gHacks technology news » freelancer software http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Get a Freelancer http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/26/get-a-freelancer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/26/get-a-freelancer/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:41:01 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/26/get-a-freelancer/ Get a Freelancer is a website that brings together webmasters and freelancers. I have been using the service twice in the last two months and liked it that much that I thought a review would be nice to spread the word. Webmasters can post -mostly – IT related projects on Get a Freelancer and freelancers will respond to that project. Those responses will always contain the amount of money that they would charge for completing the project as well as other information.

The project creator can then pick one of the freelancers who responded with an offer. It is possible to use a private messaging system to communicate on site to get the details right before a deal is closed. The website offers an Escrow service that will withhold the money until the project has been finished.

Adding a new project costs $5 which are subtracted from the money that is being paid to the freelancer if one is selected to finish the project. I think that this website offers some nice opportunities for freelancers as well. Just take a look at the average bid amount for certain categories to know what I mean. The price range for most projects lies between $100 and $1000.

While the website concentrates on brokering IT deals it does have several other categories that are related in a way or another. You can find and post offers for Accounting, Translations, Photography, Legal Advice or Copywriting on the website as well.

I like to post projects there because I know that my money is safe until the freelancer completes the product to my satisfaction. A rating system that has been implemented makes it easy to analyse a freelancer by previous works that he has done on the site.

I’m not using the website as a tool to earn money but I guess you could be highly successful if you are an expert in any of the categories that are offered on the website.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/26/get-a-freelancer/feed/ 2 Software for Freelancers http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/27/software-for-freelancers/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/27/software-for-freelancers/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:02:54 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/27/software-for-freelancers/ You are gonna love the PC Fare Meter software if you are paid by the hour and have difficulties keeping track of the time that you spend working for your clients. One could say it’s a time tracking application but that would fall a bit short, it’s more than that. The most important feature of this software is to keep records of the time each application has been used on a computer.

Before you can start tracking the time you need to create some project names so that you can distinguish between them. A good way would be to use client names for example or project names instead. You activate the counter from the system tray for a specific project. That’s the manual way of tracking the time but it is also possible to let the program track the time automatically.

That feature is called auto move. It assigns the time to certain projects depending on the page title of certain applications. Let’s assume that you use Photoshop for one client only. Simply add the Photoshop title to the auto move feature and it will track and assign the time spend in Photoshop to the right project.

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The software is a little bit confusing at the beginning and it takes some time to get used to it. You can automatically assign hourly rates to each project so that your earnings are calculated automatically as well.

The homepage of the program mentions hotkeys as well which can be used to switch between projects but I was not able to find reference about them in the program or on the homepage of the author. Hotkeys would make it even easier to switch between projects.

Another nice feature is the export feature. You can export data as csv or xml files providing clients with a detailed listing of the time that you have spend on their project.

PC Fare Meter [via Pimp my work] is an excellent Freelancer Software. The author needs to provide a documentation though and probably some tutorials to make it appeal to a broader audience. A better help file and tooltips in the application would also be helpful for the user.

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