Category: Technology

Internet via Satellite: What We Have and What’s to Come

Internet via satellite was already rising in popularity once a few years ago, but couldn’t establish itself due to high prices, poor data rates, and quickly accelerating cable connections. Where is the technology now? Satellite Internet – Solution for Structurally Weak Locations I remember calculating the c...

What’s Design Thinking and Why Should You Bother?

Design Thinking means becoming more agile, speeding up innovation cycles, working in a more customer-oriented way. What happens if you don’t do that can be seen when looking at Nokia, Kodak, Blackberry, and other, previously successful, players. What’s Design Thinking? Of course, there’s a highly scie...

Dynamically Switch Between Multiple CDNs to Improve Performance and Reliability

Imagine yourself surfing the web. You click on a link, wait for the page to load … Still loading? You lose patience, quit that page and try another link. This slow load time is a death knell for a website, particularly since today’s users are impatient and expect to access content quickly, regardless of device ...

Adobe Acrobat Alternative PDFelement Creates, Edits, and Protects PDFs

The PDF format is still the standard when it comes to exchanging documents. PDFelement is an extensive PDF editor that allows you to create, edit, and even sign PDF files or protect them from being altered, if necessary. The application is a great alternative to Adobe’s Acrobat, not only because it’s much m...

CDN: When do You Really Need One?

Content delivery networks – CDN for short – are on everyone’s lips, and are often on the wishlist of bloggers. You’ll often read that a CDN will make your website insanely fast and that you just have to get one. The only question is: do you really need it or are there other, possibly better, way...

CacheFly: The Lightning-Fast Content Delivery Network

Speed may not be everything. However, it is an important aspect of any web project. Especially when distributing significant amounts of data, such as images or other multimedia content, it’s crucial to make sure that the user receives them as fast as possible. Too much buffering or long loading times can already ...

Better Safe Than Sorry: Why HTTPS Makes Sense for Your Website

Until now, safe TLS connections for websites were only obligatory when personal data was transferred. This is the case for online banking, shops or social networks, for example. But this is supposed to change. Google plays a significant role due to its initiative “HTTPS everywhere”, forcing safe connections...

10 Important Measures for More Internet Safety

Internet safety is a sensitive topic that is discussed now and then, but most of the time, it is neglected. Nothing will happen to me; I won’t get hacked, that only happens to others. However, it is very simple to use the internet more safely. That’s why I’ve composed a list to allow you to surf throu...

Ezoic Optimizes Your Ads

Earning money from advertisements is not that easy anymore. Certainly, services like Google AdSense make it completely simple for website owners to display ads on their blog, for example. However, the sheer presence of ads doesn’t make them successful. The placement, as well as the size of the ads, plays an important...

HTTP Security Headers: How to Secure Your Website

Recently, we’ve introduced you to the online tool Securityheaders.io, which allows you to check a webserver’s safety. You can find your own server’s weaknesses fast and easily. Additionally, you receive plenty of good professional articles on the topic. With all of this support, it is rather easy to n...