Blog | Page 18 of 68

Jan

10

2016

Muhammad Haris – Pakistani Freelancer Sells $1 Million Worth of Items Online

Muhammad Haris, a developer based out of Karachi, and his teammate has sold over $1,000,000 (that’s 1 million in US dollars) worth of items on Envato a.k.a Themeforest, a marketplace for WordPress themes. Haris, primarily a coder, made this lot of money through a WordPress theme called Avada. We remember Haris from 2008-09 when he used to freelance wordpress development work, mainly the plugins. Haris says that he started his career as a freelancer and is still contented with his work-style and the returns. After early days of solo work, Haris teamed up with Luke, a designer from US, and…

Jan

10

2016

Hisham Sarwar – A Freelancer With Over $1 Million in Earnings

Freelancing as a career has really taken off in Pakistan. Most people in development, designing, content and countless other fields augment their monthly earnings with freelancing. The reasons are quite apparent. It’s working on what you choose at your own schedule and that too for fair recompense. However, you still don’t run into people who’ve earned more than $1 million in freelancing. Today, we get to meet Hisham Sarwar, who’s done exactly that. Hisham’s story is also interesting because he’s managed to successfully translate his earnings into a successful entrepreneurial career. Starting out with a regular job at a US…

Jan

10

2016

Reasons Why Internet in Pakistan Sucks

1 – The Government Keeps Taxing The Internet Affordable internet means a stimulated economy, empowered citizens and more pictures of cats. But try telling that to the government. In the last 12 months, we’ve seen an increasing number of taxes being added on internet in Pakistan. Whether it’s a 14% advanced witholding tax or a 19.5% data tax on 3G/4G, the dream of affordable internet for the masses keeps slipping further away. 2- Data Limits on Most Packages Did you know that if you exceed 300GB data on your PTCL broadband connection below 8mbps, you get charged a flat Rs.…

Jan

10

2016

Foods for Strong and healthy joints

Garlic and Onion Almonds Sunflower Seeds Pineapples Papayas Citrus Fruits Coconut Oil Olive Oil Turmeric Ginger Ref: healthdigezt

Jan

10

2016

Tips For Creating The Most Killer Viral Gallery Content

Boom! You created the world’s next big viral content site. You have a great name, solid content, and enough server bandwidth to support the entire population of North America viewing your site concurrently. However, you don’t know how to structure your content pages for maximum user engagement. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and while we don’t know how accurate that statement is, we do know that content featuring impactful images garners at least 30% more shares on social media than those without images. Gallery or slideshow pages are a great way to display image-driven content and…

Jan

10

2016

iPhone 7 May Get Tech To Heal And Fix Itself During the Night

Apple patents auto-healing tech which will allow iPhone 7 heal itself during night Apple has been awarded patent technology for the iPhone that detects when you’re not using it and automatically cleans or fixes itself. The patent filed with the US Patent and Trademark office back in July 2014, the Automated Maintenance of an Electronic Device patent describes a number of different ways that an iPhone could keep itself running. This means that the future versions of the iPhone will be able to self-heal, ‘performing maintenance, repair and recalibration functions’ while you sleep, including fixing dead pixels on the screen.…

Jan

10

2016

FacebookMessenger vs. Your Phone Number – Who’ll Be The Winner?

When Facebook bought WhatsApp after signing a multi-billion deal, many people compared it with Facebook’s own IM service Messenger. But, Facebook has constantly worked to draw a differentiating line between the two. Last year at its F8 conference, Facebook announced that it’ll be developing Messenger as a platform while WhatsApp will be a simple app that’ll continue to focus on make texting and calling a better experience. In 2015, Facebook made significant changes in Messenger that included video calling, ability to customize conversations with emojis and stickers, updated location sharing, money sharing and a lot more. In his Facebook post, Zuckerberg…

Jan

10

2016

Reasons you always feel tired

You skip exercise when you are tired You don't drink enough water You are not consuming enough iron You are a perfectionist You make mountains out of molehills You skip breakfast You live on junk food You have trouble saying 'no' You have a messy office You work through vacation You have wine or take some drug before bed You check emails at bed time You rely on caffeine to get through the day You stay up late on week ends Ref: Ideadigezt

Jan

10

2016

Startup funding – This investment banker will find you money and help you keep it.

If you’re an entrepreneur, what’s your biggest nightmare? That your billion-dollar idea is really a dud? That your investors paint you in a corner with a convoluted term sheet? Or that despite having a great idea, you simply never find the investor of your dreams? If you’re an entrepreneur, your nightmares are probably all of the above. Startups in Asia raised US$205 million in seed funding in 2015, according to Tech In Asiadata. That’s from 490 deals. It sounds like a lot, but if you’re in the business, you know it isn’t as easy as it sounds, and the process…

Jan

10

2016

How Windows 10 Can Help Promote your Business and Engage More Customers

As a business owner, I always want to introduce my product or services to a maximum number of people and engage more customers. Engaging huge amount of customers has never been an easy task, but once someone truly gets it, the business is sure to get a boost. Your Business Needs an App to Represent It In this era of modern technologies and smart devices, businesses should consider utilizing the huge amount of resources and opportunities that digitalization of their services can bring to them. Consider an application representing a business that’s available to millions of people. It has the…