For some reason, we’re still seeing plenty of PNGs (raster graphics file format) on the web, even on spanking new websites built in 2016! Things like logos and icons seem to be the main culprits. I suppose the question is why? Why do we still use them? Unless you’re using them as a fallback on ancient …
Visual content is the “secret weapon” when you’re trying to communicate with your audience online, whether you’re building a gorgeous website, educating with an infographic, or using video to sell your products and services on the web. The problem? Choosing the right image file format can feel like war. The ideal image file formats depend …
The best to-do list apps Todoist for balancing power and simplicity TickTick for embedded calendars and timers Microsoft To Do for Microsoft power users (and Wunderlist refugees) Things for elegant design OmniFocus for specific organizational systems Habitica for making doing things fun Google Tasks for Google power users Remember The Milk for keyboard shortcut lovers Any.do for people who forget to use to-do apps …
International Telephone Input is a useful JavaScript jQuery plugin that turns the standard input into an International Telephone Input with a national flag drop down list. When clicking the dropdown list, it lists all the countries and their international dial codes next to their flags. Ideal for international visitors of your website. How to use it: 1. …
As technology continues to expand many digital marketing experts are beginning to learn more and more about SVG images and trying to identify if having SVG images on their site is beneficial to their SEO strategy or not. SVG or Scalable Vector Graphic is an XML language and used for animations and creating images in the web designing process. …
Ubuntu includes a variety of utilities for connecting to secure shell servers. The standard “ssh” command connects to the remote SSH server and provides a terminal prompt that you can use to run commands on, but you can also use the secure copy, or “scp,” command, which connects to a remote SSH server and transfers …
Sift Science is an SaaS startup based in San Francisco, CA. We help our customers fight fraud using large-scale, real time machine learning (aka predictive analytics). Fraud is most commonly associated with chargebacks and other transactional fraud, but can also include spam accounts and fake postings (ex: classifieds, marketplaces etc) Using large-scale machine learning is …
Zip and Unzip via SSH: Everything You Need to Know Compressing and extracting files is not only common on desktop computers. You may need to do the same things on your VPS. Zipping and unzipping files make it easy for you to download and move data around. To perform these actions, you need to run …
Sometimes you would need to extract or create an archive file, i.e to install a script, you would usually download an archive and extract it to continue the installation. The very first step in the process would be to identify the exact archive type by looking at the file extension. The most common archive types …
Restoring a backup from a ZIP file – like the ones generated by our downloadable backup feature – can sometimes be a lengthy process. If you unzip a ZIP file locally on your computer before uploading the backup with SFTP, you’ll likely run into a bottleneck because SFTP can only transfer a limited number of files …
