Smartlife

One of the founding Smartlife principles is that you should never have to do anything twice — the computer should be able to do it for you. The Internet has extended this awesome idea, brilliantly declaring that nobody should do anything a second time. By engaging crowdsourcing, thousands of everyday tasks have been taken online, from your personal party checklist to building bits of your business.

Familiarizing yourself with these resources takes a small-time investment but the payback is incredible. Never again do you need to start with a blank…

Google has greatly expanded beyond its core search engine to offer a wide range of free online services. Easily one of the most popular of these is Gmail, the ubiquitous web-based email client that comes with loads of storage and the ability to handle multiple email accounts.

As powerful as Gmail may be on its own, the “crazy experimental stuff” being doctored up through Gmail Labs can greatly expand on this functionality and help to improve your productivity. This applies not only to the work setting, but also when it…

A creative brief is the fastest way to communicate with a freelancer just how you want a project completed. It outlines the final product you expect, ensuring that you and the creatives you’re working with wind up on the same page. It can take a little time to put together a thorough creative brief, but the effort pays off in the time you’ll save explaining the style of copy you want to a writer or the feel and look of a website you expect from a designer.

It’s not hard to find a resume writer to work with — but if you’re interested in working with a writer who doesn’t work with a big resume service that requires a certain sameness in every resume they turn out, your search can be much longer. The resume writers below offer high-quality work and will devote the time necessary to make your resume stand out.

As a follow up to the first 50 freelance writers we listed whom you can outsource blog content to, we have another 50 — who were recommended by freelance writers themselves. Between these two lists, you can find a writer ready to blog on just about any topic you’ve been writing on yourself. These writers can help you provide quality content to the readers of your blog, and eliminate the worry and stress of having to keep up with a busy posting schedule on your own.

The very first message on the Internet was “Lo.” The second was a list of 10,000 lawyer jokes. The first was an attempt to “Login” to a system that would help mankind be more productive than ever before. The second was the opposite, and consisted of jokes that would be booed off the stage at a Christmas cracker convention MC’ed by Carlos Mencia. You know that because you got it, too: it’s circled the Earth enough times to reverse the planet’s rotation, had more forwards than the entire NBA, and even now no-one has ever actually read the whole thing.