Smartlife

People ignore some Smartlife advice because it messes with their established patterns, even though the whole point of staying alive is to make tomorrow better than today. Some advice seems like too much work, even though it saves time and energy in the longer run. And sometimes, just sometimes, the advice simply seems too good to be true: an excuse to indulge under the guise of efficiency. This is one such time. Buying a second monitor isn’t an obscene luxury or a greedy gadget grab; it really can improve your…

To give a naturally personable and approachable feel to your marketing efforts, it can be valuable to make use of cartoons and cartoon-like visuals. This can be very effective both online and offline, making good use of humor and caricacture to lighten the mood. However, most people are not very skilled in this style of illustration.

Thankfully, just as there are freelance writers who specialize in different types of written content, there are artists who are cartooning experts. They can be great for the creation of mascots, single-frame comics, and…

If you’ve got a design project in mind, going directly to a freelancer is often the best choice. While other options, such as crowdsourcing, are available, a good freelancer will be able to work with the ideas you have for your project and can meet the exact specifications you need. Furthermore, the act of choosing a freelance designer and the tasks that go with it can help you clarify what you want from you project — just looking through a portfolio can offer a wealth of ideas.…