Google Images Creative Commons Licenses Online sports betting is more popular today than it was this time just 12 months ago. Following the removal of the blanket ban in the United States, the easing of gambling restrictions in Canada and the continued success of sportsbook wagering in the United Kindom, it’s a thriving business. Millions of bets are placed across the world every week, with horse...
The advancements in the field of technology over the years have enabled companies to run their business without any boundaries of space and time. Today, customers can easily buy insurance, smartphones, other types of products and services online. On the other hand, retailers can reach potential customers, who are living in different parts of the world. The increasing dependence on the...
Source: Photo Many people have a love/hate relationship with the internet, but there’s no denying that it can have a tremendously positive impact on a person’s life when used correctly. Take personal finances, for instance. While you’ll have to fork out the cash for a laptop and internet connection, once you’ve done so, you’ll be in a strong position to greatly improve your financial landscape...
SOURCE: Photo When it comes to data extraction and digitising real-world documentation or imagery on your desktop computer, there is a much easier and quicker way than using an old-school scanner. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology has rapidly proven to be an effective B2B and B2C solution for converting data into a machine-readable format. This is particularly beneficial for those...
Reinstalling Windows can be considered a last resort option in cases where you cannot diagnose the root of a problem in the OS. It can be dreadful to try this process yourself if you don’t have a good idea about it initially. If you’ve been wondering how to reinstall Windows, you’ll be glad to know that the methods to do so are quite simple, and depend on the user’s requirements. In this...
An effective Windows 10 antivirus program will protect your device from harmful malware, phishing scams, and ransomware. Some of these antivirus programs even provide a firewall to reinforce the already existing ones in your computer. The Importance of an Antivirus Program To understand how an antivirus program is essential, we first need to understand what viruses do to your computer. Some of...
Cookies are simply the bits of data created each time one visits a site on the internet. They play a vital role in remembering user-specific data such as logins, shopping cart items, and visited pages, thus making it easier to open said pages in the future. Thanks to this data, websites can “remember” us and make our browsing experience easier and more convenient. Why Clearing Cookies on Your...
As a web developer, I have come across websites that performed very poorly in terms of loading speed. The main reason being they had too many unoptimized images. Generally, images have to be optimized through resizing and compression to save bandwidth both for the webserver and viewer. Thanks to advancements in image compression, we now have image formats such as webp which require very less...
Those coming from WordPress will be very much familiar with the term slug. For those who are new, Slug is the part of the URL that comes after the domain name. The slug provides a unique identity to any page on a website. On content management systems like WordPress, the slug is automatically generated from the title. Slugs play an important role in search engine optimization. A well-optimized...
Laravel is built with security in mind and hence it comes with a lot of built-in security features. One of these major security features is cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection. The csrf vulnerability allows anyone to imitate forms on a site and make forged requests to modify or retrieve data. Laravel generates a csrf token for every user session. Using the csrf token, laravel can...
I have been using Nginx as the preferred web server for most of my web projects. It is very efficient than apache, which I used initially for my projects. It didn’t take long to find out the limitations of apache as the traffic grew. After spending some time researching solutions, eventually, I came across Nginx. Its performance and efficiency simply amazed me. If we compare two separate...
When connecting remotely to a Linux server, all the processes or scripts started by you through the terminal run as long as you are connected to the server. As soon as you close the terminal, the processes started by you will get terminated. I faced this issue when I was new to Linux servers. The naive me ran scripts through cronjobs and the issue was temporarily sorted out for me. It did...
