Category Archive: Technology

August 27, 2015 / by Marco / flexible, monstroid, plugin, powerful, simple, template, theme, top, ultimate, Wordpress

The Monstroid WordPress Theme

As the name suggests, it’s a Monster of a Theme. If you’re a WordPress user then this theme does it all. Over the years I’ve used and tested quite a number of Themes and Monstroid is one that I would recommend if you’re looking to start a new website. It’s very simple to use. Unlike other […]

July 17, 2015 / by Marco / dropbox, email, legit, malware, virus

Beware Dropbox Virus

I’ve just received several emails from people that I know with the subject title ” I used dropbox to share a file with you!”. Just like below: When you click on the email you will see the following message: This is not a Spoof email because the headers of the email actually came from the […]

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 […]

July 4, 2015 / by Marco / administrator account, click, folder, Windows 10

How to delete Windows.old folder after Windows 10 Upgrade

If you’ve recently updated to Windows 10, you will notice in your C: there will be a Windows.old folder. This is your previous version of Windows and it will be there until you remove it. On my computer the folder is about 15GB and on a 60GB SSD it was worthwhile for me to remove […]

July 3, 2015 / by Marco / com, httpd, index, php

Changing the default index file in VestaCP hosting

I had to launch a new website and needed to display the index.html file instead of the default index.php file. The index.html file is use as a coming soon page whereas the index.php is part of the Content Management System. In order to resolve this issue I had to use these steps: NOTE: I use […]

July 2, 2015 / by Marco / click, fix, problem, program

How to fix audio not playing from a program

I’m currently using Windows 10 Insider Preview and installing the FusionHDTV software and drivers worked fine. The only problem that I encountered was that there was not audio coming from the FusionHDTV software. I use Plantronics headphones and the volume coming from other applications worked fine so it was only this 1 program that had […]

June 30, 2015 / by Marco / line, php, repair, site

WordPress Database Repair

Today, one of my sites was not loading correctly – images and text were not displaying which I guessed that the database was corrupted. In an older post I outlined how to repair mySQL tables using a tool called mysqlcheck. This process may have been a bit too difficult for some so I wanted to […]

June 28, 2015 / by Marco / back, mysql, recovery, work

Solved: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’

My VPS server experienced an issue with mySQL server and thought I’d better document how to resolve it in case it happens again. The symptoms An Error message saying unable to connect to the database comes up when trying to access websites using WordPress Manually starting the mysqld came back with “Failed”- using the command […]

June 23, 2015 / by Marco / error message, off, start menu, Windows Classic Shell

Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview Review

I’ve just installed the Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview (Evaluation Copy – build 10130) and noticed a big improvement from Windows 8.1 Firstly, there is the Start Icon!!!! OMG! For those of you who have used Windows 8.1 know how frustrating it was without the Start button. I even recommended to install a software […]

WordPress Plugin: My Site Functions

This is a simple WordPress Plugin for adding site functions rather than using theme functions. One of the biggest drawbacks with using theme functions in WordPress is that switching themes or updating themes causes the functions you created in the theme to no longer work – it is theme specific. There is a lot of […]

June 8, 2015 / by Marco / Keyword Detection, Script Explanation, setup, visual basic

Using Screencapture IcyScreen in batch file

Several posts ago I mentioned about a tool that I use called IcyScreen to capture screenshots of a monitoring system that I use for work. You can read this here: Automatic Screenshots using IcyScreen. I setup IcyScreen to capture the screen at an interval of 30 minutes, however, I found that this was not the […]

June 4, 2015 / by Marco / need, passcode, scanning, USB

How to connect your Bluetooth Keyboard

I recently purchased a small bluetooth keyboard from iPazzPort and decided to write the instructions on how to pair the bluetooth keyboard with a computer’s bluetooth dongle. I’m planning to use this keyboard for support related jobs. Since it’s small and very portable its easily fits in my bag. The Windows 8.1 PC (the instructions […]