Hypertext and hypermedia, are the techniques for linking non-linear information. The two terms are distinct in a manner that the hypertext allows only text to be hyperlinked while hypermedia could use various multimedia elements such as images, audio and video, in order to link the text and media over the World Wide Web. However, hypertext is a part of the hypermedia as hypermedia includes text, image, audio, video, etcetera. It all started with the advent of the new techniques to navigate … [Read more...]

Streaming and downloading are terms mostly used while using the internet. The prior difference between the two terms lies in the fact that how is the content is downloaded from the server to the end-user. Streaming means that the content is temporarily downloaded on the client's machine but reside in the streaming server. Conversely, the downloading means that complete content is copied and downloaded on the end user's machine. Both have certain merits and demerits, which we will discuss in … [Read more...]

The Website and Blogs are somewhat similar. There are very few differences between them, but these are differentiable. The major difference between website and blog is that a blog is more interactive, while a website is static or inactive. If we talk about blogs, the content of the blogs is frequently changed, and these are capable of providing the fresh and updated content each time a viewer visits the blog after a period of time. Conversely, this is not the case with the websites. The … [Read more...]

The cybersecurity and network security can be considered as the two sides of a coin. However, some experts believe that network security is a subpart or subdomain of the cyber-security. They mainly differ in the way that network security is implemented to protect internal information through inspecting employee activities and network access. In contrast, cybersecurity concentrates on external threats such as security breaches created by hackers attempting to infiltrate the network. The … [Read more...]

The MD5 and SHA1 are the hashing algorithms where MD5 is better than SHA in terms of speed. However, SHA1 is more secure as compared to MD5. The concept behind these hashing algorithms is that these are used to generate a unique digital fingerprint of data or message which is known as a hash or digest. The essential features of hash algorithms are: These functions cannot be reversed. Size of the digest or hash is always fixed and does not depend on the size of the data. It is … [Read more...]

You might have heard the common terms multimedia and hypermedia in the context of a computer, electronic devices and the internet. The main difference between these terms is that the multimedia involves the various ways of representing the electronic document such as image, audio, graphics, video, etcetera over the electronic devices using any network medium. On the contrary, the hypermedia is the collection of multimedia placed linked over the internet in a non-linear way, or we can say that … [Read more...]

The SEO and SMO are the techniques of driving the traffic on a particular site. The SEO uses the search engine while SMO utilises social media for increasing the visitors and visibility of the content. In Search Engine Optimization the rules of the search engine must be followed strictly, in order to enhance the organic search of the content and achieve the proper ranking on the search engine results page. On the other hand, the Social Media Optimization focuses on the publicising the content … [Read more...]

Software that is intentionally inserted into a system for causing damage is known as malicious software. Primarily this software is classified into two categories; in the former category, the software requires a host for its execution. The example of such malicious software is virus, logic bombs, trojan horse, etc. Whereas in the latter category, the software is independent and do not need any host for its execution like worms and zombies. So, the virus, worm and trojan horse come under the … [Read more...]

Before understanding static and dynamic web pages, we must understand the working of the internet. Web browser and web server play the main role in any internet-based communication. The Hypertext transfer protocol is used for the transaction between the web browser (client) and the web server (server). In this type of communication the browser sends an HTTP request to the server, and then the server sends an HTTP response to the browser with an HTML page and the communication between them ends. … [Read more...]

URL expands to Uniform Resource Locator which is used for identifying a resource, and it is a subset of URI. URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) offers more simple and extendable way of identifying a resource. The URL and URI can be differentiated with the fact that URI can represent the URL and the URN of the resource at the same time, but URL just can specify the address of the resource. URI is more common term as compared to URL and URN which are more limited in a sense. Content: URL Vs … [Read more...]