How to Access Google Search in China

Is Google search blocked in China, yes. It’s been a rocky road between the two over the years. In the light of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square “incident” in 2014, China finally pulled the plug on Google in a big way. Luckily there are still a few ways to get around the restrictions of […]

Easy Method » Make US iTunes Purchase From Any Country!

This guide contains easy, step-by-step instructions on how to buy music, movies, TV shows, iOS apps, books, audiobooks etc. from the US iTunes store, from any location in the world. This is my proven method to pass the US content restriction for anyone who wants to make these purchases outside of the United States. It has been verified […]

List of Free Web Analytics: Sneaky Backlink Tested!

I think it’s a brilliant idea to get loads of backlinks by offering free web analytics. It just might not be the thing for everyone to give out link juice, as is the case for me. So I went through pretty much all the free services I could find, that give out some kind of […]

Step by Step How to: Upgrade Joomla 2.5x to Joomla 3.x

In this example, I am updating a 2.5 branch to the latest 3.x (at the time of writing: Joomla 2.5.19 to Joomla! 3.3.6) version of Joomla. Which can be time consuming, if you just thrown an updated without much thinking about it. The idea is to kind of try and avoid errors beforehand, so there is less […]

How to Fix WD My Cloud Slow Speed Problems Make it Fast

I’ve seen a lot of debate about the performance of the Western Digital My Cloud NAS Server. And perhaps the biggest complaint and misunderstanding has been, that the transfer rate is low. In this guide I have taken on the challenge to: 1. Explain and make the speed issue clear once and for all 2. Explain […]

Guide to Finding the Fastest Reliable VPN For China

A lot of folks seem to have problems with getting a fast VPN connection from the Chinese mainland to the “outer world”. When done correctly, it can boost your browsing speeds for not only overseas websites, but even at times inside China. I happen to have a lot of experience and have lost a lot […]

Tip: How to Refresh Mac Finder Mounted Server Directory

It had been bothering me for years, how I could not refresh the directory contents of an FTP or SFTP mounted server directory with the Mac’s Finder app. Whenever there were new or edited files and directories added to a previously accessed directory, changes could not be refreshed manually and would almost never update automatically […]

WD My Cloud Share Cannot Connect or Wrong Password

Problems connecting to your WD My Cloud? Here are my observations. I noticed that when adding new shares on the WD My Cloud, you must add the user permissions one by one. Otherwise it can result in the share not working, either giving an invalid password error on Windows, or just some kind of a connection […]

Removing Author Text From Themes & Templates

A lot of free templates/themes have an “author text” or “copyright” in the footer section of all the pages, which passes (limited by Google) link juice and gives credit to the author. Some try to make the removal of that text difficult, by means of encryption or hiding the code in other ways. Thus getting […]

How to Make a Quick & Easy 404 Error Page for Joomla 3+

Updated: 27th December 2014 The error page is processed through the file error.php which if not already in your template folder, can be copied over from templates/system/error.php and further edited. However, I like to keep things simple by having it just load a specific article from my install of Joomla. Here’s how. 404 Within Content […]