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 […]
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 […]
Over the weekend, I decided to complete The Fundaments of Digital Marketing Course and I passed the exam. This course is offered by Google Digital Garage and it’s free. If you’re a small business and are looking to go digital and online, you may want to view this course. In order to receive the certification, […]
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 spend the last weekend fixing errors from a Search Engine Optimisation audit report. I generated the report through two tools, one is called SE Ranking and the other is called Website Auditor. I ran both tools for the website Advertise Me and I previously wrote an article called UPDATES TO OUR ADVERTISE ME WEBSITE […]
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 noticed that disabling IPv6 on the VPS network interfaces makes resolving some websites faster. In my particular case, I have a web app on the VPS that connects to an external website and grabs data via the API. When I tried running the web app it would take about 10-20 seconds for the page […]