Category Archive: Technology
How to backup your Gmail emails to another Gmail account
Are you running out of space in your GMail account? Each Gmail account gives you 15GB of of free data, shared between your emails and files (pictures from Google+ if over 2048×2048 resolution and files you’ve stored in Drive like PDFs, images and videos). If you’re like me, I don’t delete any emails in my […]
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How to Check and Repair MySQL Tables Using MySQLcheck
For some reason my WordPress site was not displaying the correct information. The site uses WooCommerce and the products was not displaying at all. This was quite strange. I thought I’d better backup the database so when I did, I received the following error message: mysqldump: Got error: 145: Table ‘./xxx/wp_postmeta’ is marked as crashed […]
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The future of the car driving experience
When you come across a technology that gives you the chill, it’s definitely worth sharing. So have a look at this video (the acting is pretty funny too!): Yes, it’s the NAVDY. As you saw in the video, the NAVDY has voice recognition, touchless gestures (swiping with fingers) and works with your Iphone and Android. […]
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Awesome Photo Editing Tool
Why didn’t I know about this great tool earlier. It’s called picmonkey and it’s a very simple tool for photo editing and creating great images. It’s free for all the basic editing feature and but if you use some of the “Royal” features such as extra effects, icons, fonts, designs you need to become a […]
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How to install Telnet on Windows 2008 R2
Windows 2008 server doesn’t come with the Telnet application. I was planning to download and install a SSH client or another Telnet client but found out that there is a package that you can install to run Telnet. Here’s the command: Then all you need to do is run the telnet command: DO YOU LIKE […]
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WAMP: Free up disk space and disable binary Logging in MySQL
Our Windows VPS server was running out of disk space (had only 1GB out of 40GB) and I decided to run a scan to check which files and directories was using the most amount of space. You can use an open source tool called WinDirStat Portable to run the scan. After you run the scan, […]
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How to create Cron Jobs in Zpanel
I’ve been using Zpanel for the past year and it’s a free Open Source Tool similar to Cpanel. Instead of paying $10 a month for using Cpanel, Zpanel is the free alternative. There are limited features with using Zpanel, for example it doesn’t have the option (One Click Install) to install WordPress, Joomla or the other open […]
read moreAugust 12, 2014 / by Marco / internet, network, problem, tplink, Wireless, wireless internet connection, wirelessspeed
How I fixed my Internet Wireless Speed
Do you feel like your Internet speed is slow when you’re using your Wireless connection? You could be right – it’s possible there is a configuration problem. I recently experienced this with our work Internet connection and having an IT Networking background I needed to get to the bottom of this. Here’s the scenario and background: SCENARIO […]
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How can I change the Read only Twitter application to Write
I’ve done this 3 times already and keep forgetting what to do, so I decided to write it down. Here’s the problem: When creating a new Twitter account is when changing a twitter app permission from Read only to Read and Write brings up the following error: You must add your mobile phone to your Twitter […]
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How to create CRON jobs (Scheduled Tasks) in WAMP
What is WAMP? WAMP is a Windows based web development platform that allows you to create web applications with Apache2, PHP and MySQL. It is basically a package that you run on your Windows OS and it will turn the device into a web server. What is a CRON job? Ok, so CRON jobs is […]
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How to setup GoDaddy Cron Jobs
If you have a shared hosting account and need to create a Cron Job then follow these simple steps. Cron jobs are scheduled tasks that allow you to run a script in the background at a set frequency. HOW TO SETUP GODADDY CRON JOBS INSTRUCTIONS Login to your Godaddy Account Click on Cron Job Manager […]
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How to mark products as featured in WooCommerce
In this post I will show you how to mark products as featured in WooCommerce. There are three ways to mark a product as featured in WooCommerce and I’ve listed these below: Method 1: Click the star Click Products on the left hand side then products again. You will see a column with the star. […]
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