Earn Money Online By Freelancing

There are many ways of earning money online. Freelancing is one of the best way to earn money online. To be able to do that, you have to be good at what you do. It could be any computer language, website designing or article writing etc. I am providing a list of well known and legitimate websites who offer these freelancing service.

1. oDesk :

If you are a beginner to freelancing work, I would recommend it to you. It has millions of users and new freelancers are often chosen and given opportunities. The fixed project range is $20 to $1500. But the average is around $100 to $200. oDesk guarantees the hourly projects only in which your work is tracked with oDesk Team application. The hourly project average is around $3 to $7. Desk is free to join and does not charge any membership fees.

Website : www.odesk.com

2. Freelancer:

If you are a professional in your field and have done many projects in the past, then it is the right place for you. Here the budget is fairly large amount. Projects start at $30 and goes up to $20,000 or more. It has mostly fixed price projects. If you can show your work portfolio, then the chance of getting hired is higher. Joining is free, but it has membership system. Free members do not pay anything and apply to only 10 jobs per month. Basic, Standard and Premium members have many more features and they cost $4.95, $24.95 and $49.95 respectively. You can take exams to prove your skills.

Website: www.freelancer.com

3. Elance:

Elance has established itself a high ranking freelancing website. Like Freelancer, you must be a seasoned pro to succeed here. Here, the average project price is $500. So, if you have done a lot of work and can show them, you are in heaven. It has also membership system and they are Basic, Individual, Small Company and Large Company. Basic is free and others are paid.

Website: www.elance.com

Mac OS X 10.8.3 Now available

Apple has now updated Mac OS X 10.8 to version 10.8.3. The following is the details of the fixes/additions included in this version.

This update is recommended for all OS X Mountain Lion users and includes features and fixes that improve the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including:

• The ability to redeem iTunes gift cards in the Mac App Store using your Mac's built-in camera
• Boot Camp support for installing Windows 8
• Boot Camp support for Macs with a 3 TB hard drive
• A fix for an issue that could cause a file URL to quit apps unexpectedly
• A fix for an issue that may cause Logic Pro to become unresponsive when using certain plug-ins
• A fix for an issue that may cause audio to stutter on 2011 iMacs
• A fix for an issue in Contacts that may cause cards to print out of order
• A fix for an issue that may cause the desktop picture to change after logging out or restarting
• A fix for an issue in Messages that may cause messages to appear out of order after waking from sleep
• A fix for an issue that may cause the screen to display incorrectly after waking from sleep
• Improves compatibility with IMAP servers in the Notes app
• Allows the Slideshow screen saver to display photos located in a subfolder
• A fix for an issue in Contacts that may cause addresses to print in the wrong location
• Reliability improvements when using a Microsoft Exchange account in Mail
• Xsan reliability improvements
• A fix for an issue that could cause Active Directory accounts to be locked out after accessing the Security & Privacy pane in System Preferences
• A fix for an issue that could cause link aggregation to not complete after a restart
• A fix for an issue that could cause delays when logging into an Active Directory account on high latency networks
   

Safari 6.0.3 

Safari 6.0.3 is included in the OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.3 Update and contains fixes that improve performance, stability, and security, including:

• Improves scrolling on facebook.com
• Improves scrolling while zoomed in on a webpage
• Improves performance on webpages with plug-in content
• A fix for an issue that could cause the inaccurate appearance of an alert that bookmarks can't be changed
• A fix for an issue that could cause duplicate bookmarks to appear on an iOS device after editing bookmarks with Safari in OS X
• A fix for an issue that permitted users to access unfiltered search results when searching from google.com when Parental Controls are enabled
• A fix for an issue that could prevent Safari from restoring the last position on a webpage a user navigated back to

Play movies automatically in QuickTime X

The QuickTime X is the default movie player in all Macs running Mac OS X 10.6 onwards. If you are a long time Mac user and have used the auto-play feature in old QuickTime Player, you will be missing it in QuickTime X. There is simply no option to turn on this feature.

But you can now enable auto-play in QTX by executing a simple command in Terminal. Copy the command given below and paste it or enter it in Terminal. It will be successfully executed. After the execution, your movies will be played automatically. If you want to revert to the old click and play feature, you can just enter the code and replace the 1 at the end with 0.


defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGPlayMovieOnOpen 1

My Macbook Pro 15" Experience

My first computer was an Apple Mac which was the top of line iBook G4 in 2005. It had 1.4 GHz PowerPC processor, 512 MB RAM, 32 MB graphics memory and 60 GB HDD. It served me for more than 6 years without any problems and still it is going good. Recently I got myself another Mac which is a Macbook Pro 15". It has 2.4 GHz Quad Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, 750 GB hard drive, 1440x900 res screen and dual graphics cards (Intel 512 MB + ATI 1 GB GDDR5) with automatic graphics switch.

Mac computers have a unique scent, which will you find only with a Mac. The Macbook Pro is unibody (looks beautiful) and it has no user removable battery. It's fast and the near full HD display is superb. It's glass trackpad is the smoothest I have ever used on a laptop. The trackpad on my iBook G4 was also very smooth at it's time. The Macbook Pro is running the latest Mac OS X Mountain Lion which is truly the advanced operating system on the planet. It's sleek and very user friendly. Apps open instantly with a very small time lag of few milli seconds. The reason of loyalty of  Mac users is the Apple quality they get. And only a Mac user will only know how it feels to own a Mac.

CCleaner Review

CCleaner is a very popular system utility app in Windows platform. It is one of the most powerful and effective system cleaning app out there from a long time. Now the app has landed on Mac with similar features.

CCleaner has the same features on both Mac and Windows. It removes temporary Internet files, clears caches and cookies, erases browser history and much more that it does on Windows. But it has some Mac specific tools to handle the files in Mac like repairing disk permissions, clearing log files and updating font registry. It also has an uninstaller built in like Windows version. It constantly monitors which application you are installing and provides a list of applications you can uninstall.

If you have used it on PC, you, must have known, how easy it is to use. Like its PC counterpart, it also has two options, Analyze and Clean. If you choose Analyze, it will provide a list, which you can see and delete safely. The second option, Clean deletes immediately.

Mac OS X has already many utility apps. But this app does what it is intended to. If you are PC user and recently switched to Mac, you will feel at home and first time CCleaner users will be happy with it. It may have some quirks, but it will improve eventually.

It is available for Macs running Mac OS X 10.5 to 10.8.2 and is Intel only.

Websit : http://www.piriform.com/mac/ccleaner