Freelancing Tools and Tips

Have you ever thought about editing a video online without even knowing about the technical aspects of editing? There are many tools and software available online that can help you in editing videos efficiently. Using these tools you can easily join, split, crop, trim, modify color, or merge your video files. These tools provide excellent features to create fade-ins, fade-outs, and merge sound from the two audio tracks to insert  almost any volume effect.

Here we have put together some tools which are useful, free and offer excellent features to make even a home made video look professional.

Vivia

This video editing program is specially created for Linux and Windows users. It allows you to edit clips and transitions in real-time, along with multi-camera support for editing scenes that were recorded by more than one camera simultaneously. It also supports multiple movies in a single project.

Photobucket

This popular tool lets you edit videos using flash in your browser. You can also remix your photos and videos with music, video captions, and transitions. It also enables you to store, share and publish your visual digital content online with friends and connections.

Jumpcut

It is a Free online editing tool from Yahoo, which allows you to edit videos online. You can edit and remix your videos, create slide shows and post them on any website or profile. It also lets you add transitions, titles, effects to your videos along with audio dubbing.

YouTube Remixer

It is a remixer tool from famous video sharing website You tube. It enables you to add effects and graphics, text and audio, overlays and transitions to your YoutTube Video, directly in your browser. You can share your video with connections on youtube website.

DVD Flick

This tool can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD. You can also play them back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home theater. It supports for over 45 file formats, over 60 video codecs and 40 audio codecs.

Vidavee Graffiti

It an interesting tool for adding graphics and text into any video. The service is called a “legal form of artful vandalism” by its creators. You just need to upload any YouTube video of your choice paste the URL and start editing instantly.

Jahshaka

It is a video and film compositing, editing and special fx system that uses OpenGL & OpenML hardware. It lets you edit with flexibility and create effects in real time. You can also paint and design on a moving video. The system is cross platform, and also includes full CG, paint and image processing modules.

AVI Trimmer

It is a free video editor for fast and lossless AVI editing. This freeware is small, smart, easy to use and involves no encoding/decoding processes. Its supports any video content – DV, XviD, DivX, 3ivX, MPEG-4, etc. and any audio content – MPEG-1,2 Layer I, II, III; AC3, etc.

Zwei-Stein

Another Free non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and editing system which offers many advanced features. You can edit up to 256 video, audio and still image clips, each with up to 64 effects chained serially. Cropping, panning and custom effects are easy with automatic key frames.

DVD Knife

It is a simple tool for extracting DVD clips from your DVD’s. This is the simplest and fastest tool in its category which has ability to extract long VOB clips in few seconds. Your DVD video is neither compressed nor decompressed to extract clips.

We hope these tools would help you in editing your videos and making them more creative by adding efefcts and graphics. We welcome your feedback and suggestions as always.

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Get a chance to earn through each referral activity performed on LimeExchange:
•    Earn up to $24.99 on purchase of 1-Month membership plan.
•    Earn $20 for every job completed and 10% of all lifetime commission & referral revenue
•    Earn $5 for every referred featured job posting & $0.10 for every referral

How to utilize our affiliation Program intelligently?

Our affiliation program is easy-to-use and helps you in earning quick rewards. Here is a brief overview on what all you can do after registering as an affiliate on this platform.

Banners

Banners are one of the most effective ways to earn money as an affiliate. Select the banners that you would like to display on your websites/blogs. It’s simple to get going – just copy and paste the short HTML code we provide onto your web pages. That’s it!  For best results, place the banners near the top of your most frequently visited pages as it catches the attention of a visitor. Whenever a visitor of your website/blog  clicks that banner and register on LimeExchange, you get rewarded for each successful registration and also get a share in revenue for any purchase or project activity conducted by your referral. Choose from our dynamic range of banners, optimized to replace existing Adsense banners to eliminate formatting and other problems.
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Text Ads

Utilizing the white space on your website /blog can actually help you in crediting more money to your wallet. Select the dimension and get the code and insert it in your html pages to display the widget showing projects posted on LimeExchange. Our job advertisements are optimized to replace where existing Adsense, so you don’t have to worry about formatting problems or other issues. If you have a blog /website you can highlight your profile on your website and open new avenues to freelance opportunities.

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RSS Feeds

Pick up the right side corner of your website/ blog and refer your website traffic to LimeExchange using this automatic feed, quickly and easily. Copy the RSS affiliate URL link and put it on your web sites/blogs to start earning cash immediately through our Affiliation Program. It’s as easy as that! You can pick a relevant feed of open projects, expert providers and other LimeExchange content including blogs and contests. It is recommended to use feeds which are useful for your visitors as it increase your readerbase, and also help you in earning money on each referral registration and activity. Learn more

Invite Contacts

Build Network while earning money on LimeExchange! Import your contacts including friends, colleagues, associates etc. from Gmail, AOL, Hotmail and Yahoo address books and also from your Microsoft Outlook list of contacts and send them an invitation to join LimeExchange.
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Widgets

You easily customize a widget complementing your website/blog and theme and paste the Html code in your website/blog.  Share the revenue with us for each registration and activity he would perform on this platform. Here a user can have a project ticker, blog widget, providers widget, project widget or custom your own widget. Buyers can highlight their project ticker on their website enabling providers to place their bids and work on their important assignments.  Similarly, providers can highlight their profile link and increase their chances of getting a freelance job.

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Anchor Link

You can also get a text link containing your affiliate ID and paste it anywhere on your website/blog. You can place your profile, LimeExchange, projects or even customize your own link and paste it in the content of your website or blog. You can write a blog or content on your website adding the anchor link on a relevant keyword and earn money on each registration through that link.

For example we have created this text link LimeExchange Projects. View other options

You can keep a track of your earnings by checking the report. Report gives you the details of your earnings from the registrations done on LimeExchange from different sources like email invitations, links (like banners, widgets and text links) and RSS Feeds.

So wait no longer, become an affiliate and earn money through referrals or by linking with us.

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WordPress, Movable Type, Expression Engine and Blogger are today perhaps the most popular blogging platforms used around the globe to  share thoughts, ideas and connect with the target audience. These blogging platforms also offer a good set of features and plugins that help the blog owners in making their blogs customized, aesthetically pleasing,  interactive, search engine friendly, spam free and what not. Here we are listing some useful plugins provided by  Movable Type, Wordpress, Expression Engine and Blogger.

Movable Type

TypePad AntiSpam- This free tool from typepad allows you to block comments spam to improve the quality of your blog conversations and also enhances the credibility of your blog. It is basically a spam filtering service that combines several engines to check comments, trackBacks and pingbacks.

Pagination- It is a new way of pagination that enables you to paginate lists of entries. It lets you add a “Next” link to you blogs so that the reader can view next and previous entries. It is useful for long and informative posts as it also displays a list of linked page numbers to enable visitors to read any page number they want.

FCKeditor-   This plugin works as a quick editor that cut, paste as plain text, undo and redo. It works well with Internet Explorer 5.5+ and Gecko browser (Mozilla / Firefox / Netscape) etc. Its feature includes image insertion, with upload and server browsing support, spell checker, multi-language support, automatic browser detection and customization.

Comment Subscribe- It is a comment notification plugin that lets you check follow up comments in your email. If a user checks a box when posting a comment, they will receive emails every time someone else posts a comment on the same entry.

Image Cropper – This pluging provides a simple user interface for managing and generating custom thumbnails from any image. You can manage and organize all related thumbnails from a single dashboard. It creates alternate thumbnails using a simple drag-and-drop feature.

Wordpress

IntenseDebate Comments – This Plugin by WordPress enhances and encourages conversation on your blog. Comment threading, reply via email,accounts, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed enhance your readers’ experience and promote your blog which boots traffic of your blog.

WordPress.com Stats – Similar to Google analytics this provides an incredible depth of information about your pageviews, which posts and pages are the most popular, where your traffic is coming from, and what people click on when they leave. It provides you with a link which allows you to see all your stats on one single page.

Multi-level Navigation – This is a great time saving plugin for bloggers. It lets you drag your main pages and provides complete over what goes in your menu, including allowing blog categories and archives.

Contact Form 7- It is a form generator that lets you create any kind of form that’s emailed to you as soon as it’s filled out. It’s also fully customizable and enables you to edit how the email that’s sent to you is structured as well.

ShareThis plugin- This plugin works as a marketing plugin that allows your readers to submit your links to social media sites or by email. It also remembers your social media login info if you have an account with them. It will post your post’s title and shortened URL to the user’s account.

Expression Engine

Acronym– This free plugin for Expression Engine replaces common acronyms with a dotted underline, description, and help cursor.

Auto Linker –This plugin automatically converts URLs and emails into links. You can use this plugin for creating instant links and post them on different forums and websites.

Comment Leaders – This Free plugin is quite interesting in making your blog popular. It displays the top commenters of your blog who regularly post comments on your weblog.

Blogtimes – Another Free plugin from expression engine that displays a graph (PNG image) representing post time for the current month.

Find and Replace -This is a helpful plugin allows you to search for text within your site and replace it with another piece of text. This search and replace operation can be performed on your entry titles, within any of the entry fields, or within your Templates.

Blogger

Top Commentators – This excellent plugin allows you to filter out the blog author’s name from the top commentators list. It lets you filter out as many names as you want by using the filtering option in the widget installer (the filters should be separated by commas).

Google Talk – This plugin lets you send instant messages, transfer files, make voice calls  with your gtalk connections  and leave voicemail messages. It also lets you preview photos and videos that you uploaded from Picasa Web Album or YouTube.

Rating – Another great plugin to add rating system to your blog. You can easliy install this excellent plugin to get readers ratings on your posts. It has rating system plus related posts integration in same widget.

Random/Rotating - This is a useful plugin that lets you display rotating banners in your blog’s header. You can customize and can choose any number of headers.

Bookmarking Widget – This plugin helps in promoting your blog on different social bookmarking websites. You just need to install it it automatically bookmarks your blog on popular websites. It has big animated icons and provides  one click installation.

Hope you will install these plugins to make your blog more popular and useful. Please share with us your comments and suggestion on the same.

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We all usually require images for websites/blogs/ collateral or for that matter even preparing presentation. The normal process to find images is to Google for images or look for all rights free images and edit as per our requirements. Sometimes, the process of editing or alteration in images becomes tedious if you are not comfortable working on photo editing tools. Here we are listing some of the useful photo editing resources available online that do not require much technical expertise and can be easily managed.  Here is the list in no particlaur order.

Flauntr

This Free service by Fotodesk that allows its user to edit photo, print them and share it with their connections.  It also offers features for editing, styling photos, adding text to photos , creating social networking profile pictures, and mobile photo experiences. It also lets you create widgets and beautiful slideshows as well as share photos on social networking sites. It integrates with other photo services like Flickr, Picasa, Bebo, and Facebook photos.

Inkscape

It is an open source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.). Using its useful features you can easily edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and do much more.

FotoFlexer

Another useful image editing tool that enables you to edit your images uploaded on social media websites like MySpace, Flickr, Facebook etc. You can add effects, fonts, shapes and many more effects to create an attractive image.

Picnik

This powerful easy to use image editing tools helps in editing images creatively with a variety of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.  It fixes your photos in just one click, use advanced controls to fine-tune your results, crop, resize, and rotate in real-time. It works well on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Photshop

It allows you to upload, organize, edit and share your images with your network.

Snipshot

Using this tool you can easily edit photos saved in hard-drive, your Webshots account, or in your Flicker account. Its excellent features include rotation, cropping, color adjustment and enhancement, and re-sizing. You can save edited images as JPEG, GIF, PDF, TIF, PNG, or PSD, with the option to save as high-resolution.

Pixelmator

This easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images. It offers selection tools, painting tools, retouching tools and every tool you need to make your image perfect.

Dr.Pic

It is a great tool to crop, resize, add text, special effects, and host your pictures online for free. It lets you resize photos before posting them on your MySpace, Xanga etc.

Splash up

Formerly known as Fauxto, this powerful editing tool and photo manager enables you to edit images instantly.  It works well with all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photo-sharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress.

Easycropper

It is a simple way for you to crop any image for the web. You can easily resize your pictures with its easy-to-use interface. You just have to upload your image, select the desired height and width, click “Continue”, and preview your new photo. Your new image will be displayed on a new page, ready for you to download or continue editing.

Hope you will utilize these editing tools before using the image for your project. Please provide us your comments and suggestions as always.

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The New Year begins with new thoughts, aspirations and expectations. We plan new things and strategies for personal and professional life to achieve success in all spheres of life. Freelancers also look for new opportunities and plans for the coming year. So, now before you set a plan for this year we would like to suggest you some tips which might help in making 2010 a year of success.

Profile completeness

An online profile is the one of the most important aspect for winning a freelance project successfully. Profile Completeness, is a must for all service providers to acquire more freelance jobs and to become an established workforce at LimeExchange. Since there is no physical contact between you and the buyer, it is your profile that speaks for you. Your profile is the essential information, which a buyer would be interested in knowing before considering you for his project. Information about company, skill set, education and work experience of your outstanding employees are the key elements to acquire good projects. Hence the more detailed information you will provide, the better will be the understanding of your skills.

Online skill tests

There are hundreds of skill tests available online across a wide range of categories. Online Skill Test results, which are publicly visible, validate your credibility online manifold. When a buyer would take a tour of your profile, he would be impressed if it is validated with Online Skill Test Certification. So to win over the attention of buyers, the service providers as well as small medium need to take the online skill test in their area of expertise as certified service providers manage to get access to some real good projects faster.

Education & credentials verified

Verified educational credentials have an edge over unverified credentials. Buyers these days look for genuine providers through an authentic source to avoid fraud and get their requirements completed successfully. Having a profile containing a verification seal brighten the chances of winning a freelance job simply and immediately.

Participate in Q&A

Share, learn and ask questions to build a network with the people from same field of work. You can raise a query, answer questions, and share knowledge with people from across the globe. Sharing knowledge will not only help you in enhancing your skill sets but also in connecting with people from similar of different areas of freelancing business.

Promote your profile

One more suggestion for this year is to promote your profile using your affiliate id. Join the affiliation program, refer friends and earn through activity they would perform on the platform. Not only this you can also earn money while showcasing your profile link on different websites. You just have to simply create a Text/Anchor link to showcase your LimeExchange Profile, Portfolio, Certifications and Earnings.

Hope you would take these suggestions into consideration before setting an agenda for 2010. Please share with us your feedback and comments as always.

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We have been writing blogs on a variety of topics including latest trends, technologies, strategies, and practices. As we enter the New Year, 2010, we thought it would be logical enough to go back and have a quick look at last year’s popular blogs which really helped you in flourishing your business and career on this platform.

Here are some popular posts you may want to bookmark this year for reference.

10 Useful Project Management Tools for Freelancers

Managing your freelance project efficiently is the most important requirement for becoming a successful freelancer. This blog includes some useful tools for planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project assigned.

10 New Tools and Resources for Developers and Designers

This post was specially created for designers and developers. These tools not only make your job easier, but they have the ability to improve the quality of work as well.

10 Useful Website Management and Testing Tools

We all want our website to be Error-Free and successful. Testing and validating the website up to web standards is essential so that users and visitor have a pleasant experience on your site. This blog offers a great list of tools for website testing and optimizing.

50 Open Source Tools for Writers and Bloggers

Writers and bloggers are always on a look out for great tools and resources. This post covers 50 open source tools ranging from word processors, to content management systems, references, publishing, sharing, organization, and more which can help in writing, editing, and organizing your write ups more proficiently.

10 Useful Tools To Optimize Images For The Web

Here are some useful free tools to optimize your images for web and also make your web page and images search engine friendly.

Popular Website Building Tools

With technological advancements, it is easy to build a website on your own without even learning the technical aspects of website designing. There are many tools available online to build a website of your own choice and launch them on the World Wide Web.

80 Useful Tools and Resources Freelancers Can Make Use Of

The huge list of resources and tools available online including websites; blogs, applications for freelancers to improve productivity and business online.

25 Useful iPhone Applications For Freelancers

It is a useful post of iphone users as it includes advanced applications to save time, money, and also enhance your productivity.

Five Popular Online Tools for Writers

There are innumerable tools available online for writers using which they can easily manage write-ups online. Here we put together five popular tools for writers to help them in writing effective write-ups, and establishing in freelance writing business.

Five Popular Online Billing and Invoicing Tools for Freelancers

Sending timely bills and invoices to your clients can help you in receiving your pay check on time. In this post, you can find five Web-based invoicing tools, which are easy to use, cost effective and require no downloading.

10 popular websites to search & get stock photos

Popular resources to get stock photos and images for your blogs. You can search and download Public domain, Rights managed/ protected Royalty free images and Subscription based images.

Useful Social Media & Online Reputation Monitoring Tools

This post covers important tools  to keep a strong vigil over the efficiency of the marketing campaigns launched by you on different social media platforms. Track Product feedback, Buzz, target audiences’ preferences, social media ROI etc.

Design Applications High in Demand

This blog posts would help you in choosing the best design application for your project. Take a quick glance at some of the popular design applications which are high in demand.

10 Useful Free Resources for Designers

There are multiple resources available online that can give a boost your creative potential. In this post you will get 10 Free and useful resources that can help you craft good designs.

10 Useful Firefox Extensions for Freelance Writers

This post covers 10 useful Firefox extensions that feature dictionaries, search tools and general reference extensions and more.

Hope you would like reading these posts again! We would be writing more such informative and useful blogs this year. Please provide us with your views, suggestions and feedback on the same.

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