Like any skilled freelancer, you should always be aware of what you can have in your toolbox to use on your current and future projects.

How many times has a client or colleague asked ‘Do you know how to do this?’. You can confidently reply with a firm ‘Yes!’ more often the case. As a front end developer creating smooth interactions and event handling are possible to achieve quite rapidly with Jquery.

“jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development”

If you haven’t already used it, or even if you have – below are three of the most comprehensive lists of Jquery Tutorials and Examples that I’ve seen, in a kind of Smashing Magazine ‘ultimate’ list way:

1. 50 amazing jquery examples
   
2. 51 best of jquery tutorials and examples
3. Ajaxrain.com

There are other links that are just as useful for other web code and services on our delicious account.

Should we add any other resources for jquery here, tell us below?

Possibly what every person that works full-time realises after they return back from work after a long break is ‘I must take more breaks, and give myself time to relax’

Relaxing is a time to reflect. When you are away from your professional environment you will find that burdens are not so troublesome.

So, get out into the daylight, go cycling, go to visit the sea, go and walk up a mountain, go to a concert, a non-techy event. Doing one of these or all of them results in broadening your horizons and enriching your life..

‘In this age of mobile phones, cybercafes, wifi and satellite links its harder than ever to escape, and live life off-line’

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Everyone has a list of essential applications for their Mac.

And to emphasize the “Free” in freelancer most of these that I’ve listed cost nothing, or at least free for the standard version.

If you’ve just got yourself a new Mac and totally clueless what to install, or if you are looking for alternatives for some applications you are currently using in your Mac, the following list might come in handy as a useful reference guide.

• Daily essential Mac Apps from Remy Sharp
• Open Source Mac
• 100 free useful applications for mac part 1

Some of these apps have been converted to iPhone apps to, which can work seamlessly with cloud based services.