Contact Form 7 Speed up – WordPress
Contact form 7 is probably the most popular free contact form plugin for WordPress. But you need to take one additional step after installing it, to make sure it doesn’t…
How to undervolt your GPU – lower temps and higher performance
A refresher: undervolting refers to reducing the operating voltage of your GPU, preferably while maintaining the same level of performance. Today you’ll find out how to undervolt your GPU for…
Benchmarks & Stress Tests – why should you benchmark your PC?
Before anything is said and done, I urge you to try benchmarking your PC and even stress testing it. You can uncover performance issues and even faulty hardware or other…
How to use Android phone as a webcam
So let’s see how we can use an Android phone as a webcam. Mind you there are a lot of tutorials out there using different apps. These two are my…
Web Hosting Basics – the ultimate 2020 Guide
This is a basic guide to Web Hosting for 2020. What is it, why you need Hosting and all the stuff. Aimed at the first time website owner, or that…
PHP memory_limit – what is it and how to increase memory_limit?
PHP memory_limit is just that – a memory limit. But this PHP setting is per-script. You can relate this to a highway’s speed limit, which is also per-vehicle. That means…
How to choose a very strong password – Password Management
Security is a big deal. Let’s talk about how you can choose a very strong password, that’s hard to guess or crack and how to do password management. TLDR: I…
My favorite Linux Ubuntu apps as a developer
So I thought I’d make a small list of my favorite apps on Linux Ubuntu. Please note that this is not a toolbox. These are just some apps I find…
Open Media Vault SMB performance quick win
So I’ve been using Open Media Vault for the last couple of weeks after re-arranging our small network, for storage purposes. And weirdly, I had some SMB performance issues within…
Cleaning the laptop – Asus GL552VW summer clean-up and thermal paste change
So I have an Asus GL552VW notebook, that has been retired from daily use and it’s a home server machine now. As summer came, ambient temperatures rise especially since the…