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Who Should you follow on Twitter? Send tweets by dialing a local number and speaking your message, get 6 Firefox extensions made to save you time, turn your point-and-shoot into a super-camera, find out how much Linden Lab is making from Second Life, find great bargains and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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Look at Dell’s monumental keyboard screw up, discover the fourth missing electronic circuit element, read about Sony’s ultra-small hybrid fuel cell, code “Hello World” in 366 programming languages, learn if Microsoft can overcome Vista’s lingering image problem? Watch the BBC exposes Facebook flaw, find great bargains and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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Clean your registry with Eusing free registry cleaner 1.8, get a SPOT watch before they are gone, get a wind and solar portable charger, check out the worlds fastest consumer hard disk, remember everything you ever learn, browse through Crayon color names, codes and fun facts, get some great bargains and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction. Enjoy.
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Keep all your passwords secure with KeePass Password Safe, clean your Windows registry with RegScrubVistaXP, find out why the Zune is dead for so many users, get Intel’s CPU price cut figures, expose ISP BitTorrent throttling, use tools for evaluating web designs, find great bargains and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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After another short break the Daily Friction is back. Check out the five best DVD ripping tools, get ready to get the new eee pc 900, learn why AMD could have the best chance to win the visual chip war, find great bargains and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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Get the new and improved VMware, twitter with twhirl, watch for Nokia response to the iPhone, anticipate Windows 7 in 2010, use Firebug for your next web development project, find great bargains and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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Welcome to yet another weekend edition of the daily friction. Get the new ‘Labs Edition’ Google Talk, learn of Windows 7 release date, read about network administrators difficulties with Apples new Safari strategy, find many bargain and much much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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Carry your productivity software with you, continue getting Windows XP mid-2010, learn how to deal with bully bosses, read about a software that measures woman’s attractiveness, get 10 harmless geek pranks ideas, find bargains, and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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Listen to music using Songbird, upgrade your desktop to KDe 4.0.3, test Firefox 3 Beta 5, learn how Microsoft’s Office Open XML got to be an official ISO standard and what experts thing of it, prank the neighbors who steal your wi-fi network, trim down your Windows XP install, serve JavaScript faster, find great bargains and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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After a little hiccup in the WordPress code which caused a short down time during the day, I’m back in business with a new minimalistic edition of the Daily Friction. Should Apple care about a customer who pours water onto his MacBook? Can Swedish authorities force an ISP to block The Pirate Bay? Google forbids kids under 18 year old to use any of it’s services???? Some more laughs and good bargains in today’s edition of the Daily Friction. Enjoy!
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Find the fine line between price and performance, distinguish between good and bad ISPs with Azureus, turn your PC into a DVD ripping monster, try to hear the difference between a 128 and 320 kbps mp3s, manage MySQL remotely, find bargains and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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Check your hard disk status with CrystalDiskInfo, build a functional lightweight Linux desktop, find 24 reasons why you should attend these blog conferences, get the new JRuby 1.1RC3, find bargains and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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Customize your Windows Vista install (Are you really going to install that thing? organize your contacts with Open Contacts, edit your videos with Avidemux, create Snapshot-Backups on Ubuntu, build a reverse proxy, find great bargains and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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Can random surfers identify what your blog is about?

Yesterday I wrote about staying focused on your target audience when adding content to your blog. By remaining focused on the same theme you are most likely to retain and expand your audience.

In today’s fast paced internet life, readers tend to browse quickly between pages and sites, one of your main goals is to successfully capture and convert them into loyal repeat readers. An important part of doing so is to be very clear about your blog’s main theme. Will a pass-by reader know what’s your blog is about by grazing over its first page or a single post page? Here’s how you find out if potential readers will recognize your blog’s theme on first read.

Go to any random page on your blog or site, get a person who is somewhat familiar with the general subject, but is not an expert. Have them look at that page for a while and after closing the browser ask them what they think the site is about. If they know the correct answer, you’re on the right track. If they give the wrong answer, or are clueless, you need to reconsider the material you post.

The test is very simple and accurate most of the time. If people stumbling over your site don’t recognize what it’s about, they are not going to stick around. When they do, it’s only a question of how interested they are with the theme of your site. The first option gives you zero chance of a repeat reader the second leaves everything open.

In many cases when I was asked to critique blogs, I found myself scratching my head while trying to understand what the blog is about. Many times I found them to be cluttered and complicated that its taken me great deal of effort to understand what’s their theme or main subject

I must say, it is very easy to find yourself posting entries that have nothing to do with your main theme. You might get carried away with your various interests and ideas so far off from your theme that it will even confuse your most loyal readers. We all sin sometimes, it is important to catch yourself in time before your blog turns into a mess.

View pictures quickly, read why you can’t resist grazing on web data, learn about Google’s search share, developers widgets for Google docs with two new tools, find great bargains, and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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