Billings: The Only Boss a Freelancer Would Ever Need.

It’s not a secret that many web designers and developers out there are on a Mac platform. Especially in 2009, it seems like many professionals and freelancers have switched from Windows to Mac OS X in order to have better performances, security and, most of all, more time to do stuff. They wanted to save time, they wanted to avoid those virus and malware crappy things Windows has - for this reason many people did the “big” switch and bought a Mac. You can’t blame them: with tools such as Coda, Textmate, Textexpander and the famous Pixelmator, they had every good reason to switch to a Mac computer. Now, besides web development and graphic applications, what about the software that can help managing the financial and invoicing aspect of a freelancing job?

Today I’d like to talk about Billings from Marketcircle, an award winning app for Mac and iPhone which is gonna be your one step solution for anything freelancing related.

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Too Many Ideas? You Need Some Action Method.

The Action Method is a task-management system provided by the company Behance that’s available to use through the web, an iPhone application, and print products. Since more and more people turn to such products to keep track of their tasks and projects, it’s time to take a look at this system as an alternative to other project management software like Basecamp and Active Collab. (disclaimer: As with all PM systems, the Action Method is robust and complex. This review touches on the surface, so check out the free demo to see all it has to offer.)

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Hyperspaces Winners Announced

Thanks everyone for the support and the comments! Also, I’d like to thank the Cocoabots team for giving us these 10 licenses to give away.

Now, here are the winners:

Dodie

Fabrizio Lodi

Rossella

Leoben Conoy

Foobar

Marc Salmon

Sayam Aggarwal

Nikola

Radada

DotSlashSlash

You’ll receive the license straight in your inbox in a matter of a few hours.

Cheers!


Generate and Manage Strong Passwords with uP@ssw0rdz! for iPhone

If you’re quite into the Mac and iPhone software scene you should probably know that there’s one application that everybody loves when it comes to passwords management: that’s 1Password by Agileweb Solutions. I reviewed 1Password 3 a while ago, and things just haven’t changed as I’m still using 1Password and its database it’s growing bigger and bigger everyday. I guess I just couldn’t work without at this point. 1Password is great because it offers a lot of features packed in a well designed and gorgeous interface, yet doesn’t overwhelm the user with weird commands and submenus. You can automatically save logins, save credit card details in the wallet, store apps licenses and generate passwords.

Now, I’ve stumbled upon this application called uP@ssw0rdz! which, icon and name aside, could really come in handy to those people who don’t need the multiple features of 1Password and just need a simple, dictionary based password generator and manager.

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