2022

What Current Technology is Used in Gaming

The gaming industry continues to evolve alongside technology, transforming the way we play and creating truly immersive experiences. However, you can’t immerse yourself in new worlds without the right tools and tech. From gaming headsets to AR and cloud gaming technology, the world of gaming has changed a lot over the last few decades. Here …

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Office 365 Outlook emails forwarding to external email addresses not working?

By default, Office 365 is not allowing forwarding to external email addresses via inbox top right Settings > View all Outlook settings > Forwarding. To enable Office 365 Outlook to forward to external email addresses, we need to manually enable it in the organization security policies. Log in Office 365 as admin, and go to …

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Change Default Graphics Processor / GPU in Windows (NVIDIA)

If you have two different GPUs or graphics processors in your laptop, chances are Windows could be using the wrong one performance wise. Benchmarking always come out with the inferior one with a lower score. How to change the default graphics card in Windows for an Nvidia GPU? Search “nvidia control panel” in Start, click …

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SMTP server telnet connection refused on Linux?

I was testing the WP Mail SMTP plugin to send emails in WordPress via SMTP servers but when it was trying to connect to the remote SMTP server, it kept getting error “Connection refused”. So I tried: telnet smtp.xxxx.com 587 To test the connection. Turned out my own server is preventing the outgoing request because …

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Office365 SMTP Send Emails as Shared Mailbox via smtp.office365.com

Go to Office.com admin center > Users > Active users. Create a standalone user for the purpose of SMTP authentication, e.g. [email protected] with password XXYYZZ112233, as you don’t want to give the password of your existing users to apps (e.g. WordPress) that need to access your SMTP. Edit the created account enabling SMTP authentication by …

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When to use NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB) and when to use SQL (e.g. MySQL)?

NoSQL is mostly about document databases while SQL is about relational databases. NoSQL vs. SQL Documents vs. Tables MongoDB vs. MySQL Property vs. Entity The trick is 4: Property vs. Entity Design your data models on a piece of paper. Use MongoDB if … If you see more trivial *entities* such as category, tag, brand, …

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