Top Ten Freelance Websites.

Find list of top 10 reliable freelance websites ranked according to number of projects posted per day, value for money, customer service, features and ease of use. Please register in each of this freelance websites. Once registered, you can either post projects or start bidding for projects posted in these websites.

Freelancer	Freelancer.com is a freelance website based in Sweden. It virtual market place between buyers and sellers of IT services from all over the world, particularly for freelance programmers, web designers, copywriters and translators. It is free to join GetAFreelancer and they charge only a small commission. For regular projects you will have to pay 10% or $5, whichever is greater. You can become a Gold member by paying $10 per month. Gold members need not pay any commissions. There is an Escrow system for payment and you can get paid by PayPal, E-Gold, Wired Transfer, Check, Moneybookers and Western Union. Visit Freelancer.
LivePerson	Liveperson has got more than 30000 subject matter experts in programming , web designing , Counseling, Education, Business, Spirituality, Legal matter ,etc who can provide you immediate professional guidance online via chat, phone or email. Visit LivePerson.
oDesk	oDesk is one of the best freelance websites, it offers job for entry level freelancer as well as highly skilled IT professionals, project budget may vary from $50 to $5000. It is also a freelancer friendly website, please give it a try. Visit oDesk.
Witmart	Witmart has got more than 8 millions of freelancers with diverse skills in various areas. More than 90000 projects have been posted and completed. This is definitely a good freelance websites to post your projects. Visit Witmart
Elance	Over 100,000 potential customers visit Elance each week looking for talented online professionals to complete projects ranging from logo and brochure design to programming, website design, writing, accounting and more. To join Elance you need to select a membership plan in your category of interest and create you profile. You can select from membership plans of Select, Professional and Limited accounts, with annual membership costs varying from $59 to $1149. Select plans are suitable for agencies. Once registered you can bid on projects posted in your category. If you win the project and complete it you will get paid by Elance's Billing & Payment system by credit card, check or wire transfer. Visit Elance.
GetACoder	GetACoder is a leading Global Services Marketplace doing business in more than 200 countries and is a great resource for freelance programmers, web designers and freelance writers. Signup is free. Projects are awarded by bidding. A commission is charged by GetACoder for each winning bid. The commission is 10% of the bid amount plus a fixed fee of $5. Premium membership cost $7.95 and you need not pay commissions. Money can be withdrawn by Paypal or E-Gold. Visit GetACoder.
99designs	This site works best, if you are looking for freelance web designing, graphic designing oppurtunities. Visit 99designs.
Contracted Work	Contracted Work provides a global outsourcing business center in web design, graphic design, writing and more. Contracted Work offers two levels of subscription. You can choose between Monthly Basic and Monthly Gold. Monthly Basic costs $14.95 and Monthly Gold costs $24.95. Monthly Basic is the entry level membership. Projects are awarded by a bidding system. There is a Safepay escrow system for payments. Visit Contracted Work.
Guru.com	At guru.com, you can find project work in over 160 skill categories, including programming, design, business consulting, and administration. Over 7,500 new projects are posted every month. You can join by creating a profile and selecting a membership type. Membership options include Basic (free membership), Guru (fees $29.95 to $99.95 per quarter) and Guru vendor (higher fees). Once you have joined, start by submitting quotes for projects that interest you. When you complete a project that an employer has awarded you, you can get paid safely through their SafePay payment service. Options for receiving payment include cheque, wire transfer, Remit2India and Paypal. Visit Guru.com.
iFreelance.com	iFreelance.com offers multiple options to help you find freelance work opportunities. You can advertise your freelance services directly to interested buyers, or you can search our project database and submit bids for the projects on which you would like to work. There are no commissions to pay. Membership fee varies from $5.95 per month for basic membership to $9.95 per month for Gold membership. Visit iFreelance.com.

8 Great How-To Web Site

By Mark Sullivan, PCWorld

• Oct 1, 2008 10:00 PM

The "wisdom of the crowd" model works very well for how-to and advice sites like Yahoo Answers and Instructables. The content at these sites is created and contributed largely by the communities of people that frequent the sites. At some of the sites you can ask a question, and then read what informed members of the community have to say about it.

Yahoo Answers: One of the best examples of community participation on the Net. At Yahoo An­­swers, regular folks write in questions ("How do I get the ring around the collar off of my white dress shirt and make it white again?") and site users offer helpful answers. The answers are rated on usefulness by other users.

HowStuffWorks: The perfect site for the endlessly curious, it lifts up the hood on everything from carburetors to communism and explains in simple terms what they are and how they work. The explanations aren't very deep (most visitors don't want to read Das Kapital anyway), but it's the breadth of the topics the site explains that's so impressive.

Lynda.com: To learn how to use new software, we used to sit in darkened hotel conference rooms watching a bored instructor drone on with a training demo and a laser pointer. Or we bought a manual to go it alone. Neither of those approaches works nearly as well as the subscription-based online videos offered by Lynda.com, which teaches you to use just about any creative, design, and development software you can think of.

Instructables: Learn how to make anything from a corsage to a catapult. Users write in about what they do or have invented, and how they did it. The site originated with guys at the MIT Media Lab who needed a place to demonstrate their latest inventions.

FixYa: Your iPod just flat-lined. Don't panic, and don't throw it. At FixYa, a team of experts and a large group of users address common tech and gadget breakdowns and how to fix them. You can get help by posting a message on the site or by having a Web chat with one of the experts.

Treehugger: Here you can find a lot of information on how to live greener every day. The site specializes in covering the "green" as­­pects of many parts of life-everything from food to business to recreation to fashion. You'll also find news and views on the Green Movement.

Livemocha: Livemocha (in beta) is a new, free approach to learning new languages, enhancing the process by establishing learning alliances with "language buddies" from around the globe.

Dictionary.com / Thesaurus.com: The English language is complicated, and in some ways, illogical. As such, I need a good user's manual for it almost every day. Here it is.
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The Best Security Suites of 2013

new versions of security suites are coming in every day, but we want to keep you up to date. We've reviewed 28 packages to help you choose which is best for you.

• By Neil J. Rubenking
• September 19, 2012

Contents

• The Best Security Suites of 2013
• Ad-Aware Pro Security 10 to F-Secure Internet Security 2012
• G Data InternetSecurity 2012 to Outpost Security Suite Pro 7.5
• Panda Cloud Antivirus Pro Edition 2.0 to ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus and Firewall

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Almost ten years ago the security suite industry began a pattern of releasing new editions in the fall and naming them using the coming year, just like carmakers. Trying to escape the crowd, some vendors started launching the next year's products earlier and earlier—as early as May in one case.
That trend may be reversing now. The first products with "2013" in the name didn't appear until August, and some vendors are eliminating the year or version number from product names entirely. Norton and Kaspersky in particular have dropped the numbers. (We often add the year in parentheses, so you can distinguish the current review from old ones.)
Our Top Choices
We've identified three security suites that merit the honor of being named Editors' Choice, each for different reasons. As you can see in the chart below, Norton Internet Security 2012 $28.20 at Discount Mountain excels in every area. If you're looking for a traditional security suite, with essential features like antivirus, firewall, antispam, parental control, and phishing protection, it's a great choice.

The Best Security Suites of 2013

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Norton 360 originally looked quite different from Norton Internet Security, but that difference is less pronounced in Norton 360 Version 6.0 $38.97 at SnaggStuff. It does offer a task-oriented interface component that may suit some users better than the standard suite. The big difference between this suite and Norton Internet Security is the inclusion of online backup and tuneup capabilities. With that, you get the same high-end protection as in Norton Internet Security.
Looking for the smallest, lightest protection available? The installer for Webroot SecureAnywhere Complete $39.99 at Webroot would fit on a 3.5-inch diskette twice. Its unusual antivirus component doesn't use antivirus signatures; rather, it detects threats by their behavior and other characteristics. Webroot omits spam filtering and parental control, two common suite features that aren't universally needed, but adds a very flexible online backup and sync utility, and password management powered by LastPass.
The chart below lists current suites, along with their prices and star rating for major security components. Note that in some cases the price listed for "3-pack" actually gets you more than three licenses. You'll find mini reviews of all the suites on the following pages, but click through any of them to the full review.

What's Next?
Don't look for my review of McAfee's 2013 line right away. McAfee uses a rolling update system, sliding new features into the product as soon as they're ready. Even though the boxes say "2013," my McAfee contacts have asked me to hold the review until all the new features have arrived.
You may have noticed that the don't-call-it-2013 editions of Norton Internet Security and Norton 360 are already out. I'll have reviews for those as soon as possible—they're in testing right now. Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security 2013 and Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security 2013 are queued up next, and F-Secure Internet Security 2013 is ready, too. This roundup will definitely get another update soon.

4 Best Linux PDF Viewers – And Adobe Reader Is Just One Of Them [Linux]

When it comes to distributing forms and other information over the Internet, the file type of choice tends to be PDF. This file type is popular because it has decent compression rates, can prevent editing, allows for interesting visual elements, and allows interactivity (especially when it comes to filling out forms on the computer).
Thankfully, there are plenty of applications all over the web which can read these files. However, they all have different feature sets as well as other pros and cons. So, what are the best Linux PDF viewers?

Evince

Evince is the default PDF viewer which comes with the Gnome desktop environment. Therefore, it is automatically included with distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE when Gnome is chosen over KDE. This PDF viewer excels in being extremely lightweight and quick to load. It is also very easy to navigate around in, as there is just a left panel which shows small snapshots of each page of the PDF or a small index listing of all sections in the PDF (if it has been formatted correctly to do so), and then the rest of the window goes towards displaying the actual document.
Besides very small features like bookmarks, it only has view control functions such as zoom and fit to window.

Okular

On the other side of the spectrum is Okular, the default PDF viewer for the KDE desktop environment. It is included in distributions which come with KDE, such as Kubuntu, Fedora’s KDE spin, and openSUSE when KDE is chosen over Gnome. While Evince may have specialized in being lightweight, Okular is much heavier but includes a good number of useful features.

Okular also boasts support for a number of other file types, including Postscript, DjVu, CHM, XPS, ePub, TIFF, DIV, FictionBook, ComicBook, and others.

Adobe Reader

If you want to use a PDF viewer which comes from the developers who defined the PDF format in the first place, then you should take a look at Adobe Reader. It is essentially what you’ve come to expect from the Windows version: feature-filled, but not as lightweight as the other available solutions. However, you do get plenty of features that you’ll definitely not see in other PDF viewers, such as the ability to sign and configure security preferences, have it read out loud, and more.
There are also some useful features which are included in some applications like FoxItReader (see below), such as automatic scrolling.

FoxIt Reader

Last but definitely not least of all Linux PDF viewers is FoxItReader. This PDF viewer is known for being quick, fairly feature-filled, and cross platform. It’s also the PDF viewer of choice for those who like to have portable apps on their flash drives. Thankfully there multiple options available for Linux, downloadable in a DEB, RPM, and Bz2 package, so it can be installed on most distributions.

Conclusion

You’re never out of options when it comes to PDF viewers. Of course, there are still others which you can choose from, but from Linux’s smaller list of viewers (when compared to Windows), these are definitely the most popular and outstanding choices available. Of course, it all depends on your own preferences as to which one is best for you, but you can’t go wrong with using any of these solutions.
What Linux PDF viewer do you use, and why do you like it the most? Let us know in the comments!

Roku - Netflix Streaming Device

Online streaming of videos or TV shows through the internet has been growing a lot over the years and there are many companies coming up with different products to cater to the growing demand for online media streaming products, one of those companies is Roku, who have been in the business for quiet a while now. 

As some people already know Roku has brought out a new kind of media streaming box calling it the Roku 2. The new streaming box is suppose to provide better graphics for playing games like Angry Birds. The roku 2 (HD) streaming costs $59.99, the roku 2 (XD) costs $79.99 and the roku 2 (XS) costs $99.99. Apart from gaming the box also has a USB support along with bluetooth, it also has wi-fi capabilities and a good video resolution which is suppose to be better than the previous boxes along with netflix. Check out the link below for more details.....

Do you want to Print a YouTube Video?

The other day I came across a web app that allowed users to print GIF animations as flipbooks. The site – gifprint.com – isn’t working anymore but the idea is nonetheless interesting. The app extracts all the image frames of an animated GIF, arranges the individual frames in sequence and then creates a PDF file ready to be sent to the printer.

We can do something similar for YouTube videos as well. See sample.

When you are watching any video on the YouTube website, the storyboard for that video is automatically downloaded in the background. Our Print YouTube bookmarklet stitches all these storyboard frames as one large poster as shown in the video demo.

Print YouTube Video

To get started, drag the above bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar. Then open any video on YouTube, click the bookmarklet link and it should instantly generate a storyboard for that video which you can either print or save as PDF.

These storyboards offer a visual summary of videos and you can generate them for short videos as well as full-length movies on YouTube. ↓

Awesome Things You Can Do With Google Scripts

Google Scripts offer programmatic access to most Google services including Gmail, Google Drive, Analytics, Google Contacts, Calendar, Maps and more. The scripts are written in regular JavaScript language and are hosted on Google’s servers.

Google Apps Script Can Do That!

Here is a big collection of Google Apps Scripts that will help you do more with your favorite Google products. And you don’t have to be programmer to use any of these scripts.

1. Website Uptime Monitor - Receive instant email and SMS alerts when your websites goes down. You can monitor all your web domains for free.
2. Amazon Price Tracker – Keep track of prices of your favorite products on Amazon and get email alerts when the prices go down or up.
3. Read Receipts in Gmail - Use Apps Script and Google Analytics to track your outgoing Gmail messages and get notified when people open and read your email.
4. Gmail Encrypt - You can encrypt your outgoing Gmail messages using the powerful AES encryption and no one will be able to snoop your private conversations.
5. 1-click Website Hosting - Use this Google Script to host your websites, images, podcasts and other media files on Google Drive with one click.
6. Mail Merge with Gmail – Send personalized email messages to your contacts using Gmail. The messages can have attachments and you even write messages in raw HTML.
7. Files Permissions Explorer – See who has access to your shared files and folders in Google Drive and whether they view or edit permissions.
8. Send to Google Drive - You can save your Gmail attachments directly to Google Drive – just apply a particular label to your Gmail message and the included attachments will be copied to Drive.
9. Save Gmail Images - The script monitors your Gmail mailbox and will auto-save any image attachments to your Google Drive.
10. Sort Gmail by Size - Is your Gmail mailbox running out of space. The scripts will determine all the bulky messages in your Gmail mailbox.
11. Bulk Forward Gmail – The auto-forward feature in Gmail only works on incoming messages but our bulk forward script can forward even older email to your other email addresses.
12. Update Google Contacts –  See how your friends and family members can directly add or update their own contact information into your Google address book.
13. Google Contacts Map – The Google Script will plot the postal address of your Google Contacts on a Google Map. You can also export this data as a KML file for Google Earth.
14. Email Form Data –  Google Forms are the best tool for creating online polls and surveys. The script will email you the entire form data as soon as someone submits the form.
15. Twitter Bot – Learn how to write your own Twitter bot that auto-responds to tweets. This particular bot queries Wolfram Alpha to answer queries.
16. Twitter Out-of-Office –  You can create out-of-office automatic replies for people who are trying to reach you via Twitter and they wouldn’t expect a response from you right away.
17. SMS Alerts for Gmail – You can receive SMS text alerts for important incoming messages in your Gmail by connecting your mailbox with a private Twitter account.
18. Extract Email Addresses – The script scans your mailbox and creates a list of email addresses of people who have previously communicated with you.  Useful for building your email marketing lists.
19. Transfer Gmail – Moving to a different email address? The script will automatically copy all your email messages from your old Gmail inbox to another mailbox that could be on any web service.
20. Reminder for starred messages – Get a daily digest with a list of messages that you have “Starred” in your Gmail mailbox and may want to follow up on them.
21. Advanced Gmail Search – Gmail supports a variety of search commands but now you can also use Regular Expressions for searching messages on Gmail.
22. Twitter RSS Feeds – Twitter no longer provides RSS feeds but you can use Google Apps Script to create your own feeds for Twitter timelines, searches and lists.
23. Google+ RSS Feeds – This Apps Script based Chrome add-on will help you generate RSS feeds for any Google Plus user or even search results. Written by Eric Koleda.
24. Translate RSS – You can translate foreign language RSS feeds into your native language with Google Scripts and subscribe to them in your favorite news reader.
25. Gmail Label Feeder -  Create a RSS feed for any of your Gmail labels that you can later feed into Evernote, Pocket, etc. through IFTTT. Written by Martin Hawksey.
26. Gmail Meter – The script will help you analyze how you use Gmail and generates statistics like how much email you send, average length of messages, turn-around time, etc. Written by Romain Vialard.
27. Gmail Delay Send – While there are browser add-ons that let you schedule emails in Gmail, the script is easier, safer and your messages will be delivered on a specified date and time.Written by Blair Kutzman.
28. Gmail Snooze - When you snooze an email, it disappears from view but reappears in the inbox at some specified time in the future. Written by Corey Goldfeder.
29. Gmail Auto Purge -  Similar to auto-sweep in Outlook, the script will automatically delete older email messages from specific senders after a certain period of time.
30. Gmail Clean-up - Create time-based filters in Gmail that will automatically move, archive or even delete all messages from any particular Gmail label that are older than “n” days. Written by John E. Day.
31. Save Gmail as PDF – The script will save the body of an email message as a PDF file. You can optionally send the converted PDF to your email address.
32. Instagram Downloads – Download photos belonging to specific tags from Instagram to your Google Drive with Apps Script. Written by Waqar Ahmad.
33. GDocs2MD - The script will convert your Google Drive documents into the popular Markdown (.md) format that can be imported into several publishing platforms. Written by Renato Mangini.
34. Force Password Change – If you are an admin of a Google Apps domain, use this script to force all your domain users to change their passwords. Written by Waqar Ahmad.
35. Text Browser – A Lynx-inspired browser that lets you browse the web in text and is written using Apps Script. The browser can also be used as a proxy server for reading web content.
36. Self-destructive Messages – Send confidential messages inside a Google Sheet and the message will disappear after it has been read.
37. Auto-Expire Shared Folders - You can set an expiry date for your shared folders in Google Drive and the shared links will automatically expire at the specified date and time.

You can download the source code of Google Scripts from ctrlq.org

How to Keep your Google Contacts Up-to-date [v2]

You have several incomplete entries in your Google Contacts. Some contact are missing phone numbers, others don’t have any mailing address associated with them while in the case of close friends and family members, you don’t even have a record of their birthdays.

How do you get this missing information from contacts and complete your address book?

You can always send them an email or make a phone call and fill-in the missing details manually or there’s a new and better alternative – you can request your contacts to update their own records in your Google Contacts themselves.

Your Contacts Can Update your Google Address Book

It works something like this. Your selected contacts are sent a simple web form via your Gmail account. They can fill-in the missing contact information, press the Submit button and all that data is directly added to your Google Contacts. Simple.

Also see: Export Email Address of your Facebook Friends

To get started, go to your Google Contacts and create a new group (say Personal). Now put one or more contacts into this new group – all these contacts in the group will get an automatic email from you requesting them to update their own records in your Google address book.

1. Click here to create a copy of the contacts app in your own Google Drive.
2. Update the values of NAME and GROUP variables with your own name and the name of your Google Contacts group respectively.
3. Go to Publish -> Deploy as Web App an click the “Save New Version” button. Next choose “Anyone, even Anonymous” under “Who can access the app” and click the Deploy button.
4. Go to Run -> Initialize to authorize and run the script.

That’s it. All your contacts who are part of that particular Google Contacts group will now receive an email from you (screenshot A). When any of these contacts update their details through the form (screenshot B), you will be notified of the change via email.

Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft Urge 'Greater Transparency' in PRISM Letter

Several high-profile technology companies have co-signed a letter that asks President Obama for permission to report on PRISM data requests.

Firms including Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple, and Reddit have put their names to the letter, and Yahoo has provided a copy of the letter (PDF). Yahoo general counsel Ron Bell called it a "call to action."

"Democracy demands accountability, and accountability requires transparency," he said. "Today, we are proud to join dozens of our partners across the tech industry, civil society organizations, and trade associations to urge greater transparency by the U.S. government regarding national security demands for our users' information."

The letter was also addressed to Attorney General Eric Holder and Senate majority leader Harry Reid, among others.

It asked that the government release its own transparency reports that show the number of individuals targeted and the number of accounts and devices covered. Supporting this would be more detailed transparency reports from the companies involved.

"Basic information about how the government uses its various law enforcement related investigative authorities has been published for years without any apparent disruption to criminal investigations. We seek permission for the same information to be made available regarding the government's national security related authorities," added the letter.

"This information about how and how often the government is using these legal authorities is important to the American people, who are entitled to have an informed public debate about the appropriateness of those authorities and their use, and to international users of U.S. based service providers who are concerned about the privacy and security of their communications."

This article was originally published on the Inquirer.