#7 The LAMP Stack

LAMP is acronym for the first letters of Linux (operating system), Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software) and PHP (Perl or Python), the principal components used to build a feasible general purpose web server. Lamp solution stack comes free, and is open source software.

The software combination has become very popular, it’s free of cost, open-source, make it easily adoptable and when used together, they form a solution stack of technologies that support application servers.

Before LAMP, companies had to hire a group of engineers, many of them using the .NET Framework, and license technology from Oracle and Microsoft.

$6 E-Printing

E-Printing is a technology which took printing a step ahead; now users can print remotely using Smartphones and other mobile devices which are cloud connected, without needing a traditional PC or to be at actual place. The main advantage is flexibility, business travelers and remote workers can print on the go with some clicks and an email.   

Now, the devices like HP Officejet 6700 lets you print by sending the jobs to an email address. Even Google provides a service where users can send print jobs to the Google Cloud Print, where jobs are then transmitted to your printer.