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Be careful when geotagging your photos

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:17:25 +0000

How many of you are geotagging your photos without even realising it. Geotagging basically means using a GPS (Global Positioning System) to work out the exact location you took the photo. People are using this to showcase where they’ve taken pictures of their favourite location but there’s something you need to be careful of. If you don’t switch off geotagging on your mobile phone for private pictures (ie like your home, food you’ve eaten for dinner, your favourite pets) you’re actually giving away your location – where you live.
Cyberstalking is growing dramatically due to the increase usage of social networking tools + GPS enabled phones and by uploading or sending your images, you’re actually revealing your location. So we just want you to be careful and before uploading any pictures to any website on the Internet or sending photos to friends, make sure you’ve disabled geotagging unless you specifically want to use it.
I’ve done some testing and it’s quite scary – most websites like facebook strip this information from the file before publishing it so you’re quite safe. But sending emails with images from the iphone is a different story.

As an example, I picked up my friends Iphone4 and showed them this issue. I went to their photos and selected places… then I showed them on the map where they lived and they freaked out. Imagine losing your phone or if someone borrowed your phone without you realising… there goes your identity which I find very scary.
Still don’t believe me? You can download a software tool called ExifTool that read meta information in files (this will include GPS co-ordinates) and open up a photo you took on your iphone.
If you want to disable geotag on your iphone these are the steps I have found on the Internet (I don’t have an iphone so don’t know whether they work):

- On your iPhone, and select “Settings” from the menu screen.
- Press “General,” and then select “Reset”
- Select the “Reset Location Warnings” option
- Press “Reset Warnings”
- Press and open your camera application on the menu screen. Select “Don’t Allow” when prompted.

So be careful and don’t ADVERTISE your location! You might be leaving footprints without you even realising.

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Advertise Your Business: Simple steps to building a website

admin — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:16:28 +0000

Sometimes building your own website can be a very daunting experience – pretty much it’s like building your dream house. We know this because we’ve built several of our own websites and also some for our clients. They came to us because they didn’t know where to begin which is quite understandable for those that don’t know the process. So we thought we’d provide our readers with some simple steps in building websites from start to finish. This doesn’t include creating content or images. Here are the steps:

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Link exchange

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:48:09 +0000

In the last two weeks we’ve received quite a number of emails asking to exchange links with our websites.
We generally avoid actioning any of the email and are quite selective with the one we actually choose. I think most people who send us an email forget to read our auto response message which says to visit our website http://www.digitalsignagee.com to exchange links.

Exchanging links is good for both SEO (search engine optimisation) and pagerank. The more people are linking to your website the better but the catch is to make sure the content on the website linking to your website is relevant.

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Which nameservers should I use on a godaddy grid hosting?

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:54:17 +0000

Today I spent half a day trying to migrate a website. We ended purchasing new grid hosting on godaddy for a domain and went a head configuring and setting up everything. The process seemed easy at first – the setup only took a few minutes and then we just waited. The most complex part was to configure DNS and nameservers. You complete this step when you configure the hosting and I thought I completed this section correctly. So I just waited… and it should have been updated within 4 hours but it appeared that the website wasn’t active. We waited for a few hours and then I decided to look into this further. I checked the Account Summary page and noticed that the A record didn’t exist. I found this quite odd. I checked the godaddy help pages to confirm the nameservers and this what was on the page:

July 27, 2009 — Present
ns25.domaincontrol.com
ns26.domaincontrol.com

So obviously I used the above servers since I just signed up for the hosting. I waited for a few more hours and still the site was not alive. Feeling frustrated I knew it had to be a DNS issue. Upon further investigating the issue I noticed that the nameserves configures in the DNS Domain Manager was different to what was on the website help pages. This is what I saw (scroll to the bottom of the DNS Domain Manager):

The solution was simple: I changed the nameservers to ns01.domaincontrol.com and ns02.domaincontrol.com and it worked straightaway. To verify the DNS I used a website called http://www.zoneedit.com – this way I could make sure that my ISP wasn’t the cause of DNS not propagating the change.

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Website domains and hosting

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:01:25 +0000

Are you looking to hit the online market and are planning to start your own business website? Don’t know how to start the process? Don’t have the expertise?

Get in touch with us and we’ll take care of everything. From domain registration, website (using CMS such as Joomla, Drupal, WordPress) and email hosting, Search Engine Optimisation and Search Engine Marketing, website design, web 2.0 integration, we’ve got everything that you need.

List of websites we have previously worked with:

	Advertise Me – www.advertiseme.com.au
	Digital Signage Articles – www.digitalsignagearticles.com
Digital Signage Blog	Digital Signage Blog – www.digitalsignageblog.com
Digital Signage Portal	Digital Signage Portal – www.digitalsignageportal.com
Squeak	Squeak – www.squeak.com.au
Trinium Group	Trinium Group -www.triniumgroup.com
Blissful Nails	Blissful Nails – www.blissfulnails.com.au
	And more to come…

So don’t hesitate to contact us and we’ll help you to “Advertise Me”.

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Glider Fix for futura WordPress template

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:43:33 +0000

Yesterday, we were notified by one of our readers that our http://www.digitalsignagearticles.com Futura template had a problem with the top glider. Upon investigation we found out that indeed there was a problem with the coding and we immediately fixed this. For those of you who are also having a problem just download the attached file. Unzip glide.zip and replace the file glide.php in your WordPress wp-content/themes/zinmag-futura/ folder.

Hope this fixes your problem.

If you also need help with any WordPress modification etc let us know. Our developers have extensive experience in WordPress development work and we can provide you with a competitive quote.

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Advertise Me twitter down – Twitter over subscribed

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:47:02 +0000

We just noticed that our twitter status was not showing on some of our websites so we tested to see if our twitter page http://www.twitter.com/advertisemeAU was working, and surprisingly we noticed that the twitter service is over capacity. This is what we saw:

This is quite excepted with the huge number of users and traffic, so don’t be alarmed if you see the above image once in a while.

NOTE: Funnily enough, the service came back within a couple of seconds.

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Added Blog images for Advertise Me Blog and Digital Signage Blog

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:23:19 +0000

We just added two images for our blogs on our advertise me website. One links to the official digital signage blog whilst the other links to the Advertise Me blog. We hope you like both of these blogs and we’ll try our best to make sure we regularly post an article.

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