5 Mac Apps for Running a Freelance Business

To run your freelance business requires expertise in all fields of communications with clients, the complexity of the project schedule, and setting revenue expenditure. Doing all this manually would be very time consuming, and would be very easy to make mistakes - no one is perfect. Thankfully there are a few Mac applications that will help you every day to take over and to organize your freelance business.

we will focus on the following 2 areas:

• Billing or Invoicing, Accounting and scheduling / Time Tracking - Tool that can convince you to be positioned above in terms of finances and bills.
• Organizing and other equipment - Application to organize your work and speed up work using a Mac (will we write in the second part)

Billing, Accounting, and scheduling

Billings

Billings allow you to manage clients, projects and time with easy and well integrated. The timing is very good given by Billings, and the results of the report can be viewed in detail, such as how long the project can be resolved. This application also makes several claims that very variation templates with great performance and now this iPhone application is under construction.

Price: $ 39.99
Requires: Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
Manufacturer: Market Circle

Money

Money allows you to take over the finances in terms of personal and business life. The application also offers you to create budgets, invoices and delivery reports. Cover Flow is used to produce a very attractive appearance and this is a good application.

Price: $ 39
Requires: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or later
Creator: Jumsoft

OnTheJob

On The Job is the best application to manage clients and your time. The application offers a wide range of currencies, making bills automatically, customize your payment in time, fixed cost, quantity, and mileage. Very useful with a pleasant appearance.

Price: $ 39.99
Requires: OS X 10.5
Creator: Stunt Software

Billable

This application can keep you to know your client bills, and you can create and manage these bills with the application. Actually, this application has an appearance similar to other applications, but it has a cheaper price. I really liked the sign PAID after bills paid off:).

Price: $ 34.95
Requires: Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later
Creator: Clickable Bliss

iBiz

iBiz is the most expensive application in this category, but this application has many features. You can merge a document file with iBiz to track your time working on your client, this is very useful for freelancer writers. See how this application combines all your Mac-based business applications in 1 time. iBiz integrate the Spotlight, iCal, Address Book, and Automator.

Price: $ 49.99
Requires: Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
Creator: IGG Software

Swanswell's Unique Visual Identity

Swanswell is a charitable institution for the rehabilitation & alcohol counseling, based in the West Midlands, England. Founded in 1968 and developed as a large organization with over 100 employees spread across several cities in the UK. What is interesting is the concept of visual identity that is used by Swanswell. It's simple but quite unique and effective. Swanswell use a crumpled piece of paper at one end but smooth elsewhere. A metaphor used to describe a change of condition is not good (the part that is wrinkled) to be good / well (smooth part).





Swanswell Logo and visual branding concept are designed by Johnsonbanks, one of the branding agency based in London, England. This concept becomes more attractive when development and consistency is applied in a variety of visual communications media for all promotional items made by Swanswell. Some wording has also been prepared for various purposes such as promotional posters and so on.







Quite interesting isn't it? but wait, not only that! Each worker was also given a special card that was originally not wrinkled. But when it's going to be given to others, they are required to squeeze one end first.

30 Awesome Vector Face Design

Vector art is a work of art built by using elements and shapes based on curves. They are a simple form because the resulting patterns are usually flat and the coloring is not complex. The use of vector formats to create an intricate three-dimensional field such as the face will be very interesting if treated appropriately. Here, we will see the 30 works of vector face is interesting enough to pass up.

NBC Universal's New Logo

The more rigorous competition in a business segment, the greater awareness of the importance of the brand growing among the perpetrators. It's not just small companies, but also well-established companies, too shaky and immediately take action to improve the quality of their brand. Redesign of logo GAP in 2010 perhaps the most fatal since so much criticism from various parties. While the Starbucks Coffee logo change feels more neutral and acceptable despite also received criticism. And recently, NBC Universal, one of the largest television network in the world took steps are no less controversial, iconic symbol that peacock was thrown out and replaced with the logo style of typography.

NBC Universal's New Logo

NBCUniversal is an American television network, headquartered in the GE Building, Rockefeller Center, New York City. This company is a combination of two companies, namely NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment. NBCUniversal operates more than 20,000 TV channels, both in America and International.



The new logo NBCUniversal use serif fonts (legged) who pointed like copper, it seemed bold and straightforward. This logo was designed by Wolff Olins, one of the top logo designers in the world. Besides the logo, there are also changes in the name of the company, namely NBCUniversal (no spaces). Rietje Gieskes, Associate Design Director at Landor Associates spoke, related to the redesign logos NBCUniversal total also highly controversial.

"Today NBCUniversal acts as an umbrella brand for a large variety of entities. Presently, it owns a total of 41 companies, only 14 of which are associated with the NBC and Universal brands. Thus, it is logical for the corporate entity to be brand neutral and to not play favorites with the legacy properties".

As a company that has many subsidiaries, NBCUniversal safe to take steps to create a logo that is neutral and can be correlated with other divisions with great ease.



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