The freelance life can be tough. Negotiations with clients, deadlines and time-tracking, invoices to file and follow up, can all come together to bog you down. So try these apps and guides that can relieve the burden a bit. None of the tools in this article will help you find a gig. There are special […]
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If Microsoft Office had been a country, it would have been the third most populous country in the world. 1.2 billion people using a single suite of apps is mind-boggling. And, they “speak” 107 languages! But right now, you and I are speaking in English and we are going to talk about the most popular tool […]
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Presentations, whether made with PowerPoint or another tool, are a great way to support a talk, visualize complicated circumstances or focus attention on the subject. Meanwhile, a foul presentation can achieve the opposite. Poorly designed slides with walls of text or oversized blurry graphics can distract or irritate your audience. Sometimes, PowerPoint is just the […]
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As information gets more tangled by the day, data visualization has stepped in to make it less baffling. As the world’s chief information honcho, Google has taken note and launched an online tool that converts raw data into animated GIFs. The Data GIF Maker is a search trend analysis tool from Google News Lab and is […]
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Whether you know it or not, you must have watched a TED talk. These talks organized by TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) are widely shared on Facebook, through emails, and viewed on YouTube. But such is TED’s fame that it dominates this space. There are plenty of other (perhaps better) videos you’re missing out on. We […]
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Every professional needs to learn how to write professional emails — and not just for the sake of furthering one’s career. It can be tough, especially when you have to deal with rude, angry, or even trollish people, but isn’t it an honorable thing to take pride in the emails you send out? We’ve written a lot […]
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