Category Archive: Technology

How to remove Startup Applications in the registry

Have you ever noticed that there may be some Windows programs that start automatically even though your Startup list is empty? We’ll you’ll need to look deep into your registry settings as there are some program that stores the executables in the registry. Open up the command prompt and enter REGEDIT – be careful as […]

WordPress problem when moving folders

I tried moving my WordPress folder to the root of my hosting account and things went pear shaped. After some debugging, I noticed that in the database stored the URL of the website. This meant I had to change most of the data entries in the database. I knew nothing about SQL queries but […]

February 25, 2012 / by Marco / click, CSV, csv file, download, execution times, Godaddy, import tool, Jigoshop, number, post, Splitter, Store, tool, way, wordpress plugin

CSV Splitter

In a previous post https://www.businesslegions.com/blog/2012/02/12/csv-import-for-jigoshop-wordpress-plugin/, I talked about using the CSV import tool for Jigoshop and how useful it was to import products into your store. I stumbled into a problem with Godaddy hosting, which prevents changing the hard limits on execution times. This means that after 2 minutes, the script times out. Now this […]

How do you create a Windows 7 USB boot disk?

There’s several ways to create a Windows 7 USB boot disk to install the Windows Operating system, but the one that I found the easiest is to use the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool. The tool to create one can be found here. I tested it and it works great. You don’t even have to […]

February 24, 2012 / by Marco / click, CSV, csv file, guideline, Jigoshop, list, plugin, plugins section, section, Start, Store, Toolkit, Wordpress

Jigoshop Store Toolkit

In one of my previous posts, I provided a guideline on how to import products into your Jigoshop by using a CSV file. Now, if something went wrong during the import, how do you delete all the products from the store so you can re-import the list? Well there’s a plugin for that. It’s called […]

Microsoft Excel useful formulas

I needed to filter and manupulate some data and I ended up using the below formulas which I wanted to share and note down: strongVLOOKUP/strong VLookup function searches for value in the left-most column of table_array and returns the value in the same row based on the index_number. The syntax for the VLookup function is: […]

February 17, 2012 / by Marco / download, File, FTP, FTPbox, host, open source, package, source, Sync, tool, wast

Open Source FTP File Sync

I came across an awesome open source FTP file syncing tool which I wast to share with everyone. It’s called FTPbox and it basically allows you sync your files to your own host, via FTP. Just edit your files like you normally would and FTPbox will take care of the rest. Best of all it’s open […]

February 12, 2012 / by Marco / blog, cat, click, csv file, csvloader, headings, Jigoshop, job, match, meta, Multi, nbsp, number 71, plugin, plugin folder, solution credit, thumbnail, weight, Wordpress, wordpress plugin

CSV Import for Jigoshop WordPress plugin

Jigoshop must be one of the easiest and most comprehensive e-commerce wordpress plugins available on the market. I started using this plugin and love the way you can just purchase and install themes for Jigoshop. Adding products to Jigoshop is very easy and straight forward but what happens when you want to import hundreds of […]

How to add the Gadget by URL to Gmail

I can’t believe how difficult it was to add a Gadget in Gmail by entering the URL. It was not very intuitive, but here’s the steps to have this enabled: 1. Login to your Gmail 2. Click the Wheel at the top right hand corner and then Mail Settings 3. Click the Labs tab 4. […]

Migrating to Goggle Apps

I recently migrated my company`s emails to Google Apps. Initially, I thought the process was going to be painful but to my surprise it was quite easy and straight forward. The main reason why we moved away from our existing email provider was because of the storage issue. As part of the hosting package they […]

What I learnt about VPS hosting in Australia

Ok, so you’re looking at going down the track of using a Virtual Private Server – yes, this is a cheaper alternative that having a physical server. A Virtual Private Server is basically a logical partition of a physical high end server. So multiple virtual private servers can exist on the physical server. For the hosting […]

Free Open Source Video Capture Tools

There are two free open source video capture tools that I use. Both of them have advantages and disadvantages but both do the job. The one that I use the most is Wink as it has additional features and it also allows you to remove frames within the video sequence. Wink – http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Camstudio – […]