It is that time of year. The moment you decide it’s okay to travel in 12 degree weather. The moment when food and water freeze, hands and feet go numb, and the bike gets covered in water and road salt… It’s the time of year that you decide you were a fucking idiot for going …
Cryptocurrency for Beginners
In the first days of its launch in 2009, several thousand bitcoins were used to buy a pizza. Since then, the cryptocurrency’s meteoric rise to $65,000 in April 2021, following its dizzying mid-2018 plunge by about 70 percent to around $6,000, boggles the minds of many people: cryptocurrency investors, traders or just curious that I …
2012 Recruitment Trends: Companies Need to Develop a New Social Media Recruitment Strategy
In this era of electronic recruitment, the focus of recruiting talent is increasingly shifting from online job boards to social media. In fact, considering the 2011 global active user statistics, the adoption of social media as a “talent pool” is an obvious and necessary choice for recruiters. How do recruiters use social networking sites as …
Cable news with an agenda: is it also fake news?
The story of the suppression of the free press among those who want to take or maintain control is astonishing. And more than one to philosophize has noticed it; He who owns the media, he owns the minds of the people. Today we see Silicon Valley, namely Google and Facebook, who want to remove what …
Microsoft Xbox ONE vs. Sony PS4
graphics The most important question in the gaming world is; Which one has better graphics? However, it is very difficult to answer. We say hard because if you compare the graphics of the current Xbox 360 to the PS3 it will vary from game to game and generally the difference isn’t that big. It all …
Create a new wedding album using your old wedding photos
digital images If you have digital photos from your wedding day and want a wedding album-style display that includes self-mounting pages, you’ll need to print the photos before you begin. It’s best to have it done by a professional to ensure photos last as long as possible and look their best once printed and mounted. …
What Millennials Really Want: How to Create Effective Clothing Brands
There’s a reason market executives are so obsessed with millennials: They are the greatest generation living today. Estimates by Goldman Sachs analysts put the number at between 90 and 92 million, and this represents an opportunity for both SMEs and large business empires. The only problem with millennials is their extremely unpredictable behavior, which is …
7 tips to prevent identity theft online
There are numerous ways hackers and scammers can capture details that will allow them to assume your online identity. In some cases, the perpetrator steals another person’s identity simply to cause harassment. However, there are also identity thieves whose motivation is to steal as much money as possible from unsuspecting victims. To help keep your …
The Instagram analytics guide with metrics and insights
Instagram as a social media platform is quite a stir. Image sharing, video sharing, live stories, geolocation, hashtag feed, multi-image posting, DM feature enhancements, stickers and polls for Instagram stories and a bunch of advanced features for the platform are added very often in the application. Limited to just being a smartphone app and a …
A Brief History of DIRECTV
Perhaps the most popular satellite provider in the United States, DIRECTV® has a long and impressive history under its belt. So who is DIRECTV? And how did they get to where they are today? DIRECTV – The Early Years Satellite as we know it today began in 1984, when Hughes Electronics obtained FCC approval to …