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This Quick-Tip is about using the Creative Kit, which has been giving me grief recently when I tried to use it from Picasa-web-albums. Sept 2013 update:   Creative Kit has now been totally discontinued.   Use either Picasa-web-albums or the Google+ photo editor instead. For ages, I've occasionally used the photo-editor in Picasa-web-albums (the online version of Picasa ) to edit photos that I've already uploaded, and want to change without changing the URL.   This editor was originally Picnik - until Google sold that product and replaced it with Creative Kit a while ago. This has sometimes been slow, which was annoying, but I put up with it because it was just so useful. But recently it stopped working totally:  it would load, the progress-bar would get about half-way along the screen, and then hang, with a message: We noticed Picnik is loading slowly. It’s possible waiting may solve this issue. If you’re still having trouble: [t1]   Click for Assistance» Wait...

This Quick-Tip is about an issue that some people have had with their "naked" custom domain not re-directing to the www-at-the-start version, and how to fix it using a feature in your Google Apps account. Since Blogger released their initial fix to the custom-domain mapping problem of mid-September 2012, some people have found that it's not possible to set up the custom domain so that my-domain.xxx works as well as www.my-domain.xxx does. There is an option for this in Blogger's Settings > Publishing area.  But last night, when I set up a "subdomain" style entry for news.my-domain.xxx and directed my latest-updates blog from my-domain.blogspot.com to news.my-domain.com, found that this didn't work. (Obviously I didn't use my-domain.com - but the principle applies.) However today I found an approach that does seem to fix this: 1   Log in to the Google Apps domain administration account (the same one you used to set up the 2nd CNAME record - if y...

This Quick-Tip is about the products that Google is dropping, or making changes to, from October 2012. Google's latest announcement about retiring products came out yesterday (Saturday).   Seems odd that they're calling it "spring cleaning", since it's autumn / fall in most of the countries where major Google products are based. So what's on the list that will affect Blogger-users? AdSense for Feeds is being switched off - this has never been much of an earner for me, but I guess it could be significant for some people who have very large subscriber audiences.   There's one line that worries me a little "" Publishers can continue to use FeedBurner URLs powered by Google, so they won’t need to redirect subscribers to different URLs."  - it's saying "no change to Feedburner ", but I wonder why they feel the need to say this. Storage limits in Picasa and Google Drive "will be consolidated over the next few months" - w...