Digital cameras have come a long way. You get better sensors, higher megapixel count, a variety of built-in filters, autofocus settings, connectivities, and a plethora of other features. If you’re thinking about getting a new camera, many professionals will say that any brand and whatever format will most likely fulfill your needs. However, there is one important thing that any decent camera should be able to do and that is to reproduce skin tones correctly.… Read the rest
For new writers getting enough reviews for their new eBooks is a matter of life and death. Well, maybe we’re exaggerating a bit, but it sure comes close.
Promoting and selling a book requires a different skill set compared to the ones needed in writing it. It’s no surprise many new writers are frustrated when they can’t make as many sales as they hoped initially.
The most common method you hear is to set up a mailing list.… Read the rest
The Microsoft Edge has plenty up its sleeves. It is speedier than Internet Explorer, supports extensions, personalizable with Cortana built in, and has greatly improved user reading experience. Overall, it’s nothing like Internet Explorer in the performance, security, and accessibility departments.
Despite its many improvements, the stats show Edge’s market share still nowhere near the big players. According to Statcounter, Edge holds a mere 3.5 per cent share of desktop browsers.… Read the rest
The digitalization of books has changed many aspects of book deliveries. How readers wish to access reading materials and their expectations have also evolved.
Since everyone and their grandmas can publish eBooks nowadays, you need to differentiate yourself from the herd. One way to do that is customization.
Suppose you have just written the best horror novel ever and you publish it exclusively as an eBook.… Read the rest
Planning and delivering an effective presentation is an important life-skill for students and business people alike. Even though the specifics may vary there are some important pointers that every effective presentation shares.
An effective presentation should:
Let’s elaborate on these points one by one, shall we?… Read the rest
When you download video files, often times the files will have .mkv or .mp4 extensions. As a matter of fact, it seems that these two are the dominant file types where ever you look. What’s with these two? Are they dominating the video world because they’re that good? How do these two compare?
First, let it be clear and both MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14) and MKV (Matroska Video) are NOT video compression formats.… Read the rest
Nowadays, it seems that not so many people are into printing their photos. They take selfies and wefies, post them on social media, keep it safe in a cloud service, and that’s that. Trillions of photos will remain in their digital form and will most likely never see themselves printed as it was a decade or two ago.
No, this isn’t a grim fact. It’s just how things are these days.… Read the rest
When you go to Google Play Store, there is always an app for everything you want. There are also apps that you don’t know you need. Installing these apps is so easy, even a 3-years old can do it.
Not every app is created equal though. Some are fun, some improve your productivity, some make you live a healthier life, but some just completely dangerous.
In 2010, Google first introduced WebP to the world. It was hailed as the best image format for the web. In Google’s own words WebP is …
“… a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, webmasters and web developers can create smaller, richer images that make the web faster.”
Well, it’s 2018 now and WebP is still not quite as big as Google had hoped.… Read the rest
Once upon a time, when HTML4 still ruled the land of interwebs, embedding a video to a webpage was like a gamble. There’s no way to be sure that the person viewing the page will be able to see the video. The main reason was that playing video on a webpage required a third-party plugin — Flash.
The big problem with Flash was it was a security risk and also crashed a lot, so some people chose not to install it.… Read the rest
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