I’ve had the Omron Thermometer MC-510 for many years now and recently for some reason the temperature unit changed from Celsius to Fahrenheit. After some fiddling around I managed to change it back to Celsius and decided to write down the instructions and take a video in case I forget how to do this in […]
A recent Windows 10 update has caused the weather and news widget to appear in the windows taskbar. This was quite annoying to see as I don’t really need to know the weather and clicking on the icon causes the news widget to appear. I wanted to hide this and found out an easy way […]
If you are like me and like working in the dark you may want to stop and get yourself a hanging light such as the Baseus Lighting Screen Hanging Light Youth model number DGIWK-B01. Since high school, I’ve always used the computer and laptop in the dark but recently I decided to get some form […]
I’ve been using a Xiaomi USB fan to help cool down my Metabox laptop and has been working well until recently. I purchased the fan several years ago and the blade spinning is starting to slow down. It sometimes comes to a complete stop and I needed to flick the blade to start it spinning […]
I noticed that disabling IPv6 on the VPS network interfaces makes resolving some websites faster. In my particular case, I have a web app on the VPS that connects to an external website and grabs data via the API. When I tried running the web app it would take about 10-20 seconds for the page […]
I wanted to check my PayPal transactions this morning and it appears the https://paypal.com.au and https://paypal.com website is not working. This is the error message you will receive if you tried visiting the website: This site can’t be reached The web page at https://paypal.com.au/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new […]
A few weeks ago my Holden Astra car wouldn’t start. The car battery was roughly 1 year old and was surprised that there would be an issue with it. I decided to take out the Gooloo 800 AMP car jump starter power bank which I purchased roughly over 1 year ago. It was still brand […]
For those runners who use Spotify to listen to podcasts, you will be happy to hear there is now an option to just download the audio version of the podcast. If you’re a JRE (Joe Rogan Experience) fan, then this will be perfect for you, you no longer need to download the full video to […]
I’ve been using BetterUptime for the past few months to monitor our different websites and it’s such a great tool. You can read some of the features of this tool in previous posts: WEBSITE MONITORING AND STATUS PAGES and BETTER UPTIME NEW FEATURES – MONITOR YOUR WEBSITE In this post, I’m going to share with […]
I’ll be starting a series of useful business tips on this website so make sure you subscribe to the newsletter. My aim is to help and provide useful information to business entrepreneurs. If you’re based in Australia, then this article will apply to you, but if you’re not then keep reading as there might be […]
As an entrepreneur starting multiple businesses and creating business logos for these businesses is a challenging and painful process. The traditional way I use to create logos was to hire a designer. I would provide the designer with a logo design brief and they would go away and create one for me. The logo design […]
One of my VPS (Virtual Private Servers) reached 100% in disk space and I was about to pay more money to increase the disk space but found the cause. So read this article in case you are in the same situation. Initially, on the VPS I used the below command to find the largest files […]
As an Entrepreneur, I always try to find simple hacks to increase my productivity and in this post I wanted to share with you one of my mobile phone productivity hacks. I’ve set up all my app shortcuts in groups/folders on the main mobile home screen. I use an Android mobile phone and it may […]
Chrome is my go-to browser and has been for the past decade. I have previously used Firefox and Internet Explorer but I’ve always preferred Chrome. There are a few annoying aspects in the Chrome browser but overall I find it to be reliable and fast. One of the most annoying thing that popped up after […]
It’s been 1.5 years of running 5 KM per day. During this process, I learnt a few things about myself and about the mentality one needs to keep running 5 KM per day. I wanted to share these with you and put some of my thoughts into this article. Firstly, if you haven’t read some […]
So, you have a website and you want to include a Strava widget on it? Well, you have come to the right place. Adding a Strava widget on a website is super easy. It’s even easier when using the WordPress CMS platform. Firstly, for those of you who don’t know what Strava is, let met […]
I just joined the BitClout crypto social network after hearing about it on a podcast. BitClout is a crypto social media network where you can post digital content and buy and sell coins from different content creators. Think of it as Twitter, but you as a content creator are able to sell your own crypto […]
In this article, I will show you how I add a date counter on a WordPress website. As you can probably tell, I use the WordPress CMS self-hosted platform for this website and the majority of websites I manage. The date counter is a great way to share your stories, show birthday announcements, share a […]
I’ve been using my Xiaomi Yi 4K+ Action camera to record YouTube videos for the Skopioeye channel. I mentioned this in a previous post: SMALLRIG CLAMP FOR VIDEO CAMERAS I use the SmallRig clamp to hold the camera above the bench and do the video recording. Here’s the camera and the SmallRig if you need […]
Today, I achieved my PB (personal best) for swimming. I managed to swim 1 km without stopping at each end of the pool (I usually take a break at each end). The length of the pool is 50 metres (Olympic length) and the swimming pool we went to was Blacktown Aquatic Centre. I didn’t run […]