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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’ve finally managed to monetise my Skopioeye YouTube channel. I first started the channel back in 2012 and at the time there was no such thing as YouTube channel requirements – ie 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time in 12 months. There are also some new ones now such as having the account […]
If you haven’t heard, YouTube will be hiding the Dislike counter. Yay….or Nay? I’ve been a YouTube user and a recent creator (started almost 10 years but I’ve been dedicated to publishing more content in the past 2 years). My YouTube channel is called SKOPIOEYE if you’re interested. Note that the dislike counter stats will […]
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 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 […]
I’ve been using LiveAgent as our Advertise Me support tracking system. The company uses it to track all support requests and it has been a great tool. We haven’t used all the features such as softphone and chat but we may in the near future. Since we have sensitive information in the LiveAgent system, we […]
Google recently rolled out a new Gmail layout both on the web browser and mobile app. I didn’t like the layout as I don’t use Google Chat or Rooms (MEET) that often. On the web browser (Chrome) the new layout had the panel on the right-hand side which I normally have my Google Tasks there. […]
I recently had to upgrade the WordPress version on one of our digital signage websites and after the upgrade, things started not working. Basically, it was due to the fact the theme that we’re using is old and no longer supported. The WordPress theme company I was using shifted their focus and is no longer […]
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 […]