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Rise in Free VoIP Services

In this COVID-19 pandemic, so many of VoIP services have started offering their premium packages for free, just to cater to rise in demand of VoIP services. This rise may be temporary but it sure has changed the way people are conducting business now, from the comfort of their home.  After pandemic shut down all non essential services, companies were forced and encouraged to let their employees work from home. This approach although should get things done, has also highlighted other problems that how we as human operate in a professional environment. Our tasks are not just dependable on us but also on other teams and their ability to effectively deliver this task on time and efficiently.  Work from home has really changed our mindset in regards to how to do things while not working together in the same room. Naturally this has created gaps in our perspective in dealing with different situations thus resulting in misunderstanding and inefficiency.  To overco...

Path of the pharaohs and cruise on the Nile.

Travel to Egypt and follow the path of the river Nile as you revel in a taste of Egypt's history, beauty and colour on this short but action-packed trip along the longest river in the world. Cruise one of the world’s most iconic rivers on a traditional felucca, discover the largest and most impressive pharaonic temples, chat and dine with interesting locals and live it up in this country of deserts, bazaars, monuments and unmatched experiences. This eight-day Cairo round trip will get you feeling desert vibes, ancient wonders and local secrets at every stop. Why you'll love this trip Get an on-site ancient history lesson when visiting some of the world's premier historic sites – the Pyramids, Sphinx and the Valley of the Kings – with an expert local guide. There are so many chances to interact with the locals and experience their culture. Lose yourself in Cairo's colourful Khan al-Khalili bazaar and dine with village folk along your way. Your felucca sailing trip not...

Santa surfing - Travel

How of many of us know that since 2009, Cocoa Beach, Florida has hosted Surfing Santas, in which guys and gals don costumes resembling ole Saint Nick and hit the waves on Christmas Eve day. Last year alone, this event included 600 Santas surfing and 10,000 spectators coming out for the fun. This year, event organizers are hoping to draw even larger crowds and more Santas.  There will be a stage on the beach for live music and Santa and Mrs.Claus will be out and about on the beach to give away candy canes. Santa will also offer a free surf lesson before the big show of all the Santa surfers. To round out all those Santas, people can expect longboarding elves, paddleboarding toy soldiers, and several shortboarding Frosty the Snowmen. Even the Grinch will make an appearance in full costume to take photos with the crowds. This entire event purpose is align with causes that they want to support and they have been raising fund for it as well The holiday bonanza is for a good c...

Google Drive - A Blessing or a Privacy Nightmare?

Google drive is an online cloud storage platform designed free of charge, a product from Google. As per Google, Google drive is a file storage and synchronization service provided to it's user base. Using Google drive you store your data, synchronize that data on multiple devices and even share it with users with different type of access settings as well. Google drive initially offers 15 GB of free storage and then optional pricing plans starts if you want to have further storage facility.  The data saved on their servers are also encrypted, especially after news came that US government had access to data saved on cloud storage platforms. Google drive provides one of the best service in the cloud storage business, although it is not heavily customized as compared to other companies but it does provide standard and basic settings which is useful to most of us. Criticism  Google drive main criticism comes from the privacy advocates as they fear Google has too much inf...

Role of Search Engines

To understand the role of internet search engine in our daily lives, we must first understand what is an internet search engine and how it works? In simple words, an internet search engine is a software which is designed for searching the internet for the desired search term and then return with the result which matches with the search query. So the question arises, how does it do that? How does a search engine knows what kind of answer the user is looking for and how does it locate on which website the answers lies within. This is where we must understand how an efficient search engine differs from a non efficient one. Although it involves complex algorithms, usually a search engine gets the desired search query results by indexing the internet itself. What do I mean when I say indexing the internet? Well in simple terms search engine send their spiders or crawlers to crawl the website all across the globe and then index them accordingly. So a search crawler will crawl...

Google photos are a cause of concern?

As with every Google service, there is a lot of collecting data going on and with Google Photos, things aren’t that much different. Granted, the service itself doesn’t have that much information nor does it ask for it, but there are still some privacy issues you need to be aware of. Google photos is an amazing tool, we do discourage it's usage but we do encourage caution. Alternatives to Google Photos Slidebox Adobe Bridge Zyl Piwigo Prime photos from Amazon Flicker Piktures Cluster Shoebox If you guys want to check or read about the source I am linking them here. https://www.purevpn.com/blog/google-photos-alternative/

Tips to increase your bandwidth

First let's define what I mean when I say bandwidth Bandwidth is the speed of the internet on which all your devices which is connected to the network are operating, in other words the rate of data which is downloaded and uploaded from any device to internet is called bandwidth, so: How to increase bandwidth Bandwidth can be increased by following the below steps Change your router position to more wifi friendly place If point 1 doesn't work try getting a dual band router Try contacting your ISP for a higher bandwidth (no brainer) Get an iPlate Update your device If you guys want to learn more on how to increase your bandwidth, check out this link https://www.purevpn.com/blog/how-to-increase-bandwidth/