Hongkiat Lim

Founder and Editor in Chief of Hongkiat.com. Hongkiat is also a designer, developer, entrepreneur, and an active investor in the US stock market.

Latest posts

Launching Spotify Automatically When CarPlay is Connected

Wouldn’t it be nice to have Spotify start playing (or resume) your favorite song when you are in the car or connected with CarPlay? Well, it is poss…

10 Websites to Have Fun With Your Photos

Getting a little bored with how your photos are presented online? How about injecting some fun and humor into it? You don’t really need to be Photos…

50 Bookmarklets For Better Productivity

In a nutshell, bookmarklets are small little applications you can place as browser’s bookmark bar, and they each perform a specific function, depend…

10 Best Sites to Check DNS Propagation

Whenever changes are made to Domain Name Server (DNS) records, DNS propagation kicks in. This could take several hours or even days to complete, and d…

How to Create Unique AI Art With Midjourney

People create art with the most extraordinary materials, be it yarn, food, or pencil shavings. Now you can add to this list AI-powered technology that…

How to Generate Barcodes in Google Sheets

There was a time when businesses needed to buy expensive barcode software to create barcodes for their products. But it’s not the case anymore as yo…

Getting Keyboard Haptic Feedback on iPhone (If All Else Fails)

If you migrate from Android to iOS and are used to the haptic keyboard, then you’ll be disappointed to see it missing on iOS. But there’s good new…

How to Calculate Due Dates with Google Sheets

Say the date today is the 12th of August 2022. If I were to ask you what the date is tomorrow and the date the day after, you’d be able to figure it…

How to Optimize iMessage For More Storage Space

If you are actively using iMessage to chat, you will eventually end up with a shortage of storage space. Be it an iPhone or even an iPad (if they’re…

How to Remove Objects From the Background in Photoshop

During graphic designing, there often comes a time when you find an image really suitable for your project save for that one object. If you’re facin…

PoW vs. PoS in Crypto

If you have been in the cryptocurrency ecosystem for a while, terms like Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) shouldn’t be foreign to you, o…

How to Download Douyin, The Chinese Version of Tiktok

Tiktok, the video hosting service created by ByteDance, has a sister app called Douyin. While Tiktok caters to international users, Douyin has been cr…