This infographic compares the most important project management software applications and guides you through your decision making process.

See how they perform in terms of size, popularity, social media presence, mobility, ease of integration and trust factor.

It has always been very rewarding to see people finding and getting benefit of open source resources every day. And we are hopeful that this website would expand even further and contribute to the development and promotion of open source. We are also thankful to our friends, fans and contributors for helping us grow from a small website to the size that we have achieved.

As a recognition of our efforts, Greepit has been nominated as Best Technology Blog for Pakistan Blog Awards. We would like to request you to vote for us here (No login / signup required, visit and rate).

Users can cast vote by rating stars as shown in the screenshot above. Show your love by good ratings and some nice comments.

The inspiration for this pose came from observation that most of the freelancers (very talented and creative) tend to work as ‘invisible professionals’ who deliver a lot of superb work but forget to establish their own identity. Ideas shared in this post are for all those modest freelancers to help them grow professionally and established their identity as visionaries, entrepreneurs and creative individuals; not just as ghost developers.

#1 Build your own product(s) – Since you have all the skills to design and develop creative products, why not build one for yourself. Who knows you could be the next Zuckerberg?

#2 Make full use of social media – While you work solo in your attic room, perhaps the only window that opens towards the outside world in the social media that keeps you connected with your friends. Why not use it to establish your identity as independent professional? There are 101 ways to market yourself on facebook, twitter, Linkedin etc.

#3 Share your knowledge – The knowledge and skills that you have acquired while working on several projects is definitely an asset. Why not share it with other? You can start a personal blog to share your knowledge. It could contain anything like short articles on the latest trends in the industry to video tutorials and useful code snippets. This would also help you establish your online identity. For inspirations and ideas, see Shahbaz’s blog.

#4 Review scrap, contribute to the open source – Freelancers often produce a lot of stuff (small applications, UI prototypes, plugins etc.) for their personal learning. Most of this stuff remains buried and gets deleted someday. Why not take some time, review all that stuff, modify it and contribute to the open source world?

#5 Manage your finances – Learn to manage your finances. Get rid of spreadsheets and manual invoices. Get hold of some invoicing application (there are a lot of free invoicing software available online) and start managing your invoices professionally. Also make it a habit to review your finances (credit and debit) occasionally to stay updated on your expenses, income, savings, liabilities, and profit.

#6 Improve soft skills – No matter how skilled you are in your profession, you must have good skills of communication, negotiation, dispute resolution, and people management to success as freelancer. Resolve to improve and learn these skills.

#7 Update your portfolio – If you have a portfolio online, you must keep it updated with the latest work. Also get testimonials and publish them online. If you do not have an online portfolio, get one as soon as possible. No marketing effort, awesome business proposal or killer pitch would be complete without some real samples of your work.

Future of Web Design

First thing first, the much awaited Future of Web Design Conference 2011 is going to commence on May 16^th. This is going to be an eventful conference with three days of workshops and technical sessions on HTML5, CCS3, web design, creativity and a lot of exciting ideas for designers, developers, startups and entrepreneurs. You would also get a chance to talk to gurus like Jeffrey Veen, the founder of Typekit, Aarron Walter, the user experience lead of MailChimp and many others. If you are in London, register today to confirm your booking.

Past, Present, and Future of User Experience

Cennydd Bowles has written a detailed post on the fall and rise of user experience. It is a long long long article but really worth reading. Cennydd has explored past, present and future of the practice and occupation of user experience and information architecture.

Crowd Sourcing for Winning Products

Also check out Waqas Mughal’s thoughts on crowd sourcing for changing consumer behavior, and designing/ branding products.

Free Image Gallery Style WordPress Theme

Finally, have a look at MyPhoto – an image gallery style wordpress theme. It is elegant, lightweight yet powerful enough to handle a large portfolio/photography site.  MyPhoto wordpress theme is released under GPL license.

If you are relying on traditional methods like word of mouth, social networking, emails etc., simple mathematics will tell you that you are converting only a fraction of your audience into your customers. (Just compare your facebook fans or Twitter followers with the number of new customers).

Fortunately, there are a number of ways small businesses or solo professionals can advertise their products or services without having to hit their pockets – take the example of Quick Response (QR) Codes. Initially used in automobile manufacturing, QR codes are gaining popularity as an effective medium for advertisement and brand promotion.

Marketing yourself with QR codes is easy, quick and simple. All you have to do is create a free QR code and place it at all interesting places – elevators, bus stops, conferences, business cards, blogs, websites, avatars, display picture etc. Your audience would need a smart phone with a tiny QR reader application to read your message and trace back to your website.

Intrigued? Scan this QR code and get 25% discount on technical writing services from one of our associates. Don’t have a QR reader? Use online QR reader and scan http://goo.gl/f2DIf

To begin marketing your services, product or brand, you can experiment with QR codes one of the following creative ways:

• Go Viral with your Resume
  Use your QR code as mini resume to direct people to your Linkedin profile, VisualCV, or online resume
• Show your Portfolio
  Add QR code to your business card, online resume, facebook profile, twitter
  picture and personal avatar on forums to drive traffic to your personal portfolio
• Get Customers
  Publish QR code at conferences, meet ups, elevators etc. to offer exclusive discounts
• Offer Special Downloads
  Drive more customers and loyal visitors to your websites by offering exclusive downloads via QR code
• Advertise within Budget
  Advertise your QR code in limited spaces to save budget
• Promote Your Brand
  Put your QR code on your vehicle allowing people in parking lot to get in touch with you
• Instant Contact Card
  Offer QR code at your website, personal blog or product page that people can scan and save your contact information in phone book/address book
• Get a Link Back
  Distribute freebies (wallpapers, digital illustrations, photos etc.) or commercial publications (brochure, booklet, flyers, user manuals etc.) with your QR code that provides link to your website, portfolio or blog
• Offer Professional Services
  Promote your professional services by offering promo codes via QR codes

Google +1 service gathers all this data (popularity, favorites/likes) to recommend useful and related links to website visitors. For instance, you are searching for a Chinese recipe on Google and get top rated Chinese recipes recommended by people in your network in search results. Take another example, you are browsing through an online furniture store and see links to useful products and related online stores recommended by people via Google +1 service.

Quite good for Web surfers but what is in it for website owners and bloggers?

With Google +1 service enabled on your website, visitors can trust your products/services because they are recommended by people; this could give a serious boost to your sales. Visitors can also get useful and quality links; the result is a better online experience and more visitors coming back to your websites.

Interesting? Try it yourself and leave your comments here about your experience with Google +1.

Written in PHP 5, PHP Utility Framework (PUF) aims to become the “go to” framework for all of those functions that you commonly use in apps but can never find because you’ve forgotten to add it to your snippet collection.

This is the time when season is changing in our part of the world. The scorching summer sun is now spreading its kind warmth over soothing breeze of autumn, leaves are changing their hues, and roses and anemones are going to bloom all around – what a perfect time for a bountiful party.

This year Greepit is inviting its fans to an eventful gala. While the birthday approaches, Greepit team is working hard to prepare a lot of goodies and giveaways for you. Intrigued?

Here are a few highlights:

• Huge collection of free and unique icons sets that you won’t find anywhere else
• Free, useful, handy original and highly customizable scripts and tools
• Free reviews of your website, logo, portfolio, blog, graphic work etc.; selected works would be featured on Greepit and its partner sites
• Free reviews of your documents (user manuals, brochures etc.) by professional technical writers; qualified entries would be eligible for FREE re-write
• Free reviews/re-write of your resume, personal profile or artist statement by a team of professional writers
• Free jQuery based Admin Template
• And many Giveaways and Freebies!

While we are preparing these FREE goodies for you, take a sneak preview of the whole new design of Greepit http://greepit.com/v2.

Blogs can be used for many things like updating your friends and family about your life, giving your own advice column, discussing your political views, or relating your experience in a topic of interest.

Its very easy to setup a Blogger account:

1- Create an account

2- Name your blog

3- Choose a template

There are many templates offered by Blogger and many other companies / individuals / bloggers are offering free and premium blogger templates. Today, Greepit is sharing a list of sites that offers Professional Blogger Templates for free.

The Blog Templates

Blog Crowds

Blog and Web

Blogger Buster

Deluxe Templates

BTemplates

BloggerTemplatesFree

bie-templates

Blogger Blog Templates

Blogger Styles

eBlog Templates

Blogger Tricks

Templates Block

Free Blogger Templates – ipietoon

Quite Random

Blogger Templates

Fresh Blogger Templates

Yummy Lolly

The demos show how the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser, new Macs, and new Apple mobile devices all support the capabilities of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Not all browsers offer this support.

HTML5 demos include:

• Interactive Implementation of Web Typography
• Horizontal / Vertical Web Image Gallery
• Photo Transitions
• HTML5 Audio implementation
• 360 Product Views
• Sticky Notes
• Offline Calendar

Apple also hosted a Dev center for developers to learn how to create such effects and an excellent library of source codes that you can build, modify, and execute to explore how to accomplish specific tasks with Apple technologies.