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Are you sure your readers understand what you write? How difficult it is to understand your blog? I know some blogger might show off their bombastic English in their article. But what is the point when only few people can fully understand his/her writing? Normally, I will just scroll through these articles…

So, how to make sure your blog is easy to read, easy to understand? Keep on follow these 2 rules:

• Simple Words
• Simple Sentence

Do not ever use complicated sentence. The longer the sentence, the more mistakes you will make. Then readers might be confused or misunderstood your actual meaning.

Test Your Blog Readability

Want to test your blog readability? Well, you can get someone to proof read your blog to get some comment. If not, you can use The Blog Readability tool to test.

The tool is similar to how much is your blog worth tool. No installation needed. Just launch The Blog Readability site, enter your blog’s URL and click on “Check readability Now”.

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Admit it, we love free stuff! There was a great response on the free blogger name cards. Here is another company that give away 250 free business cards — Vista Print.

There are 42 designs of business card for you to choose from. The designs are very simple and basic. You can get hundreds more designs (and your own design) by paying £12.99 for Premium Business Cards.

After choosing your design and entering basic text information for your business card, you will be asked to select the quantity. It is free for 250 and £6.99 for 500.

Then, you can choose the paper stock. Default is Matt Finish. Glossy Finish is £6.99 and 265g/m² premium Matt Paper for £7.99. Like other free name cards deal, VistaPrint will print advertisement on the back side. You can pay more for blank back side, own text, or calendar.

Next, other Vista Print products are suggested to you. Simply skip them.

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Last time, I told you about the free Windows Live Messenger name cards. Now, Ooprint is doing the same by offering 100 blogger business cards (name card) for free to everyone!

There are 10 designs of blog business card for your to choose from. I chosen the blue card deisgn with tags (keywords). I took some time to customize it. Too bad, the tags size and position cannot be customized.

Then, you are asked to select the paper quality. Standard white paper (220g) is free, you have to pay a few bucks more if you want to use higher quality paper. The back of the business card is printed Ooprint’s URL by default. Optionally, add $4 to have a blank back.

Lastly, you need to pay for the standard delivery fee, USD$5.90 for Malaysians.

Hey, it is real! I received 100 of my very own blogger name cards in couple days! But, the standard paper quality is so-so, easily bended with small force.

Now, I have a Pro-blogger name card for you if you meet me.

Bonus: Ooprint also has free Facebook business cards!

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Guest blogging by AhTim. If you like this entry, subscribe my feed for more updates.

I noticed there are many readers here have delivered their lovely babies. As parent of a baby, what do you want your baby to be? Since there are many pro-bloggers here, I am thinking maybe you want your baby to become a pro-blogger too?

Well, don’t get me wrong. I am not a pro-blogger, so I can’t guarantee your baby to become a future pro-blogger. But do you know? You could train your baby to fulfill basic pro-blogger’s requirement start from 18 months old.

How to Train Your Baby?

To train your future pro-blogger, use flash card games. Flash card games has proven to be the most effective teaching method. ABC Kid Genius can help to teach children the Alphabet, Numbers, Counting, Reading and Spelling using flash cards, sound, pictures and video clips. Your baby learns in an interesting way.

By using this software, your baby can learn 2 main skills:

Learn English - There are many ways to tech your children English. Using the recognition method, your baby learn by watching auto rotating lessons. Story reading shows the child how words are used in sentences. Flash words, shows the word and a picture that relates to it. Spelling shows a picture of the word and puts blanks under it.

Typing Skill - If your baby is already 18 months, then it’s time learn to use the keyboard. While learning the lessons, your kid progress and learn to type the alphabet, number as well as some symbols. All operation control in the software can be done by using keyboard.

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Adobe announced the Adobe Photoshop Express public beta for free. Photoshop Express is a web application that takes Adobe’s image editing technology and allows users to edit, store and share up to 2GB of images online, as well as downloading and uploading photos from popular social networking sites like Facebook.

How to sign up Adobe Photoshop Express?

Photoshop Express public beta is open for free registration now at the website. Flash Player 9 is required and fast Internet connection is recommended. The registration form claims to be for United States only, you can ignore that one.

Once you are registered, you will get a Photoshop Express personal sharing URL like http://liewcf.photoshop.com/

Getting start with Adobe Photoshop Express

After login, you see the 3 main section of Photo Express: My Photos, My Gallery, and Browse.

“My Photos” is where you edit photos and create albums. “My Gallery” is the place to view and share your albums. “Browse” to see the galleries and albums by other Photo Express members.

To get started, you need to upload photos, therefore the “Upload Photos” is highlighted.

You can upload multiple photos at once with the Photo Express uploader. Choose upload to library, new album or an existing album.

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