Proper communication is paramount. In the same way that handing someone a cheap, faded, crappy business card paints the wrong picture about your company and brand, a poorly communciated message does the same about yourself as a person. We live in a time when it often feels there are more communication options than people with whom we communicate. Further, those…
Category: Life Skills
Starting a Company Right with LibreOffice Docs
If you are at a company at the startup phase, and you want to make sure that the company isn’t plagued by proprietary office documents, and to make sure that everyone knows the reason *why* this matters, I have created the attached documents. I will also paste the raw text into this post so you can know what’s in the…
Making Roblox Work on Ubuntu in Windows 7 on Virtual Box
EDIT: January 10, 2021 – for the most recent updates on this topic, see this post IMPORTANT! THIS BLOG POST IS BEING TESTED NOW AND NEEDS SOME WORK. I EXPECT TO UPDATE / IMPROVE THIS AT LEAST ONE MORE TIME. IT’S HERE JUST FOR TESTING PURPOSES. NOTE ALSO THAT AS OF TODAY, EVEN IF YOU GET THIS ALL DONE YOU…
How to Import Shopify Data into Prestashop with CSV
Brutal. I spent probably 3 hours trying to figure this out so I thought I should spend about 10 minutes and write this quick blog post for anyone else who might hit this. I was testing out Prestashop (looking good so far!) and the aim was to move a new shopify account over to Prestashop to see how it goes.…
Getting Korean Hangul Working on Ubuntu 18 and higher
How to install Korean Hangul Keyboard Ubuntu Gnome 18 Edit 2020.11.10 – The title of this blog wasn’t great because actually the instructions are different for 20.04 suddenly. If you’re trying to install Korean on Ubuntu 20.04, check out this link instead. In Ubuntu there are two things that need to happen to be able to type a non-native language…
THE NEED FOR A NEW QR CODE WORLD – OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT…
The Background – The Feelings The background to this one is that I was really amazed by the technology and functionality of QR codes. QR codes brought the convenience of UPC retail bar codes to the average person without the crazy costs associated. So, even from a business perspective you could have your own scanning system if you wanted. On…
CONVERT HARVESTED BULK EMAILS INTO USABLE SPREADSHEET IN A FEW STEPS
Did someone send you a bulk email and foolishly leave all the recipients exposed? Do you want to grab those recipients and use for your own great purposes? Good news, it’s not so hard to do! Here’s what you’ll need: A text editor (gedit on ubuntu) Spreadsheet software (Libre Office is the one I’ll use here since it’s both free…
How to Install Video Convertor App on Nextcloud
Someone complaining that they can’t view an Apple .MOV file on your Nextcloud server? No surprise considering ‘apple is apple’. Heard about the cool app ‘Video Convertor’ for Nextcloud? Tried to install it and use it and got that ‘requires ffmpeg error? Same. Turns out it’s pretty easy to to get it going and here is how: Let’s do it.…
HOW TO MAKE A NEXTCLOUD PI BOX WORK AS REVERSE PROXY TO YUNOHOST
Background The situation was that I wanted to test out the very cool project Yunohost but I already had Nextcloudpi (another awesome project!) running on my local network. I already had a DDNS service (No-ip) running which was pointing to my Nextcloudpi (“NCP” moving forward) box, and a second DNS service that I set up which pointed to my router…
SETTING UP EMAIL WITH YUNOHOST AND CLOUDFLARE
In a previous blog post I set up a Yunohost (“YH” moving forward) box with a script so that it would report it’s location back to Cloudflare (“CF” moving forward) automatically using a cron job entry on the box and a cool piece of free software called ddns-cloudflare. That blog was to make sure the website stuff (ie. WordPress blog,…