I wanted to challenge myself and decided to sit for the AWS certified cloud practitioner (CLF-C01) exam and I passed. I scored 810 out of 1000 and you needed a mark of over 700 to pass. I was glad that I passed the exam because I felt I spent more time studying for this. To […]
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 […]
For those of you who use Google Chrome, you will already know that Chrome is a memory “hog”. When using Chrome on a Windows operating system, you will notice a significant spike as soon as you launch Chrome and the memory keeps increasing as you open more tabs. Here’s an example of my current memory […]
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 been following my blog, you would know by now that I run at least 5 KM run every day. You can follow my running journey. It’s been over 3 years since I’ve been doing this and during my runs, I’ve been listening to Podcasts and audiobooks. During these runs, I do tend to […]
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 […]
I just passed the Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Associate certification. This certification was a bit harder than the AI fundamentals I did last year. I scored 777 and during the exam, I thought I’d fail because there were quite a few questions that I guessed. In any case, a pass is a pass and is […]
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 […]
I passed the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals AI-900 exam and found it pretty easy and learned a few things about machine learning. The exam was done online via Pearson Vue and this was the first time I’ve done an exam online. It’s been a while since I did a Pearson Vue exam and I’ve always […]
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 […]
If you no longer want to use your Instagram account, you can follow these steps to back up your Instagram account data and delete it. You do have the simple option of disabling the Instagram account if you believe you will use the account in the future, however, if you have a test account and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Displaying website content on a YouTube or Twitch stream is vital for any streamer but what happens when it doesn’t work after you’ve installed the latest version of OBS (27.1.3). You may not know this but OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is used by thousands of streamers across the globe and one of the reasons for […]
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 […]