Category Archive: Technology

September 3, 2013 / by Marco / host files, hosts files, interface, production server

Tool to quickly switch between multiple host files

Here’s a great tool for web developers who needs to quickly and easily switch hosting names from a test server to a production server. This can be done by changing entries in the hosts file in Windows. The basic purpose of the host file is to associate the host name (e.g www.businesslegions.com) to the IP […]

July 18, 2013 / by Marco / cursor, google, hand brushes, palm of your hand

Touchfreeze – disable the touchpad while typing

Here’s a little great utility for Windows to disable the touchpad automatically while you are typing text. Why you may ask? Because sometimes, we may accidentally touch the touchpad with the palm of our hands which causes the mouse to move around the screen. So if you get annoyed when you are typing a document […]

July 10, 2013 / by Marco / google, gtalk, line basis, sessions, xxxx

What happened to Google Chat archived chat sessions in Gmail?

I recently noticed the chat sessions in Google Chat are archived in Gmail on a line by line basis. So each line is a new email. In the past, a chat session was just 1 long email containing the full conversation…what happened? Upon further investigation it appears that the change on my account is due […]

July 4, 2013 / by Marco / domain host, domain name, google, headaches, search result

Never let your domain name expire!

What I’ve learnt in the past few years about managing websites, page ranking and SEO is that your website is your biggest digital asset. One of the biggest lessons I’ve learnt is NEVER, EVER let your domain name EXPIRE. I recently forgot to renew the domain name businesslegions.com and when I received the last and […]

June 27, 2013 / by Marco / ebook, file formats, free licenses, pdf to word, portable document format

PDFZilla Free Time-limited Giveaway licenses

So I came across a site that mentioned giving away free licenses… so I thought I’d mention it here. Now if you look closely at this post’s title, it does say “Time-limited”, meaning that its free for all users and visitors who use the software for a period of time. The program is called PDFZilla […]

June 25, 2013 / by Marco / blue background, photos, white background

Blue or white background – which looks better

I was taking a macro photo of a Security lock on two different background and need your help. Which looks better? DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU’VE READ?Join our subscription list and receive our content right in your mailbox. If you like to receive some Great deals our Freebies then subscribe now! Name Email

June 21, 2013 / by Marco / itunes, nokia, Samsung, smart switch, smartphone

Transfer your phone content (Apple, Nokia,Blackberry,LG, Samsung) to a new Samsung Smartphone Device S4

I just came across a great tool to transfer your existing phone content (messages, picture, emails, contacts, etc) to your new Samsung Smartphone. It’s called Samsung Smart Switch and it’s a seamless and time saving tool to transfer your content. All you have to do is perform a backup with your old phone (e.g iTunes) […]

June 16, 2013 / by Marco / interface, internet explorer, old windows, shell, start menu

Windows Classic Shell – change the way Windows 8 looks

Do you hate the way Windows 8 interface looks and feels? Do you want to go back to the good old Windows 7 interface? Here’s a quick and easy way to do it. There’s a program called Classic Shell and all you have to do is install and select which interface you prefer to use. […]

June 4, 2013 / by Marco / half price, modem, sim card, sims, usb cable

Unlock Telstra Elite MF60 for Aldi and Kogan SIM

UPDATE: Here’s instruction on how to unlock the Telstra Elite MF60 for free. https://www.businesslegions.com/blog/2013/10/21/how-to-unlock-telstra-elite-mf60-for-free/ I recently purchased two Telstra Elite MF60 modems… yes two because they were on sale! Half price $39.50 when the normal price is $79.00. My logic was that because the cost of recharging was more expensive than buying a new unit (which […]

June 2, 2013 / by Marco / deselect, hyphen, hyphenate, issue 3a, text tool

How do you remove the dash, hyphen from half word or stop word in Photoshop?

Here’s what happened: I typed a long paragraph using the Text Tool in Photoshop and then I saw words at the end of the box with the dash/hyphen (-). Here’s an image of the issue: I thought this will be easy to fix but then spent the next hour or so working out how to […]

May 31, 2013 / by Marco / exe file, exe files, extension files, geeky, handy one

How to extract contents from an exe file

Did you ever want to check the contents of an exe file? I stumbled across a tool that allows you to extract the contents of exe files so you don’t have to install the program. The tool is called Universal Extractor and it’s designed to decompress and extract files from any type of archive or […]

May 29, 2013 / by Marco / credentials, family safety, user accounts

How to manage Windows credentials

Have you mapped a drive and realised the credentials you used was incorrect. The best way to delete this in Windows is to follow these steps: Click Start Control Panel Click user Accounts and Family Safety Click Credential Manager Select the account you want to Remove to vault DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU’VE […]