Category Archive: Business

July 12, 2015 / by Marco / change the style, contact, Contact Form 7, CSS, form, really simple captcha, table, Wordpress

Styling WordPress Contact Form 7

Styling a contact form can be a difficult task, especially for those like me that have very little programming experience but with some persistence (more like trial and error), I managed to style the contact form. The website is built using WordPress and the theme that was used is Unik. The theme also had a built in […]

June 22, 2015 / by Marco / business, example, right, use

Retail signage add-ons can make all the difference

Every successful business makes use of effective signage. Signs spread the word about a business, they advertise sales and specials, they relay information, and more. They are a proven method of driving customer traffic to the business and of enticing them to purchase once they are there. Location is very important when it comes to […]

June 2, 2015 / by Marco / new, smartphone, Social Wall, website

Introducing Social Wall for Business Legions

We’ve just added a new page on our website called Social Wall that displays our Facebook posts and also the hashtags #business and #technology from Twitter. It’s a pretty cool tool and you can use it on your website, smartphone, digital screen if you have a retail store, or on a video wall. The possibilities […]

May 23, 2015 / by Marco / external, httpd, Order Deny, wamp

How to enable external web access for WAMP

I’ve been using WAMP for several years but keep forgetting one simple step when trying to get WAMP setup up for external access i.e. allow external computer to connect to it. What you need to do is open the httpd.conf file and find this code: Existing: Replace it with Restart WAMP and then test. DO YOU […]

May 21, 2015 / by Marco / change, check, theme, websites

Using Tesla Theme for Blog

A few posts ago I mentioned about the Top WordPress Themes from Tesla Themes and wanted to just give you a real life example of how I actually used a theme called Novelty for a website I actually manage. The website is DigitalSignageBlog.com and it’s a website related to the digital signage industry. We’ve previously used two other […]

March 11, 2015 / by Marco / enhancement, esmeedenters, google, playlist, thevoice, thevoiceuk, Youtube

YouTube enhancement playlist

Ok, so by now you would probably know I’m an avid and passionate user of Google products. I have used YouTube since the early days and have seen it evolve to become the most powerful video tool on the Internet. However, there’s an area that I’m really annoyed about and want to rant about it […]

March 9, 2015 / by Marco / cron, job, location, logs

Where are the cron job logs located?

I have a few cron jobs running and had to find out where the logs were located. After some research and it was quite obvious it was located here: /var/log/ Issue the command ls to check what is in that folder. You will see on the list, cron files with a date like below: DO […]

March 6, 2015 / by Marco / icyscreen, print screen, screenshot, software

Automatic Screenshots using IcyScreen

For many of you taking a screenshot is straight forward – you press the Print Screen button and then open up an image editor, paste the screen capture and then save the file. Simple right? But what happens if you want to automate this process so that you have a screenshot every minute or every […]

February 22, 2015 / by Marco / business, entrepreneurs, farting, goals, procrastinating, stop

Stop Farting Around published on LinkedIn

I recently published an article called Stop Farting Around and the main topic for this article was to Stop Procrastinating. Ever since I was young, I’ve have always tried to be a “Do It Now” type of person. I like to get things done now (yes sometimes it doesn’t go according to plan) and having […]

February 21, 2015 / by Marco / air, australia, broker, china, costs, customs, Import

Cost of importing goods from China via Air

The costs of importing goods from China can be costly. I recently imported a box of electronic goods via Air and it wasn’t cheap. The reason why we decided to go with Air instead of Sea was because we needed the goods urgently. The goods were sent on the 17th of February 2015 and it […]

January 21, 2015 / by Marco / extraction, gauze, medication, panadeine forte, tooth

Molar Tooth Extraction

This was my second tooth extraction within the past 6 months and it hurt more than the first one. I had excruciating pain near the cheekbone and when touching the molar I was sure this was the cause of the pain. I had the first molar remove about 4 months ago since there was part of […]

December 24, 2014 / by Marco / cheap, galaxy, online, s5, Samsung

Cheapest Samsung Galaxy S5

I recently purchased the latest Samsung Galaxy S5 4G LTE 16GB for only $431.95 This was the cheapest I could find online at the time. Generally this would go for around $600 but I was lucky enough to buy it for less than $459.00 because of a Black Friday special. I purchased this from Yatango.com.au […]