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Nowadays, businesses search for sleek and intelligent tools in their workflow, collaboration, and communication. And chatbots are an example of such technological advancements that have made things easier for businesses and individuals. The chatbots represent conversational design with a human touch via texts. They can provide various services, from collecting analytics and integrating games to moderating chats and many things in between, to create a better user experience. That said, Discord is an excellent choice to help you with many valuable tasks with its capabilities....

Online investment platforms allow you to capitalize on the market potential of the US and other economies by investing in your preferred asset classes regardless of where you’re located. Here are eight super cool apps you can use for investing in US stocks and ETFs. Ally Ally is about auto-investing in expert-curated ‘Robo-portfolios’ starting with as little as $100. The platform levies no advisory, rebalancing, or annual fee for cash-enhanced portfolios....

Digital transformation should have increased productivity in the workplace. Instead, it has decreased the volume of work getting done due to instant access to overwhelming content. You might have noticed that you go away on a ride of doomscrolling or doomsurfing when start working on your computer. It happens most when you are connected to the internet. But, you can not also complete your work without the internet either. Hence, smart workforce or their employers use any of the following website blockers to stop wasting workday time on internet surfing....

In just the United States, advertisers spent a massive USD 354 million on Podcasts in 2021. So, I’ll cut the chase with… What’s a Podcast? Podcasting is a way of storytelling, as a series of audio episodes aimed to better connect to the audience. Here’s is a live example: Hackable?: Gone Phishin’ by McAfee. For those who don’t know, McAfee is a cyber security company that has products like Antivirus and VPN....

In 2021, there are over 600M+ blogs out of 1.9B websites on the web, says this Ahrefs report. Whether you own a business or run a personal site, the idea of starting a blog of your own might have crossed your mind. Are you saying yes? Then welcome! And even if you have zero knowledge about blogging and its nitties and gritties, stay tuned to know more. So, coming back to blogging, Anyone with any skill sets can start a blog....

Over the last few years, content creation has become a significant part of the market in a different format. People use textual, graphical, and video content to become influencers, brands, or gain a name. People are now leveraging video content for projects, portfolios, and others, which increases the demand for video editing software. The fact is that there are several tools available in the market that is packed with features that one needs to come up with the best solution....

Whether running a blog or growing a SaaS product website, creating valuable content is just one part of the story. It is crucial that you continually build links around your content, both external and internal links. Although SEOs manage to get backlinks from high domain authority websites, they neglect the importance of internal linking on their website. This article will show you the importance of internal link building and how you can automate the internal link-building process with WordPress plugins....

Containerization is a modern way of creating applications. Let’s dive into how the legacy system and its architecture hit a roadblock to the point when people started quoting, “My code does not work; I do not know why! Code works, but not sure why!” As the application grew, the definition of an application changed from just a piece of code to a set of code, binaries, configurations, and a running environment....

We will now look at database design best practices to ensure that data access is not a bottleneck that negatively affects application performance. What is the purpose of a good database design? In addition to improving data access performance, a good design achieves other benefits, such as maintaining data consistency, accuracy, and reliability and reducing storage space by eliminating redundancies. Another benefit of good design is that the database is easier to use and maintain....

If your web hosting package does not include email hosting, utilizing a free random domain email address on your contact page might reflect poorly on you and your company. Customers and other company owners are suspicious of emails sent from a generic email address. A free custom domain email address makes your company appear more professional and credible. Why is a custom domain email good for you? A free custom domain email shows your own identity in your business and communications....

MongoDB NoSQL is trending more than ever. Do you have a necessary understanding of it? Don’t worry if not, the following will help you. Introduction With the website taking a paradigm shift towards dynamic content, the demand for the No-SQL database rose. This gave rise to numerous No-SQL databases like MongoDB. Classified as a No-SQL database, MongoDB is a document-based database that stores the data in the form of JSON documents with an autogenerated identified for every document....

At this point, it’s a very well-known fact that Google is one of the biggest fish in the market, with its global revenue being 256.7 billion USD in 2021. Also, it receives over 5.6 billion daily searches from people, so you can imagine how massive this online search engine is. And these numbers are only expected to keep increasing with time as more people access the internet and utilize Google....

Web hosting is one of the most lucrative affiliates marketing niches because its demand never ends in the online world. Becoming an affiliate for these handpicked hosting platforms will ensure big commissions for each referred client, which can pile up to be a substantial monthly income. However, it is essential to deep dive when opting to take up the hosting affiliate programs. One needs to ensure that you are choosing the right one that can benefit you....

If you are working on a large Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and need to add prefixes or suffixes and don’t want to do a manual task, then this section will help you to quickly and easily add the prefix and suffix to all cells in seconds. When working with a large spreadsheet, adding a suffix or prefix to every cell might take a long time and leave you exhausted. You can add a suffix or prefix in a few quick and simple ways, as stated in the section below, reducing the manual effort needed....

If you are managing production environment or payment related application, then you will also be asked by security/penetration testing team to implement necessary HTTP header to comply with PCI-DSS security standard. Having secure header instruct browser to do or not to do certain things to prevent certain security attack. Most of you might be using a web server like Apache, Nginx, IIS in front of Tomcat so you may implement the headers directly in web server....

Before the implementation procedure, let’s take a look at what is TLS 1.3, how it differs from 1.2, history, and compatibility. What is TLS 1.3? TLS (transport layer security) 1.3 is based on the existing 1.2 specifications. It’s the latest TLS version protocol and aims to improve performance and security. To learn more, refer to this post by Filippo. Let’s take a look at the history of the TLS protocol....

Having an unsecured subdomain can lead to a serious risk to your business, and lately, there have been some security incidents where the hacker used subdomains tricks. The most recent one was Vine, where the entire code was available to download from a vulnerably exposed subdomain. If you are a website owner or security researcher, you can use the following tools to find the subdomains of any domain. Subdomains Lookup Tools Subdomains Lookup tools by WhoisXML API allow users to discover a domain name’s subdomains easily....

It’s not a novice thing. It was launched officially in 2006, and since then, it has been growing steadily. And now its popularity is increasing by leaps and bounds. What is Roblox? Roblox is basically a gaming platform as well as a storefront where users come and enjoy games. It is not a single game. It is a collection of nearly 5 million games that anyone can play for free....

When you’re working with a dictionary in Python, there are times when you’ll need to sort its contents—by key or by value. As a Python dictionary is a key-value mapping, you’ll create a new dictionary that has the keys or values sorted as needed. In this tutorial, we’ll start by reviewing the basics of Python dictionary. We’ll then learn to create a new dictionary in which the contents are sorted by key or by value, as needed....

A Little bit of background… So as you can see HTTP/2.0 is a second major version of the HTTP protocol history. Some of the goals for HTTP 2 are: – Data compression of HTTP headers Server pushes technologies Loading page elements in parallel over a single TCP connection All above made me think of two things – Security & Optimization So are you ready to implement HTTP 2? Well, if you are using Apache or Nginx then you got to little wait as a supported version is yet to be released....