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FOREX 101

What Is Forex Trading? Forex (FX) is a short form of the words foreign [currency] and exchange. Foreign exchange is the process of changing one currency into another for various reasons, usually for commerce, trading, or tourism. According to a 2022 triennial report from the Bank for International Settlements (a global bank for national central banks), the daily global volume for forex trading reached $7.5 trillion in 2022. NOTE: The foreign exchange (forex or FX) market is a global marketplace for exchanging national currencies. Because of the worldwide reach of trade, commerce, and finance, forex markets tend to be the world's largest and most liquid asset markets. Currencies trade against each other as exchange rate pairs. For example, EUR/USD is a currency pair for trading the euro against the U.S. dollar. Forex markets exist as spot (cash) and derivatives markets, offering forwards, futures, options, and currency swaps. Some market participants use forex to hedge agains

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks

Send Disappearing Messages Disappearing messages automatically delete themselves after a certain period of time. That way, you won’t have to worry about your message being saved or forwarded without your knowledge. WhatsApp gives you the option of having messages disappear after 24 hours, 7 days or 90 days. You can turn it on for specific conversations with anyone you choose. Keep in mind though that the preview of the message will remain viewable in the notifications panel until you open the app, even if the time lapses for the message period. To turn on disappearing messages, follow these steps: Open the WhatsApp chat you want to use disappearing messages on. Click on the contact’s name. Click on “disappearing messages.” Select your preferred duration. Alternatively, if you want to enable disappearing messages for all your contacts, you can do this: Open Settings. Tap Account, then go to Privacy. Select Default message timer and then select your preferred duration

HOW TO CALL A NUMBER THAT HAS BLOCKED YOU

Hide Caller ID and Make A Call In case you don’t like the concept of calling from another Phone Number, then there is another method that you should try using that you’ll be able to hide Caller ID in your smartphone and make a call to the individual that has blocked your number. Whenever you call using Hidden Caller ID, your contact’s iPhone or Android Smartphone won’t have the ability to detect your Phone Number, and your call will go through. When you get in contact with the other person, you can convey your message or inform the other individual that your number being blocked. Steps to Hide Caller ID depend upon the type of smartphone that you’re using. Steps To Hide Caller ID On Android In case you have an Android Smartphone, just follow the steps given below: 1. First, open the phone and tap on three dots icon on the top right. 2. Now, select the “Settings” option in the drop-down menu. 3. Next, tap on More Settings, and on the pop-up, tap on Hide Number. 4. Select c

Android Development

I am going full time into Android development. Anyone interested should link up. Further details and resources as well as links to good platforms will be shared.

BITNAMI

Bitnami is a library of installers or software packages for web applications and development stacks as well as virtual appliances. Bitnami makes it incredibly easy to deploy applications with native installers, as virtual machines, or in the cloud. Some of the tools or packages in bitnami are discussed below; 1. Exo platform enterprise It is an enterprise grade social collaboration platform. It integrates wikis, forums, calendars and document management tools with activity streams and workspaces enabling teachers and their students to easily and instantly connect and collaborate on multiple projects in a frictionless environment. • Social networking: connect with users and track individuals and group activity. • Spaces that can support the creation of collaborative spaces for teams, projects or communities. • Calendars are teachers and their students to schedule meetings and organize agenda with personal and group calendars and reminders. • Discussion forums allow learners to

HTML5 and CSS3 Fundamentals

HTML5 and CSS3 Fundamentals Background Every Web Developer Needs to Know Introduction In this article I'll describe the World Wide Web from a high level perspective, focusing on how a web page is request and delivered from a web server to a web browser. Then, I want to talk about web browsers, how they interpret the HTML you write, differences between browsers, what are standards and to paraphrase the old joke "if Standards are so great, why are there so many of them?" Finally, I'll talk about the thought process behind HTML5 and CSS3, why they were introduced and what they hope to achieve. A Brief Technical Overview of the World Wide Web The World Wide Web started out as a means for sharing scientific resources like research documentation between governmental and academic institutions. It took time for the technologies and practices to evolve beyond its original purpose. From a technical perspective, the World Wide Web is comprised of several technologies ..

What is PHP?

What is PHP? PHP (recursive acronym for  PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor ) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. Nice, but what does that mean? An example: Example #1 An introductory example <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html>     <head>         <title>Example</title>     </head>     <body>          <?php              echo  "Hi, I'm a PHP script!" ;          ?>     </body> </html> Instead of lots of commands to output HTML (as seen in C or Perl), PHP pages contain HTML with embedded code that does "something" (in this case, output "Hi, I'm a PHP script!"). The PHP code is enclosed in special  start and end processing instructions  <?php  and  ?>  that allow you to jump into and out of "PHP mode." What distinguishes PHP from something like client-side JavaScript i