Category Archive: Technology

January 2, 2013 / by Marco / change, Loop Until Stopped, need, Select

Powerpoint 2013 Tips and Tricks

Microsoft Powerpoint 2013 is a powerful presentation tool… only if you know where the features are. After spending several hours figuring out where some of these features were, I thought I’d create a list of my tips and tricks below. It was quite interesting that I couldn’t find these on Google and had to work […]

December 26, 2012 / by Marco / berries, christmas, christmas gift, game, gamer

Smurfberries Glitch or Christmas Gift – constantly receiving free 10 berries?

I need to thank my wife (a Smurf Village game fan) for this post. She basically told me last night after playing for several minutes on the Smurf Village iPhone game that she’s constantly receiving a gift of 10 berries. When I mean constantly, it’s about 10 berries per 2-3 minutes. I don’t know whether this […]

December 25, 2012 / by Marco / golden website, search engine optimisation, search terms, website owner, website traffic

The Golden Website

What is the Golden Website? The Golden Website is actually my made up term that refers to a website that is ranked not only on the first page of the Google search results for certain popular search terms but it is ranked first – just below the sponsored Google ads. For quite a number of […]

December 19, 2012 / by Marco / Gmail, google search, logical explanation, new features, reply

Why didn’t Google include pop-out replies with the new Gmail Compose rollout?

Ok, I admit it. I’m a Google fan. I have an Android phone, I use Chrome, Google Search, Google Analytics, Google Webmaster tools, Google Adwords, Google Apps and the list goes on. But one of the things I have found so frustrating over the years is the little reply box in Gmail. Yes, you know […]

December 15, 2012 / by Marco / Apps, developers, face to face, longest time, make money, make money building apps, mind readers, money, revenue, smartphone

How to make money building smartphone apps?

So you’re thinking of making money building smartphone apps. Where do you start? Are you going to make money? Is there already an existing app on the market? Those are some of the questions I would ask before even thinking about making money building smartphone apps. So what should you build? I guess that’s up […]

December 14, 2012 / by Marco / blogs, error messages, library interface, local computer, media library

Grab and Save and Sharebar Plugins doesn’t work with WordPress 3.5

I just upgraded several of my websites to the latest version of WordPress 3.5 and discovered that the Grab and Save plugin doesn’t work with the new media library interface. For those of you who doesn’t know what Grab and Save does read the below description: Grab and Save -This plugin allow you to grab […]

December 12, 2012 / by Marco / File, folders, time, use

File and Directory Synching Software – some are completely free

How do you synchronise files and folders on your computer or from your computer to a USB stick? Here’s your answer, it’s an open source application called DirSync… it’s completely free. 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 […]

November 20, 2012 / by Marco / amazon, frenzy, fuss, google, kogan

Click frenzy – no show

I just tried accessing the click frenzy website www.clickfrenzy.com.au after my wife complained that Interet was down, but in actual fact it’s the site that is down. After some researching, just the site and other websites that are pointing back to their website is also down e.g kogan www.kogan.com/ClickFrenzy are also down. Looks like their servers couldn’t cope the load. I’m […]

November 17, 2012 / by Marco / domain registrar, domain suffix, hosting company, mobi, professional website, thousands of dollars

We’ll show you how to create a professional Website for less than $100.00

Building Professional websites CAN cost thousands of dollars, but in this post I’m going to quickly show you how easy you can build a professional website for less than $100. DOMAIN HOSTING Generally, there’s nothing special required from a domain hosting company. It all depends on what type of domain suffix you want to […]

November 13, 2012 / by Marco / speaker icon, stereo mix, task bar, video file, video presentations

How to capture video and audio with Adobe Captivate

I started playing with Adobe Captivate today and found it very useful for creating video presentations and video tutorials. You basically capture an area of your screen and it will save it into a video file that can be uploaded to Youtube or Vimeo. I could capture video fine, but for some reason the capture […]

November 10, 2012 / by Marco / facebook, meta, thumbnail, thumbnails, wordpress blog

Facebook showing incorrect thumbnails from my WordPress site

Whenever I post a link for my wordpress blog on my facebook wall, it shows the wrong thumbnail. The solution is simple, install a plugin called Add Facebook Share Thumbnail + Meta and make sure that you have a Featured Image set. Once you have those two set, then you need to clear the Facebook […]

October 23, 2012 / by Marco / business printer, e mail, Gmail, printer settings, Samsung

Setting up the Samsung CLX-6220 with Gmail SMTP

For some unknown reason, our business printer – the Samsung CLX-6220 lost it’s SMTP printer settings. This meant we were unable to scan a document and send this to an email address in the address book. The benefit of doing this is you can have a copy in your mailbox and also quickly forward scanned […]