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4 Great New Ways To Share Your Creativity

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

All creatives, be it web designers, illustrators, photographers, fashion designers, artists, and all the rest, need to be able to get the things that they create out into the big bad world, or Internet as the case may be. For some of us (namely web designers / developers) it’s a little easier than others, because it’s our job. But no matter who you are or what your profession, we could all do with a little help to make life a bit easier.

In this post I’m going to talk about 4 of the best new and up-and-coming websites designed to help us creatives get our content out there. Some of them are so new in fact, that they are still in BETA testing, but they are definitely ones to watch out for…

Flavors.me

Flavors.me

Flavors.me has been publicly available for one or two months now, and it’s a great way to collate all (or most) of your social networking information. It’s fantastic for someone who is active all over the web, but doesn’t have, or is struggling to get a solid online portfolio together.

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5 Ways to Effectively Back Up Your Files

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

When 90% of your time is spent working at your computer, finding a simple, effective way of backing up all of your files is a must. Whether you are a full studio / agency, or a freelancer, your income and livelihood will most probably be dependent on you being able to access the files that you created the day, week, or month before. Now, we are all all too familiar with the nightmare of forgetting to save a file and then the software kindly crashing on us, but just imagine if your entire hard-drive failed!

Most of you are already backing up your data in some way or another I’m sure, but here are 5 ways that you could potentially do it a little more effectively:

External (Offline) Storage

1. Time Machine

If you own a Mac, then Time Machine is definitely one of, if not the best option out there for external storage. It works with any hard-drive so you don’t have to buy Apple’s own Time Capsule and it automatically backs up all of your data on an hourly, daily, and monthly basis.

It is recommended that if you’re going to use Time Machine then you should buy an external drive that is twice the size of your computer’s. This is simply because of the sheer amount of data that it needs to store - just think how many files you work on / play / access in a day! I listened to this recommendation and bought a 1TB drive to back up my 500GB internal drive and it didn’t have any trouble filling up within a few months…

The great thing about it though, besides the sexy UI, is that once the hard-drive is full, it asks if you want to start overwriting the oldest files, so effectively you never run out of room. Mine has been doing this for a while now, but I can still reach over 6 months back into old files in case I lose something!

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10 Online Time Tracking Apps to Help Monitor Productivity

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Whether you are a freelancer, small studio, or large corporation, tracking the time spent on projects is an essential part of monitoring productivity, as well as keeping an eye on costs and sticking to deadlines. Keeping a record of how long certain jobs can take also helps in making estimates, and costing projects quickly and accurately.

There are a lot of companies out there offering time tracking software, far too many to talk about in one post, so I have chosen to target some of the most popular online applications. These allow users to log-in to a third party host from wherever they are in the world, and usually provide desktop / dashboard widgets or iPhone apps that allow you to start and stop the timer, and control projects without having to launch your browser each time.

Clockspot

Clockspot is the easiest way to track employee time from anywhere. Every day, businesses lose thousands of dollars paying employees for time they didn’t work. This web time clock and online timesheet helps your business save time and money by allowing employees to clock in and out of work using the Internet or telephone.

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