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Normally you go to settings>formatting>language; but Mongolian apparently is not yet on the list. Sorry.

You can ask for this feature at Blogger (features and suggestions). If enough demand from Mongolian bloggers perhaps there is a chance that the language will be added to the list.So far the Slideshow gadget is completely whack. The upload makes NO sense. It does not work. What is this about "Keyword"?? I am trying to upload an album from Flickr, to the side bar, and I want the images to be larger than postage stamp size as well. What is the deal?

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davidchin38

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12:31 PM

There are many ways to upload a slide show to your blog. Here is my way and it works every time.

Copy your own slide show codes from somewhere. Go to dashboard on blogger. Click on:-

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2. add a gadget

3. scroll down to html/JavaScript

4. add to blog (paste your codes here in the large box)

5. save changes (you can drag and reposition your new gadget)

6. save

If you do not have the codes for your own slide show, you need to create a slide show first. Please go to my blog: http://davidchin35.blogspot.com/2005/07/blog-post.html

click on " make your own" under my slide and just follow the prompts to create your own slide show, get the codes and paste as above.

Living With Vista: First 30 Days

With the new version of Windows finally out, early users say they're bedeviled by hardware and software problems--but some love the OS anyway.

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Dan Tynan

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:00:00 UTC

Bryce Parkhurst

Photograph by John Abbott

Last February, Bryce Parkhurst brought home a new Toshiba Satellite notebook with Vista Home Basic installed. The 33-year-old Easton, Pennsylvania, circuit designer bought the PC to enjoy music, but it soon hit sour notes. Everything seemed to run a little slower under the new operating system. His Alesis Photon X25 MIDI controller hardware no longer worked. When he tried to run his favorite DJ software, it didn't work properly; when he tried to quit the program, Vista rebooted him into Safe Mode. Any system change instigated a seemingly endless series of "Accept or Cancel" messages from Vista's User Account Control feature.

After five days, Parkhurst had had enough. He removed Vista and installed Windows XP. Since then, his new notebook has been trouble-free.

Bernard Mongeon

Photograph by Dan Callis

In contrast, Bernard Mongeon is quite pleased with Vista Ultimate, despite problems getting it to work with the scanner and security software on his three-year-old desktop. The 54-year-old weather forecaster in Kingston, Nova Scotia, accepts such glitches as a normal part of moving to a new operating system.

Mandar Jadhav, an 18-year-old Rutgers University student, is somewhere in between. He loves the slick 3D look of Vista Premium, but is pained by the software and hardware incompatibilities he encountered when he upgraded his nearly new Dell laptop.

These three users neatly capture the disparate views of Vista during its first 30 days in the field. In PC World's online survey of nearly 1000 early Vista adopters, slightly more than a third said they were very satisfied with the new OS. Another third reported being satisfied overall, but not exactly wowed; nearly one in four were unimpressed.

And regardless of their overall verdict, a majority--some 61 percent--reported at least one hiccup getting Vista to work with their existing hardware or software. After more than five years in the making, Vista offers much promise but still has many problems to resolve.

Full Survey Results

PC World heard from approximately 1000 Windows Vista early adopters about their experiences with the new operating system. We've put the full results of our survey into a PDF file, viewable with Adobe Reader.

Looks Count

The one thing almost everyone agrees on: Vista looks great. More than 80 percent of survey respondents said the new interface is an improvement. The translucent Aero environment available in the Premium and Ultimate versions may be one of the few features that live up to Microsoft's "The 'Wow' starts now" marketing campaign.

"The Aero interface is excellent," says Brandon Morgan, a 24-year-old graduate student in Columbia, Missouri, who had no problems running Vista Home Premium, which came preinstalled on his new Dell laptop. "The first time I saw Vista I thought of the Mac OS, but it seems to be more sophisticated."

But not everyone could enjoy Vista's good looks. One out of seven Vista users in our survey had trouble obtaining video drivers capable of handling Aero and DirectX 10 (DX10), which allows for faster, more realistic gaming. (At press time, no DX10-capable games had been announced.)