A presentation can be as simple as it can be by just adding the slides and content, or it can be more visually appealing and engaging. PowerPoint add-ins allow you to use advanced features to improve the design and capabilities of your presentation. What are PowerPoint Add-ins and Plugins PowerPoint add-ins and plugins are extra tools to get additional advanced features while creating your PowerPoint presentations. They make presentations simple, appealing, and interactive....

For any website, forms have become a mandatory component. Forms allow website visitors to submit their queries or problems to you from the same webpage. Besides, these help increase website engagement, leads, and conversions. So, if you want to include forms in your WordPress website, taking help from the WordPress form builder is the easiest way. Here, we will tell you about some of the most popular form builders for WordPress that you can use for form generation without shedding a sweat....

It is one of the available package managers along with apt-get but like others it allows you to install, modify or remove different packages without building them from source code. It can do much more actions related to package management which we’re going to cover in the next sections. The general syntax of using apt command follows: Remember to use sudo with apt, as many of its sub-commands would require the privilege to make system-level changes....

Ever since the pandemic hit us, the demands for laptops have been continuously on the rise. In the year 2020 itself, approximately 300-310 million laptops were sold around the globe, set aside the numbers of the year 2021. Be it an office-going guy forced to work from home or a school kid who had to attend his classes via video call, laptops have become a necessity now. Laptops suddenly gained immense popularity since they transformed into a window through it people could peep into the world when locked into their homes....

We interact with only a tiny portion of the internet. While nobody has concrete data about it, approximately 10% of the internet is open to the average user. This is called the open web or surface web which search engines index. The rest 90% is known as the Deep web. The majority of it is databases, academic publications, private documents, etc., which we have little to no business peeking into....

Research has shown that remote workers are happier and more productive. Also, hiring remote workers saves businesses costs and streamlines its operations. Recently, many organizations have been making the switch from on-site employees to hiring remote workers, but with the COVID-19 crisis, they’ve all had to do it out of necessity. Businesses have always worked with on-ground staff; hence techniques abound for hiring them. However, remote working is a new-ish model, and so hiring remote staff brings a whole new challenge....

To earn money, all you need is a blog, decent traffic, and affiliate programs. The aim is to recommend products to the audience and generate commissions from them. Just make sure to steer clear of any scams that many are offering. Affiliate programs are all about making money by promoting the products but you need to find the right ones. Affiliate Marketing is popular in the realm of digital marketing, online business, and blogging....

As a general rule, it can be said that the more flexibility a tool gives you, the more potential errors you can encounter. In the particular case of WordPress, there’s plenty of flexibility, and therefore, plenty of potential errors. You have an open plugin architecture you can use to add features to the CMS; you have a web server, a hosting provider, a database management system, and a network. All of these components are independent factors that contribute to their share of potential problems....

If you are a gamer, you probably know about this game but if you don’t, let me give you a quick hint. Are you a fan of zombie video games? If yes is your answer, this game is for you. It will take you into the world where you will struggle to save yourself and your humanity from crawling zombies always ready to kill you. You will get to fight with them and wild animals and put your survival skills to the test....

It is not much fun to use Paint to convert the files as it requires resaving them to another form and other elements. It is daunting, and if one is not much aware of what they are doing, it can mess things up. To save or export images to another format, it is essential to take potential alterations, utility, and type of graphic content in mind. Many people convert Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPG) photocopy, angle, statue, portrait, pictures, photograph, model, icons, illustration, replica, reflection, etc....

If you’re working as a social media marketer or you work on videos, you’re aware of the size of video clips. Be it uploading to media platforms like YouTube or saving videos as a backup, you need a lot of storage. To save this storage space, you can use video compressor tools without losing the quality of your videos. Before we begin our list of video compressors, let’s understand the benefits of using a video compressor....

Starting the freelancing journey is not as easy as one might make it. It is essential to know the corners of the freelancing career before going ahead. Before jumping to starting a freelance career, let us know “What does freelancing mean?”, “What are its best practices?”, “How can you start your career?”, and so on. A freelancer is an individual who gets paid based on a per-task and per-job basis....

And, mainly, those factors come down to cost and approach. It is not cheap to hire a developer to build an app for you, even if you hire someone with less-than-professional experience. And the more complex a mobile app you need, the pricier it will get in the long term. As such, looking for ways to build your own mobile app on your own time might be a sound alternative....

You may remember the most common ones like HTTP, FTP, SSH but if you are working on various technology stacks then it’s difficult to remember all of them. Here I have listed the default port numbers of various applications to help you in the real world. Application/Web Servers Well-Known Common Protocols Database/Datastore Messaging/Transfer Misc Here is an infographic version which you can download or share with your friends. Some of the abbreviations used in the above list...

It was all ok until I decided to disable the WP Security plugin for the time being to troubleshoot my Thrive Leads issue. My WordPress admin dashboard was locked out and giving a “Redirect lookup” error. The front end was giving problems too but I was able to make my website operational by removing HTTP to https redirection. But this didn’t work for the admin dashboard. If you are having a similar situation then not to worry, here is how you can escape this issue....

Do you remember the last time you signed using pen and paper? A pen-paper signature requires scanning, printing, in-person appointment, mailing, faxing, and more to the concerned personnel. The entire process can be labor-intensive, time-consuming, and tedious. That’s where electronic signature comes into the picture. Dropbox Sign and DocuSign are two great eSignature tools that you can try. So, let’s compare these two eSignature platforms to understand which is better for your requirements....

Snyk offers a cloud platform first, but it offers various products. Snyk OpenSource integrates through the editor’s CLI into a Git flow. Once launched, the software detects vulnerabilities, classifies them by degree of sensitivity, and automatically corrects known security errors. This functionality can be incorporated into the pull request cycle in order to apply to code sent to repositories. Snyk Infrastructure as Code, on the other hand, analyzes the vulnerabilities and fixes them in the JSON and YAML Kubernetes configuration files....

Every computer program has a specific flow in which it executes. If something unexpected happens, it leads to a disturbance in the normal flow of the program. For example, the division of any numeric value by zero or accessing an index that doesn’t exist in an array. This phenomenon is termed as an exception in programming. In simple words, an exception is something that you didn’t expect to happen but it can happen and you then need to handle it....

There are multiple ways to secure cookie in your application, but the easiest way is always at network edge like F5. Following example is given based on your Web Application cookie start with JSESSIONID. If you have something else, you can modify accordingly. The following will add HTTPOnly and Secure flag in Set-Cookie starting with JSESSIONID in header response. To implement using iRule Create irule with following Associate irule to respective Virtual Server...

It is a great personal project to build to practice your Python skills. Furthermore, this tutorial will teach you how to create the application in two ways, first as a command-line tool and second as a GUI tool. Preview We are going to build the application in two ways. First, we will build a simple Python shell script that prompts the user for input and writes the output. Second, we will give the program a Graphical User Interface using Tkinter....