Category Archive: Technology

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 […]

October 16, 2012 / by Marco / computer hardware, geeks, geeky computer, posters

Computer Hardware Poster

Some people have their idol posters stuck on their walls, some have cars, some have cartoons, but what about geeks? Here’s a cool geeky computer hardware poster that I really like – it’s also educational… have a look. Download the full High Res image: [wpdm_file id=3] DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU’VE READ?Join our subscription list […]

October 4, 2012 / by Marco / digital microscopes, dollar coin, naked eye, photo, res image

Amazing Magnified Australian 2 Dollar Coin x10 and x230

Have you ever wanted to see the world and every day objects from a different angle… what about a micro closeup. Like 10 times or even 230 times? Now you can with the latest digital microscopes and you can even take pictures or videos to share with the world. That’s what I’ll be doing. I’ll […]

October 2, 2012 / by Marco / breaches, earning money, gmail account, monetization, video manager

Earn money on Youtube

So you’re looking at trying to earn some money from your videos on Youtube. Here’s what you need to do and what you should be aware of: If you haven’t done so already, create a Gmail account. Click your account name on the top right hand corner Click Settings Click Channel Monetization and click on […]

September 27, 2012 / by Marco / email contacts, imap, Paypal, sd card, what this means

Backup your SMS messages to your Gmail

I frequently receive SMS messages with important information that I sometimes forget to extract. When running a business, you need to make sure you have all information available (unless you have good memory). Like for example someone sent me an email address via SMS about a year ago which I needed to retrieve. Was I […]

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 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 […]