Wow, Gmail launches new themes to style your boring old classic usual look yesterday! Or, you can of course keep things simple by sticking back to its original styling. Just log in to your gmail and go to Settings -> Themes.

I have personally chose the Graffiti theme and I’m loving the new look now! Get a fresh look!

Read more! found this piece of news from Google News: www.techradar.com

I was using hardwired theme that comes along by default when I first installed Coppermine gallery for years till today. I find it dull and not too attractive compared to many other themes available online.

Then, at one bright sunny day when the warm sunshine is…… {lame crap}, so, while I was blog hopping around… I landed at photos.dwaynefoong.com. I got this link from Jing-leBelle’s blog.

I have then been thinking for daysss (1 night only lah actually) on how to make my template more attractive and better. So so so…… I was thinking with one objective in mind.

That is… to design a new template that will integrate with my current wordpress theme, Brightness.

I started to find an theme in my Coppermine gallery that resembles most with the wordpress theme. Theme reynolds has a sidebar and that’s one theme good to start with!

After 30 minutes or so, I managed to integrate the CSS file of both wordpress theme and the existing coppermine theme. Here’s how it look like now…

Then… 2 hours or so later trying this and that… things begins to take shape!

Visit the new facelifted galleria de hugolim dot com today!

Okay, this blog post is intended for those with situation as below:-

1. You are blogspot blogger. (Of course, you are)
2. Bought domain at godaddy.com thru blogspot’s “purchase a domain”
3. And lastly, you get “Another blog is already hosted at this address” when trying to point your blogspot to your new domain.

With the purchase of domain thru that, you will be given a googe apps account. You can retrieve the details in the email sent to you after your domain is purchased.

Solution:

1. Log in to your Google Apps account as administrator.
2. Go to Service Settings -> Sites

3. Go to Web address mapping

4. There will be one entry only namely www. Select it and delete the record. Proceed with all the delete warning and confirmation. It’s safe. No worry here.

5. After you have finished with the deletion. Go to your blogspot dashboard and try to point to your new domain again. NOTE: In blogspot dashboard there, put your domain name with www prefix. Example: put www.hugolim.com instread of just hugolim.com and you do not need to check “redirect www.hugolim.com to hugolim.com”

6. That’s all. Very straightforward is’nt it. Happy blogging!

Technically, if this solution worked for you, then the reason why you getting this error would be…. google apps’s webservice(sites) is utilizing your domain thus your blogspot failed to get your domain linked up with it.

Resources:

I got by brain worked from these links:-

• http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2007/06/another-blog-is-already-hosted-at-this.html
• http://www.consumingexperience.com/2007/01/blogger-google-apps-godaddy-custom.html
• http://www.hugolim.com/2008/05/setting-up-custom-domain-for-blogspot/

And if my solution above doesn’t work and you think its google’s database problem. Ask google to manually clear your domain from their database here https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pZHHZdeYKeHitQbvxkvwnCg&email=true

I hit 8888 posts count today!

Shout Out will be relocated to ShoutOutLounge.com, formerly hosted at PenangPenang.com (soon to be on 8 August 2008). It is a pet project of Lasker Saw. To date, there are hundreds of active members including me.

ShoutOut is not another comment box like shoutmix or cbox. It’s not just another personal comment box but something like MIRC where users can gather together and chat. It targets mainly on bloggers. You can put one in your blog just like mine. I wish to talk no more about this fantastic feature. Try it out and you will know how useful and interesting it is.

Shoutout, your daily office companion. Your life never be the same again!

Links!

Visit ShoutOUt blog

Let’s set some new world record. Let’s be part of it!

Some domain manager do not provide DNS definition other than the most basic NS type records such as mine

Solution is pretty simple fortunately

There are many (free) DNS hosting service available in the Internet. One fine example which I’m using is www.everydns.com. I will be using everydns service for the example below.

Before / After diagram for the example:

Before: domain talks to your NS directly.

After domain talks to everydns, then everydns talks to your server.

First step:

Change your DNS settings in your own Domain Manager to ns1.everydns.net, ns2.everydns.net, ns3.everydns.net, and ns4.everydns.net. REMEMBER! Note down your existing DNS entries!

(Your domain will talk to everydns now)

Second step:

Create yourself an account in everydns. Then, create a primary domain with your domain name in it. Add back your saved DNS entries earlier.

(everydns will now talk to your server)

In everydns, you can now define all possible DNS types for your domain. Job done Happy DNS-ing!

So, you want to have your own domain without the “blogspot” at the end. Glad you made it here, I have what it takes for you to set things up. Alternatively (for those without a domain now), you can buy domain directly from Google appointed domain supplier. You will save all the pain as they will set up everything for you. Stop reading now if you are buying one from google.

Before moving on, I presume that you have already got yourself a domain. You can get one from your preferred reseller you like. They make no difference in the end of the day ultimately.

When you got yourself a domain, you should be able to access its domain manager. Inside the domain manager, you will gain access to its DNS settings. It is the place where you define how and where your domain talk to when a visitor visits you.

OK, no more crap, lets get practical

You have a domain and you want it to point to google’s blogspot only. That’s it, no other complicated stuff!

Step 1: Tell your domain to talk to google

Change your domain DNS settings to the following entries. (Delete any exisiting entries in your records first!)

Some domain manager do not offer extensive definition of DNS entries like type “CNAME”. (There are many other DNS types but you don’t really need to know how each differs, just google for them if you want to know more)

For intance, my domain manager doesn’t provide any other kind of definition other than the most basic DNS type “NS” (NS = namespace)

I will assume that you don’t have such complication in setting up the DNS settings. However, if you encounter such problem, I will guide you through on how to solve this complication in my next posting.

Step 2: Tell google to talk to your domain

You will need to adjust settings in your blogspot’s Publishing to complete the task.

Choose Custom Domain

Switch to advanced settings

Enter your address. Save settings.

Tick “Redirect blabla.com to www.blabla.com” and save settings.

You are done!

Note: You will need some time for your new DNS to propagate accross the Internet. This process may take up to 2 days. To see the result instantly, use www.opendns.com DNS settings on your computer. You can refesh your domain DNS through cache.opendns.com

Reference / Read more:-

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2007/09/google-custom-domain-setup-dns-referral.html

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2007/10/google-custom-domain-case-study-1.html

Some dude from educationist.upi.edu known as Sekretariat EDUCATIONIST from what I found in the website stole my article about preparing XP installation disc with nLite.

Second article stolen is at here which links to my article here.

Worst still, he hotlinked all the images from my website. I have removed all the images that this criminal pointing to my server.

He copied everything from mine. This is so bad!

I have sent the following message to the website author and we will see if they respond.

Please remove your articles at
http://educationist.upi.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=2
titled Installing Windows XP on Acer Aspire 4310,4710 Part 1
and
http://educationist.upi.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=2
titled Installing Windows XP on Acer Aspire 4310,4710 Part 2

You are copying from my blog article
http://www.hugolim.com/2007/09/11/installing-xp-on-acer-aspire-43104710-part-2/
and
http://www.hugolim.com/2007/09/06/installing-xp-on-acer-aspire-43104710/

This is an author copyright infringement. I hope you do understand what you are doing and as someone from the education sector, please behave, set a good example to others and stop stealing others’ articles and write on your own!

Failing to remove the articles will lead to stern actions against your website. Please remove them!