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As a designer I often have to look at how to maximize my time while increasing my earning potential. Sometimes this means purchasing a template. Themeforests has a great collection of templates and I want to share 10 PSD portfolio templates that cost under $10.

1.OnePage



2.Website Template



3.Darkblue

As a freelancer / small business owner time is everything! For a long time I've been using Kronos to keep track of jobs I do, the total time and the cost of the job. Kronos is not bad but I've always wanted a way to export my data and change the currency from € to $.

The developers of MAMP have an application the call TimeEdit. Though I've been using MAMP for a while but it never occured to me to try TimeEdit until now.

TimeEdit is great! It helps to streamline my workflow and to be more effective. With TimeEdit I can add clients, regular tasks and attach my hourly rate to each task. As if that wasn't enough, I can TimeEdit it to my Google Calendar or iCal and once I've completed a task it makes an entry into the calendar.

At the end of each month I can look at a report showing how many hours I've worked and how much I should have earned. I can also export the data as a Microsoft Excel file.

TimeEdit has tons more features to make job tracking easier. It works on both Windows and Mac OS. I love this application because it doesn't require internet access and the best thing of all is that TimeEdit is FREE.

Have you downloaded PocketSite? What's your feedback? Let me know what you think...

My wife and recently registered our business, The Gist, and I started working on our portfolio using WordPress. Somehow the theme doesn't fit our image, and I'm back at the drawing board.

I thought about selling the theme on ThemeForest but instead I'll make it available for free. That's right I said free!


The name of the theme is Gistfolio. I like the fact that it uses a lightbox to display the projects, adds a 'new' ribbon on projects with the new tag and adds icons to highlight the apps I use on each project.

You can download and tell me what you think. Enjoy!

Download: Gistfolio