I recently worked on building an MVP (Minimal viable product) for our digital solutions company Advertise Me. For those of you who don’t know what an MVP is, then please let me briefly explain this. Basically, an MVP is a very basic version of the product you intend to build and launch. It’s basic because […]
In a previous post, I wrote an article about GIT repositories and included various commands and helpful information on how to use Bitbucket and GIT. I’ve been learning how to use GIT since we started using it for Advertise Me. Managing and updating your GIT repository can be challenging if you are not very technical […]
If you received an email titled Notice: Bitbucket Cloud SSH host key rotation complete then you may need to update your SSH Host keys on your server. I didn’t read the contents of this email until I tried to do a pull from my company’s Advertise Me bitbucket repository for our digital signage solution software […]
Twitter has stuffed up. It is the only social media company charging businesses to access their Twitter API. We know this because our Social Wall is used to integrate with the Twitter API to display Twitter posts from the user’s accounts and also display tweets based on the Twitter hashtag. Our company Advertise Me, a […]
It has been over 16 years since I first launched my first startup, Advertise Me, and it has been slowly growing to be one of Australia’s most reputable digital solutions companies. I’ve met and even attended meetings whereby clients have heard about Advertise Me. I’m always proud when I hear these compliments especially since our […]
On our Social Wall Development server, I was getting this error message when sending out email subscription notifications: SMTP Error: Data not Accepted For those of you who are not familiar with Social Wall, it is an Advertise Me SaaS tool that aggregates your social media posts and displays them on a digital wall. The […]
If you’ve recently signed up for the Microsoft Developer Program, you may not be able to send out emails and in this article, I will explain how to fix it. When sending out emails or booking rooms, you will receive the following error message: Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups: xxx@yyyyy.onmicrosoft.comYour message wasn’t […]
I’ve been playing around with Microsoft Graph API to try to display calendar events from a room resource booking for one of our digital signage solutions. There are several requirements in order to achieve this. I’ve listed some of these below and keep in mind I’m not a developer. I just wanted to understand the […]
We’ve been using NEC and Epson projects for all of our clients since we started our digital signage solutions business (Advertise Me)and we’ve set up and tested more of the Epson projectors. With the Epson brand projectors, there are software utilities that help you manage and control the projectors. One of these is called EasyMP […]
At Advertise Me, a digital solutions company based in Sydney Australia, we have been using LG digital signage screens since 2014. The LG digital signage screens use the WebOS operating system and I’ve previously published several articles about this in the past. USING THE LG SUPERSIGN CONTROL SOFTWARE HOW TO UPGRADE THE WEBOS FIRMWARE ON […]
It was finally time to move the Social Wall app to its own domain app.socialwall.com.au. Previously the app was built on the main website which included an instance of WordPress for the main site but the directory structure was a bit messy and managing the app on Bitbucket was confusing. I, therefore, decided to move […]
The AWS partner accreditations are for those companies who are looking at reselling AWS cloud products to their customers. We have been using AWS for hosting our SaaS products and we are also using AWS to host our client’s dedicated instances of our SaaS tools. In particular, our digital signage and digital wayfinding solutions are […]
It’s paid off! Our Advertise Me website is now ranked at the top for the keywords digital signage solutions. It only took a few years to get here but got there in the end. One of my goals was to use SEO (search engine optimisation) to get the website ranked on the first page of […]
I recently had to troubleshoot an issue with our NSW Bus and Train Timetable board tool whereby it was displaying 0 hours instead of 12 for PM. The code was written in Javascript and after some testing, I worked out the problem. This is how it looked: Here was the original code: Although it was […]
Wow, how time flies so fast. It’s been 3 years since I started running at least 5 KM per day. You can read my full journey here: RUNNING EVERY DAY This year had its challenges as I caught COVID but still managed to run. I just had very mild symptoms. What I learn through this […]
Ever since I started the business Advertise Me – a digital solutions company, I have been constantly learning how to launch and build websites. Prior to this, I had no knowledge about creating websites and since then I’ve launched over 20 or so. During this period, I also learnt about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) techniques […]
The LG Digital Signage screens have an operating system called WebOS (which is pretty much a Linux-based OS) and like any digital device, there are software firmware upgrades you can install to fix issues, upgrade operating system files and even add new features. Unlike other electronic devices, LG doesn’t have a public website where you […]
If you are operating a business in Australia and need to pay international invoices, then you may want to keep reading. If you use a traditional bank to pay these invoices then you may be paying a high premium so stop right now! What you can do is use other payment services to pay for […]
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 […]
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 […]