You can play relaxing games with friends or join a competitive chess community. Chess is appealing because it is both simple and difficult to master. Years after starting, you can still learn new things about this game. Usually, chess is played by two opponents on the checkerboard. However, a smartphone’s convenience is difficult to match. Smartphones have made playing chess easier and allow users to play without opponents. Here in this article, we will see how playing chess can be a source of entertainment and benefits....

How did you learn your first language? We bet it wasn’t through a textbook with grammar guidelines written all over it. You probably learned your first language while hearing people around you communicate in that language. This proves that intuitive learning is the way to go while learning a new language. The marvels of a globalized, interconnected world allow you to work in an entirely different country with a foreign language in practice....

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that automates container deployment, continuous scaling, and de-scaling, container load balancing, and many more things. Since containerization is being used on a lot of production servers with 1000’s of containers, it becomes very important to manage them well, and that’s what Kubernetes does. If you are using Kubernetes, you must adopt the best practices for better container orchestration. Here is a list of some of the Kubernetes best practices you must follow....

It may also be possible that you cannot find out where the problem is, whether it is the hardware creating the problem or the software. All these things can be identified with the help of a perfect keyboard testing tool. A keyboard testing tool helps in testing the keyboard effectively. It enables you to find out whether the keys of your keyboard are working fine or not. There are a large number of tools available for testing a keyboard....

Instead of being burdened with this overhead, you can simply rent a colocation space from a reliable colocation server hosting provider. It will provide you with greater security for your servers and data and offer cooling systems to keep your equipment performing optimally for higher uptime. Apart from this, you don’t have to worry during a natural disaster and go places to check if everything is alright. The colocation provider will offer disaster recovery services and dedicated support to solve your queries....

Breathing clean and fresh air is a basic necessity for everyone that one needs to stay healthy and fit. Even people around the world are living under the threat of increasing pollutants in the atmospheric air. Man-made pollution is the root cause of this threat. As a result, it has become quite important to monitor air quality to ensure good health and quality of life. Monitoring air quality is possible with various air quality monitoring devices available in the market....

What is a Brute-force Attack? A brute-force attack is one of the most dangerous cyberattacks that you may have no trick in confronting! A brute-force attack aims at the heart of your website or your device’s security, the login password, or encryption keys. It uses the continuous trial-and-error method to explore them decisively. The ways of brute-force attack are varied, mainly into: Hybrid brute-force attacks: trying or submitting thousands of expected and dictionary words, or even random words....

In the modern era, maximum applications live outside the data center, and many cloud services have sensitive information. Not to mention, businesses seek to grow rapidly using various cloud-based systems and deal with massive data. In addition, the distributed workforce is becoming prominent across the globe, where users connect from any device from anywhere, extending or blurring perimeters. Therefore, securing a network is essential for every organization. However, traditional security systems like physical firewalls may not offer consistent and robust security due to current security demands and increased cybercrimes....

To keep pace, smartphones, power banks, computers, and laptops have come into existence. And yes, the portable monitors too. These portable monitors are ideal if you are fed up with struggling with your laptop screen and pressurizing your eyes. If the shortage of space doesn’t allow you to set up a desktop, a portable monitor can work. Moreover, if you often travel while working, you may struggle to complete your office work....

If you are a gamer, you would have definitely used Discord for connecting with friends during multiplayer games. For all those who don’t know about Discord, let us have a brief introduction to it. What is Discord? Discord is a free application available on all platforms for voice and text communication. The main aim of developing Discord is to aid gamers. It offers a good amount of control to the users who wish to communicate with others in a group....

How Is an Interview Process Stressful Both for the Interviewer and the Interviewee? Both the interviewer and the interviewee are essential players in the employment process. The interviewer must ensure the best prospects are hired, and the interviewee must be prepared to complete the interview successfully. Both the interviewer and the interviewee find the interview process to be draining and stressful. There can be a lot of pressure on both sides to succeed, and it takes time and preparation for this event....

Businesses assign a budget for several activities like insurance, capital equipment, and inventory resupply. However, budget leaks damage your company’s profit margins when the spending stays unsupervised. Moreover, when the business scales up, such issues will also grow in volume challenging your business profitability. Therefore, businesses of all sizes use a spending management tool to keep an eye on the money going out and keep it within the company budget....

Without fresh leads, your business is like a fish without water. It’ll eventually die, and that too at a rapid pace. I’ve seen many companies opting out of their lead generation campaigns to focus on word-of-mouth marketing, but that didn’t work in most cases. Unless you’re a business with a huge reputation and super-wide reach, you shouldn’t just rely on word-of-mouth marketing. That’s why I’ll be sharing helpful software that’ll help you generate leads and manage them efficiently without much effort....

There is so much smart out there of late. Smart TVs, Smart Watches, Smart Homes, and more! But this one is different. SMART, regarding goals stands for: Specific (create a detailed work plan) Measurable (how you’ll quantify success) Achievable (reality check about abilities, resources, etc.) Relevant (importance with broader prospects) Time-bound (process timeline with a definite schedule) This helps keep us on track to achieve a reasonable goal within a realistic time frame by deploying the necessary resources....

One thing of electrical and power systems that most businesses are likely to take for granted has to be monitoring. On the contrary, it comes under the most critical elements of the infrastructure. To keep your systems running in the event of an outage, having a backup power system is the new norm, preferably in the form of an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). UPS enables the user to continue operating normally throughout the majority of outages and gives ample time to begin shutting down systems when the battery charge reaches a critical point....

This way, you can display whatever is on your iPhone screen straight on your PC, TV, projector, or monitor. It can be useful for various reasons: presentations, seminars, watching a movie, or streaming. While “mirroring your iPhone screen” may sound like a complicated thing to do, it’s actually not that difficult. In fact, with the apps I will list in this article, the task becomes like a piece of cake....

The differently-abled users of a website need special attention. For example, users with disabilities need screen readers, large call-to-action buttons, high contrast color combinations, closed captions, image alt attributes, etc. Since you are busy creating content, social media engagement, and marketing, making your WordPress website more accessible would be costly and time-consuming. Instead, you can use the AI tools and plugins for WordPress websites that automatically format your web page design according to the best accessibility practices....

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....

For the same reason, the PDF file format is widely used in academic and business scenarios when the users want the document formatting to look perfect on the receiving end when the files are shared over the network. While many may not be aware of this, it is possible to edit the PDF files without converting them into Document format. Plenty of software and apps empower you to edit a PDF to your liking....

Nowadays, young people’s perception of IT jobs has changed compared to the past. They are looking for an extraordinary career than regular streams. Across the globe, many young graduates and students are searching for jobs that do not just satisfy them but also are looking for high-paying and consistent growth-oriented roles. Especially in emerging countries, the job market is going to experience decent growth in the field of the IT sector where automotive takes the lion’s share....