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18 Creative Photography Ideas for Beginners to Improve Their Skills

As a beginning photographer, it can be hard to come up with photography ideas. What should you take pictures of? It seems like such a simple question, but figuring out where to point your camera or smartphone can be surprisingly difficult. These 18 photography ideas for beginners will have you snapping away in no time…. read more »

7 Swift Coding Challenges to Practice Your Skills

When Apple announced Swift way back in 2014, people were rightfully skeptical. Nobody knew if it would catch on, and many questioned the need for yet another programming language to learn. But then Swift went open source in 2015, and though it didn’t explode overnight, the language has steadily grown. There’s never been a better… read more »

New Amazon Alexa Functionality Will Suggest Third-Party Skills

Amazon is making it much easier for Echo and Alexa-powered devices to find and use voice apps designed to extend their virtual assistant functionality. More Power to Alexa When you ask Alexa a question it doesn’t know the answer to, the digital assistant is typically forthcoming with its “Hmmmm, I don’t know that” answer. Unfortunately,… read more »

5 Easy to Learn Skills That Can Matter Any Time in Life

Some might say swimming, or public speaking. Maybe, your friend will tell you to master a cocktail shake. No. The first two would stall you with phobia attacks. The third, however impressive, isn’t a life skill at all. What I am looking for are meta-skills that are so easy to learn that you can do them in one… read more »

Powershell Cmdlets That’ll Improve Your Windows Admin Skills

Powershell is a perfect way for a new coder to get started on Windows. Powershell is equal parts command line tool and scripting language. It gives you the ability to automate your computer via the same commands you use to administer it. If you have a modern Windows system, you already have Powershell. Most of… read more »

If You Have These Skills, No Robot Will Ever Take Your Job

Losing your job to robots is no longer a sci-fi fantasy. Some estimates say, robots may take over more than five million jobs across 15 developed countries. Machines could account for more than half the workforce in places like Cambodia and Indonesia, particularly in the garment industry. While such information has led many people to… read more »

7 Programming Skills All Website Developers Should Know

Website design and development is the 21st century’s factory job: good pay and benefits, decent working hours, and the prospect of advancement. We’ll show you which essential skills you can start learning now to get a jump start into this exciting field. The internet is foundational to the way we work and play today —… read more »

How to Build Critical Thinking Skills in Just 5 Steps

“Critical thinking” is a phrase that leaves many students nervously quaking in their desks. By the time we’ve become adults, though, we’ve largely forgotten it. We imagine that we think critically, but we let our ability to engage with new ideas atrophy when we leave college. We get set in our ways, and become closed off to… read more »

Perfect Your English Speaking Skills With These 5 Udemy Courses

Have you studied English for years, but still don’t speak or write it that well? Like any language, English can be tricky even for the well-versed. You can be struck down mid-sentence by a grammar gaffe or a pronunciation slip. The difference between “lit” and “lighted” might be clouding your judgement. Well, that is the normal… read more »

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