Category Archive: Technology
How to merge duplicate information in Google Contacts
Do you have duplicate contacts in your Google Contacts or on your Android Smartphone? Here’s a simple way to remove/merge duplicate contacts: 1. Login to your Gmail account 2. Click on Contacts. There’s a few ways to go into contacts: Click on the Apps icon at the top right hand corner or click on […]
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Facebook Pages Call To Action
Today, I was given the privilege by Facebook to use a new Feature on Facebook Pages called Call to Action. [colorbox title=”What is Call to Action?” color=”#c0c0c0″]According to Facebook: Designed to bring a business’s most important objective to the forefront of its Facebook presence, call-to-action buttons link to any destination on or off Facebook that […]
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How to setup phpMyAdmin to prompt for login and password
By default, phpMyAdmin on WAMP automatically logs in using the root user account. To make this more secure you it is best to use an authentication method to prompt for the username and password. To do this follow these steps: Edit the config.inc.php file located in C:\wamp\apps/phpmyadmin3.5.1 Look for the line that has auth type […]
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WordPress Fastest Cache plugin
I’ve been using WordPress for years. I can’t even recall whether I’ve used v1 or not but I wanted to share with everyone one of the plugins that I’ve been using for the past year. It a caching plugin and it’s called Fastest Cache. This plugin is FREE and it was one of the easiest […]
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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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