Google Adsense team has finally adopted one of the most wanted features. Adsense now allows its users to pick different font sizes (Small- Medium – Large) and also different font styles (Arial – Verdana – Times).

“The font size you choose will be applied to the body of the ad, with the title scaled appropriately. In order to fit the ad text correctly, the actual font size will vary for each format size, font face, and user-specific settings such as browsers and operating systems. In addition, some formats sizes currently have very limited room, so the font size application will be most apparent in cases where the number of ads appearing in your ad units varies automatically in order to maximize your performance.

Your ads are currently set at the default size for AdSense, which is the equivalent of ’small’. You can select a new font size on an account-wide basis in the Ad Display Preference section of your My Account tab, or on an individual ad unit basis for new and existing ad units.

If you’re creating new ad units, you can choose between the AdSense default font size, your new account-wide font size (if you’ve selected one using the instructions above), or a separate size. To update existing ad units you’ve created using the Manage Ads feature, visit the ‘Manage Ads’ page under your AdSense Setup tab. Any font size changes you make on an individual ad unit basis will be maintained even if you change your account-wide default in the future.”

Even though you don’t see any ads here on tenthblog, this feature will come in handy for many web masters. This feature has been asked by the users for a long time. I don’t know why Google has made its users wait for such a long time. This is probably work out better for many web site owners in their Adsense revenues.

What page do you have as your Browser Homepage? You know the page that appears every time you open your browser.  Internet Explorer will take you to msn.com which always takes a lot longer than usual to load. But there are sites that’s both useful and practical as a homepage. Keyboardr.com is one of them.

You can watch the video to learn more but keyboardr is an application that lets you do quick search on popular sites and shows them on a page, which includes google, youtube, wikipedia, google blogs, google images.  It also lets you nagivate through the results with your keyboard. So Keyboardr is a good alternative.

As many of you know Google bought FeedBurner back in 2007.  Google recently started moving feedburner to their system. Feedburner can now be accessed under “feedburner.google.com” address.

With this update, you can associate your FeedBurner account with one of your Google Account and no longer have to use your FeedBurner username and password. Less things to remember.

Feedburner will be completely moved to under Google’s network by the end of February. Google set up a support site for this transition. Please visit there to find answers for questions you might have.

Will I lose all my subscribers in this process?

You should not lose any readers of your feed during this transition process. All feeds.feedburner.com URLs will redirect your readers to feeds hosted by Google. Your readers will continue to receive your feeds. However, the reporting and analytics may take up to a week to adjust to internet traffic changes, so the number of subscribers you see in analytics reports may be lower for a short period of time.

In addition, the algorithms we use to calculate subscribers and reach at Google are more accurate and up to date than the algorithms previously used at FeedBurner.com, so your numbers will not be exactly the same before and after the transfer. We are constantly tuning our analytics to ensure they are accurate and correct for our publishers, but going forward we are only doing this within the Google environment.

Feedburner will look even better with better statistics.  It’s been only couple of days since I moved my account and my problem remains the same. I hope they fix it as soon possible.

Google is also changing the feed addresses but don’t worry your old Feedburner address will work as well.

• http://feeds2.feedburner.com/YourFeedName  (New Address)

If any of your readers use your old address, they will be directed to the new address. So don’t worry you won’t be losing any readers.

For those who don’t have a google account, Feedburner will no longer be available to them. They will have to register for a Google Account to continue their service with FeedBurner. They only have until the end of February 2009 to register.

What is Triplify?

It combines three major search engines, Yahoo, Google and Live Search on one page.  If you search something through Triplify, it will list all the results from those three search engines in order. Here is a screenshot;

Why is it useful?

Well, it could serve for couple of different purposes. First of all,  it saves time. You can find what you are searching for in a shorter period.  You won’t have to make separate visits for all search engines.

Second of all, it could be used for determining how these three different engines crawl your website and how they show up in SERPs. You can test your web pages for different keywords.

You could also add to your browser and use it as your default search engine.

Last June, Google changed its long lasting browser favicon.  For those who are not familiar with this term,  Favicon is a small image that appears in your navigation bar next to a URL. If your browser is favicon supported,  it will associate that image with that URL and depending on your browser, that small image will show up in Bookmark Manager, Most Visited and etc. Favicon is short for “Favorites Icon”.

It takes some getting used to it.  If I had to pick, I’d choose the first one.  I really couldn’t get used to the new one when they changed it and I’m sure a lot of people had the same reaction as I did since the first one was used as their icon for long time.  I really don’t know why they keep playing with it.

They announced that that they are going to keep this one for a while and they will be changing it later with a new one. Original design is André Resende’s work, an undergraduate student in Brazil. Original design is bit different. “g” is in the center.  You can visit the announcement page at google’s official blog to read more on this new favicon.