Envato Marketplace - Awesome tools for your site

Today I will introduce with you about a great marketplace - Envato. It is a collection of 5 different websites - FlashDen, AudioJungle, ThemeForest, VideoHive, GraphicRiver. Each of these websites contains a large collection of professional & awesome tools.

The exciting thing about the marketplace is, you can get these tools by an unbelievable low price. Can you imagine a graphics/logo at $1 or a beautiful website template by only $5!!! It is really a brilliant idea and for me, it is a time saving opportunity. I am a programmer and I have no time to design a website template for my client. Even for a small budget project I can afford this $5 for buying a website template.

Here are short descriptions of these websites -

GraphicRiver
Layered Photoshop, Vectors, Icons and Add-ons


Theme Forest
Site Templates and Themes


FlashDen
Flash Componenets


VideoHive
After Effects Projects and Loops


AudioJungle
Music Loops & Sound Effects



Share your experience about these marketplaces. I am excited read your feedbacks.

Street Gamers Network

Last 6 months I was so busy with my website development team, I did not able to write a single article in my blogs. During this period we developed lots of websites for my various clients. But for the first time we are developing a website for our own business.

Let me introduce, Street Gamers Network. It is a flash gaming site of almost 5000 games. We did not developed all those games. www.mochiads.com provides us these quality games.

Right now we are in Beta phase of this site. You can play any games anytime without any cost. We are planning to introduct more features very soon to make this site as a true network of online gamers. We will also change site template & design a cool logo to make this site more attractive.

Here you to: www.StreetGamers.Net

Let me know your suggestions to improve this site.

Freelance Fest - Forum For Freelancers

Few days ago we have setup a new forum for all kind of online freelancers - Freelance Fest. Join the forum now and build up your community with world wide freelancers.

Site address: http://www.freelancefest.com

Before start, let's have a look into freelancer, freelancing & freelance marketplace. According to wikipedia,

A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer.

Fields where freelancing is especially common include journalism and other forms of writing, copywriting, computer programming and graphic design, consulting, and many other professional and creative services.

Freelance marketplaces (or outsourcing marketplaces) are websites that match buyers and sellers of internet-provided services. Buyers and sellers of these services each setup profiles on the marketplace website. Seller profiles provide a description of the range of services offered, sample materials, rates, and details about the provider. Buyer profiles include descriptions and specifications of the work sought. Buyers and sellers are able to rate each other and provide positive and negative references/feedback.

How to start:
At first browse different freelance marketplaces and try to understand their system, rules and project types. Then choose 2 or 3 sites and place your bids. Once you win a project, continue with that freelancing site and focus on improving your ranking and rating on that site.

Freelance marketplaces or sites are almost similar to each other. But everyone has their own features. In my experience, once you will feel comfort in a freelancing site and will get good amount of projects then you will not able to get projects from different freelancing site. So at the very beginning of your freelancing career browse as many sites as you can and then focus on one site.

Open Source Living

As a windows user, you may think that is it possible to depend completely on Open Source Software? The answer is - absolutely! But how? Well, to find out how it is possible, check this site - www.osliving.com. This site is an excellent archive of open source resources both for window & linux users. It listed all necessary softwares that we need for everyday living.Here are all categories found in this site. Click any link to view open source softwares:

• Web++ » web browsers, RSS readers, email Clients, operating systems
  
• Graphics & Photo » photo editing, vector graphics, 3D modeling
• Video » media players, video editing, screencasts, DVD ripping & burning
• Audio » audio players, podcasting, recording, MP3 & audio tools
• Documents » word & office suites, note taking, personal finance
• Content Management » blogging, portals, forums, wiki, e-learning
• File Transfer » peer to peer, IRC, chat clients , file sharing & hosting
  
• Web Dev » MySQL & PHP, web dev references, Source code editors , flash
• Entertainment » games, screensavers, stars and planetarium software
• Miscellaneous » archiving, security, map tools, graph plotter, tracker

Don't click it

Tired by clicking with mouse? Let me introduce a new idea - Dontclick.it. Yes, you don't need to click anything in that site but only once to view its actions. The interesting thing is you will now find any button in this interface. Just move your mouse pointer over a link to view its action. But if you click anything then you will show you an error message:

The site is designed with Flash & very much attractive to browse with an on-screen hand. While browsing a popup message will appear and ask you "Do you miss the click?". Move your pointer over Yes or No and submit your vote.

At the top of the site you will find four menu items - Understand, Learn, Explore & Communicate.

1. Understand Menu
• The Story - In this section you will find information about why this new interface is invented.
• The Mousewrap - It is will be very hard to quite mouse click habit. In this section you will find a solution to leave this habit with mousewrap :D
• The Statistics - Here you will find statistics about how much vote is placed and number of visitors site visitors.
2. Learn
• The Click History - Here you will find a timeline view of history of computers & clicks.
• The Click Ergonomy - You will learn here why your body is involved in this interface.
• The Commercial Clicks - Here you will learn how people become richer by clicking an ad.
3. Explore
• The Button Lab - In this section you will explore their experiments replacing the clicks with different mechanism. Here you will also find out the benefits and drawbacks that come along with these techniques.
• The Autopilot - This section is interesting. Here you will show animations about how other visitors interact with this interface.
• The Mousecamp - Here you can improve your without click habit by three level exercising.
  
4. Communicate
• The Crowdshout - Leave your message about the interface here.
• The Links - Links of websites and portals that helped in developing this project.
• The Contact - You can contact with them from here.

Funny Flash Clock

StumbleUpon is amazing. It gives me all great sites of my interest. While surfing net with StumbleUpon toolbar I've just got this clock. I never viewed this type of funny thing before, lol. Definitely you will like it. Click this link and check by yourself. The clock is created with flash and all images are taken from this link.