.

SMOG (Simple Measure Of Gobbledygook)

A readability formula that estimates the years of education needed to understand a piece of writing.

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Overall, this is a nice tool to use, and another chunk of a good information to feed our brain ;)

Head on to wikipedia for more Readability Test information ;)