As a freelancer managing your time efficiently means you can take on more projects and quite simply, more money. For this you need a specialized software that can track the time you spend on a project, create detailed reports to analyze your performance, organize your projects and clients and create detailed invoices for you. Fanurio does all that and more.
Fanurio uses many methods to track the time you are spending on a project or more. You can track the time manually or using the incorporated timer. You can also use the built-in reminders (including idle time detection) to help you start, resume or stop the timer.
Whether you bill your work using a flat rate or by the hour, Fanurio has lots of features to help you earn all the money. Fanurio lets you round time if you are billing by the hour, lets you give your clients discounts, supports subcontracting, multiple currencies, allows you to manage your taxes and creates detailed invoices.
Here are some of the other great features available in Fanurio :
Although not as popular as Photoshop or Illustrator, Acrobat is probably one of the most useful applications within Adobe’s catalog. With Adobe Acrobat you can create and reliably share PDF documents, convert Word, Excel, Powerpoint and any other document that prints to PDF, scan to PDF with OCR, capture web pages as PDFs and much much more. As you can see it’s a pretty complex application and mastering it can be quite difficult. Apex Media Computer Training Software offers some great training CDs for Adobe Acrobat 9.
Adobe Acrobat 9 Training Videos offers over 7 hours of quality tutorials by accredited expert Geoff Blake. The CD / DVD is organized in 18 chapters and includes 106 lessons with all the work files included in the package. The first 3 chapters with 15 lessons are free and can be viewed online here.
The training videos are compatible with Vista, 98, 2000, NT, XP, Mac OS and OSX .
You will also get your own free certificate (which can be verified online) to prove your credentials.
Quoting from the Akismet website … “Remember the days before spam ?“… Yeah, I know… Nowadays spam is everywhere : in your mail box, on your website, on your blog, on your instant messenger, on your social networking profile, in your online game, on your mobile phone, on your fax, basically everywhere we look on the internet. It has become a constant of our “virtual lives”. The good news is that spam-fighting techniques have also got a lot better.
So what exactly is spam ?
Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. Spam has been around for ever, since 1978 when the first email advertising messages were sent. Since then it has known a continuous increase over the years. It so widely used because it’s economically viable because advertisers have virtually no operating costs beyond the management of their mailing lists, and the fact it’s difficult to hold senders accountable for their mass mailings.
Wordpress Spam
For a regular Wordpress blog there are 2 large types of spam :
So what can I do ?
Fortunately there are quite effective ways of eliminating spam from your Wordpress blog. We will present below 5 Wordpress plugins : 3 for comment and trackback spam, and 2 for contact form spam.
Stop Comment and Trackback Spam
Akismet, the first frontier
If you own a Wordpress blog, you know what Akismet is. Akismet, or Automattic Kismet, is a spam filtering service created by Automattic, the corporation which employs most of the main developers of the weblog platform WordPress, and released on October 25, 2005. Akismet attempts to filter link spam from blog comments and spam TrackBack pings.
Akismet comes already installed with every Wordpress blog. All you have to do is activate it from your Wordpress Admin page. For the plugin to work it requires an API key which can be obtained by registering on Wordpress.com.
The plugin stats are a testimony of it’s performance. At the time this article was written Akismet plugins from all the Wordpress blog caught 6,949,364,430 spam messages, and over 8 million today. On our blog has stopped since the last Wordpress update over 24.000 spam comments.
Download :
Usage :
Defensio
An alternative to Akismet is Defensio. No way near as popular as Akismet, Defensio has the advantage of being available for a lot of blogging platforms like : Wordpress, Text Pattern, Movable Type, PixelPost, Mephisto etc.
It has a few advantages like :
Note : Only works for Wordpress 2.1 or above.
Download :
Usage :
WP-SpamFree
An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin for WordPress that virtually eliminates comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. We use it on this blog in combination with Akismet and I must say it’s excellent. Ever since we installed this plugin, basically we didn’t have spam anymore. In just a few months it managed to stop 15.446 spam comments.
As we mentioned in a previous post Firefox 3 was released just a few hours ago. With more than 15000 improvements, this release is a landmark in internet browsing.
Built on the Gecko 1.9 web rendering platform, which has been in development for the past 34 months, this new version promises improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability.
Among the new / improved features we mention :
Dday, also known as “Download Day” is an attempt to set a world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours and will occur on Firefox 3 launch day. Download Day will coincide with the general availability of Firefox 3. The clock will start ticking when Firefox 3 goes out the door! There isn’t a definitive date for the launch of Firefox 3 yet, but it should be in June.
Some sources say this day will be June 17th. When exactly it is only the folks @ Mozilla know. Anyway you can help this attempt by pledging to download Firefox 3 the day it’s released by Mozilla.
All you have to do is go to the Spread Firefox 3 website and pledge (over 1.2 million pledges were already submitted by the time this article was written), and when Firefox will be released you will be noticed by email that Firefox 3 is available for download.
You can find out everything about this initiative on the Spread Firefox 3 website.
You can also spread the word about this initiative by visiting the “Get involved” section of the website.
If you don’t own a website / blog, sharing (Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Reddit etc) this article would also constitute as “getting involved”.
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