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Deal with Nightmare Clients Without Killing Them!
Freelancing offers unlimited amounts of freedom and flexibility in your working whilst allowing you to spend more time with your family or to do the things you love. However, freelancing is far from the life of riley and if projects are hard to come by then you may find yourself working on projects with clients that strain your patience and make unreasonable demands on you.
In the current economic climate freelancers are sometimes not in a strong enough financial position to just say no to a client and walk away. So how can they work with nightmare clients more effectively to reduce the strain and maintain their sanity?
Great video: Timeframes VS creativity
A great video and a nice experiment, give some time to an artist and he will turn a simple task into a masterpiece, but please, give him sometime ;)
The internet explained for 4 year old kids
Yesterday, after receiving the question that every parent is afraid of, I spent 40 minutes explaining the answer to my 4 year old daughter Nathalie, the answer to the fateful question: Hey Dad, what’s the internet?.
Through many drawings and simple explanations, I was able to make her understand (and I asked her several questions to double check it), once I told about my success on Google Plus, many people asked me to share both the explanation and the drawings and so, here they are.
Before I started discussing computers, digital content and data transfer, I began with a simple example.
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Interview to a Photoshop user who actually bought a license, yes, a license!
As everyone knows, Photoshop is a graphic software used by hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, or even billions of people. But practically all of them own a pirate versions of the program: There are only 3 documented cases worldwide of people who have purchased a license. It was long believed that, in fact they were 4, but Adobe finally confirmed at a press conference that they have only 3 different names at their records, although it is possible that some of them have purchased two licenses, that’s something that has not been confirmed or denied until this date.
Photoshop CS5, program recently awarded by the specialized press with the award “Program with the worst rhyme over the last 20 years”.