Cheers Nooby (if I may be so bold). I've downloaded it now and am playing around with it. Also, found free Moviemaker on MS site, so am happy bunny now.

Thanks Thorlin - I had forgot about Audacity. The last time I downloaded it a bunch of malware piggybacked its way onto my PC and crashed it just a few days before my thesis was due in. :-/ I'll give it another go.

Does anyone have any tips for a free audio editor (I 'm thinking about starting up a podcast and want to splice together audio files) and free video editor (darn Windows 8 doesn't come with Movie Maker - unless I'm being stupid). Cheers m'dears.

I'm only part-time freelance at the moment, and am really pushing myself to go full-time freelance as soon as the work picks up, because the job market here in the UK is so dicey. I've been made redundant three times in my current career (just under ten years) and I'm frankly sick of it. So 'job security' doesn't mean…

I always use this ice-breaker to get things started, except I call it the Oz effect, after Oz in Buffy, S3:

For a uneducated noob like myself, how many posts would something like gizmodo, lifehacker or boingboing put up a month? And the money comes from where, anyway? Ads and product placement?