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September 26, 2012 / by Marco / high definition, telstra, voice phone, voice quality, voice technology

Telstra HD Voice

I came across an interesting Youtube video about Telstra’s HD Voice technology. I was a bit curious what HD Voice was… it was basically High Definition Voice which provided high voice quality. Most Telstra handsets support this, but it will automatically use HD voice if the other party also is on Telstra and has a […]

I just updated my website and do 404 pages hurt my page ranking

Today, we launched a revamped a website for one a company. We basically moved from using ASP to PHP pages so the permalink between the old and new is completely different. So one of the questions that I had was whether 404 actually impact on my Google Page ranking. The short answer is no but […]

Permalink Error 500 on Godaddy Hosting

This was a weird problem. One of my WordPress websites had issues with the permalinks. I kept getting an error 500 when going to [websitename]/blog and I use Godaddy Windows Hosting. When I select postname as the permalink setting, I get the error 500 which is different from error 404 (when the page doesn’t exist). […]

September 19, 2012 / by Marco / google, innovative thinking, mail, outlook application, outlook data

Solution: Exporting gmail to pst

I was looking for a solution to export my Gmail emails into a PST. I just worked a way on how to do is. With a bit of innovative thinking the solution was quite straight forward. I looked everywhere and there are no options within Gmail to export to pst. That’s conclusive but what you […]

September 18, 2012 / by Marco / australia, brief description, pageviews, popularity, xxxx

Alexa rankings for one of my websites

This is nothing to brag about, but today I noticed that one of our Alexa ranking in Australia is around the 45,000 mark. Now that’s pretty damn good. For those of you that don’t know what the Alexa ranking is, here’s a brief description: Traffic Rank in Country A rough estimate of xxx popularity in […]

September 16, 2012 / by Marco / code generator, qr codes, size 3d

QR Code Generator

[qr-code align=”left” size=”3″] Here’s a cool plugin to generate QR Codes automatically in wordpress posts. It’s called WPQR QR-Code Generator and you can find it in the WordPress plugin section. Above is an example. CUSTOM QR CODES If you’re looking for a Custom QR code just like these one then contact Advertise Me your digital […]

September 14, 2012 / by Marco / colleagues, drive icon, folders, google, Sync

Google Drive for PC can’t see shared documents

One of my colleagues just told me that he doesn’t like Google Drive for PC because he can’t view shared documents. That sounded strange to me and I eventually figured out the solution. Here’s the steps: 1. Right click on the Google Drive icon 2. Click preferences 3. Click Visit “Shared with Me” to sync […]

September 13, 2012 / by Marco / action scripts, money, play button, red button, saving time

Photoshop Action scripts

I’m always about saving time. “Time is money” right? I get into a habit of streamlining processes and if it’s a repetitive task, then why not automate that task. Like create a script? I realised you can do this with Photoshop. All you need to do is click on Window – Action or ALT-F9. Click on the […]

Download Google Drive

For some reason it may look like I’m doing a lot of marketing for Google but I don’t get paid or work for Google, I just love their products and believe that any business can benefit from using their products. The one I will be sharing with you all today is called Google Drive. It’s […]

September 11, 2012 / by Marco / business tip, cartoon tv, pdf book, right direction

How to create a cartoon TV using photoshop

I stumbled across a great tutorial for creating a cartoon TV. Here’s the link. I thought about creating one using these instructions but then I wanted one that was unique so I came up with my own design. Have a look at the one that I came up with by visiting digitalsignageblog.com A business tip: […]

September 11, 2012 / by Marco / images, mobile apps, photo, screenshot, sketch

Cool way to convert an image to a sketch

I found a cool app on a PC or MAC that allows you to convert a normal photo to a sketch. It’s called AKVIS Sketch which the free version allows you to use the software for 10 days. Here’s a screenshot of the app: Here’s what I was able to do with the below […]

September 10, 2012 / by Marco / buddhist, Gmail, google, new moon, wheel

How to add Phases of the Moon Calendar (Full moon and New Moon) to your Google calendar

I come from a Buddhist background and generally pay my respect to God on the Full and New Moon. I’ve been finding it difficult to keep track of when this occurs in the month because it doesn’t follow the Gregorian calendar. But today, I just found out that you can use your Google Calendar (I […]