Blog Post and Article is the piece of writing many people get confused with while writing for the internet. Understanding the difference between these two will help you to deliver better content. The blog post is short-length content written informally to engage the impatient audience. Thus, a blog post should be quick to grasp. However, an article is a detailed content which is written more formally. It often provides evidence for some claim, deep thoughts or summaries. In this content, we … [Read more...]

Private and public keys are two keys we use in the cryptosystem to secure information. In symmetric cryptography, we only use a private key that both communicating parties share. However, in asymmetric cryptography, each party has two keys, a public key accessible to all the other parties and a private key is only accessible by its owner. The asymmetric algorithm’s exact transformation depends on the public and private keys provided as input. What is a Key in Cryptography? Key plays a vital … [Read more...]

People often use malware and virus interchangeably to indicate a malicious file in their system. Malware is a general term used to specify any malicious software present in the system, no matter how it affects your system or how it’s distributed. However,  a virus is a specific kind of malware. When executed, a virus tries to replicate by attaching itself to the other executable files, eventually infecting them. People often confuse between the terms malware and virus because the first … [Read more...]

Static and Dynamic websites differ in the way they deliver or display content to their users. A static website always provides fixed content to its users. However, a dynamic website provides different content each time the user accesses the website. The next significant difference between them is that a static website loads faster than a dynamic website. Before getting into detail, let us understand the basic term website. What is a Website? A website is a collection of web pages that we … [Read more...]

WiFi and Ethernet are networking technologies that allow multiple devices to connect to the network and access the Internet simultaneously. Though both technologies connect you to a network or the Internet, they differ in many ways. WiFi is wireless technology, whereas Ethernet is wired technology. WiFi offers mobility to its user as there is a wireless transmission. On the other hand, Ethernet offers fast and secure access to the Internet. We will discuss these techniques in detail and their … [Read more...]

DSL and ADSL are the technologies adopted by telecom companies to facilitate faster data transmission. DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) is a set of technologies, among which ADSL is one. Although ADSL is a subset of DSL technologies we will try to identify some of the differences between these two. We will also be discussing about both techniques in detail. Content: DSL Vs ADSL Comparison Chart What is DSL? DSL Modem WhatisADSL? ADSL Broadband Echo Cancellation … [Read more...]

The PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and S/MIME (Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) are the security protocols designed to serve for securing the electronic mail facility. The prior difference between these protocols lies within their security mechanism type of algorithms used. PGP uses either digital certificates or key rings for building trust between the users. In contrast, S/MIME employs encryption, message digest and digital signatures. We are aware about the electronic mail services … [Read more...]

Hypertext and hyperlink are very much related terms but has a different meaning. The prior difference between the hypertext and hyperlink is that the hypertext is the non-linear representation of the data which when clicked redirects you to some other page. On the other hand, the hyperlink is the link embedded in the hypertext to which the control is transferred. As the whole, we can say that the hyperlink is a part of the hypertext. Similarly, these hyperlinks can be embedded in various … [Read more...]

The Blog and Vlog can be considered as the powerful marketing tools for corporates, companies and individual as well. Nowadays, blogging and vlogging are popular methods to earn money by writing contents or making videos. So, the major difference between blog and vlog is that blog is similar to a website where you can find the written content of some topic. On the other hand, in a vlog, the video on the particular topics are posted. Blogging and Vlogging mainly circles around the content. … [Read more...]

While using the Internet, we usually come up with terms like download and upload. But, what do these terms signify? The primary difference between the downloading and uploading is that the downloading means to copy something from other remote machine connected through some network or Internet, to the client machine (User's machine). In contradiction, uploading means to copy some file or data from the client's machine to the remote machine. The downloading and uploading speed varies most of … [Read more...]