Category: Blog
10 Career Choices for Introverts
If you are an introvert, you will be well aware that many aspects of life seem to be designed for extroverts, which can make everyday situations difficult and tiresome to navigate. One of the main areas in which introverts tend to struggle is the world of work. Unfortunately, many jobs encourage and reward the traits of extroverts and discourage or even penalize common introvert traits….
English Proficiency Levels and English Tutoring
English is considered a global language. It is how people across all nations communicate, be understood despite differences in language and culture, and forge international relationships. The language allows the exchange of business and trade among countries. For this reason, it is important that a person becomes adept in the language, which can be achieved with practice. Even sign language uses English in three varieties:…
Emmy Awards 2019: Great Winners, Embarrassingly Bad Show
Is television actually… bad? ` As a telecast meant to represent the finest the medium has to offer, Sunday night’s Emmy Awards could not have failed harder. It was almost shocking, really, the extreme dissonance between the quality of the shows, creatives, and performers rewarded—Fleabag! Billy Porter! Jodie Comer!—and the award show that was produced to celebrate them. No wonder people seemed to have stopped…
How Can I Back Up My Bookmarks And Access Them Online?
I have a lot of bookmarked sites for medieval manuscripts on my laptop, which it took a long time to collect. How can I back them up in case the laptop dies? As you know, Google is closing Google+ in April. I currently use the site as my online bookmarking tool. Can you suggest something that is easy to use both online and on mobile?…
Social Bookmarking Just Got Easier for Webmasters
This tool allows users to enter the title, description and URL of their website and it creates bookmark chicklets that can be inserted into their website. Social bookmarking has quickly become a popular way for frequent internet users to share their favorite websites with the public. Having a website added to a bookmark directory can increase traffic significantly. Bookmark chicklets are a newer creation that…
Why do Apple want to sell news?
Apple wants to increase its revenue from the services sector by launching its subscription service, Apple News,which is expected to be announced at its annual event on March 25. Here we will try to read between the lines, how Apple is trying to redefine the news sector on the Internet, and why do you want to enter this sector? And why should you, as a user or…
Is VAR ‘killing’ football?
That certainly appeared to be the view of Paris Saint-Germain star Neymar, who offered an expletive-laden critique of the Video Assistant Referee system after his side crashed out of the Champions League Wednesday. Neymar took issue with referee Damir Skomina’s decision to award Manchester United a stoppage-time penalty after Diego Dalot’s shot struck Presnel Kimpembe and sailed over the crossbar. It was only after consulting…
How YouTube and Instagram are helping Muslim women like me own modest fashion
As a 25-year-old Muslim woman who loves fashion and wears the hijab, or headscarf, I’ve seen plenty of head coverings. But never anything like this. It’s a statement of resistance, a rebuttal of the idea that Muslim women are weak and oppressed. And I never thought I’d see it here, at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, let alone any major museum outside the…
The Samsung Galaxy S10 is a great phone no one should buy
Samsung’s Galaxy S10 lineup of phones is perhaps the most expansive and extensive line of devices to share the same basic name. There are a total of four different devices bearing the S10 badge: the Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10 Plus, Galaxy S10E, and the yet-to-be-released Galaxy S10 5G. If you’ve got your mind set (and your wallet open) to buy an S10 model, it can…
World Wide Web: 3 Other Acts by Tim Berners-Lee That Shaped the Internet
he world wide web turned 30 years old on Tuesday and Google celebrated the occasion with a front page Doodle in honor of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the English engineer and computer scientist who first submitted a new proposal for information management in 1989. That proposal is what eventually became the ‘world wide web,’ the network of addresses that went on to become known as the…
Identity Theft and Social Media: How Are They Related?
Social media: two words that have become synonymous with how we connect ourselves to our fellow humans in the 21st century. Relationships can be formed and broken all inside a virtual world. We post pictures of our children, food, likes and dislikes for the world to see. While this technical revolution of the past decade can be viewed as exciting and innovative, it also leaves…
