For any business, sending and tracking invoices to customers is part of the daily work; and we all know how time-consuming it is. Luckily we can use a program that is designed to prepare and track invoices. By using it, at least we can save some some time.

1. Bamboo Invoice – Simple, Open Source, Online Invoicing.
2. FreshBooks – Online invoicing and time tracking service.
3. Transcepta – Electronic invoicing solution.
4. Blinksale – The easiest way to send invoices online.
5. InterlinQ Solutions – Providing a daily job report, time sheets, job tracking, construction reports and mobile billing.
6. Bill My Clients – Easy way to create and send invoices and bills to your clients.
7. Billing Orchard – Online electronic billing software application.
8. 2nd Site – Secure invoicing service w/ online invoice payment & online employee timesheets.

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If you have a twitter account, you know the built in themes are really limited. If you are not a pro or you don’t want to spend too much time designing your own background, you may want to consider using the service from tweetygotback. It is such a neat service which allows you to change your twitter account background instantly. How does it work? Simple:

You go to the website: http://tweetygotback.com/

browse all the themes till you find the one you like the most.

Click on “apply” and you can preview the background of your twitter page. If you like it, you can then activate it and your twitter page has a new look!

Brilliant, isn’t it?

Have a look at my newly setup twitter page.

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Have you heard of Google Chrome? Yes, Google again brought us a fantastic gift: this time, an internet browser. It looks like

Here is a brief introduction from Google. Have a look and you may want to try Google Chrome yourself.

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I was asked to include a gallery when I was designing a website for a client. Instead of writing it from scratch, I tried to find a ready-made one which can allow me to easily upload and manage photos without too much hard coding. I found a great gallery using ImgBrowz0r and prettyPhoto jQuery plugin made by Chris Coyier. A really fantastic job. He actually showed how he combined these two and made the gallery. I think it is worthwhile to watch this step-to-step tutorial.

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Below is how the gallery looks like:

I also found a cool slider: anythingSlider. Photos or any content including hyperlinks can be featured in the slides and they move right or left. According to its creators, it has the following features:

# Slides are HTML Content (can be anything)
# Next Slide / Previous Slide Arrows
# Navigation tabs are built and added dynamically (any number of slides)
# Optional custom function for formatting navigation text
# Auto-playing (optional feature, can start playing or stopped)
# Each slide has a hashtag (can link directly to specific slides)
# Infinite/Continuous sliding (always slides in the direction you are going, even at “last” slide)
# Multiple sliders allowable per-page (hashtags only work on first)
# Pauses autoPlay on hover (option)
# Link to specific slides from static text links

I definitely will use it in the future. Here is a screenshot of how it looks like:

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Have you seen “Advertise Here” logos? They serve as an effective way to attract advertisers to your site. 125×125 pixel square ads are now the most popular size. According to tutorialblog, the following ad logo is not a good one. Why? You’d better read the explanation at this post.

Instead, the following 8 free logos are much better. Best of all, you can simply paste them on your site or blog. So, why don’t you download them now?

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DfGallery delivered dfGallery 2.0! dfGallery 1.0 has been a very successful cool free gallery with 200,000+ downloads.

According to dfGallery, “The reason for this gallery to be cool is not just its UI but the way it is built and architected. We have an amazing theme engine built to support custom themes with multiple skins for each. The administration console built on CodeIginter lets you manage multiple galleries and albums of different types.”

Some key features I want to emphasize here：

– you can embed the gallery anywhere (website, blog, facebook, myspace…)

– you can change the skin

– you can make the gallery full screen

– Picasa – Load any picasa album by just configuring the URL

– AJAX & Multiple Image Uploads

– Customize the background music of the gallery

A very nice addition to your website and blog. We can definitely use it for our business purpose.

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Changing fonts is always the fastest way to change the look of your website, brochure, advertisement. I am glad to share with you my new finding: a great website which hosts 10,000 fonts. And best of all, they are free! So before you go and purchase any fonts, make sure you check this site: maybe you will find what you want without spending a penny!

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You have a picture, you want to edit it by adding some text. How to do it? The common way is to use a graphic designing software such as Photoshop. If you are familiar with the software and are very skillful at using it, you may still find it the best to use it to add text. But if you are not that good or you just want a quick addition, then I would recommend Picfont, an online editor for adding text to pictures.

According to Picfont, “You can simply add text on 3 differents modes : over a picture (uploaded from computer or from an Url) over a canvas which represents a space where you can select a background color), or over a shape (badges, signs….)”. The effects can be viewed below:

Over a picture

 Over a canvas

Over a shape

I find it quite handy, how about you?

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Have you realized that colors can reveal the content of your site and the message is more subtle. For example, red is “warm, vivid, heat, energy, young …”, blue is “professional, cool, rational, relaxing, slightly sad, distance from crowd…”, black is “mysterious, dark, …” and lots more.

Here is a wonderful site you can play with the colors, the combinations of colors, and patterns from colors. You can find trend colors, palettes, patterns — Colourlovers.com.

Who are they? 

According to the self introduction, Colourlovers is a community

“that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color – whether for ad campaigns, product design, or even in architectural specification – a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews.  “

You have to use colors, no matter it is for your web designs, for your office layout, or for advertising. It is also good to develop a taste in recognizing trends in the world of colors so to ensure your products always attractive. So, why don’t you take a look at the site and take some sips of the colorful richness?

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I use different graphics programs such as Photoshop to edit images. But there are many occasions that requires a quick fix on a photo while I am away from my laptop. Luckily there are some online photo editing programs. The best one I have tried so far is Picnik.

How to use it? Really simple:

1.  upload  an image. You can upload an image from your computer or from flickr, myspace, picasa album, facebook etc.

2.  Now you are ready to work on it. You can change the size, color scheme, sharpness, contrast, and so on.

3. Next, you can apply different effect to the image, add text, use different stamps or forms, add frames, or go for more advanced editing tools by adjusting the curves.

4. Ready to save the final image. Well done!

Try it, and you will like it.

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