Category Archive: Technology

September 3, 2014 / by Marco / photo, photo editing, Photoshop, picmonkey

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 […]

September 1, 2014 / by Marco / server, telnet, Windows, windows 2008 R2

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 […]

August 30, 2014 / by Marco / apache, disk space, Free, logging, mysql, wamp, windirstat

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, […]

August 23, 2014 / by Marco / cron, cron manager, example, job, zpanel

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 […]

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