Category Archive: Websites
How to setup phpMyAdmin to prompt for login and password
By default, phpMyAdmin on WAMP automatically logs in using the root user account. To make this more secure you it is best to use an authentication method to prompt for the username and password. To do this follow these steps: Edit the config.inc.php file located in C:\wamp\apps/phpmyadmin3.5.1 Look for the line that has auth type […]
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How to download all your Google photos
Today my wife asked me how she could download all her Google photos into her computer for backup purposes and that’s where I was stumped. It was a very good question from the wife and I admitted to her that I didn’t have the answer. After a few minutes of research I discovered that Google […]
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How to cleanup Website Hacked with SEO Spam
I recently looked at an issue with a website being infected with a malware called SEO Spam. This was reported by Google Webmaster Tools (one of the benefits of adding your website to Webmaster Tools) as shown below: [blockquote align=”left” ]DON’T IGNORE THESE MESSAGES[/blockquote] I decided to confirm this and used a website called […]
read moreJanuary 5, 2015 / by Marco / benefits, crazydomains, discount, domain, level, Membership, Registration
Crazy Domains Executive Account
Today I received an email from CrazyDomains.com.au saying that my account was upgraded to Executive Member. I didn’t really know what this meant as I didn’t even know they had different account plans. After some research I found that the reason why my account was upgraded was because I had hit 10 domain name registrations. There are […]
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How to fix stuck Maintenance Mode in WordPress
Today I tried updating several plugins through the WordPress admin dashboard. There was about 7 on the list so as usual I decided to select all 7 and update. However, I wasn’t patient and didn’t wait until the WordPress update finished and caused the site to go into Maintenance Mode meaning the message was displayed: […]
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Crazy Domain Free Gift – $5 for completing survey
If you’re a current Crazy Domains account holder, then login to your account and Click on Free Gift. Complete the survey and you will receive $5 credit in your account. I completed the survey in less than 2 minutes. [note color=”#80ff80″]ONLY FOR CRAZY DOMAINS MEMBERS[/note] If you’re not a member and your looking for cheap […]
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Free Fonts
Looking for Free fonts? You’ve come to the right place, especially if you’re looking for 100% Free For Commercial Use fonts. I stumbled across this site when a designer told me to use a particular font. The website is called Font Squirrel and there’s a good collection of fonts. Check them out here: Font Squirrel […]
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Random image Lorempixel
I found this great website called Lorempixel that can display random images and it’s all FREE. All you need to do is use specific URLs. Here’s some examples: http://lorempixel.com/400/200 – to get a random picture of 400 x 200 pixels. You can just change the height and width depending on […]
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How to add Virtual Hosts to WAMP
I’ve done this many times in the past, but for some reason I forgot the actual steps so decided to write them down. Here’s the steps: 1. edit the httpd.conf file located in C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache[version number]\conf 2. Search for Virtual hosts and remove the # 3. No open the httpd-vhosts.conf file located in C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache[version number]\conf\extra and add the […]
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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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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 add Arabic Text in Photoshop CS5
I can’t speak or write in Arabic but had to use Photoshop to create an image with some arabic text. I didn’t realise that Photoshop doesn’t display the correct Arabic text. It was pointed out to me at a later stage by someone that I didn’t even know. In any case, here’s what I had […]
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