What to Do With Free Time

March 10, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Kristen Fischer
Source : FreelanceSwitch
All of us have different measures of success. For me, I knew I was thriving when I wasn’t working 50-hour weeks anymore. Not to say that a long week is extinct for me, but there aren’t as many of them.
The extra time is something I’m not used to. I watch [...]

480+ Open Source Applications

March 10, 2009 4 comments

Article by Daksh Sharma
Source : Mashable

Accounting

Adaptive Planning Express – An open source solution enabling medium sized companies to automate budgeting and forecasting by moving beyond traditional applications like Excel.
Buddi – A simple budgeting program for users with no financial background.
CheckItOut – A Ruby on Rails application to manage personal money accounts.
FrontAccounting – A professional web-based [...]

21 Factors that Influence the First Impression of Your Website’s Visitors

March 10, 2009 1 comment

Source : vandelaydesign
When a new visitor comes to your website for the first time an initial impression will be formed pretty quickly. A good first impression will drastically increase the chances of that visitor returning again, and a bad first impression will be difficult to overcome.
This list looks at 21 factors that will influence your [...]

Google Launches Google Health To Help You Better Coordinate Your Care

March 10, 2009 No comments yet

Source : GoogleBlog
We continue to learn a tremendous amount since launching Google Health in the spring of 2008. We’re listening to feedback from users every day about their needs, and one issue we hear regularly is that people want help coordinating their care and the care of loved ones. They want the ability to share [...]

8 Tips for Surviving PC Failure

March 9, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Craig Buckler
Source : SitePoint
Losing a computer can be traumatic. We store our lives on them: contact details, financial accounts, family photographs, music collections, videos and more. Here are 8 tips that could help you survive a PC meltdown…
1. BACK UP
If you have never backed up your data, stop everything and do it now! [...]

Truths & Lies about PhotoGraphy

March 5, 2009 No comments yet

Truths about Photography
by Miserere

All camera brands build great cameras.
All camera brands build crap cameras.
A good photographer will take great pictures with a crappy camera. A bad photographer won’t take a good picture with any camera.
Film is just as good as digital. It’s also just as bad.
Expensive lenses don’t take better pictures [...]

Obvious Street Photography Tips

March 5, 2009 3 comments

Article by Susheel Chandradhas
Sometimes we tend to forget the obvious in our quest for the hidden. Here are a few ‘obvious’ tips to remember when shooting on the streets.

Get In close. All too often the actual ’subject’ of a street photograph gets lost in the activity going on around… Get close to the subject, make [...]