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Discover the easy way to send bulk SMS from your PC, Mac or mobile device

6 August 2020

Ad: Using the latest in technology, WinSMS offers cost effective messaging solutions that makers and business owners can use. With their online portal and API functionality, buying SMS bundles and sending them to recipients is more cost effective and easy to do. More…

Sharing a Raspberry Pi directory on a local area network

18 April 2016 | Updated 20 April 2020

Sharing a Raspberry Pi directory on a local network is required in many different scenarios. This post will show how it is done and mention considerations and potential problems in the process. More…

Raspberry Pi

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A simple introduction to network-attached storage (NAS)

22 March 2015 | Updated 26 April 2018

A network-attached storage (NAS) device is a stand-alone, specialised data storage server connected to a file sharing network. It is in the form of multiple hard drives, managed as one large drive. Nowadays, there are a lot of ‘smaller’, budget friendly NAS devices available. More…

Electronics

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Using the Simple Image Sizes WordPress plugin

4 June 2020

The Simple Image Sizes plugin is a simple, yet powerful WordPress plugin that helps to see what image sizes have been set, to set new image sizes and to (re)generate the image sizes. More…

Website DevelopmentWordPress

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Getting started with SASS

20 May 2020

For some website developers, no introduction to SASS is required. This post will show how to get started with SASS on a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian), a Windows PC or a Mac with your favourite IDE. More…

Website DevelopmentWordPress

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Adding fonts to a WordPress site

28 April 2020 | Updated 4 February 2020

The right font (typeface) can significantly contribute to the overall style and feel of a website. This post will discuss the basics of adding fonts to a WordPress website. More…

Website DevelopmentWordPress

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Installing WordPress on a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian)

22 April 2020

A Raspberry Pi with Raspbian can be easily converted into a web server. This post will show how to install and manage a WordPress website on a Raspberry Pi using an Apache web server. More…

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Using a Raspberry Pi as a stand-alone DynamoDB, NoSQL database server

14 April 2020

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a downloadable version of DynamoDB to be installed locally on a device. This post will show how to use a Raspberry Pi as a stand-alone DynamoDB, NoSQL database server. More…

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