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Jan

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2016

Muhammad Haris – Pakistani Freelancer Sells $1 Million Worth of Items Online

Muhammad Haris, a developer based out of Karachi, and his teammate has sold over $1,000,000 (that’s 1 million in US dollars) worth of items on Envato a.k.a Themeforest, a marketplace for WordPress themes. Haris, primarily a coder, made this lot of money through a WordPress theme called Avada. We remember Haris from 2008-09 when he used to freelance wordpress development work, mainly the plugins. Haris says that he started his career as a freelancer and is still contented with his work-style and the returns. After early days of solo work, Haris teamed up with Luke, a designer from US, and…

Jan

10

2016

Hisham Sarwar – A Freelancer With Over $1 Million in Earnings

Freelancing as a career has really taken off in Pakistan. Most people in development, designing, content and countless other fields augment their monthly earnings with freelancing. The reasons are quite apparent. It’s working on what you choose at your own schedule and that too for fair recompense. However, you still don’t run into people who’ve earned more than $1 million in freelancing. Today, we get to meet Hisham Sarwar, who’s done exactly that. Hisham’s story is also interesting because he’s managed to successfully translate his earnings into a successful entrepreneurial career. Starting out with a regular job at a US…

Jan

10

2016

Reasons Why Internet in Pakistan Sucks

1 – The Government Keeps Taxing The Internet Affordable internet means a stimulated economy, empowered citizens and more pictures of cats. But try telling that to the government. In the last 12 months, we’ve seen an increasing number of taxes being added on internet in Pakistan. Whether it’s a 14% advanced witholding tax or a 19.5% data tax on 3G/4G, the dream of affordable internet for the masses keeps slipping further away. 2- Data Limits on Most Packages Did you know that if you exceed 300GB data on your PTCL broadband connection below 8mbps, you get charged a flat Rs.…

Jan

10

2016

Foods for Strong and healthy joints

Garlic and Onion Almonds Sunflower Seeds Pineapples Papayas Citrus Fruits Coconut Oil Olive Oil Turmeric Ginger Ref: healthdigezt

Jan

10

2016

Tips For Creating The Most Killer Viral Gallery Content

Boom! You created the world’s next big viral content site. You have a great name, solid content, and enough server bandwidth to support the entire population of North America viewing your site concurrently. However, you don’t know how to structure your content pages for maximum user engagement. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and while we don’t know how accurate that statement is, we do know that content featuring impactful images garners at least 30% more shares on social media than those without images. Gallery or slideshow pages are a great way to display image-driven content and…

Jan

10

2016

iPhone 7 May Get Tech To Heal And Fix Itself During the Night

Apple patents auto-healing tech which will allow iPhone 7 heal itself during night Apple has been awarded patent technology for the iPhone that detects when you’re not using it and automatically cleans or fixes itself. The patent filed w