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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Advertise Me just relaunched a website we previously had called Digital Signage Portal. When we first built the website we used it as a forum to discuss digital signage topics. If I recall correctly, the website was built using Joomla an open source content management tool. I checked how the website looked on Internet Archive […]
Facebook and Instagram (the new META company) experienced a major outage today. This affected our Social Wall tool. This is a tool my company Advertise Me built several years ago to fill the gap of displaying social media posts on digital displays such as digital signage screens, websites, projectors for events and intranet sites. Luckily […]
If you’re looking at creating quick and easy videos using templates then you should check out Flexclip. It’s a tool I’ve used to create professional-looking videos and the tool has audio and video stock clips you can use. Let me quickly show you what you need to do: Select a template by searching for a […]
If you want to embed a Google Sheet or a Google Doc on your website or blog, then you need to read this post. I had to do this for a particular project where the information on a spreadsheet needed to be constantly updated and displayed to the public. Google Sheets and Docs are very […]