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Your ISP cannot track your activities when using a VPN. Similarly, no malicious actor can snoop on your activities, considering your network connections remain always encrypted. But what if your network disconnects/reconnects for a moment? What if the connection drops for any reason? Well, that exposes your internet activity to the ISP and takes away the privacy you hoped to get. In other words, your connections become insecure. That’s when the ‘VPN Kill Switch’ is helpful....

The industry is varied, with the most successful tools being website builders, while app builders failed to take off. However, another No Code niche gaining popularity is that of No Code AI tools. How AI Is Changing the World AI is changing the world and how businesses operate. Google Translate allows you to communicate worldwide, self-driving Tesla cars promise to make highways safer, and the recently launched ChatGPT promises to become a helpful chatbot....

Social Engineering has been on the front burner of security issues for a while. It has been discussed extensively by industry experts. Yet, not many fully realize the potential danger it poses and how very dangerous it can be. For hackers, Social Engineering is probably the easiest most efficient way for cracking security protocols. The rise of the internet gave us very powerful capabilities by interconnecting devices without the barrier of distance....

There’s hardly anyone who doesn’t like visuals. Gantt charts incorporate complex information and turn it into an easy-to-read format that anyone in the team can understand by taking a quick glance. In this article, I’ll introduce you to the world of Gantt charts, their usability, and the top 10 software to create elegant Gantt charts. Let’s start! What Is A Gantt Chart? A Gantt chart is a visual representation of a project in the form of a horizontal bar chart....

Be it on social media or throughout the entire web; your audience can be anywhere, and identifying what they really need is essential for growth. The best way to achieve this is to stay honest, observe their opinion, and be attentive towards them. Your customers’ constructive feedback is necessary to make things better for your business. Once you start interacting with your customers and listen to them, you’re opening avenues of good and positive perception of your business....

Let’s find out. Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom are full of unique features such as RAW image convertor and presets, and effects. It also offers image processing and management, making it extensively popular among professionals. However, it is not for everyone. Professionals don’t like a few things about it, such as the lack of layers and file handling systems. It makes the professionals watch out for the alternatives that can work just fine but with more efficiency....

Videos have become one of the major formats to engage with customers and increase visibility. It has reached a whole new level, whether it is in Instagram stories, reels, TV, gaming, YouTube, social media, or website. As per Statista, video consumers’ hourly spend on video content per week goes for watching paid video streaming services, videos on social media, free video streaming services, recorded TV programs on a DVR, cable/satellite TV channels, game live streaming, and on-demand videos....

For example 001111, this is a binary number. It is also known as a ‘base 2’ system. These codes are performed in the processors present in all of our computer systems. The binary number system is an internal language of the computer. All types of data that we want our computers to process are converted into this binary code. As you know, binary numbers are not human-readable and understandable. To understand these codes, we need to convert them to plain text format....

Cloud computing has taken over the IT world by storm. We have moved from the traditional system of in-house servers to virtual infrastructure in our cloud platforms. We use our cloud providers for all kinds of applications, and there are hardly any problem statements that we cannot solve on the cloud. The scalability, ease of use, and high availability make the cloud an obvious and an important choice for most modern applications....

Gaming is fascinating and represents a notable 43% of overall smartphone use. In addition, 78% of those gamers are Android users. So it’s quite obvious for Android to have some of the best in class games. But let’s keep this buildup to a minimum and directly jump to the best free Android games. Notably, this list is in no particular order and isn’t based on a particular genre. These are free games but can have in-app purchases....

A good gaming mouse is configurable to the core and is equipped with sensors so that it can track your every move precisely. Thus, you can say that it is more sensitive, more precise, and responsive than a regular mouse and has more buttons than the latter that you can program according to the game you intend to play. The ergonomic design of the gaming mouse makes it comfortable to use for long play hours compared to a regular mouse which may hurt your hands, causing you to lose concentration in gaming....

Sometimes renting a brick-and-mortar office space becomes a challenging affair for micro, small, medium, and freelance business owners. You need to pay a fixed monthly rent which will increase every year. All of this is only for a business address and mailbox. Suppose you conduct your business online but need a business address for billing, taxation, and regulatory purposes. You might ask, ‘do I have any other option than paying rent on a physical office?...

When we remember something extraordinary that makes us feel grateful for those around us afterward, we are often led on a trip abundant with uplifting ideas and pleasant energy. Journaling can be healing for many people. It inspires you to go deeply into an emotional investigation, transforming emotions into self-expression that fosters learning and development. This article will discuss journaling and how it helps increase productivity and improve mental health....

The name itself is derived from Tape ARchive as it was developed for writing sequential data on tape devices. It is also referred to as tarball sometimes. By default, tar only archives the files without compression but using some portions. We can use different compression techniques to get a compressed output. tar utility is usually included in most Linux distributions by default, and the format itself is supported across other operating systems, including Windows and macOS, via different tools and utilities....

For a startup, small to a large organization – there are multiple open source and commercial software available which helps you to run the popular productivity, project management, chat, documents, etc. in an easy way on a public cloud or premises. The following are the software packed platform, choose the one which fits your requirement. Sandstorm Sandstorm is an open-source server platform with more than 70 applications for a small team, development, or medium to large organization....

The eCommerce industry witnessing sustained growth over the last couple of years since nowadays, people prefer to order the necessary products online. Before the emergence of shipping APIs, the shipping management workflow was manual. Once an order was placed, shipping details were manually entered into the system. It was highly error-prone and required multiple levels of tracking. The manual approach is costly for any eCommerce platform and reduces its profit margin....

Someone’s looking at your online activity right now! Well, maybe I have written the first line to catch your attention. Regardless, it’s true for many of us. According to the survey by America Online and the National Cyber-Security Alliance, over 80% of internet users had spyware on their machines in 2004. Besides, 95% of such users said they never installed those programs. Agreed, the data is nearly two decades old, but that makes it all the more dangerous....

One of the biggest challenges faced by bloggers is to find ways to make money. However, before that, make sure to build authority in a specific niche. It increases your chance to earn money through blogging since the audience will trust your words. When the users purchase through your site, you will obtain a commission out of it. There are plenty of domain affiliate programs that bloggers can look out for when generating revenue and increasing their credibility in the market....

If your website is not loaded in less than 3 seconds, then you may be losing potential revenue and missing a higher search engine ranking. Similarly if not secure enough then you are giving an opportunity to the hacker to take down your website for reputational & business loss. When we talk about performance optimization, we always hear to enable the compression, minify the files, enable caching, use lightweight code theme/templates/plugins/extensions, etc....

Almost every file that you directly work on in the Linux terminal can be manipulated as a text file. This includes configuration files, log files about various services and processes in the system, and script files that come bundled with the Linux Distribution of your choice or which you write yourself. Knowing how to quickly view the content of these files in the Linux terminal is an invaluable skill that not only saves you time but also helps you learn more about the system....