Monday, January 28, 2013

Show Yourself A Computer Freak By Using Windows Shortcuts Keys

The graphical user interface revolutionized personal computing because it made using a computer so much more visual. However, using the mouse is one of the most inefficient ways to drive a computer. Think about it: you must move your hand from the keyboard to the mouse pad, drag the pointer across the screen until it’s over a button or icon, and then double-click to open a document or launch an application.
You can save an enormous amount of time by using keyboard shortcuts to navigate your computer’s operating system and programs. This hack describes how to bypass the mouse and launch programs and documents on your Windows PC without ever taking your hands off the keyboard.
Built-In Windows Keyboard Shortcuts Microsoft Windows has several built-in keyboard shortcuts that can reduce the number of times you reach for the mouse during your workday. Here are some of the essential — and classic — shortcuts for navigating Windows:

Shortcut
Result

Alt+Tab or Win+Tab
Cycle through open programs (release keys when you see
the screen you want).

Windows+D
Show the desktop.

Windows+L
Lock your workstation.

Windows+R
Show the Run box.

Windows
Open the Start menu.

Ctrl+Esc
Open the Start menu.

The following are indispensable editing shortcuts:

Shortcut
Result

Ctrl+S
Save the current document.

Ctrl+C
Copy selected text to clipboard.

Ctrl+X
Cut selected text or object and place on the
clipboard.

Ctrl+V
Paste the contents of the clipboard into the current
document.

Ctrl+Z
Undo the last action you performed.

Ctrl+Y
Redo the last action you undid.

Ctrl+B
Bold the selected text.

Ctrl+I
Italicize the selected text.

Ctrl+U
Underline the selected text.

If you’re a long-time Windows user, many of the shortcuts above may be
old hat by now. In Windows 7, Microsoft added a slew of great new shortcuts you may
not know:

Shortcut
Result

Win+Home
Clear all but the active window.

Win+Space
All windows become transparent so you can see through
to the desktop.

Win+_
Maximize the active window.

Shift+Win+_
Maximize the active window vertically.

Win+_
Minimize the window/Restore the window if it’s
maximized.

Win+_ or Win+_
Dock the window to each side of the monitor.

Shift+Win+_ or Shift+Win+_
Move the window to the monitor on the left or right.

Ctrl+I
Italicize the selected text.

Ctrl+U
Underline the selected text.

You might use some of these shortcuts all the time and some none of the
time. To find the key combinations most useful for your workflow, look over the
complete list of

Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Keyboard-shortcuts

Sunday, January 27, 2013

How To Trace Mobile numbers , Ip-Address, Vehicle Number, Bulk SMS Sender and Much More

Nowadays its common to get a threatening email , prank message, blank call Bulk SMS in day to day life. There may be time, when you wish you could get to know something about the source of that harassment or pull information about a particular subject.

The answer is you can't be sure of everything in every case but here are something helpful  in this direction,

Visit  indiatrace.com

See what you are looking for,

Use appropriate tool and

trace it down.

Features of this site are

Trace Mobile Number
Trace Vehical Number


Trace Pin Code

Trace IP Address

WHOIS Trace

How to Create One-Click Shutdown and Reboot Shortcuts and Save time

The most annoying thing while you are in hurry to do something is to wait for shutdown and reboot of your computer. It sometime takes too much time but here is solution to make  it quick.

Create One-Click Shutdown and Reboot Shortcuts:

First, create a shortcut on your desktop by right-clicking on the desktop, choosing New, and then choosing Shortcut. The Create Shortcut Wizard appears. In the box asking for the location of the shortcut, type shutdown. After you create the shortcut, double-clicking on it will shut down your PC.

But you can do much more with a shutdown shortcut than merely shut down your PC. You can add any combination of several switches to do extra duty, like this:

shutdown -r -t 01 -c “Rebooting your PC”
Double-clicking on that shortcut will reboot your PC after a one-second delay and display the message “Rebooting your PC.” The shutdown command includes a variety of switches you can use to customize it. Table 1-3 lists all of them and describes their use.

I use this technique to create two shutdown shortcuts on my desktop—one for turning off my PC, and one for rebooting. Here are the ones I use:

shutdown -s -t 03 -c “Bye Bye m8!”
shutdown -r -t 03 -c “Ill be back m8 ;) !”

Switch
What it does

-s
Shuts down the PC.

-l
Logs off the current user.

-t nn
Indicates the duration of delay, in seconds, before performing the action.

-c “messagetext”
Displays a message in the System Shutdown window. A maximum of 127 characters can be used. The message must be enclosed in quotation marks.

-f
Forces any running applications to shut down.

-r
Reboots the PC.

How Much Expert Are You In Searching Google?

Google is clearly the best general-purpose search engine on the Web But efficiently do we use its search fascility?

Most people don’t use it to its best advantage. Do you just plug in a keyword or two and hope for the best? That may be the quickest way to search, but with more than 3 billion pages in Google’s index, it’s still a struggle to pare results to a manageable number.

But Google is an remarkably powerful tool that can ease and enhance your Internet exploration. Google’s search options go beyond simple keywords, the Web, and even its own programmers. Let’s look at some of Google’s lesser-known options.

Syntax Search Tricks

Using a special syntax is a way to tell Google that you want to restrict your searches to certain elements or characteristics of Web pages. Google has a fairly complete list of its syntax elements at

www.google.com/help/operators.html

. Here are some advanced operators that can help narrow down your search results.

Intitle: at the beginning of a query word or phrase (intitle:”Three Blind Mice”) restricts your search results to just the titles of Web pages.

Intext: does the opposite of intitle:, searching only the body text, ignoring titles, links, and so forth. Intext: is perfect when what you’re searching for might commonly appear in URLs. If you’re looking for the term HTML, for example, and you don’t want to get results such as

www.mysite.com/index.html

, you can enter intext:html.

Link: lets you see which pages are linking to your Web page or to another page you’re interested in. For example, try typing in

link:http://www.pcmag.com

Try using site: (which restricts results to top-level domains) with intitle: to find certain types of pages. For example, get scholarly pages about Mark Twain by searching for intitle:”Mark Twain”site:edu. Experiment with mixing various elements; you’ll develop several strategies for finding the stuff you want more effectively. The site: command is very helpful as an alternative to the mediocre search engines built into many sites.

Swiss Army Google

Google has a number of services that can help you accomplish tasks you may never have thought to use Google for. For example, the new calculator feature

(www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator)

lets you do both math and a variety of conversions from the search box. For extra fun, try the query “Answer to life the universe and everything.”

Let Google help you figure out whether you’ve got the right spelling—and the right word—for your search. Enter a misspelled word or phrase into the query box (try “thre blund mise”) and Google may suggest a proper spelling. This doesn’t always succeed; it works best when the word you’re searching for can be found in a dictionary. Once you search for a properly spelled word, look at the results page, which repeats your query. (If you’re searching for “three blind mice,” underneath the search window will appear a statement such as Searched the web for “three blind mice.”) You’ll discover that you can click on each word in your search phrase and get a definition from a dictionary.

Suppose you want to contact someone and don’t have his phone number handy. Google can help you with that, too. Just enter a name, city, and state. (The city is optional, but you must enter a state.) If a phone number matches the listing, you’ll see it at the top of the search results along with a map link to the address. If you’d rather restrict your results, use rphonebook: for residential listings or bphonebook: for business listings. If you’d rather use a search form for business phone listings, try Yellow Search

(www.buzztoolbox.com/google/yellowsearch.shtml).

Extended Googling

Google offers several services that give you a head start in focusing your search. Google Groups

(http://groups.google.com)

indexes literally millions of messages from decades of discussion on Usenet. Google even helps you with your shopping via two tools: Froogle
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(http://froogle.google.com),

which indexes products from online stores, and Google Catalogs
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(http://catalogs.google.com),

which features products from more 6,000 paper catalogs in a searchable index. And this only scratches the surface. You can get a complete list of Google’s tools and services at

www.google.com/options/index.html

You’re probably used to using Google in your browser. But have you ever thought of using Google outside your browser?

Google Alert

(www.googlealert.com)

monitors your search terms and e-mails you information about new additions to Google’s Web index. (Google Alert is not affiliated with Google; it uses Google’s Web services API to perform its searches.) If you’re more interested in news stories than general Web content, check out the beta version of Google News Alerts

(www.google.com/newsalerts).

This service (which is affiliated with Google) will monitor up to 50 news queries per e-mail address and send you information about news stories that match your query. (Hint: Use the intitle: and source: syntax elements with Google News to limit the number of alerts you get.)

Google on the telephone? Yup. This service is brought to you by the folks at Google Labs

(http://labs.google.com),

a place for experimental Google ideas and features (which may come and go, so what’s there at this writing might not be there when you decide to check it out). With Google Voice Search

(http://labs1.google.com/gvs.html),

you dial the Voice Search phone number, speak your keywords, and then click on the indicated link. Every time you say a new search term, the results page will refresh with your new query (you must have JavaScript enabled for this to work). Remember, this service is still in an experimental phase, so don’t expect 100 percent success.

In 2002, Google released the Google API (application programming interface), a way for programmers to access Google’s search engine results without violating the Google Terms of Service. A lot of people have created useful (and occasionally not-so-useful but interesting) applications not available from Google itself, such as Google Alert. For many applications, you’ll need an API key, which is available free from
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www.google.com/apis

. See the figures for two more examples, and visit

www.pcmag.com/solutions

for more.

Thanks to its many different search properties, Google goes far beyond a regular search engine. Give the tricks in this article a try. You’ll be amazed at how many different ways Google can improve your Internet searching.

Online Extra: More Google Tips

Here are a few more clever ways to tweak your Google searches.

Search Within a Timeframe

Daterange: (start date–end date). You can restrict your searches to pages that were indexed within a certain time period. Daterange: searches by when Google indexed a page, not when the page itself was created. This operator can help you ensure that results will have fresh content (by using recent dates), or you can use it to avoid a topic’s current-news blizzard and concentrate only on older results. Daterange: is actually more useful if you go elsewhere to take advantage of it, because daterange: requires Julian dates, not standard Gregorian dates. You can find converters on the Web (such as

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http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/JulianDate.html

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), but an easier way is to do a Google daterange: search by filling in a form at

www.researchbuzz.com/toolbox/goofresh.shtml or www.faganfinder.com/engines/google.shtml

. If one special syntax element is good, two must be better, right? Sometimes. Though some operators can’t be mixed (you can’t use the link: operator with anything else) many can be, quickly narrowing your results to a less overwhelming number.

More Google API Applications

Staggernation.com offers three tools based on the Google API. The Google API Web Search by Host (GAWSH) lists the Web hosts of the results for a given query

(www.staggernation.com/gawsh/).

When you click on the triangle next to each host, you get a list of results for that host. The Google API Relation Browsing Outliner (GARBO) is a little more complicated: You enter a URL and choose whether you want pages that related to the URL or linked to the URL

(www.staggernation.com/garbo/).

Click on the triangle next to an URL to get a list of pages linked or related to that particular URL. CapeMail is an e-mail search application that allows you to send an e-mail to google@capeclear.com with the text of your query in the subject line and get the first ten results for that query back. Maybe it’s not something you’d do every day, but if your cell phone does e-mail and doesn’t do Web browsing, this is a very handy address to know.

Google Offers Free Domain Registration, Web Hosting and Web Site Creator in India

In modern age of computers  and internet, everyone want to go online by one way or other. If you have business then you would defiantly like to have a business website. But lot of people are fond of having personal website as well.

Now the first step to have a website is to purchase a domain name that cost at least $10 to $20. Next is to purchase hosting which is not less then $5/month for reasonable hosting. But all individuals and small businesses cant afford these charges and drop their idea of owing a website.

Many small businesses are not sure about if their business will go well or not and will it take some benefit from its website or not?


Taking this thought of their in account , Google and Hostgator has started and free website, hosting  and domain name registration campaign for all individuals and small businesses in India keeping in view the new emerging internet craze and potential over there.

All these facilities will be free for one year and if you earn some benefit out of this then you can keep it going on very nominal charges.


But, as of now this is only for India.  Free Web Site and Web Site Creator from Google

Google offers a free .in domain name and hosting along with free custom email addresses and 365-day support.This is for small and medium businesses in India.

Now start to build your own website.

 
How to create free website

1.Just take this link to your browser indiagetonline

2.choose your domain name

3.fill up a form giving some of the details. Users will need to submit their PAN details for verification.

4.Choose a professionally designed template customized to your business and publish


Share or tweet this if you liked it. :-)

How to Search Google Without Internet On Mobile.

Google is the one of the Top Search Engine on World Wide Web i.e. Internet.We can find the Result for any type of Query by just Typing the Query in Google Search Box and Pressing” Google Search ” or ” I am Feeling Lucky “.

So this is the Best Method and a way to find the Result for any type of Query.

But the only problem with getting Results through this way i.e. by Google ( or Internet ) is that we need an Internet or GPRS Connection available to us, either on Computer or Mobile. There may be cases while you need help from Google but don't have internet on mobile or GPRS coverage in the area you are located in.

So to resolve this problem cum Finding Solution for this Problem, There is a Trick to Search Google without Internet through Mobile. Now for this Trick we only need a Mobile Phone with Capability of Sending SMS.

So to use this Trick just SMS ” Your Search Query ” to 9-77-33-00000 from your Mobile Phone and within few minutes You will Receive the Search Results matching Your Query from Google in Your Inbox.

This service is Free of Cost from Google but You will be Charged ( as per Standard Message Rates of Your Network Operator ) for Sending Messages. So it is a simple Trick to Search Google without Internet through Mobile.

How To Get Millions of Genuine E-mail ids Totally Free Using Google Search

Requirements


LETS START GENERATING E-MAIL ID’S


  • Go to http://www.google.com, click on “Search settings” in the top right corner and change the number of results to display “100? per page, now click on Save preferences.

  • Now in  the search bar type a keyword(s) and the e-mail extension in speech marks For example :- xyz”@gmail.com” What it will do is search for web-pages that contain Gmail e-mail adresses and that are also related  with your keyword. The speech marks around “@gmail.com” make sure that “@gmail.com” is on every web page that is a result of the search.

  • You can also search single websites for e-mail adresses as shown on the example :- site:twitter.com “@gmail.com” The  example shown above will search the whole of twitter.com for“@gmail.com” email adresses.

  • Now With your results in focus, click the arrow at the side of the AutoPager icon as shown in the picture below. Then goto “Immediately load > All pages” .as shown in screenshot. With your search results still in focus, scroll all the way down and AutoPager should load the next page of results onto the same  page you are currently on. Keep scrolling till all pages have loaded onto the samepage.

  • immediately load all pages




  • Press “ctrl + a” to select all of the pages then press “ctrl + c” to copy the results. With the results still in the clipboard (Still copied) go to Click here  . Paste your results into the first box which says “1. Put text with email addresses here:” and just click on Start Extracting Emails Button on top of that box. The settings should already be correct with “unique emails” and “sortticked” So no need to Touch that option.

  • start extracting





  • The e-mail adresses should show in the Results box (3rd box)  almost instantly.



  • Now copy the results from the results box paste them into Notepad. Sometimes the e-mail address seem to end in “.com.” instead of just “.com so in notepad go to “Edit > Replace” and in the “Find what” text-box type “.com.” without the  speech marks(“”) in the “Replace with” textbox type”.com” , without the speech marks.


comCOMcom


 

Saturday, January 26, 2013

How to Remove All Unwanted Ads From YourTube Video And Webpages

Everyone of us feel pain in the ass while we try to see some viral video on Youtube or any other interesting video , we are crazy about and we have to wait for the ad to finish before our video starts playing.

Same kind of problem occurs on all other popular websites where all the web pages are full of ads. Thankfully, we can get rid of all these unwanted ads using firefox plugin "Adblock Plus" plugin and experience a new ad free web environment where there is only useful content all over the web page and nothing else.

Adblock Plus is now also available for Chrome, Opera, Firefox and Android but not for all the other browser. To install this plugin you can search plugin repository or visit this website http://adblockplus.org/en/firefox .

adbp

After installation , Adblock Plus gives you control about where to block ads and where not to. You can configure these options using filter preferences.

 

 

 

 

How To Extract Text From An Image- Free Image To Text Convertor

I faced this problem many times and i am sure one day or another you were also fighting with similar kind of problem when you have an image and you want all the text written on that image. You , then have to type that text manually by looking at image again and again but its no more like that.

I found the solution to make this happen with the single click and I am posting the tool for that right here.
This site http://www.newocr.com/ can extract text from image (JPG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, GIF) and convert into editable Word,Text, Excel, PDF, Html output formats.

It recognize text and characters from PDF scanned documents (including multipage files), photographs and digital camera captured images,Converted documents look exactly like the original – tables, columns and graphics.Free online image to text convertor  If you have a scanned document and want to avoid retyping your document, This Free Online service is the fast way to do it.

-You can also use this site :  online image to text convertor

How to use online image to text convertor

1.Visit  Free online image to text convertor  site
2.Upload image [Max file size is 4 mb]
3.select your format
4.select language
5.Click on Recognize button

-It supports 32 languages including English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek,Italian, Portuguese, Russian,Spanish and others.

-It can also recognize large images, ZIP archives and multi page PDF, choose recognition languages,convert into editable formats and other settings.

-This is a free service in a “Guest mode” (without registration) that allows you to convert 15 images per hour.

-Supported input formats:
Image quality is one of the most important factors that improve quality of recognition. A resolution of 200-400 DPI for input images is best for recognition.
-Maximum file size : 100 MB
-Supported output formats: Service gives you the possibility to convert recognized text into 6 output formats: Adobe PDF MS Word 2003/XP MS Excel 2003/XP Html 4.0 RTF Text Plain

 

 

How To Change Your IP Address In Seconds.

If you have a dynamic IP address, there may be chances when you wish to change in manually. For example when you blocked based on ip address like sometime you are not allowed more then one download o sign up on various web portals.

In that situations, you can follow following steps to change your IP address and do whatever you want to do with it.

1. Click on “Start” in the bottom left hand corner of screen
2. Click on “Run”
3. Type in “command” and hit ok

You should now be at an MSDOS prompt screen.

4. Type “ipconfig /release” just like that, and hit “enter”
5. Type “exit” and leave the prompt
6. Right-click on “Network Places” or “My Network Places” on your desktop.
7. Click on “properties”

You should now be on a screen with something titled “Local Area Connection”, or something close to that, and, if you have a network hooked up, all of your other networks.

8. Right click on “Local Area Connection” and click “properties”
9. Double-click on the “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)” from the list under the “General” tab
10. Click on “Use the following IP address” under the “General” tab
11. Create an IP address (It doesn’t matter what it is. I just type 1 and 2 until i fill the area up).
12. Press “Tab” and it should automatically fill in the “Subnet Mask” section with default numbers.
13. Hit the “Ok” button here
14. Hit the “Ok” button again

You should now be back to the “Local Area Connection” screen.

15. Right-click back on “Local Area Connection” and go to properties again.
16. Go back to the “TCP/IP” settings
17. This time, select “Obtain an IP address automatically”
tongue.gif 18. Hit “Ok”
19. Hit “Ok” again
20. You now have a new IP address

With a little practice, you can easily get this process down to 15 seconds.

P.S:
This only changes your dynamic IP address, not your ISP/IP address. If you plan on hacking a website with this trick be extremely careful, because if they try a little, they can trace it back

Turn Down High Music Volume Of Your Neighbours Using Your Wi-Fi

This actually is a way of showing your displeasure with your neighbor with the help of wi-fi communications.

You want to maintain amicable relations with your neighbors but their loud music has become too annoying and distracting. What can a good way to communicate your displeasure and get them to turn down the volume?

wifi-message

Your wireless network has a name (or SSID) that will show up on your neighbour’s computer and mobile phone. You can put the complaint message in your Wi-Fi name and your neighbours may see it when their device is scanning for available wireless names to connect to the Internet.

And unless you are the only house in that area with a router, your neighbours are less likely to figure out who is showing them that message. This is much like leaving a sticky note on your neighbour’s door anonymously.

Wireless names can also be used to share your contact information with neighbours.

How To Delete Older Messages in Gmail Automatically with Auto Purge

The Trash and the Spam folders in your Gmail have a unique auto-purge property and old email messages belonging to either of these labels are automatically deleted after a fixed period of time (30 days to be precise).

Auto-purging can help keep your mailbox lean and tidy.

For instance, if you have created a rule in Gmail that archives all your newsletter subscriptions to a particular label, these unwanted messages will live forever until you manually purge them. With auto-purging enabled, the older mails of a label are automatically removed from your mailbox.

How to Enable Auto-Purging in Gmail


You can’t enable auto-purging in Gmail for any particular label but there’s a simple Google Script that will bring this missing functionality to your Gmail. The script will basically monitor messages belonging to a particular folder /label in Gmail and purge those that have exceed the retention time.

Here’s how you can get auto-purge to work inside your Gmail:

  1. Open Google Script and choose File -> Make a copy to copy it into your Google Drive.

  2. Set the value of GMAIL_LABEL to the label that you wish to auto-purge and PURGE_AFTER are the number of days for which you to retain a message in Gmail.

  3. Go to Run -> Initialize and grant the necessary permissions. This is your personal script and nobody else will ever have access to your data.

  4. Go to Run -> Install to install the auto-purge script.


That’s it. Exit the Google Script and it will continuously monitor that particular Gmail label in the background. If you need to disable auto-purging later, just open the same script in your Google Drive and choose Run -> Uninstall.

 

Sunday, January 13, 2013

How to Capture Videos of Google Earth

Learn how you can capture animations in Google Earth and even record video tours without switching to Google Earth pro.


This is a short video animation recording using the free version of Google Earth.

The video in high-resolution (720p HD) and the animation plays very smoothly but before I share the actual software that I used to record this movie clip, please read the guidelines for using content from Google Earth and Google Maps:
[Offline use] If your proposed offline use of Google Maps or Google Earth is limited in scope, the concept of ‘fair use’ may apply [Online use] You do not need permission to create and display video created from Google Maps or Google Earth in a video, whether hosted on your own site or through a service such as YouTube. You must purchase a copy of Google Earth Pro if exporting motion video, because screen capturing is not allowed.

If your usage meets the ‘fair use’ criteria, you can use the free Wegame client to record movies of Google Earth on your Windows machine. Wegame, a popular tool for recording video games, was recently updated and it now supports full-screen recording at 30 frames-per-second for smooth video.

Unlike most other screencasting software where you just hit the Record hotkey to start recording, it may take a couple of tries for you to get comfortable with the Wegame capture process.

Recording Google Earth

Launch the Wegame client and connect with your online account – you don’t have to upload your movies online but you still need to login for the software to work.

Then launch Google Earth and you’ll see a green square box inside the Earth program. Hit F6 and the square should disappear meaning the animations are getting recorded. Hit F6 to stop the capture and the recorded video will get saved in your My Documents folder.

If you are recording Google Earth animations on a slow machine, try lowering the frame rate to 15 or 20 and also switch to Half-screen recording. The video is saved in Windows Media format that you can upload to YouTube or play in almost every media player.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Top 10 Must Have Qualities of a Multi Millionaire Freelancer

 

freelance-tip

If you are a freelancer then you are a lucky guy because you have no boss :) Freelancing is a best thing for a web developer and its the second stage for any web developer. I said second because obviously the first would be to learn programming and convert yourself from a non skilled into a skilled programmer. On one side, freelancing gives you a state of satisfaction but on the other hand you need much care to handle this satisfaction and keep your position maintain.

In this post, I tried to discuss few very important qualities of a web developer which he/she must adopt if they want to be successful freelancer.  Please not that these qualities are not about technical experience of web development but these are the things that play an amazing role for successful freelancers. Because every one can be a freelancer but not every freelancer can work longer as a freelancer, if  they don’t adopt and follow the things which they must should have.

 

1. Are you active on Social Networking websites?


Yes very important for new freelancers who are in try to find good clients. If you are a freelancer then it happens to you many times that new comers asks you “How to find Clients”  :) And you should ask them, Do you have any profile on Facebook, twitter or LinkedIn? So,it is this really important to have any online profile or portfolio. If you are no one then you will remain as no one. Get a profile on such websites, follow the technology blogs and see whats happening in the web development world. Put your involvement in any on going web related discussions. Show them you are some one who also knows programming.

On your profiles, clearly mention who you are and what you do. Always use your real full name on professional profiles instead of short and fake names because trust starts from your name.

 2. Sign up on Major online Workplaces


jobs-portal

A good option for finding some good clients but don’t take it easy pal, because you are going to wait for weeks or even few months to get a project. Well, some lucky guys get hired in their first day. You can be too, Who knows :) There are many job portals where people are looking for good developers. If you create a good profile, add your experiences, what you did and what you can do as a freelance web developer. Don’t get excited and fill the profile with lot of things. Only add what you have experienced with. Be specific, add more example of your work and website links you have developed. If you don’t have any previous work to show then set your skills set more properly so it should show a client what you are capable of.

3. Do what you can do.


If you can not work in WordPress then don’t try to add it in portfolio. It will make your resume heavy and clients may think you as much experienced than originally you are. Show what you got and do what you can do. If you don’t know how to fix a Joomla website then don’t try to bid on a Joomla project on jobs websites. You should be more care full in bidding on projects. New users try to bid on more projects without checking the detail of project and its scope. If you get any project which you are not able to do then you are on step one to ruin your job profile. So, always bid on projects which you are sure about.

4. Communication and Client handling


communication-with-clients

If you ca’t communicate to your clients then you are in big trouble. Communication is very important and key tool in building relations with clients. If you use emails or messages to communicate then use appropriate words in your message, don’t discuss non related things which can hide your original goal to discuss. Be specific and always give important what the client is saying and what he is looking for. Client satisfaction is much important than your problem in doing those things :)

5. Check client’s bio data


bio-data

Always try to find out the person who is hiring you. Some times people get you involved in fake discussions just know your point of view about their ideas. Always try to search who is on other side. For this, you must have the contact address from which he is communicating like, email address, skype, msn or what ever is using. Put that in google and let it show you what is related to that person. Ask the person to use a professional email address. If still you are not sure about him or could not find anything about that then let it go with speed until comes to a deal. This is not necessary but you should not ignore this thing, that’s what I think :)

6. Consistent working time


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Are you working in different times each day? Then you are losing something. If a client is expecting something from you at 11 am then don’t deliver it at 5 pm. Build a suitable time table which should be good for you and your clients. Normally there can be time difference in clients and freelancers so chose the time which can be best for both of you. Different timings while working will create gap of direct communication which will lead to weak relationship.

7. Use your own development server


Work professionally and as a freelancer you should have a hosting space on which you can show your work progress to clients. Don’t submit whole work to client. Upload on your server and send your client a demo url to check the progress. Keep that url secure from public access. Its better if you have any blog or your own domain name which will help you to use it for such purpose and also will give your work a brand name.

8. Estimate work and cost properly


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If a new project arrived, give it some time to gather all the requirements. Read each and every thing and make it clear in your mind. Find out its complexity, how much this gonna take your time. If any thing is confusing don’t hesitate to ask your client. Try to clear every point. Schedule talk/chat meetings with client, such way many hidden things of project can come to view. In fact you should prefer to give dedicated days for estimation of a project because if your estimation is good you are going to enter in next level of trust with client, which is mean you are going to get more work.

9. Easy access for clients to you


This is very important that how easily a client can contact you or talk to you? So for this you should always check your emails twice a day at least. It will be best if you can be online on a mobile device, this way clients will feel comfort and it will be in his mind that he can contact you any time he will need. Use simple contact meanings, don’t give your client a list of email addresses or phone numbers. Try to use single email address or direct all other account’s emails to a single so that you don’t miss any email.

10. Track of changes and bugs


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Always note the changes and bugs posted by client to a proper place. If you are using a online project management tool then ask your client to use this and help him in learning to post issues, bugs and changes there. This will help you both to track down the changes and bugs in better way plus client will feel more comfort in sending you queries. If your client is not a tech guy he will prefer to use emails to send changes and discuss things, in that case you should take care of those things and put them in proper place so that you wont miss them.

Final Words


Freelancing is a good thing but not easy thing to do. You should always be man of rules. If its time for work and show something to client then don’t go outside and enjoy with your friends ;-) If you are working in a company then you have achieved a good thing but if you are working as a freelancer and have a good number of potential clients, earning much than a monthly job salary then this is best thing. In next post, we will cover “how to be a successful freelancer”. Be in touch.