Regardless of your profession, personal background or lifestyle, it is always the case that you lounge on the sofa and enjoy wonderful videos with your family. As videos make for an exhilarating viewing experience, video formats are flooding the market, of which MKV certainly makes a deep impression due to its open source. However, there are still some black spots, although MKV files bring us many advantages.

Recently, my PSP captivated me and I wanted to stream HD videos on my Mac on it. But the PSP didn't recognize the file type because all HD movies .MKV files were, unlike .AVI etc., so I need to convert my MKV to AVI to play it on the game console. I mean a free program. Any tips? -Jessica

The advances in digitalization and how your internal mail distribution can benefit from it

We have always done it this way and it worked – do you know this statement? Well we don’t intend to deny that it actually works the good old way too, but a lot has changed over the years. Apart from the fact that the requirements within all work areas have increased, the volume of work has also increased. To avoid chaotic conditions, many companies are turning to digital support in the form of software solutions. And lo and behold, now it works even better.

Digitization and further development within many areas of life is a normal process that automatically makes its way into all of our lives. Whether it’s about our personal lives or our daily work routine. Many appreciate the advantages that digitization brings, be it the smart home or various software applications that make everyday work easier.

Finding good, free CAD software is no easy task. There are many great 2D CAD programs out there like TurboCAD or AutoCAD, but how many quality options are totally free?

If you administrate your Linux system, you usually sit at one place and take it easy. But some tasks take longer and I sometimes stray from the terminal window. In between I also switch on a VPN or take my notebook somewhere else and it dials into another WLAN. Mobile devices are also suitable for various administrative tasks. That's why I always use screen, because it allows me to keep the session going even if I lose the connection to the server. Another option that I have grown fond of is called mosh.

The administration via ssh and screen has the advantage that it works with every SSH client. That would be for example also putty under Windows or JuiceSSH under Android.

Six weeks into our first Master Class on Why Crowdsourced Innovation?"After our basic articles on "crowdsourcing" and "open innovation", it is time for a closer written examination of the third essential crowdsourced innovation term: "virtual collaboration".

In the first paragraph, we would first like to take a fundamental look at a definition of "collaboration" before we go one step further and move on to the digitalized form, i.e. virtual or e-collaboration. Coming to e-collaboration.

The Ebiz Trader

For a customer I implemented a larger project based on the PHP software Ebiz Trader from Ebiz Consult. With this post I would like to share my collected experiences.

OnVista Bank has been a brand of Comdirect Bank since 2017. The financial services provider has existed since 1997, was originally founded under the name Fimatex and only in 2008 changed its name to OnVista. Since the takeover by Comdirect, OnVista Bank intensively pursues business with private investors, who are offered various custody account models at favorable conditions. Due to the brokerage offer of the BaFin-regulated bank, trading on German and international stock exchanges is also possible. Those who want to test the bank’s offers can do so with the OnVista sample securities account for securities trading.

• Free OnVista sample depot for up to 15 depots at the same time
• Free Watchlist
• Demo for the proprietary trading software

OnVista Musterdepot: Check for yourself what the bank has to offer

Just a few years ago, the preferences of German savers were definitely for conventional investment products, the savings or time deposit account. Securities or derivatives only became interesting for private investors thanks to the continuing low interest rates. In addition, the increasing number of online brokerage offers makes such products more accessible. A demo account or sample account takes especially beginners the shyness of access to trading stocks or forex. Many online brokers and more and more direct banks know this and therefore provide demo accesses, flanked by sometimes very high-quality educational offers. The benefits are obvious: Brokers may gain loyal customers through such entry aids, investors in turn can become fundamentally familiar with the function of financial instruments and trading platforms, often guided by proven experts. However, the quality of the practice offers varies greatly. Some accounts designated as sample accounts are not much more than a watchlist, while others offer almost the full scope of the live account. How do users benefit from OnVista demo account? More about this in our test report.

The name Safari fits – the Internet today bears some resemblance to a thicket that is difficult to penetrate. And the search for what you are looking for sometimes turns into a safari, i.e. a long journey through difficult terrain

Almost everyone searches for something on the Internet. Safari 3 is supposed to help you find what you want, and we especially like the new search function that lets you search on already loaded pages. You can access it from the “Edit” menu or by pressing the “Command-F” key combination: Safari will then push a small gray line at the top of the window into the image, into which you type the search term. If the term is found, the line shows the number of places where it was found, while below it on the discreetly darkened Internet page the places where it was found are marked with a white frame – the currently selected place is highlighted with a yellow background and text in bold letters.

It happens again and again that a finished printout looks good at first sight. But then you notice that your printout has gaps between the infill and the outlines.

In the home office, we have all noticed in the last few years how important it is to have a stable and reliable internet connection. When videoconferencing, remote access to the company server and streaming are all running in parallel, the connection can sometimes go down the tubes. Between the bandwidth of the connection and the transmission of the WLAN, the router is the interface that regulates everything.