Category Archive: Technology

August 24, 2012 / by Marco / images, thumbnail, two tools, video thumbnails, Wordpress

How to generate thumbnails automatically in WordPress

There are two tools that I use for automatically generating the featured thumbnail in WordPress. For images I use: http://www.sanisoft.com/blog/2010/04/19/wordpress-plugin-automatic-post-thumbnail/ And for Videos http://sutherlandboswell.com/projects/wordpress-video-thumbnails/ Both work really great and make the website look really professional by having the thumbnails. DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU’VE READ?Join our subscription list and receive our content right in […]

August 21, 2012 / by Marco / constraints, image size, images, proportions, size function

How do I maintain the image proportions when I resize my images in Photoshop?

The best way to resize an image it to ensure the image proportions are maintained, otherwise the image may look stretched or weird. When using photoshop, you can use the Image size function. You just have to make sure Constraints proportions is selected: Alternatively, you can select the image then press CTRL-T and drag […]

Photector – prevent accidental removal of photos on your iPhone

My 11 month daughter likes to watch her photos of herself on my wife’s iPhone. There has been several times when she accidentally deleted some of the photos from her phone. After a bit of researching I found out that there is an app called Photector that protects your photos. You basically need to enter […]

August 8, 2012 / by Marco / 2c i, american idol, enhancements, snippets, x factor

Youtube Playlist enhancements

I’m a regular youtuber (is there such a word?) and watch overseas singing shows in the US like The Voice, American Idol, X Factor and the list goes on. There are several things that bug me when I use Youtube and I listed them below: 1. I believe by default (depending on the uploader) , […]

Netcraft.com – all about websites

I don’t know how many times I keep forgetting about this website called Netcraft http://news.netcraft.com/ and I thought it was time to blog about it so that I can easily come back and search for it. Anyways, this is a website I use to check a website hosting providers performance, uptime, what OS they are running etc. […]

August 3, 2012 / by Marco / android, Auto, Draft, good features, pink hat

What’s this pink hat on my Samsung Galaxy S2?

Yesterday I upgraded my Android Samsung Galaxy S2 to the latest version of Resurrection Remix (3.0.1). There’s quite a few good features on this latest kernel but what I found most interesting is this pink hat icon in the toggles. You think I’m going crazy? Here’s what I’m talking about. Here’s the ROM version […]

WordPress Popup and Newsletter

Ok, so if you’re like me and you want to increase your blog readership subscription then you may be in luck. I use WordPress for my blog and the following plugins: Displet Pop – this plugin creates a nice pop and has many features WP Autoresponder – allows you to create a newsletter so your […]

How to take screen captures on the Samsung Galaxy S2 ICS

I’ve forgotten how to do this a number of times and shame on me, I keep pressing the power and home button together. What you need to do is follow these simple instructions: 1. Press the power (right hand side of phone) and volume down button (left hand side) 2. You will see the phone […]

July 31, 2012 / by Marco / Autoresponder, blog, center, email marketing, issue, line, link, lt, NCjxka, plugin, td, time, wp, wpresponder

How to remove the Email Marketing by WP Autoresponder

I started using the WP Autoresponder plugin which is an awesome plugin which every blog should have. The only issue that I had was that the form embedded a link to the authors website. See the below image: I couldn’t find any options to get rid of this in the plugin and it’s something that […]

Awesome Android, iPhone and iPad Development GUI Kits, Stencils and Icons

If you’re looking at developing a new iPhone & Android app and you need to start designing the wireframe, here’s a good starting point: These are pretty awesome: Android GUI Kits, Stencils and Icons iPhone GUI Kits, Stencil and Icons DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU’VE READ?Join our subscription list and receive our content right in […]

July 30, 2012 / by Marco / amount, Apps, buy, change, computer properties, DDR, face, hurray, Kensington, loading windows, manager, memory change, memory module, new kensington, Properties, smiles, task manager, thought, Today, Usable

Windows 7 – 2.92GB Usable Memory

I thought I’d give my PC a bit of a boost today buy purchasing an additional 4GB DDR3 memory, which will bring the total memory to 8GB. So after removing the case and plugging in the new Kensington 4GB DDR 1333Mhz memory module in the motherboard slot I had all smiles on my face. I […]

July 30, 2012 / by Marco / boot drive, classroom c, clone systems, Corporate, kind, massive deployment, multicasting, nchc, Norton, norton ghost, OCS, open source tool, OpenSource, package, software, solution, Symantec, tool, unicasting, usb boot

Clonezilla Live USB

Clonezilla is an open source tool similar to Norton Ghost. It’s all text based and I’ve been using it for years and works well. But every time I create a Live USB boot drive, I seem to get it wrong all the time so I decided to create this post. What is Clonezilla? You’re probably […]