Usually, while working with Next.js, developers and budding programmers tend to have the dilemma of whether Next.js is front-end or back-end. Next.js is a framework that is built on top of the foundation established by React. Next.js is primarily used for developing and building web applications, e-commerce websites, marketing landing pages, and content-related websites, and handling blogs, etc.
While Next.js has inherited a lot of tools and frameworks from React, it has created a dilemma for developers and budding programmers who are using the framework to develop sophisticated and productive web applications.
The developers and aspiring programmers sometimes get confused about whether Next.js is front-end or back-end, and due to this dilemma, they often make blunders in choosing the most suitable...
"Create evergreen content" is a popular advice from gurus when you are starting in blogging or content creation. It is the holy grail of content marketing: comprehensive, timeless pieces that draw steady traffic and generate leads year after year. A well-executed evergreen post is like planting an oak tree; it requires a lot of work, but with proper care, it provides value for decades.
But here's the secret most beginners miss: The work on an evergreen post begins before it's published and never truly ends.
Treating a blog post as a "one-and-done" task is like planting that oak tree and never watering it. To truly thrive, your evergreen content needs a strategic lifecycle of Pre-Publication, Scheduled Updates, and Active Re-Optimization.
Phase 1:...
This is a variant of the new Amazon Fire TV designed specifically with gamers in mind. The Fire TV Gaming Edition offers basically everything on the regular edition and more, including a redesigned game controller with voice support and two free games.
Where to Buy Fire TV Gaming Edition
Amazon.com - View Offer
Although the device is focused on gaming, it is an online media streaming device to the core with access to over 250,000 movies and TV episodes from the likes Amazon Video, Netflix, Hulu and many more services.
Awesome Gaming Performance
Amazon Fire TV Gaming Edition is configured to provide breathtaking gaming...
Amazon Fire TV is a streaming media player and micro-console that is designed to bring exciting online entertainment to your HDTV. Stream movies and music on the box and play games. There is also a gaming edition of the set-top box, which is bundled with a game controller with voice support.
Where to Buy Fire TV
Amazon US – See Offers | Amazon UK – See Offers
The latest update boasts an Apple TV-beating 4K Ultra HD support and comes with its maker’s own digital voice assistant.
Description and Setup
The Fire TV is a small black box – rectangular in shape. The design is not really...
Unveiled alongside the 4K-enabled Amazon Fire TV, the Fire TV Stick offers a cheaper and more portable means of accessing online entertainment like movies, music, and games. It is a direct rival to the likes of Roku Streaming Stick and Google Chromecast. The latest edition of the streaming stick comes with a remote that allows you find content with voice commands.
Where to Buy Fire TV Stick
Amazon.com - View Offer
Design and Setup
Amazon Fire TV Stick parades a very portable design – a little bigger than an average-sized flash drive. It features a plastic chassis with an Amazon logo on the...
The Apple TV is a streaming video box for watching TV shows, movies, music and more on high-definition television sets. The latest edition of the device, unveiled alongside the new iPhone 6S devices and the iPad Pro, brings several, much-anticipated enhancements, including a new remote with Siri support and sensors for fun game play as well as a dedicated app store.
The Design
The new Apple TV features a slightly bigger and heavier body than the previous-generation device. It is about 5.5 ounces heavier while coming in 0.4-inch taller. The puck-like streaming box has a black finish.
On the rear is a...
Amazon UK has added the Prime Music streaming service as part of the bundle in the store's annual Prime Membership programme. Amazon Prime Music offers unlimited access to over one million songs and dozens of specially created playlists. Sign up for a 30-day free trial (UK only).
You may also be interested in the Best Amazon Prime Day Deals.
Try Prime Music free for 30 Days
Amazon Prime Music is part of the eCommerce giant's offerings to Prime customers as part of their annual £95 subscription to Amazon Prime. This means Prime customers are already enjoying the service.
However, if you are not...
A notorious Italy based surveillance company, Hacking Team, that helps governments and their agencies spy on citizens got first hand knowledge of how we all feel when our privacy is breached this week.
Hacking Team got hacked this week and had 500GB of internal files, software, and communications made public. The hack revealed the company's clients which included countries like Australia, Germany, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Sudan, Switzerland, Thailand, UAE, United States, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Oman, Panama, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam....
Battery life is a big head-ache for mobile users, but this week Samsung announced its working on a respite. The South Korean company revealed it is working on a technology that will double the battery life of the Li-ion battery.
According to reports Samsung researchers used graphene to enhance the battery density, achieving 1.5 to 1.8 times the battery density of normal Li-ion battery.
Samsung had another cheering news this week as it announced it sold over 1 million Tizen-powered Z1 Smartphones since January 2015. This is a promising start for the new operating system considering that the figure is only...
In this first edition of the NaijaTechGuide Weekly technology news roundup we will look at a roundup of all the topical tech stories that we covered on our brand new tech news site, which you can checkout at news.naijatechguide.com.
Last week, the takeover of the machines had some setback with reports that Twitter is favouring a human curated newsfeed over machine algorithm in the Twitter Project Lightning aimed at offering a better experience to users.
However, the machines bounced back this week Monday with Amazon announcing that it will be relying on machine learning algorithms in order to surface the best...
Boasting of an impressively compact design, the HP Pavilion Mini is a mini desktop PC that is designed to deliver for work and play. HP says it is designed to deliver "big power without the large tower". HP Pavilion Mini is a redefinition of desktop computing with a powerful 4th-generation Intel Core processor, dual display support and spacious storage all in one small, stylish package.Where to Buy Desktop ComputersJumia.com.ng from ₦14,500.00 Buy Now
Konga.com from ₦26,250.00 Buy Now
The DesignHP Pavilion Mini shows off a very compact profile, with a dimension of 5.71 x 14.6 x 14.6 cm. You can easily...
Nigeria's top Tech Bloggers will be converging at Jumia Nigeria's Head Quarters on Thursday, May 14 2015. Why? you may ask. Well, Jumia will be hosting a Tech Bloggers round table, where all the top tech bloggers in Nigeria will meet and interact with the top mobile brands in Nigeria.
The Tech Bloggers round table will set the ball rolling for the Jumia Mobile Week, which will hold from June 1 to June 7, 2015 and may well be the biggest mobile sale event in Nigeria in 2015.
The Tech Bloggers round table will enable top tech bloggers in Nigeria like...
Nigeria's number one blog the Linda Ikeji blog has overtaken Nairaland in the latest Alexa traffic ranking. This means that more people now visit the Linda Ikeji blog than Nairaland.This is the first time the blog has ranked above Nairaland in the ranking and with Nairaland on a free fall since December last year (2014) this might become the new normal.
As December 8, 2014 when we announced Jumia breaking into the top 10, Nairaland was ranked 8th and Linda Ikeji blog 15th, but since then Nairaland has falling off the top 10, now ranking 14th, while Linda Ikeji blog...
In this era of online business, it is very necessary for an individual to gain recognition in business globally. The world won’t know about you just by creating your website on your computer, it is vital to host your website on the internet. Just by registering a domain name won't serve you any purpose, unless and until you host your website and it becomes live on the internet.
Web hosting is basically a server space which you buy for your website. You can easily create your website on your desktop and upload it on internet using web hosting service so...
Konga is now the most visited Nigeria owned website in Nigeria according to Alexa's ranking for today, December 26, 2014. This means that Nairaland have been dethroned from the prestigious position. Overall, Konga is now 7th ahead of Twitter in 8th, while Jumia, Konga's major competitor in the online retail space maintains its 9th position.
Last week, when I reported on the fact that Konga broke into the top 10 for the first time joining Jumia which did same about two weeks earlier, I predicted that with the fast traffic growth of the two online stores and the near flat...
A couple of days ago (precisely on December 8), I broke the news that Jumia have broken into the top 10 most visited websites in Nigeria according to Alexa. I also predicted that it was only a matter of time before Jumia's only competitor breaks into the top 10. Well today (December 20), Konga is now one of the 10 most visited websites in Nigeria according to the ranking for today.
On December 8, when I broke the news of Jumia's achievement as the first online retailer to break into the top 10, Konga was ranked 16th, behind the likes...
Jumia, Nigeria's number one online retailer, is now one of the top 10 most visited websites in Nigeria according to Amazon's Alexa traffic ranking. The online retailer have been hovering around the top 20 for more than a year now and today made its first incursion into the top ten and highlighting the fact that online shopping is slowly but steadily becoming a cultural phenomenon in Nigeria.
I first anticipated this possibility last week when I noticed Jumia ranking 11th, the highest I have seen the online store in the Alexa traffic ranking. Since then I have been monitoring daily...
Bebuzee is the name of the most recent social network to share revenue with its users. Founded in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom and with only three months of existence, it has already recorded over five million users worldwide, surpassing some of the most influential social networks, this in terms of success achieved in such a small period of time.
As sceptical as it may sound, Bebuzee believes that social networks should share their profits with their users since it is through them that income is generated in the first place. Without users there is no online traffic, no adverts clicked...
Google is making another play at home entertainment with Asus made Nexus Player. Leveraging the success of Google's streaming Dongle (the Chromecast), the Nexus Player is a set-top box for streaming movies and music on your TV as well as for playing games. Nexus Player is the first device to run on Android TV.Where to Buy Game ConsolesJumia.com.ngfrom ₦8,999.00 View Offer
Konga.comfrom ₦15,000.00 View Offer
Inside the Nexus PlayerThe Nexus Player is a portable device that connects to your TV via a HDMI port and enables you stream content on your TV and other mobile devices. Netfix, Hulu, YouTube, and a...
Nigeria's number one blog Linda Ikeji's blog have been finally deleted by Google. A visit to the domain of the blog lindaikeji.blogspot.com returns a Blog has been removed message. The removal is probably connected to a number of copyright and defamation allegations against the blog over the years.
Before its removal Linda Ikeji's blog was one of the most visited Nigerian websites ranking 10th on Alexa Nigera traffic. It was also the second most visited Nigeria owned website behind NairaLand and was said to be bringing in revenues of over 100 million Naira ($625,000) per year.
Linda Ikeji's blog has had...
Globalhosting247.com is currently one of the most affordable and reliable web hosting companies in Nigeria, they are simply offering a lot at very affordable prices.
For as low as ₦7950.00 for six months, you can acquire a basic plan with 1GB disk space and 15GB Bandwidth + unlimited MySQL databases, unlimited FTP accounts, unlimited email accounts, and even more features that will amaze you.
Available on all accounts are easy-to-use Website builders, software/scripts for installing popular and widely used content management systems (Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Open Cart, Forum scripts (PHPBB, Simple Machines Forum(SMF), and More), OS Commerce Shopping Cart, Zen Cart,...
In terms of cloud storage offerings for consumers, the search engine giant’s Google Drive offers one of the most generous free space at 15 GB. This is one of the factors that entices users to the service. But, Google also provides cloud storage services to businesses called Google Drive for Work.
About Google Drive
A number of businesses are now beginning to appreciate the benefits of cloud storage. It provides easy access (through any device) and flexible storage expansions. Today, there are already a variety of options in terms of cloud storage for business. And for business administrators who are looking...
You need the best marketing automation software to scale your business fast and convert more leads to customers.
Marketing automation software is software tools that...
Nigerian Nollywood movies quality has grown from the typical traditional English, Yoruba, and Igbo movies you knew in the 90’s to top-class and quality...
Congratulations! Your Monthly 1.5GB data plan has been successfully renewed.
Is this the kind of message you are getting? Auto-renewal is convenient, but can be...
