Category Archive: Technology
WooCommerce Remove Free Price Plugin
If you’re running WooCommerce on your WordPress site, have you ever seen this on your website? Yes the word FREE! is displayed on your products if the price value is 0. This can happen if you forget to add a price or if you use an importing tool and the source data feed doesn’t have […]
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Easiest way to change your mySQL root password
By default once you install mySQL using WAMP, the default password is blank. If you need to change this default password to your own the easiest way to do this is to login to localhost/phpmyadmin – in WAMP simply click on the WAMP icon and select phpmyadmin from the list. [infobox type=”tip” clickable=”no” boldtext=”The default […]
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NFC Tags under a microscope
NFC tags are now becoming more popular. NFC stands for Near field communication and it is a new technology which allows small data transfers between two NFC enabled devices. [infobox type=”info” clickable=”no” boldtext=”Definition”]NFC Stands for Near Field Communications […]
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What’s my DNS?
Firstly, for the non-techie people out there DNS stands for Domain Name Servers. Since I have worked in the IT in previous roles, I have a good understanding of what DNS is. For those of you who don’t then it’s OK. You don’t really need to know what this… but just remember that without it, […]
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Bug: How to avoid paying the 10% processing fee on Fivver.com
If you’re a Fivver.com user then you’re going to love this. Fivver, recently introduced a 10% fee for processing orders. So the total cost of a fivver gig is US$5.50. If your order is higher then you would still have to pay for the processing fee. I found this out when I ordered a gig […]
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How to backup your Gmail emails to another Gmail account
Are you running out of space in your GMail account? Each Gmail account gives you 15GB of of free data, shared between your emails and files (pictures from Google+ if over 2048×2048 resolution and files you’ve stored in Drive like PDFs, images and videos). If you’re like me, I don’t delete any emails in my […]
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How to Check and Repair MySQL Tables Using MySQLcheck
For some reason my WordPress site was not displaying the correct information. The site uses WooCommerce and the products was not displaying at all. This was quite strange. I thought I’d better backup the database so when I did, I received the following error message: mysqldump: Got error: 145: Table ‘./xxx/wp_postmeta’ is marked as crashed […]
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The future of the car driving experience
When you come across a technology that gives you the chill, it’s definitely worth sharing. So have a look at this video (the acting is pretty funny too!): Yes, it’s the NAVDY. As you saw in the video, the NAVDY has voice recognition, touchless gestures (swiping with fingers) and works with your Iphone and Android. […]
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Awesome Photo Editing Tool
Why didn’t I know about this great tool earlier. It’s called picmonkey and it’s a very simple tool for photo editing and creating great images. It’s free for all the basic editing feature and but if you use some of the “Royal” features such as extra effects, icons, fonts, designs you need to become a […]
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How to install Telnet on Windows 2008 R2
Windows 2008 server doesn’t come with the Telnet application. I was planning to download and install a SSH client or another Telnet client but found out that there is a package that you can install to run Telnet. Here’s the command: Then all you need to do is run the telnet command: DO YOU LIKE […]
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WAMP: Free up disk space and disable binary Logging in MySQL
Our Windows VPS server was running out of disk space (had only 1GB out of 40GB) and I decided to run a scan to check which files and directories was using the most amount of space. You can use an open source tool called WinDirStat Portable to run the scan. After you run the scan, […]
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How to create Cron Jobs in Zpanel
I’ve been using Zpanel for the past year and it’s a free Open Source Tool similar to Cpanel. Instead of paying $10 a month for using Cpanel, Zpanel is the free alternative. There are limited features with using Zpanel, for example it doesn’t have the option (One Click Install) to install WordPress, Joomla or the other open […]
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