What to do if your MAMP mysql Server Won't Start

1. Open your MAMP folder in your computer
2. Look for the 'mysql' folder inside 'db' folder
3. Select the files with filename starts with 'mysql.bin'
4. Delete all of them

Java and Flash Content Not Working or Theme Issue on Google Chrome

Has Your Google Chrome Been Acting Strange Lately?

That is probably because your Google Chrome auto-update failed to update automatically. In my case, it happens to the Google Chrome update for Version 57.0.2987 to Version 58.0.3029.96 for Windows and Mac OS on 2017-04-19.

Here's a tutorial on how to manually trigger the Google Chrome auto-update:

Open Chrome browser and click the vertical 3-dots&nbsp;<span class=""><i><b>settings button.</b></i></span>

At the settings menu, mouseover to <b><i>[Help]</i></b>&nbsp;and Click <span class=""><i><b>[About Google Chrome].</b></i></span>

Your Google Chrome version is shown here. The update will start automatically.

Last step is to <b><i>relaunch</i> </b>your Google Chrome browser.

Well done! Your Google Chrome browser is up to date.

For iOS and Android version, you may refer to the official Google Help site.

And here's the Google Chrome version history if you are interested.

YouTube Channel Art Visual Cheatsheet

Struggling to create the logo-display-safe Channel Art for your YouTube Channel?

Here's a tested guideline for your perusal.

YouTube Channel Art Visual Cheat-sheet

Drop me a comment if you find it not working.

Happy learning!

How-to | Update Apps on Your iPhone Through iTunes

So I got a new laptop and wanted to utilize the office internet to update my apps. But too bad the company network team's WIFI policy doesn't allow us lower rank staff to update Windows, Android nor Apple Apps and OS, we only allows to update our stuff with the LAN connection.

So I plugged in  my iPhone to the laptop, open iTunes and sync the phone. Sync finished, but the Apps in my phone remain unchanged. Inside the "Apps" page of my phone settings, I can see my Apps appears on the Home screen but not in the left-hand side list.

Searched on Google and found this but not particularly helpful. Can't complaint much as the last post was in 2013. But simply sync the iPhone to iTunes just won't update the Apps.

So I tried to click around and found my apps in the iTunes App Store "Purchased" page.

Apparently you'll need to download back the Apps into your computer using the iTunes App Store before you can update them back to your iPhone.

Here's how you do it:

1. Open iTunes App Store using the 'A' button on top-right and then click "App Store" on the top navbar, then click "Purchased" in the "QUICK LINKS".

2. Wait for it to load, and you'll see the list of Apps you purchased since you got your first iPhone. This might not be the most effective way to do it, but is the way I figured out myself: Click the download button on top-right of each App you need to put back to your iPhone (yeah, and then iTunes will start to download them to your PC).

3. Click the iPhone Icon (with your phone connected to PC) to open the iPhone summary, then  click "Apps" under Settings to see the list of Apps.

4. And now you are able to see your Apps on the left with the "Update" button. Apps you haven't installed into your phone will have the Install button instead, for those with no updates, it will be the Remove button.

I hope it helps. Do feel free to share if you know how to do it without manually go through the list of Apps you purchased all these years and hand-pick them back into your phone.

Have a nice day.

How-to | Move Photo from one Album to another on Facebook

A friend called and ask about how to feature a photo on her Facebook photo album (she uploaded a set of photo) to make it more visible while shared. So I quickly took some photo on my screen to give her the step-by-step.

Today I was cleaning up my photo in the phone and, instead of just throw them into the trash bin, I though might as well post it up just in case anyone else needed it.

So here's how you feature a photo inside your Facebook Album.

Step 1: To get started, you'll need to create an album for the photo, featuring it from your Mobile Upload album doesn't make much sense.

Step 2: Move the photo in your set of photo into the album by using the Options menu on the bottom-right corner of your photo.

Step 3: Now open the album. There's plenty of ways to do it, the simple one is to click on the album name at the bottom-left corner of your photo.

Extra: You can drag-and-drop to move your photo sequence, if you need to.

Step 4: To feature a photo within your album, mouse-over to the top-right corner of your photo thumbnail and make it your Cover Photo.

That's it. The guide above might not be very detailed. If you need me, do leave a comment below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Have a nice day.