Introduction The Internet is an elephant, so to speak. So how do you eat an elephant? One would say one piece at a time. Every internet guru has their own views on how to be successful on the internet or online, but like anything else in life, there is no perfect way or one size fits all. Some say that…
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Important facts about the optical industry
An optician is an eye care professional who helps clients with the selection and fitting of glasses. Opticians are most often found in stores and clinics that specialize in the sale of eyeglasses and contact lenses. Some large national eyeglass stores do not use opticians because they do not offer prescription lenses or frame alterations. The people who help customers…
How to mirror an iPhone screen on a Mac or PC
Are you looking for an app to mirror your iPhone screen on PC or Mac? If so, we suggest you check out 5KPlayer which is compatible with both Windows OS and Mac OS X. One of the best features of this app is that it supports AirPlay. This feature allows you to use the player to mirror your phone screen…
Keyboard engraving vs keyboard language stickers
If you’re bilingual, like me, and you work on your PC, Mac, or laptop with more than one language, you’re probably frustrated with having a single-language keyboard. I mean, you can easily download another language to your computer, but if you don’t know where the letters of the new language reside on your keyboard, you’re pretty much lost. This feeling…
An introduction to the reverse phone lookup service
People often ignore calls that do not display the caller’s number, usually in the hope that a message will be left to identify the caller. If this is not the case, the recipient of the call wonders who it was and why they called in the first place. The option of taking advantage of a reverse phone lookup service takes…
SAE J1939 Introduction and Overview
This article is intended to give engineers a brief overview of the SAE J1939 protocol and how J1939 networks work. For additional information, including source code, CPU benchmarks, protocol specifications, and a presentation on J1939, please visit our link at the bottom of this article. SAE J1939 is the standard communications network for sharing control and diagnostic information between electronic…
What about the latest mobile apps?
With mobile app trends dominating the market, more and more people are using their smartphones to access the Internet, thus eradicating the use of personal computers. According to a recent study, using a smartphone to make phone calls is the fifth most popular use of the device. So, if you are among those who still think that mobile phones are…
How did Facebook become so popular?
Have you heard of Facebook? By now, you are probably familiar with the popular social networking website called Facebook. According to Wikipedia, Facebook has more than 19 million registered users in 47,000 regional networks, related to work, universities or high schools. He was skeptical at first Initially, I was very reluctant to embrace the Facebook phenomenon. However, my friends kept…
Nature photography: a hobby to calm the mind in a connected world
We currently live in an increasingly busy and technology-dependent world, where many of us spend the day looking at screens in an enclosed space. In our major cities, people of today’s generations have become so cut off from the natural world that when they experience even simple things like tall grass or the musty smell of the forest, they react…
Why you shouldn’t be afraid when using encryption
As a cyber user you cannot really judge from where or at what time a cyber threat may affect you or your online activities. To deal with such a situation, encryption is helpful. Working on core technology, the encryption process changes readable information (plaintext) into unreadable information (ciphertext), which cannot be easily traced. In the recent past, users have been…