Freelance Fest - Forum For Freelancers

Few days ago we have setup a new forum for all kind of online freelancers - Freelance Fest. Join the forum now and build up your community with world wide freelancers.

Site address: http://www.freelancefest.com

Before start, let's have a look into freelancer, freelancing & freelance marketplace. According to wikipedia,

A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer.

Fields where freelancing is especially common include journalism and other forms of writing, copywriting, computer programming and graphic design, consulting, and many other professional and creative services.

Freelance marketplaces (or outsourcing marketplaces) are websites that match buyers and sellers of internet-provided services. Buyers and sellers of these services each setup profiles on the marketplace website. Seller profiles provide a description of the range of services offered, sample materials, rates, and details about the provider. Buyer profiles include descriptions and specifications of the work sought. Buyers and sellers are able to rate each other and provide positive and negative references/feedback.

How to start:
At first browse different freelance marketplaces and try to understand their system, rules and project types. Then choose 2 or 3 sites and place your bids. Once you win a project, continue with that freelancing site and focus on improving your ranking and rating on that site.

Freelance marketplaces or sites are almost similar to each other. But everyone has their own features. In my experience, once you will feel comfort in a freelancing site and will get good amount of projects then you will not able to get projects from different freelancing site. So at the very beginning of your freelancing career browse as many sites as you can and then focus on one site.

How to add Scour at Searchbar of Firefox

Scour is becoming popular rapidly. It seems people like the idea behind it. Let's see how to make Scour your default search engine. Adding Scour at the Search bar of Firefox is very easy. Just do the following 3 steps:

1. Click the Goodies link at the top of Score home page.


2. Click Firefox Searchbar Plugin link.


3. A dialog box will appear. Click the Start using it right away checkbox and click "Add" button.

That's it! Enjoy Scour and search socially.

Scour - Social Search Engine

Today I have discovered a new search engine - Scour, which seems very much interesting to me. It is a new way of searching. Scour fetches search results from three most popular engines - Google, Yahoo & MSN and shows top results from these. The look and feel of the site is very cute and easy to use.

Another thing that I like is, people can vote and comment on a search result. So most voted result will come first to you. Which means you will find most relevant results. That's why it is call social search engine.

By the way, there is a rewarding system while you search. A search will give you one point, vote - two points and comment - three points. When you will have 6,500 points Scour will reward you $25 Visa Gift Card. You can earn more money by using it more and more.

There is another and best way to earn from Scour - you can invite your friends and you will get 25% points from you friends. For example, if you invite 1000 people to join Scour and if they search 5 times daily then you will earn $7228.8 a year. There is a point calculator, so you can see how many money you can earn from Scour.
Forget about reward, actually Scour itself is very exciting. I think this site will be very popular within few months for it's searching technique and also for it's reward system.

I hope you will enjoy it - www.Scour.com

Open Source Living

As a windows user, you may think that is it possible to depend completely on Open Source Software? The answer is - absolutely! But how? Well, to find out how it is possible, check this site - www.osliving.com. This site is an excellent archive of open source resources both for window & linux users. It listed all necessary softwares that we need for everyday living.Here are all categories found in this site. Click any link to view open source softwares:

• Web++ » web browsers, RSS readers, email Clients, operating systems
  
• Graphics & Photo » photo editing, vector graphics, 3D modeling
• Video » media players, video editing, screencasts, DVD ripping & burning
• Audio » audio players, podcasting, recording, MP3 & audio tools
• Documents » word & office suites, note taking, personal finance
• Content Management » blogging, portals, forums, wiki, e-learning
• File Transfer » peer to peer, IRC, chat clients , file sharing & hosting
  
• Web Dev » MySQL & PHP, web dev references, Source code editors , flash
• Entertainment » games, screensavers, stars and planetarium software
• Miscellaneous » archiving, security, map tools, graph plotter, tracker

Don't click it

Tired by clicking with mouse? Let me introduce a new idea - Dontclick.it. Yes, you don't need to click anything in that site but only once to view its actions. The interesting thing is you will now find any button in this interface. Just move your mouse pointer over a link to view its action. But if you click anything then you will show you an error message:

The site is designed with Flash & very much attractive to browse with an on-screen hand. While browsing a popup message will appear and ask you "Do you miss the click?". Move your pointer over Yes or No and submit your vote.

At the top of the site you will find four menu items - Understand, Learn, Explore & Communicate.

1. Understand Menu
• The Story - In this section you will find information about why this new interface is invented.
• The Mousewrap - It is will be very hard to quite mouse click habit. In this section you will find a solution to leave this habit with mousewrap :D
• The Statistics - Here you will find statistics about how much vote is placed and number of visitors site visitors.
2. Learn
• The Click History - Here you will find a timeline view of history of computers & clicks.
• The Click Ergonomy - You will learn here why your body is involved in this interface.
• The Commercial Clicks - Here you will learn how people become richer by clicking an ad.
3. Explore
• The Button Lab - In this section you will explore their experiments replacing the clicks with different mechanism. Here you will also find out the benefits and drawbacks that come along with these techniques.
• The Autopilot - This section is interesting. Here you will show animations about how other visitors interact with this interface.
• The Mousecamp - Here you can improve your without click habit by three level exercising.
  
4. Communicate
• The Crowdshout - Leave your message about the interface here.
• The Links - Links of websites and portals that helped in developing this project.
• The Contact - You can contact with them from here.

Funny Flash Clock

StumbleUpon is amazing. It gives me all great sites of my interest. While surfing net with StumbleUpon toolbar I've just got this clock. I never viewed this type of funny thing before, lol. Definitely you will like it. Click this link and check by yourself. The clock is created with flash and all images are taken from this link.