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Best Remove.bg Alternatives: Top Free & HD Background Removers (2027)

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Looking for the Best Remove.bg Alternatives?

For years, Remove.bg has been the default savior for anyone needing a quick transparent PNG. Whether you are setting up clean e-commerce product shots, designing a logo, or cutting out headshots, it simply works.

However, Remove.bg has a major catch: the free tier limits you to low-resolution preview files. If you want full-resolution HD downloads, you have to buy credits or subscribe. Also, it’s being shutdown from Dec 2026 after their Canva acquisition.

How to change Letsencrypt certbot HTTP-01 challenge to DNS-01 challenge for Cloudflare?

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 16:40:35 +0530

Why switch from HTTP-01 challenge to DNS-01 challenge?

I needed to change the challenge to fix a know issue while proxying the website via Cloudflare as part of my blog improvements.

Please refer the link above for more details, if you are in a hurry here’s the gist about the issue.

When you use Cloudflare to proxy the website and use Letsencrypt for generating the certificates, the certbot by default will use http-01 challenege and it will fail because of the IP difference between your Cloudflare proxied IP and the actual host machine IP.

How I made my blog Faster, Cheaper & Secure?

Sun, 09 Feb 2020 16:30:00 +0530

Little background

If you had visited my blog a few weeks back, it must have looked different, loaded slowly and there was a ton of crappy ads and it was having only basic security features.

Old setup

Before this transition, the blog was using a Self-hosted version of Wordpress on a 10 USD/month Digital Ocean droplet (2GB RAM, 1 CPU, 50GB SSD disk) served via an Apache server serving over https using free TLS (or as people generally say, SSL) certificates provided by LetsEncrypt.

AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS CloudWatch & CWAgent in Ubuntu

Sun, 05 Aug 2018 17:06:19 +0000

In this article, we will see step-by-step instructions to setup AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS Cloudwatch and CloudWatch Agent. The purpose of this post is to create a unified guide document to implement CloudWatch alarms as I couldn’t find any such documents when I tried to implement this for the first time.

Assumption:

This guide is written with the basic assumption that you want to implement Cloudwatch alarms in Linux based operating systems and the instructions are given for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 operating system, however, it will work for other Linux variants also but commands like “apt” or “apt-get” must be replaced with command like “yum” relevant to the operating system.

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 06:59:13 +0000

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

India & China has always remained competitive especially in the past few decades. However both being developing countries and major economies, they collaborate on a wide range of issues and show a united face in major forums but however, the relationship has its own share of issues.

China wants to topple the United States as the sole superpower and wants to take over the world and is using a mix of Economic, Military and historical strategies such as OBOR / BRI, CPEC, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, String of Pearls strategy, Nine-dash line, South China sea etc. These are major flash points between India & China, not to mention the border disputes simmering over many decades (Recent doklam dispute) and its continued support to India’s arch-rival and China’s all-weather friend Pakistan in providing Nuclear technology, missiles, and fighters etc.

I built an Attic for Chickens to lay eggs

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 06:56:00 +0000

I have built an attic for chickens to lay eggs in our Paravali farms during my last trip home. Now I can see, hens are using it to lay eggs on the designated containers.

Generally, chickens (Hens) prefer places which are higher and safer from predators to lay eggs but often times they lay eggs on top of improper structures resulting the egg falling on the ground and you know what happens to the egg thereafter (guess someone needs to teach the chickens about gravity, lol!). So in our farm, inside a hut, they have placed coconut leaves (or branches) in some sort of structure but it didn’t help as it was poorly constructed.

Wordpress files and folder permissions in a server

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:52:19 +0000

Changing the hosting servers of WordPress sites is always tricky because of the WordPress files and folder permissions differ from that of a normal shared web hosting and a dedicated / VPS server.

The site may work properly but the updates won’t install or you can’t upload your image files and I have faced this issue when I moved from shared web hosting to my private VPS from DigitalOcean. I have built the hosting server from scratch on top of Ubuntu and I’ll tell you about the proper Wordpress files and folder permissions required for the smooth running of your website.

Integrating Payment Gateway with Opencart site

Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:33:03 +0000

Lesson 9 - Integrating Payment Gateway with Opencart site

In this lesson, we will see how to integrate our payment gateway with our Opencart Installation.

1. Login to your Instamojo dashboard and click on API’s and Plugins.

2. Under available platform plugins, click on the relevant Opencart version of your installation and download the plugin.

3. Login to your Opencart admin dashboard and click on Extensions->Extension Installer.

4. Click the upload button and upload the plugin you have downloaded earlier.

Install OpenCart CMS on your website

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 17:22:31 +0000

Lesson 7 - Install OpenCart CMS on your website

In the previous lesson of the free e-commerce course, we have seen how to set up web hosting for your Website.

In this lesson, we will see how to Install Opencart CMS on your website.

What is a CMS?

CMS is the short form of Content Management System and it’s like a Software application developed for a specific use and we use the Web Content Management System (Web CMS) called Opencart for our purpose. There are a lot of Web CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Opencart etc and each one specializes in some specific functions.

Increase focus in work with White Noise

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:10:12 +0000

Are you constantly distracted by various sounds while working and couldn’t concentrate? Listening to soothing white noise might help you focus.

These days I don’t like feeling to go to my office because of the sounds from the nearby construction site and it kind of irritates me. Then I researched on the Internet and found out that listening to some soothing White noise will calm your mind and help you focus on your work.

India and The Ease of Doing Business Index

Tue, 31 Oct 2017 17:41:14 +0000

World bank has released the latest (2018) Ease of Doing business Index report for 2018 and India has moved up 30 ranks and currently ranks at 100 out of 190 countries and this is the best ever rank India has achieved.

Update: India has achieved the 77th rank in Ease of Doing business Index 2019. More power to India & Modi!

What is Ease of Doing Business Index?

Ease of Doing Business index is the annual report published by the World bank after analyzing over 10 factors which are conducive to doing business in the country.

A Game of Chess to Keep your brain fresh

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 17:35:39 +0000

Do you know playing chess increases your creativity, awareness, and problem-solving skills?

The earlier a person starts playing chess in his/her life, higher the brain functions. So, It is recommended to teach children to play chess at the earliest.

We need not enroll them in a professional chess coaching class and make them a grandmaster, just teaching them how to play and encourage them to play regularly will make wonders. But If you want to, feel free to do it.

5 lesser known Android Apps from Google

Sat, 28 Oct 2017 18:08:35 +0000

Google has been launching a lot of Android apps lately and I’ll list 5 lesser known apps that they have launched.

Google Keep

Google Keep lets you take notes, create a checklist and has a lot of other features which are clearly explained in this article.

Google Fit

Google Fit lets you track your daily activity and your fitness and is explained in detail in this article.

Google Opinion Rewards

Google Opinion rewards let you earn free google play store credits for answering a few questions and you can know more here.

Why did I dump Windows for Ubuntu? (Part 2)

Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:39:10 +0000

In the previous part, I have discussed how my relationship with computers started.

Even though I have tried Linux based operating systems from time to time, the terminal commands scared me and I have always gone back to Windows.

But when I started learning about how the Internet and websites work, I have started building websites and I have always preferred Linux based Shared web hosting because they had CPanel to manage your web hosting, which is easy to use compared to Windows-based control panels and Linux hosting is cheaper than Windows hosting.

Free Payment Gateway Consultation

Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:56:51 +0000

Would you like to get a free payment gateway consultation for your business?

I have been in the e-commerce and Payments industry for 4+ years now and I have been running a free e-commerce course for those who wanted to get into the e-commerce business. I have been getting several inquiries from SME’s regarding getting a payment gateway for their business, hence I have decided to offer free payment gateway consulting for business as we have partnered with a startup-friendly major online payment gateway, we are in a better position to offer payment gateway consulting services.

Must Read Books for everyone

Mon, 23 Oct 2017 17:24:47 +0000

I have added a list of books that must be read by everyone and I hope it helps you better your life.

Self help books

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

The Power of your Subconcious Mind

How to Win Friends and Influence People

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Happiness Unlimited - Awakening the Brhamakumaris

You Can Win

Believe in Yourself

Think and Grow Rich

Books for entrepreneurs

Zero to One: Note on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel.

How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

Sat, 21 Oct 2017 15:25:42 +0000

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

In this lesson, we will see how to Register Web Hosting for your account and use it to host your domain.

Watch the below video to start the lesson. In the video, we show you different Hosting companies and their pricing and how to get special offers using coupon codes etc. Select One hosting provider, who you feel affordable and register hosting with them.

Keep Track of everything with Google Keep and increase productivity

Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:41:44 +0000

All of must be using some sort of App to take Notes on the go. But the best among them all is Google Keep.

Why is Google Keep the best?

Google Keep has a clean and simple UI with tons of useful features.

You can use Google Keep to take Notes, create Checklist, Set Reminders - both time based and location-based reminders, use it as a drawing pad, create image notes, scribble on images etc.

Create free Professional Business email with custom domain using Zoho mail

Thu, 19 Oct 2017 16:49:55 +0000

Lesson 6 - Create free Professional Business email with custom domain using Zoho mail

Welcome to the Lesson 6 of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to get a free professional business email with your own website (eg, info@raghuspeaks.com) using Zoho mail.

In order to complete this tasks, you must have already purchased a domain name and added it with CloudFlare to manage the DNS settings.

If you haven’t done already, please complete those first and if you don’t know how to complete those steps, please refer the “Learn e-commerce” page for help articles.

Managing your website DNS with CloudFlare

Wed, 18 Oct 2017 14:33:34 +0000

Lesson 5 - Managing your website DNS with CloudFlare

Welcome to the 5th Lesson of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson learn how to sign up for CloudFlare and change the nameservers accordingly to accommodate the change and also how to create an “A” record to point your domain name to your server IP.

Click the below video to start the lesson.

Once you have signed up and updated the name servers, you can manage all the DNS settings of the website from CloudFlare.

Why did i dump windows for Ubuntu? (Part 1)

Tue, 17 Oct 2017 09:34:54 +0000

Are you thinking of Switching to Ubuntu (or any other Linux distribution) from Windows but afraid to jump ship?

Maybe my story will help.

Before I tell you why I have dumped Windows for Linux, First I’ll tell you about my relationship with computers.

The First time I have touched a computer is when I was in my 5th Standard (2001-2002) in our school.

They bought a second hand Windows 95 computer with a Black and White CRT monitor. I have used it to draw a few rectangles using the LOGO language.

The Power of Projects and Gamification

Sun, 15 Oct 2017 16:12:08 +0000

In this article, I’ll be writing about how to solve your problems and challenges using the Power of projects and gamification based on my personal experience.

What is this power of Projects and Gamification?

It’s a simple concept of taking a problem or a challenge in your life (either personal or professional) and converting it into an interesting project or breaking into a game with multiple stages and trying to accomplish each stage and finally winning the game.

How to Signup for a Payment Gateway in India?

Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:41:10 +0000

Are you a small business worried about getting a Payment gateway?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for a home business without company registration?

Do you want to collect payments online without having a website?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for your e-commerce store?

Are you worried about the initial cost of setting up a payment gateway?

What is Domain Name, Hosting and DNS?

Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:12:38 +0000

Lesson 3 (Bonus) - What is Domain Name, Hosting and DNS?

Welcome to the bonus lesson of Free e-commerce course, in the last lesson I explained how to register a domain name for your website but seems people are confused about certain things….

If you are trying to understand How a website works and What is the difference between a Website and domain name, what is hosting, then it might be overwhelming at first.

How to Register your website domain name?

Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:41:49 +0000

Lesson 3 - How to Register your website domain name?

Welcome to the third lesson of the Free Online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we show you how to register your own website domain name.

Start the below video to watch it.

You can use other domain registrars such as Namecheap, GoDaddy, Google domains etc as well. The core concepts remains the same.

Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:29:07 +0000

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Welcome to the Second lesson of the Free online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we discuss the Business and Tax Registrations required to run an e-commerce business in India and also how to do the said registrations.

Click on the below video to start the lesson, also you can subscribe to the youtube channel to get a notification whenever a new video is uploaded.

What is ecommerce and it's types?

Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:05:47 +0000

Lesson 1 - What is ecommerce and it’s types?

Welcome to the First lesson of the Free e-commerce course and in this lesson, I’ll be speaking about what is e-commerce and what are the types of e-commerce.

Click on the below video to watch it.

In the next lesson, we will learn about what are the legal registrations (such as business reg., GST, PAN etc) required to run an e-commerce business in India.

Free Online Course on E-Commerce

Sun, 08 Oct 2017 16:19:31 +0000

I have been into Internet/e-commerce/online payments for the last 5-7 years and I have been working in the online e-commerce industry full-time for almost 3 years now after resigning from my corporate job.

I have worked on my own as well as client e-commerce projects and that constitute my experience and I have learned all these things from my own research in the past 7 years and I must admit, it took a lot of time learning all these things and a still a lot to learn.

Collect Online Payments via WhatsApp and Facebook

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 17:40:40 +0000

If you are a small business or a startup looking to collect online digital payments from Credit / Debit cards, net-banking and you couldn’t afford the fancy swiping machine or a costly payment account. Now you can simply share payments link via Whatsapp, Facebook, SMS, e-mail etc and your customers can pay online easily with the comfort of home and the amount gets settled in your bank account in 2 days.

The Art of Swimming

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 18:34:12 +0000

In this article, I would like to discuss the importance of the Art of Swimming.

According to me, it’s not just a sport it’s a divine Art, a therapy, and the obvious, a life saver (litterally).

The Divine Art

There are 5 fundamental elements of Nature Air, Water, Earth, Fire and Space (as in sky) and normal humans (who doesn’t swim) can manage to live only in the Air medium. The human body is designed in such a way. But it has been told that Yogis can navigate in all the mediums.

Get a High performance full SSD Free VPS Server from Digital Ocean

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:42:38 +0000

If you are looking for a high-performance free VPS Server without any ads to test your application, host a website or evaluate VPS servers for your production environment, then you have come to the right place. For the uninitiated, let’s introduce VPS.

What is Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

Virtual Private Server (VPS) are virtual computers that are hosted on a physical server in the cloud, which can be accessed via the Internet. These servers have their own operating system, own server resources and functions like a normal server except that multiple VPS can reside in a Single Physical server but they will have their dedicated Storage and RAM.

Get free google play store credits using Google Rewards App

Sun, 01 Oct 2017 17:29:59 +0000

Most of you must have used Google play store to download Apps, music, movies, books, games etc. Some of them are free, most of them are either paid or ad-supported.

At times you must have wanted paid products or premium version of products to remove annoying ads or you just wanted to buy a book or something but you don’t want to pay for them, so you search for pirated apk’s and end up installing malware on your mobile.

Is Amazon Prime Membership worth it?

Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:57:53 +0000

Amazon launched their Prime membership last year in India and I’ve been using it for the past 1 year and based on my 1-year experience if you ask me if it is worth paying ₹499 / ₹999 (You can get ₹500 Cashback in your Amazon Pay wallet), I would say, Absolutely yes. First, let’s see what are the benefits of Prime Membership.

Benefits of Prime Membership

Free delivery on all products Fulfilled by Amazon and most of the high moving products are fulfilled by Amazon.
Free One Day and Two day delivery on eligible products and pin codes, for which you have to pay extra if you are not a prime member.
Early access to deals and special offers for Prime members.
And my favorite, unlimited access to Amazon Prime Video which includes a lot of Hollywood movies and popular TV series

Should you go for it?

You should. If you are a heavy shopper and you are based in any of the metros, then you can get free fast delivery and it’s more than worth.

100 Day Blogging Challenge

Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:12:45 +0000

Day 1: 27-Sep-2017 100 Day Blogging Challenge - Launch

Day 2 Tez - The India Specific Payments app from Google

Day 3 Is Amazon Prime Membership Worth it?

Day 4 Store Unlimited Photos and Videos online with Google Photos for free

Day 5 How to get free google play store credits using Google Rewards App?

Day 6 Get a free credit line approved and use it as a Credit card/loan without extra charges

Day 7 Get a High-performance full SSD Free VPS Server from Digital Ocean

Launching 100 Days Blogging challenge

Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:01:06 +0000

I have always wanted to become a successful blogger and there are lot of things going on in my mind which I have wanted to express through my blog every single day but I have been procrastinating for almost the better part of the last 3-4 years, call it laziness, lack of motivation or whatever you want but I’m done with it.

So I’m launching this 100 Day blogging challenge to motivate and challengemyself to write at least 1 blog post for every single day continuously for 100 days.

My Technical setup

Wed, 13 Sep 2017 07:17:32 +0000

Few people have asked me about the tools and technical setup I’m using to run my blog and website.

It is difficult for me to explain them orally everytime but it is important because it will help them learn and do their own thing. So, I’m going to mention about the most of the tools and technologies I use in my blog and my business.

Web Services I use or have used in the past

5 steps to create your own free online store without coding

Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:28:26 +0000

Learn how to create your own free online store without any coding in under thirty minutes in 5 easy steps and also get Rs.500 in your bank account after completing your first sale.

We will show you an example with a hobby business called Prighu - Art crafts & Jewellery

Create a Facebook page for your business

First create a Facebook page for your business (if you haven’t done already) and post about your business and related images.

Best payment gateway for Startups in India

Thu, 09 Mar 2017 15:25:38 +0000

Being a Startup entrepreneur and service provider involved in ecommerce and allied fields, I know the importance of collecting payments online and the role of Payment gateway in it. There are lot of factors involved while selecting a Payment gateway especially when you are starting new.

After years of searching and analysis, I believe, I have a winner,

I’ll try to explain why Instamojo is the best payment gateway for startups in India and the factors I have considered while choosing the payment gateway.

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How to change Letsencrypt certbot HTTP-01 challenge to DNS-01 challenge for Cloudflare?

Why switch from HTTP-01 challenge to DNS-01 challenge?

How I made my blog Faster, Cheaper & Secure?

Little background

Old setup

AWS EC2 Instance Monitoring Alarms using AWS CloudWatch & CWAgent in Ubuntu

Assumption:

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

Modi’s Foreign Policy with regards to India-China relations and its impacts on Taiwan

India - China Relations overview

I built an Attic for Chickens to lay eggs

Wordpress files and folder permissions in a server

Integrating Payment Gateway with Opencart site

Lesson 9 - Integrating Payment Gateway with Opencart site

Install OpenCart CMS on your website

Lesson 7 - Install OpenCart CMS on your website

What is a CMS?

Increase focus in work with White Noise

India and The Ease of Doing Business Index

What is Ease of Doing Business Index?

A Game of Chess to Keep your brain fresh

5 lesser known Android Apps from Google

Google Keep

Google Fit

Google Opinion Rewards

Why did I dump Windows for Ubuntu? (Part 2)

Free Payment Gateway Consultation

Must Read Books for everyone

Self help books

Books for entrepreneurs

How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

Keep Track of everything with Google Keep and increase productivity

Why is Google Keep the best?

Create free Professional Business email with custom domain using Zoho mail

Lesson 6 - Create free Professional Business email with custom domain using Zoho mail

Managing your website DNS with CloudFlare

Lesson 5 - Managing your website DNS with CloudFlare

Why did i dump windows for Ubuntu? (Part 1)

The Power of Projects and Gamification

What is this power of Projects and Gamification?

How to Signup for a Payment Gateway in India?

Lesson 4 - How to Signup for a Payment Gateway in India?

What is Domain Name, Hosting and DNS?

Lesson 3 (Bonus) - What is Domain Name, Hosting and DNS?

How to Register your website domain name?

Lesson 3 - How to Register your website domain name?

Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

What is ecommerce and it's types?

Lesson 1 - What is ecommerce and it’s types?

Free Online Course on E-Commerce

Collect Online Payments via WhatsApp and Facebook

The Art of Swimming

The Divine Art

Get a High performance full SSD Free VPS Server from Digital Ocean

What is Virtual Private Server (VPS)?

Get free google play store credits using Google Rewards App

Is Amazon Prime Membership worth it?

Benefits of Prime Membership

Should you go for it?

100 Day Blogging Challenge

Launching 100 Days Blogging challenge

My Technical setup

5 steps to create your own free online store without coding

Create a Facebook page for your business

Best payment gateway for Startups in India