Tools

Buying Office 365 online
How to find the right Microsoft 365 plan when buying online
  • Technical matters

When you’re buying Microsoft 365 online, you get all the important Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) as well as practical cloud functions. Microsoft provides a range of subscription models to choose from to cover different requirements, allowing individuals and businesses to select the plans that suit them best. Find out more about the options and how you can get all the features...

How to find the right Microsoft 365 plan when buying online
Remote desktop software
The best Remote Desktop Software Tools
  • Know-how

Remote desktop tools are useful for many different applications: colleagues can collaborate more easily, IT support can be offered remotely, and servers can be maintained without the need for peripheral devices. We’ll introduce you to remote desktop software that’s suitable for beginners and professionals, and that can be deployed for a wide range of operating systems.

The best Remote Desktop Software Tools
Qt
The C++ framework Qt
  • Know-how

Frameworks are an integral element of software development. The collections of tools, libraries and ready-to-use components standardize and simplify the development process, which means a great deal of time can be saved when creating new applications. For example, the framework based on C++ Qt supplies diverse tools for the creation of cross-platform user interfaces; it is also convincing due to...

The C++ framework Qt
Dropbox alternatives for file hosting
Best Dropbox alternatives compared
  • Tools

Dropbox is one of the most famous and most successful cloud storage services available. Its success is largely due to its many functions and ease of use. But when it comes to data protection and maximum free online storage space, this popular app isn’t the pick of the bunch. There are other file hosting services that offer different approaches. Here’s our collection of some of the top alternatives...

Best Dropbox alternatives compared
Most secure cloud storage
What is the most secure cloud storage?
  • Tools

If you like to store your data in the cloud, you’ve probably wondered which cloud storage is the most secure. In order to assess the security of a cloud service, various factors such as the server location or the data encryption must be considered. We show you which security deficits can occur and present the best encrypted cloud storage.

What is the most secure cloud storage?
Learn MySQL in simple steps
MySQL Tutorial
  • Know-how

Along with Oracle and Microsoft SQL server, MySQL is one of the most popular management systems for relational databases. Nowadays the software developed by MySQL AB belongs to the product portfolio of the Oracle Corporation and is proprietarily marketed under a dual license. Since 2009, an open source MySQL fork, known as MariaDB, has also been available from the original developers. Here we give...

MySQL Tutorial
Golang
Go / Golang - The Google Programming Language
  • Know-how

Google is best known for its search engine, but also for services like AdWords, Maps, or Gmail. Since 2012, the mega-corporation has had its own programming language in its product range: Go. Also known under the name Golang, it has drawn attention to itself through its simplicity. But how does it differ from established representatives like C++ or JavaScript? And when does it make sense to...

Go / Golang - The Google Programming Language
Docker Tools | The container platform eco system
The best Docker tools
  • Know-how

Docker significantly simplified the use of software containers with its efforts at standardization. The lean container platform is part of a steadily increasing ecosystem that provides users a wide range of application options in the realm of software deployments, orchestration of containers, and multi-container applications, as well as continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD). In...

The best Docker tools
Data reduction through deduplication and compression
Deduplication vs. Compression for data reduction
  • Know-how

With the mass of data constantly increasing, ever more efficient storage techniques are required to reduce storage requirements with as few losses as possible. For this purpose, there are two compression techniques that are currently in use. While data compression identifies and eliminates redundant information within a file, deduplication is a cross-file method that is particularly suited to...

Deduplication vs. Compression for data reduction
Creating Docker Images
How to create Docker images
  • Know-how

Once you have learned the basics of working with Docker, the next step is to learn how to create and save your own images. There are two ways to create a Docker image: manually using the `docker commit` command, or automatically using a Dockerfile.

How to create Docker images