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GREAT WORDPRESS THEMES

I’ve suggested Tesla Themes for your WordPress templates in the past and I just want to mentioned it again especially because of some of the latest themes they released. The newest one is called Duality (split screen) and I can vouch that they are Premium WordPress Themes. They have a WordPress theme for almost every […]

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January 15, 2016   /   by Marco   /   , , , , , , ,

FIX FOR NEXTSCRIPT SOCIAL NETWORKS AUTO POSTER ERROR MESSAGES

FIX FOR NEXTSCRIPT SOCIAL NETWORKS AUTO POSTER ERROR MESSAGES

UPDATE: This has been fixed in v3.4.31 Today, I updated to the latest version of Nextscript Social Networks Auto-Poster v3.4.30 (a tool that I use on WordPress to automatically push my posts to social media networks) and then all of a sudden I started receiving all these error messages at the top of the page. Just […]

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January 10, 2016   /   by Marco   /   , , , , ,

HOW TO DELETE CERTAIN FILES IN CENTOS VPS

HOW TO DELETE CERTAIN FILES IN CENTOS VPS

The easiest way to delete files based on the filename and extension in CentOS VPS is to use the following syntax: For example, if you want to delete images that has the name businesslegions in it use: If you’re a bit hesitant and want to check which files it will delete then use this command (without […]

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MY MUST INSTALL WINDOWS SOFTWARE LIST

I’ve recently had to reinstall Windows on my PC and decided to put together a list of Windows Software Applications that I always install and use. I will consistently try to update this list so here’s the Windows Software list I always use as a guide when installing a new fresh Windows Operating System. I’ve […]

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December 17, 2015   /   by Marco   /   , , , , , , ,

HOW TO FIX UPSTREAM TIMED OUT (110: CONNECTION TIMED OUT) ERROR IN VESTACP NGINX

HOW TO FIX UPSTREAM TIMED OUT (110: CONNECTION TIMED OUT) ERROR IN VESTACP NGINX

This was the most annoying issue I’ve ever experienced. I had to import large XML files into a SQL database using a WordPress plugin and kept getting the 500 Internal Server Error message. When I checked the error log I noticed this: *19 upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response header from […]

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December 10, 2015   /   by Marco   /   , , , , , ,

WHERE IS MY GOOGLE+ PHOTOS!

WHERE IS MY GOOGLE+ PHOTOS!

Today, I needed to go into my Google+ Photos to retrieve an old photo I took earlier this year. When I went into Google+ I couldn’t find the Photos button which is generally located somewhere on this list: Heck, I couldn’t find it anywhere. That’s when I threw in the towel and decided to just […]

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December 5, 2015   /   by Marco   /   , , , , , ,

CHROME KIOSK MODE

CHROME KIOSK MODE

The latest version of Chrome v46 has fixed a major issue with the Kiosk mode feature! I previously wrote about How to setup Chrome Kiosk Mode then I wrote several other articles on how to fix a few issues with Chrome Kiosk mode.  Here’s the list: Right clicking still displayed the context menu. I solved this issue […]

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December 1, 2015   /   by Marco   /   , , , , , , , ,

GUIDE TO ADDING YOUR WORDPRESS PLUGIN TO WORDPRESS.ORG

GUIDE TO ADDING YOUR WORDPRESS PLUGIN TO WORDPRESS.ORG

Last week I was involved with creating a WordPress Plugin and had the responsibility to uploading the plugin to WordPress.org. It was my first time doing this and was a bit overwhelmed with the whole experience. I did manage to get it published and so I decided to write about this experience so that I […]

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November 11, 2015   /   by Marco   /   , , , , , , , ,

USE GOOGLE APPS 50% DISCOUNT 1ST YEAR

USE GOOGLE APPS 50% DISCOUNT 1ST YEAR

I have been using Google Apps since the early days (almost 10 years ago) and have always been impressed with the product offerings from Google. Back then, Google Apps was free and that’s when we jumped on board and used their Gmail server to host our corporate emails. I don’t ever recall having any issue […]

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October 31, 2015   /   by Marco   /   , , , , ,

HOW TO GET 48GB OF ADDITIONAL SPACE ON DROPBOX

HOW TO GET 48GB OF ADDITIONAL SPACE ON DROPBOX

If you’re a Samsung Smart Phone or Tablet user then you may be in luck. They are running a promotion that gives your Dropbox an additional whopping 48GB of storage for 2 Years. You must have a Samsung Smartphone or Tablet to get this and there are also several conditions. Even though it’s only for 2 […]

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October 30, 2015   /   by Marco   /   , , , , , , ,

HOW TO FIND THE LARGEST FILES OR DIRECTORIES ON YOUR VPS

HOW TO FIND THE LARGEST FILES OR DIRECTORIES ON YOUR VPS

My CentOS VPS was running out of space so I needed to do a bit of a clean up and decided to see which files and directories used up the most space. So after some digging around I found these two commands. This one is to find the largest 10 directories: find . -type d […]

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October 26, 2015   /   by Marco   /   , , , ,

HOW TO ADD SKYPE BUTTON OR LINK TO YOUR GMAIL SIGNATURE

HOW TO ADD SKYPE BUTTON OR LINK TO YOUR GMAIL SIGNATURE

For those of you who want to add a call me button in your Gmail signature then you’ve come to the right place. The process is a bit complex and I’ve decided to write down the steps required to achieve this. Firstly, Skype does have an option to create a Skype button on their website […]

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