At Advertise Me, we have used the Linux Mint as the operating system for our digital signage players. The main reason for this is the flexibility and cost savings of using an open-source operating system. Compared to a Windows operating system, by using Linux Mint your clients would already be saving over $100. With Linux […]
Yes, I caught COVID last month and hence the reason why I’ve been fairly quiet on my website. I generally try to aim to write at least once a week but last month I was fairly busy with TAFE, University Assignments and just dealing with COVID. My daughter was the first one in the family […]
I’ve started a University and TAFE course this year and it’s been a while since I did any studying at all. I’ve recently had to learn how to reference and add citations for my assignments. The process off adding citations is very different when using Microsoft Word and Google Docs. For university, we use the […]
Home automation is something I’ve been keen on using throughout the house. I’ve been a Xiaomi fan for years and have several devices connected to Wifi and the Internet. I decided to add a TP-Link Kasa Smart Wifi board model KP303 to the home automation ecosystem and it’s working well with Google Home. I have […]
In a previous article, I shared how I replaced the suspension rods on the Fisher and Paykel (Model WL80T65CW1 Product Mkt 93114-B) washing machine, HOW TO FIXING OUT OF BALANCE ERROR ON FISHER AND PAYKEL WASHING MACHINE. In that article, I only talked about changing the suspension rods (dampening rubber bands) because I thought that […]
Today, I had to do some code debugging and fixed an issue with migrating an old web app for our company Advertise Me. Advertise Me originally focused on digital signage but we’ve grown the business and built several different digital web applications and you can find these listed here: Digital Solutions Software. There was one […]
There are two email hosting providers I use – one is ZOHO MAIL and the other is GMAIL. I’ve used Gmail for many years and I use this for our Advertise Me email addresses. I use ZOHO MAIL for my personal and other side projects such as Digital Wayfinding Solutions, ePosters and Social Wall. All […]
For the past several years Advertise Me has been supplying and using the LG digital signage commercial screens that have an internal media player. We have also used the commercial touchscreen for our digital wayfinding solutions and there is an internal media player that comes with the webOS – a proprietary LG operating system that […]
As part of my running journey, I have decided to do more uphill runs. On my daily 5KM runs there is a small hill that I normally run and the grade is 12% for around 100 metres. I don’t find the hill too hard to run but a few weeks ago there was someone that […]
I was a bit annoyed at YouTube for doing this but what happened was that my most popular YouTube video that was published around 5 years ago was tagged as a YouTube Shorts. YouTube shorts are short videos (less than 60 seconds) that you can record on your mobile device and upload to your YouTube […]
Using the .htaccess file is one of the easiest ways to block specific IP addresses to your website. I’ve also used the software firewall to perform this task, but if you need to block specific IP addresses to different URLs or content on your website then .htaccess is the perfect way to do this. I’ve […]
If you want to run multiple operating systems such as Linux, Android, Windows, WebOS or MacOS then using VirtualBox is the tool you need to use. There are other tools I’ve used in the past such as Virtual Machine from VMWare but VirtualBox does the job quite nicely. Especially when there are VirtualBox images already […]
I just received an SMS from an unknown mobile number and I was pretty sure it was a scam. Please read this article before you take any action. The SMS number starts with 0400 and ends with 287. I didn’t include the other numbers just in case I’m wrong, but I thought I’d share my […]
If you’re like me and accumulated Xiaomi products over the years, you would have experienced the issue of having to set up different devices on the global China server and then having to switch to your local country server for devices that are only compatible within your country. Changing the region all the time is […]
At Advertise Me, we’ve been using the Intel NUCs with the vPro technology for our digital signage players. The main reason why we decided to use these players is because they have a remote KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse) feature so if you get the blue screen of death in Windows or you simply want to […]
Do you hate remembering all your passwords or do you use one password for all your logins? I wanted to share with you a password manager tool I’ve been using since 2018 and it’s been a blessing to have come across this tool called RoboForm. There are many password managers on the market but Roboform […]
If you have a Samson Meteor microphone you probably have guessed by now that you can’t easily install it on a standard boom arm stand. For those who are planning to buy a Samson Meteor microphone then you need to be aware of this. Basically, at the bottom of the Samson Meteor microphone, there is […]
Happy New Year all! It’s now 2022 and time to publish my annual review and goals for this year. This is the article I published last year: ANNUAL REVIEW 2020 AND GOALS FOR 2021 Let’s recap the goals I wrote down for 2021: increase traffic to this website and other website I manage increase YouTube […]
The Garmin VIVOFIT JR battery generally lasts for 1 year and you generally don’t get any warning on the watch when the battery dies. Changing the battery is easy and straight forward and you don’t need to replace the entire watch. I read that some people actually do this because they believe the battery can’t […]
In this post, I’m going to share with you how much I earned from the YouTube Partner Program monetisation. In a previous post, I wrote a post about being accepted in the YouTube Partner Program after reaching the requirement. Here’s the article to that post: MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL IS GETTING MONETISED I took this screenshot […]