Recently, I needed to access some important information from a web page which was down. Actually, the whole site was down as the domain owner had forgotten to renew the domain. Things like this have happened very rarely in my experience. But its an frustrating experience when you come across an important piece of information not to be found anywhere except on the web page which is down. Websites...
A few years down the memory lane, there were lots of freeware and open source screen recording tools available for windows. Today most of the free screen recording tools for windows are available as a free limited trial. One has to pay for these to be able to make use of all the features. Most screen recording tools are offered as trial-ware, limit the duration of screen recording or add a logo...
Many industries around the world can be described as fast moving and always wanting to go forward. Amongst those is certainly the betting industry. What helps bookmakers is the fact that the industry is hugely competitive. If you want to place a bet, there are many bookmakers out there who are all waiting to take your wagers. They all have to do something to stand out from the crowd, and this is...
WordPress now displays a “PHP update required” warning on the dashboard if the PHP installation is not up to date. I saw the same warning in the WordPress dashboard for one of my sites. The site has been running PHP 7.2 for more than a year and it was only recently i saw the warning for the first time. Coincidentally, the site had also been down in performance for a few months. So I...
Recently I started receiving notifications in the google webmaster tools dashboard regarding slow loading time of some of the pages on my blog. The blog was running on WordPress on a Ubuntu with Apache as the server. On my end, most pages were loading fine with a average loading time of 2-3 seconds. In order to increase the performance, I switched the web server from Apache to Nginx. It did bring...
SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1075 Incorrect table definition; there can be only one auto column and it must be defined as a key If you faced the above error in Laravel, I will show you the reason why it happened and how it will be fixed. The “Incorrect table definition” error can occur in Laravel due to many issues. I came across this error when I ran the php...
After you purchase a game on steam, the only thing that’s delaying you from playing the game is the download speed. The size of games have become monstrous in comparison to the size before a few years. Albeit this has been compensated by hard disk prices going down and the affordability of fast internet connections with high bandwidth. However in spite of having a high speed internet...
Steam is the most popular game video game distribution service for windows. Developed by valve, steam has the highest market share for a digital distribution platform for PC gaming. By default, the steam client on PC is based on a full fledged browser. The steam client allows users to manage games purchased from steam and receive updates for them. It also allows one to browse the games available...
Generally when typing, the cursor appears after a letter. But in rare cases, sometimes the cursor highlights the words instead. This is a common issue with anyone who types regularly using a text editor or word processor. The first time this happened with me, I had no clue how it happened and It took me a while to figure out how to switch to the normal cursor highlighter. It did cause me a...
Lately many websites and services on the internet have been blocked by governments across the globe in order to regulate the internet. If a website gets blocked by the government, the internet service providers have to mandatorily comply with the orders and restrict access to it. Web services like Netflix, Spotify, iTunes and many more have to restrict access to their services in certain...
