Freelancing can be a very fun and rewarding experience for anyone who works hard and plays hard. You can take a time off whenever you feel like it, you can reject gigs or projects and you can work at any time of the day. I know a lot of freelancers and I’ve also done my [...]
Scam Alert! Received on Yahoo Mail. From: Barrister James Henry Obieze. Office (Esq). Jauche & Associates Solicitors, Corporate & Property Consultants Lagos – Nigeria. Dear Friend, I hope this meets you in good health. My name is James Henry Obieze Esq. a Legal Practitioner and Attorney to late Mr. Ziya Bazhayev,who died in the plane [...]
There’s a lot of talk regarding the concepts of thin clients which has existed for as long as 20 years. Initially it was envisaged that the model of computing would be a solution where powerful mainframes were connected to by dumb terminals that only displayed an image of what was on the user’s server session. [...]
A website is not a website without content. The main reason someone will visit your site is to view website content. This is true. Be it your contact information, or more information about your services, etc. One of the most frustrating experiences I’ve had as a web designer is the pressure of a website needing [...]
All day yesterday, Intelvision (our internet service provider) decided to mess me up. I had so much work to do, which is a typical thing for a Monday. I didn’t have access to the internet at all. We had to call someone we know over there earlier today for them to fix it. We don’t [...]
As weird as this might sound, I’m thinking of changing my phone number. Last week, I was talking to my client and he expressed his disappointment because I don’t have an office of my own. He really needed to discuss a few urgent things with me face-to-face and I was unavailable. This made me feel [...]
Yesterday I spent the day helping out a soon-to-be client of mine with a graphics poster. I told him that I wouldn’t charge him for it. Later that day, he gave me a Nokia C7! How odd is that? I haven’t had the chance to check out the manual, but I have played around with [...]
Almost immediately after the end of my current employment contract I will be developing a website for a new client. The site will be a general CMS so I will be able to talk about the progress of the site. I will not divulge exact details of the client nor the site, but I will [...]
Today, a potential client raised confidentiality concerns and I reassured her that any idea she throws at me will not be discussed beyond the office. I’ve been working in the company for almost 10 whole months now and this is the very first time someone has approached me with this issue. I’m actually very glad [...]
Once in a while I meet a client who literally panics when something goes wrong on their very new website, the immediate post-publish phase. They tell me things like “business is slow because there must be a problem with the website”, etc. Several years ago while freelancing, I had a local client. The situation I [...]
5 Free Excellent Apps for iPhone
There are now thousands of apps available for all versions of iPhone, but as technology progresses, most apps being developed today are compatible with iPhone 3G+ while the other older versions of iPhone are left behind. There are also apps strictly available for jailbroken phones because they are made available through Cydia only. These apps [...]