Category Archive: Technology

August 12, 2014 / by Marco / internet, network, problem, tplink, Wireless, wireless internet connection, wirelessspeed

How I fixed my Internet Wireless Speed

Do you feel like your Internet speed is slow when you’re using your Wireless connection? You could be right – it’s possible there is a configuration problem. I recently experienced this with our work Internet connection and having an IT Networking background I needed to get to the bottom of this. Here’s the scenario and background: SCENARIO […]

August 11, 2014 / by Marco / android, permissions, readtowrite, twitter, twitterapp

How can I change the Read only Twitter application to Write

I’ve done this 3 times already and keep forgetting what to do, so I decided to write it down. Here’s the problem: When creating a new Twitter account is when changing a twitter app permission from Read only to Read and Write brings up the following error: You must add your mobile phone to your Twitter […]

August 9, 2014 / by Marco / cron, php, setup, wamp

How to create CRON jobs (Scheduled Tasks) in WAMP

What is WAMP? WAMP is a Windows based web development platform that allows you to create web applications with Apache2, PHP and MySQL. It is basically a package that you run on your Windows OS and it will turn the device into a web server. What is a CRON job? Ok, so CRON jobs is […]

August 7, 2014 / by Marco / backup, cron, Godaddy, job, mysqldump, zip

How to setup GoDaddy Cron Jobs

If you have a shared hosting account and need to create a Cron Job then follow these simple steps. Cron jobs are scheduled tasks that allow you to run a script in the background at a set frequency. HOW TO SETUP GODADDY CRON JOBS INSTRUCTIONS Login to your Godaddy Account Click on Cron Job Manager […]

July 25, 2014 / by Marco / featured, products, WooCommerce, Wordpress

How to mark products as featured in WooCommerce

In this post I will show you how to mark products as featured in WooCommerce. There are three ways to mark a product as featured in WooCommerce and I’ve listed these below: Method 1: Click the star Click Products on the left hand side then products again. You will see a column with the star. […]

July 9, 2014 / by Marco / feed, Image, plugin, RSS, Wordpress

How to add images to your WordPress RSS feed

I just realised the WordPress RSS feed doesn’t include the post images, so I had to look for a plugin which would perform this task. After trying a few, the only one that worked well (also when using Yoast SEO) was SB RSS Feed plus. This is a free plugin and can be found when […]

July 7, 2014 / by Marco / Free, psd, templates

Free PSD templates and plugins

Finding free PSD templates can be a very time consuming process. Yes I’ve experienced this myself. So I thought I’d better list the sites which have free templates and plugins for Adobe Photoshop. Here’s a short list: Free PSD Template Download DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU’VE READ?Join our subscription list and receive our content right […]

June 23, 2014 / by Marco / plugin, Wordpress

Top 5 WordPress Article Sponsorship Plugins

Linux Text Browser – Lynx

The text tool that I use on a Linux system to browse the Internet is called lynx. All you need to do is open up the terminal (I use putty) and enter: Lynx lynx www.google.com Press a to accept the cookie This will open up www.google.com.au – the text version Use the arrow keys […]

June 13, 2014 / by Marco /

How to add Arabic Text in Photoshop CS5

I can’t speak or write in Arabic but had to use Photoshop to create an image with some arabic text. I didn’t realise that Photoshop doesn’t display the correct Arabic text. It was pointed out to me at a later stage by someone that I didn’t even know. In any case, here’s what I had […]

June 12, 2014 / by Marco / apache, gzip, snippet, wamp

How to enable GZIP on a WAMP server

There’s a few way to enable GZIP on a WAMP server and here’s what I did to get mine working. This was tested with WAMP version 2.2 WHY ENABLE GZIP? This will increase the speed it takes to load your website. Data is compressed before it is sent and decompressed at the receiver end. This process […]

June 3, 2014 / by Marco / issue, linkedin, posting

LinkedIn Issue not displaying description and image from WordPress

So I tried sharing a WordPress blog post on LinkedIn and discovered that LinkedIn wasn’t displaying the description and thumbnail image from the Open Graph meta tags. I thought it could have been the actual post, so I tried different posts and received the same results. WAS THE ISSUE WITH LINKEDIN? No, but firstly let […]