Paymo, a multilanguage & web-based time-tracking / invoicing application is giving away "20 Lifetime Invoice Accounts" (normally $9.99/month) to WebResourcesDepot users. Before any more details on that:

What is Paymo?

Paymo is a very functional application for anyone (whether you're a "one-man-army" or a "team that works on same/different projects") for tracking the time that is worked on projects>tasks, analyze that time & bill your clients accordingly.

How does it work?

Users:

First thing to do is creating users (the application is totally free for up to 3 users). Considering every user may have different conditions, it is possible to set variables like workday length, timezone, week start day, etc for every user.

Clients:

It is necessary to define clients (this can be yourself for your own projects) in order to create the projects. This info is also used in the invoices.

Projects > Tasks:

That's the heart of the application, yet very simple to define & use.

Projects can be created by defining the details like: the client, budget hours, price per hour & users that will work in the project. After that, tasks can be created which are the main things that the application tracks the time of.

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It is easy to guess that most of the web designers/developers are not the fans of Microsoft.

On the other hand, lately, they are frequently creating interesting stuff for the community like the Web Platform, Expression Web SuperPreview & now WebsiteSpark.

WebsiteSpark is not a software, rather, it is a program that targets small web design companies & offers them valuable softwares to ignite their businesses.

The program has no upfront costs for 3 years & requires various amounts of payments depending on the products you want to use after that period. Also, you can quit the program anytime by only paying a $100 fee which is still acceptible.

The softwares included are:

Last week, a post at WRD was announcing the giveaway of 5 Fanurio time tracking & billing software licenses ($59 value / license). The winners are selected & can be found at the bottom of the post. But before that, to remind:

What is Fanurio?

Fanurio is a beautiful software with an intuitive interface for easily tracking time that is spent on projects & billing them accordingly.

It is possible to define projects & sub-tasks. Then, the time worked on the projects can be tracked manually or with the help of a timer.

For teams, everyone can install Fanurio to their computers, track the time and export/import reports easily.

Create the invoices

From the moment you get a new contract until you are paid in full, Fanurio offers you the right tools to manage and bill all your work down to the penny.

It covers almost any billing feature you may need like rounding time "up, down or to the nearest specified interval" or applying discounts & more.

Analyze the performance

Fanurio helps analyzing the perfomance with the reports it generates:

• payments: see all your open, un-paid invoices
• timesheet: time recorded on a certain period, by project or client
• project reports: howmuch money you made, howmuch money is unpaid, etc.

Also, reports can be exported to CSV or Excel for further analysis.

Fanurio works on Windows, Mac or Linux & doesn’t require purchasing new licenses when switching OSs.

And, the winners:

Here they are:

• Matt (comment #75715)
• Pritish Nandi (comment #75810)
• christian (comment #77066)
• GeeniUss (comment #75715)
• paul rostorp (comment #76381)

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone for joining this giveaway.

Fanurio, a flexible time tracking & billing software which is specially built for freelancers in mind, is giving away 5 licenses ($59 value / license) to WebResourcesDepot readers.

Details on "how to winning them" can be found at the bottom of the post. But before that:

What is Fanurio?

It is a well-thought software, with an intuitive interface, which can track the time that is worked on a project & help billing that job with almost no effort.

Track your time

The software enables you to define projects & sub-tasks. Then, the time worked on the projects can be tracked manually or with the help of a timer which also has a few reminders to help you start, resume or stop it automatically.

For teams, everyone can install Fanurio to their computers, track the time and export/import reports easily.

Create the invoices

From the moment you get a new contract until you are paid in full, Fanurio offers you the right tools to manage and bill all your work down to the penny.

It covers almost any billing feature you may need like:

• when billing by the hour, you can round time "up, down or to the nearest specified interval"
• apply discounts as a percentage or as a fixed value
• price and units can be entered using two or three decimals for a better accuracy
• for working with foreign clients, it can handle multiple currencies

If you are subcontracting some of your work or if you are reselling some goods, you can also enter the purchase cost to know exactly how much you are making. Also, any other item like expenses for a project can be mentioned as well.

Unlimited number of taxes can be defined & certain clients can be marked as tax exempt.

You can see a snapshot of the invoices (which ones are paid, unpaid or overdue) instantly. For unpaid invoices, you can see how much was paid and the remaining balance.

Any type of custom invoice designs can be created & if desired, it can auto-number the invoices when creating them.

Analyze the performance

Fanurio helps analyzing the perfomance with the reports it generates:

• timesheet: time recorded on a certain period, by project or client
• project reports: howmuch money you made, howmuch money is unpaid, etc.

Also, reports can be exported to CSV or Excel for further analysis.

Fanurio works on Windows, Mac or Linux & doesn’t require purchasing new licenses when switching OSs.

How to win the licenses?

Commenting to this post is enough to join the giveaway & winners will be selected randomly via the query below on 23 September 2009 (1 week later).

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=1166 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 5

Good luck to all : ).

P.S. You can evaluate the product by downloading the trial version.

For every web designer & developer, refreshing the browsers to see the updates we make is a very common action.

XRefresh is a solution, specifically built for easing this process, which automatically refreshes browsers once an update to a file in our project folder is done.

It comes with 2 parts: a browser plugin (both for Firefox & IE) and an application (for Windows & Mac) which watches the changes made in the folders we mentioned.

Although it is handy for systems with one monitor, the best environment will probably be two monitors where the IDE & the browsers runs on each.

P.S. For Firefox, it requires Firebug to be installed.

Mozilla Prism (previously known as WebRunner) is an application that enables users to run web applications directly on their desktop. And, for developers, offers ways to make them act like desktop applications.

It is a very easy-to-use tool that simply asks you which URL to wrap, whether to sit on the system-tray and creates a shortcut for the new application. Once clicked, the URL mentioned runs in a desktop application.

With the help of a scripting support, developers can add events to their web applications to trigger actions like displaying system-tray notifications or popups.

It allows you to style (overwrite the default styles) the web application via CSS.

Prism also offers more customization options like enabling you to choose the icon for the application to be created, whether the navigation bar or navigation keys will be displayed & more.

It comes in two flavors:

• as a Firefox extension
• as a desktop application

Prism can run both on Windows & Mac OS X.

JPEGSnoop is a free application (Windows) that gives you details of JPEG and MotionJPEG AVI files.

It is for anyone who is curious in finding out the source of an image to test its authenticity.

The application can open various file types that contains an embedded JPEG image like: .JPG, .AVI, .MOV, .PDF & more.

Besides the authenticity, JPEGSnoop provides other detailed information about the images like:

• JPEG quality & resolution
• EXIF metadata
• Makernotes
• RGB histograms & more..

LightScreen is a free screenshot tool that makes taking screenshots easier.

It can run at the background, can be called via hotkeys and enables you to take a screenshot of:

• the screen
• the window
• a selected area

The image format, quality, how it will be named & where it will be saved can be pre-defined.

And, once the screenshot is saved, it can notify you with a "tray icon popup" or a sound.

P.S. It only works in Windows OSs.

AdesClrPicker is a free color picker application which runs at the background of your PC & offers you a great usage.

It can be reached via 3 ways:

• A hotkey
• Optional floating menu (good for frequent users)
• System tray menu

Once the color picker is run, it floats over every application. So, you can easily get colors from webpages, desktop or anywhere on your PC.

Just left-click your mouse & the color choosen is on your clipboard, simply paste it (possibly to your fav. image editor). And, you can reach the last 10 colors picked from the system tray.

There is also a color library within the application where you can manage your favorite colors.

All these features come with a lightweight application. Just great!

P.S. Thanks to Abdylas for the suggestion.

Server Supervisor, a software (with a web-based interface) for monitoring performance / availability of networks & websites, is giving away 3 licenses ($200/license value) to WebResourcesDepot readers.

Details of the giveaway can be found at the bottom of the post.

What is Server Supervisor?

It is a software, which can be managed from an easy to use & beautiful web interface (built with Flex), to monitor any network & website for minimum downtime.

Resources to be monitored includes:

• Ping, connect, DNS
• HTTP, HTTP Content, HTTP Transaction, IIS Status, Apache Status, Process
• MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle
• FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP
• CPU, Free memory, Page file, Free disk space, Network usage, File system (via WMI and SNMP protocols)

There is a smart "action upon problem detection" logic behind the software. When a failure is detected, notifications can be sent, any applications can be launched (for fixing the problem) & other monitors can be enabled-disabled.

The levels of failures can be configured for each monitored resource & notifications can be sent to email, SMS and instant messengers (ICQ, Yahoo and MSN).

With a built-in database, Server Supervisor keeps all the logs it generates & presents them with a powerful statistics analysis component which enables you to generate custom reports & get them to your e-mail periodically.

A 14 day free trial is offered at the products website. So, you can easily give the software a try.

Info: The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server 2008.

How to win the free licenses?

Commenting to this post is enough to join this giveaway & winners will be selected randomly via the query below on 1 December 2008 (1 week later).

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=649 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 10

Good luck to all : ).

P.S. This is a sponsored post.