Category Archive: Technology

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 […]

May 14, 2015 / by Marco / ID, jelled, press, username

Find your Instagram ID

If you’re using the Instagram API and want to find out what your Instagram user ID is based on your username then there is a tool for this. You can use jelled.com All you have to do is simply enter your username and then press the go button and your user ID (number) will be […]

May 12, 2015 / by Marco / Click Share, code, embed, left hand side

How to Embed or Share your Google Maps

I was looking for a way to Embed or Share a Google Map location and I couldn’t figure it out until I accidentally clicked on the correct icon. I had to document this because even the instructions on Google was not correct have a read here https://support.google.com/maps/answer/3544418?hl=en CORRECT INSTRUCTIONS Now here’s the correct instructions: 1. Open […]

May 8, 2015 / by Marco / error message, Linux Malware Detect, maldetect, R-fx Networks

Fix for Problem installing Maldetect

I recently ran into a problem with installing Maldetect on a CentOS system. I almost gave up until I discovered that one of my sites had a malware so decided to dig in further and try to resolve the issue. After downloading and running the install bash file, I received the error message “could not […]

April 26, 2015 / by Marco / blog, business, modern, responsive, tesla, teslathemes, Themes, top, websites, Wordpress

Top WordPress Themes from Tesla Themes

WordPress themes are the best options in this competitive world to make your website or blogs look more attractive. They are designed neatly and have exclusive features that offer great support to any aspiring business or blogger. WordPress programmers today are offering much more than it did before and now they can easily create beautiful […]

April 20, 2015 / by Marco / change, com, friendly, google, Google Mobile, Mobile, smartphone, test, websites

Is your website Mobile Friendly

This week Google is making a major update to it’s mobile search algorithm. It will basically change the order in which websites are ranked when using a smartphone or tablet. So if your website is currently receiving lots of traffic from smartphone or tablet devices this will change tomorrow (21st April 2015). If your website […]

March 26, 2015 / by Marco / bots, crawlers, google, robots, seo

Best way to stop crawler bots

I recently discovered one of my VPS servers was running constantly at 1-2 CPU load and received notifications from the VPS provider that it was using more than my fair share of CPU resources and temporarily suspended the VPS to prevent it from impacting my neighbouring customers – which was fair enough. Upon investigation there were […]

March 19, 2015 / by Marco / Chrome, option, taskkill, use

Kill Chrome Task

I had to figure out a way to close the Chrome browser if it was still running before another scheduled task ran. To do this I had to create a new task a few minutes before the other task ran and use the taskkill command: There is the option to use The /F is […]

March 12, 2015 / by Marco / annoying, clx6220, confirmation, environment, printer, report, Samsung

How to Disable Printing Confirmation Report Samsung Printer

We’ve had the Samsung Printer CLX-6220 Series for several years now. It has served us well and has been very reliable. There was one feature though that I had to disable even after all these years of putting up with it and that was to disable the Printing Confirmation Report. This is what I’m refeering […]

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 7, 2015 / by Marco / dicksmith, electrical, electronics, multimeter

My First Multimeter

I found my very first digital multimeter that I ever owned. It’s a Dick Smith Electronics brand and I must have purchased it over 15 years ago or even more. I must have purchased it for University for one of those Electrical subjects which I hated. I think I must have failed the same subject […]