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With more columns in your Blogger footer you will be have the extra room to accommodate more widgets such as Flickr photos and Twitter updates. Also you will be able to put less frequently used widgets such as recents comments, archives, followers, About Me etc at the bottom of your template so that only the most important widgets are loaded first.

This tweak involves adding code to the footer section of your existing Blogger template to change it to 3 columns or 4 columns. The tutorial is not beyond the capabilities of Blogger newbies and webmasters with intermediate skills but care needs to be taken when modifying your Blogger template so back up before you start. For best results a Blogger template with a width of around 900px is best.

How to Add a 3 Column Footer to Blogger

Log in to Blogger if not already logged in
Navigate to Layout > Page Elements
Move any existing widgets out of the footer section and place them in the sidebar temporarily and save changes
Navigate to Layout > Edit HTML
Back up your template as a precaution by downloading it to your computer
Find the following section in your Blogger template

If you are having difficulty finding this section trying searching for footer-wrap or something similar as sometimes this section is called something else in some templates.

To Add a 3 Column Footer to Blogger

Replace all the code located in Step 6 with the following

To Add a 3 Column Footer to Blogger with a Lower Footer Section
Replace all the code located in Step 6 with the following

To Add a 4 Column Footer to Blogger
Replace all the code located in Step 6 with the following

Save changes to your Blogger template.
Navigate to Layout > Page Elements. You will now see a 3 column footer, 3 column footer with a lower section or a 4 column footer depending on what option you chose.
Move the desired gadgets to the new Blogger footer columns. Create new widgets to fill up the footer columns if necessary. Save your changes.
Click View Blog to admire your new footer section

Tips and Troubleshooting

To Add Padding Between Footer Columns in Blogger
To create some padding between the columns add the following code to the style section of your Blogger template - before </b:skin> tag.

#footer-columns {
clear:both;
}

.footer-column {
padding: 10px;
}
To Add a Border to the 3 or 4 Column Blogger Footer
- For Top Border Only of the 3 or 4 Column Footer
  Paste the following code before the </b:skin> tag
  
  #footer-columns{
  border-top:1px dotted $bordercolor;
  clear:both;
  margin:0 auto;
  }
  
  Replace $bordercolor with a hex color if default color is not displayed. Change this color to suit your template. For example
  
  #footer-columns{
  border-top:1px dotted #113355;
  clear:both;
  margin:0 auto;
  }
- For a Box Border Around the 3 or 4 Column Footer
  
  #footer-columns{
  border:1px dotted $bordercolor;
  clear:both;
  margin:0 auto;
  }
  
  Replace $bordercolor with a hex color if default color is not displayed. Change this color to suit your template. For example
  
  #footer-columns{
  border-top:1px dotted #113355;
  clear:both;
  margin:0 auto;
  }

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The Heat You Leave Behind Heat left behind on an ATM keypad can tell the hacker who comes after you exactly the code you keyed in. UCSD

The PIN digits you punch into an ATM’s keypad to authenticate your transactions are leaving traces of themselves behind in the form of heat, says a paper recently presented by a team of UC San Diego security researchers. Someone following immediately behind an ATM user can use a digital infrared camera to determine what keys were pushed with about 80 percent accuracy, their study shows. Even a full minute later the camera can pick up the correct digits about half the time.

But while its easy enough for a criminal type to determine the digits in your pin with an IR camera, it’s fairly difficult to determine the order. And the hack only seems to work on plastic keypads--metal returns too much heat noise for the IR camera to reliably discern with keys were just pressed.

Then there’s the fact that an IR camera isn't exactly an implement of petty crime. By the time one amassed the princely sum (around $18,000 to buy a good rig--the $150 Midnight/Shot won't cut it) necessary to acquire one, he or she probably wouldn’t need to steal ATM PINs anymore.

But none of that changes the fact that a security scheme on which most people regularly rely has a fairly exploitable hole. And it doesn’t just go for ATM machines--keypad safes, security doors, keypad activated garage doors, even the keypads that open up some car doors are susceptible to the IR hack, particularly where plastic keypads are involved.

Of course, to thwart the scheme you could simply place your hand over the entire keypad to impart heat to every key after you punch in your PIN. And if that doesn’t jive with you germophobic readers, you can always just preemptively Mace the person behind you in line each time you visit the ATM. Better safe than sorry.

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Criminals Can Steal Your ATM PIN Code Via the Heat Your Fingers Leave Behind