What’s WhatsApp Business?
Yep, there’s WhatsApp and there’s WhatsApp Business, and it’s FREE! Who doesn’t love a freebie, eh? This article will be a part of a series of posts related to free business tools to help you manage your business for free.
Separation Anxiety: A Tutorial for Isolating Your System with Linux Namespaces
With the advent of tools like Docker, Linux Containers, and others, it has become super easy to isolate Linux processes into their own little system environments. This makes it possible to run a whole range of applications on a single real Linux machine and ensure no two of them can interfere with each other, without having to resort to using virtual machines. These tools have been a huge boon to PaaS providers. But what exactly happens under the hood?
Using Advanced Search In Google
If you’re anything like me, you’ll use Google several times a day, and if you’re not too computer savvy, you’ll probably be using Google at its basic level. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nothing to be a ashamed of, in fact you’re a winner already because Google is the world’s most popular search engine.
Keeping SSH Connections Alive In Linux
If you need to work constantly on SSH, it’s very frustrating when the system cuts you off after a period of time. Here, I’ll show you the method to keep SSH connections alive until you disconnect. Then add the following at the end of your host: This sends a null packet to the server every …
Why Backing Up Your Data is Important
Losing data can be a traumatic experience, especially if your files are important to you, such as invoices for businesses or personal images and videos you intend to keep. Whether you store data as a business or for personal use, you should always remember to have a backup copy on an external hard drive or cloud based service.
How To Batch Resize Images and Save For Web Use Using Photoshop
I was asked to upload over 1000 images, each image approximately 3768 pixels wide and upwards, mostly over 3MB in size. Instead of spending time resizing and saving each image individually, I found a quick solution for batch resizing images to scale, then optimizing for web use. I used a brilliant extension which gives you so many more options, it’s been a lifesaver.
Powershell Snippets
List All Commands List All Commands Beginning with A Replacing Spaces with an Underscore Renaming files can be a laborious task, especially when there’s a lot to get through. This command renames all files within your current directory which have a space in the file name, and replaces it with an underscore, for example; ‘I …
Social Media Image Size Guide
Social media cover photos are great for communicating your products and services, highlighting a current campaign or simply your brand’s values. If you don’t have the right tools to create your cover photos it’s probably easier said than done, so you may find you either have to struggle to design a professional-looking cover photo for each social network on your own, ask a design competent colleague or friend to do it for you, or hire a designer or agency to do it.
Chrome Shortcuts
Here are a few of my favourite useful Chrome shortcuts, what are yours? CTRL + Tab Opens a new tab CTRL + N Opens a new window CTRL + SHIFT + N Opens a new window in incognito mode CTRL + W Closes the current Tab CTRL + SHIFT + W Closes the current window …
Do you Git It?
Git is an open-source revision control management system, a very efficient tool for managing projects of all sizes. I won’t go into detail, so for all the ins and outs, please visit the official site here for everything you need to know: git-scm.com. There are many places to keep track and hold your repositories, here are two possibilities;
GitHub is the perfect app to assist with project collaboration. It allows you to commit changes, send pull requests and manage all your public and private git repositories…