09 Jan 2015

Here it is! I spent a week downloading countless gorgeous stock videos like this one for free from Video Blocks by signing up and cancelling my subscription within the week. However if a week isn’t enough for you, you can use my referral link to get 90{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62} off Video Blocks usual yearly plan – usually

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12 Nov 2014

When you try to change your morning routine, several obstacles will stand in your way. It’s possible to overcome them, however; the key is to start the night before. Julie Morgenstern — time management expert and author of Never Check Email in the Morning — offers six strategies to make getting up early work for

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12 Nov 2014

Are you creative? A photographer? Painter? Musician? A model? Or a makeup artist? A writer? Director? Designer? These 19 minutes will give you 19 years of energy and inspiration. Neil Gaiman tells you how to get work and how to keep getting work, discusses the problems of failure and the problems of success, and ends

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25 Aug 2014

It seems the folks who offered us a week of free stock video downloads at VideoBlocks.com are now offering the same sweet deal on free stock image downloads for a week. I downloaded tons of gorgeous stock photos, images and icons for a bunch of projects I’m working on for free all week from GraphicStock.com.

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17 Dec 2013

I use Grammarly all the time, for proofreading all project proposals, client emails and website content. It’s the best online proofreader – in my opinion – and also comes with a plagiarism checker, as well as a plugin for MS Office. They have a 7-day free trial for a short time so we can try

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16 Dec 2013

Sweet! I’m totally self taught in the web design field so I’m fully in support of using whatever free resources are available to get into the field. I got news in my inbox that Treehouse is offering 3 months free for a short time, so grab it via this link: http://goo.gl/jZg4Z2

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17 Oct 2013
25 Mar 2013

Today I did some research on which encryption method is safer for securely backing up extremely sensitive data like my Bitcoin wallet. I’ve been using the most popular WinZip and the free 7-Zip for years to AES encrypt my files (as regular encryption is far too easy to crack). For a while it was very

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21 Mar 2013

Any Amazon Associate knows that Amazon creates HORRIBLE, long, non-standards compliant affiliate links for you to use on your sites. Like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product /B0046GWY5S/? ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative= 9325&linkCode=ur2&pf_rd_i= 507846&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER& pf_rd_p=1389517282&pf_rd_r= 1MB2JM2NXK5KC4A3ZHHX&pf_rd_s= center-2&pf_rd_t=101&tag=omyw-20 UGH!!!!! Horrible. These have broken time and time again on me and been a major hassle, causing my sites to not validate correctly because the

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20 Mar 2013

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