Byte-sized bites of technology
If you’re here and reading this post, then you’ve probably been asked to calculate the Net Present Value of a set of cash flows in Excel. Over the next few posts, I’ll walk you through Net Present Value (or NPV) as a concept and then go into the details of how to calculate this in Continue Reading
I finally decided to buy a Chromecast to complement the new screen that I bought. Although Chromecast states that it works with TVs, it works with pretty much any screen that has an HDMI port, e.g. my new BenQ monitor. The next step after setting this up was an extensive amount of research which is still Continue Reading
If you have configured your WordPress blog to display permalinks, WordPress will automatically generate a post slug using the title of your post. However, this post slug tends to be very long if you have a long title. Good SEO dictates that you keep your post slug as short as possible and you can do this by removing some stop words.
Many weeks back after much deliberation, I decided to give CloudFlare a shot. As they describe themselves… CloudFlare protects and accelerates any website online.
I’ve been using Contact Form 7 on all my WordPress blogs for a long time. Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
Yesterday, we told you how to get your Outlook.com email. Outlook.
I enjoy all web tools that let me create impressive cartoon icons and avatars. In these tools I particularly enjoy tools that let us create icons resembling the cartoons or animations we already know. For example I have been using and having fun with the Avatar icon creator, the South Park icon creator, and the Simpsons icon creator a lot.
Thanks to the internet we now have the convenience to call our friends and family members for free no matter where they are. For those who own an iPhone and would like to call their loved ones from any part of the world where they have access to a wifi connection they can use Tango! Tango is a brilliant free iPhone video calling service that connects people around the world with friends and family no matter where they are.
Being a blogger myself, I know how important it can be to size down images. I often have to resize images so that they fit within the site layout. But the problem with resizing images is keeping their quality intact.
