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Can Technology Help Us Survive the Coming Zombie Apocalypse?

Joe Fino — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:01:33 +0000

Let me acquaint you with the cutting-edge technology available today that just might save your brains in the days to come.

Watch my video presentation at TEDxChesterRiver.

How Does Google work?

Joe Fino — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:31:38 +0000

Ever wonder how Google manages to search the entire web and return results in half a second? Well, the short answer? They have a ton of backend firepower and, you know, a few years of experience in the search game. For a more detail answer here is a video from Matt Cutts at Google:

This just saved me

Joe Fino — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:48:23 +0000

This plugin just saved me a lot of time and headache: http://www.ambrosite.com/plugins/next-previous-post-link-plus-for-wordpress. I was looking for something that would take me to the first or last post in WordPress. Using the previous_post_link() or next_post_link() give you nothing when you are at the beginning or the end of the list respectively.

The “Next/Previous Post Link Plus” for WordPress plugin gave me the option of specifying whether it should go to the first or last post depending where I was in the list. I owe a big thanks to the developer!

Hanes Comfort Toe Seam Socks

Joe Fino — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:50:55 +0000

Hanes Comfort Toe Seam Socks feature smoother, non-irritating toe seams for all day comfort. Want to try the socks yourself? Purchase them at stores like Walmart, Target, Kmart, and Sears. I’m trying them for free because I’m a BzzAgent. Look for this logo on the package to ensure you are getting the Smooth Toe Socks!

This is so true…

Joe Fino — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:34:55 +0000

Especially when it comes to web design/development and mobile apps:

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
—Douglas Adams

Adobe Edge

Joe Fino — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:54:33 +0000

Adobe “Edge” looks promising. It’s a new prototype of a tool for creating animation and transitions using the capabilities of HTML5.

Adobe Fellow Mark Anders provides a sneak peek of a tool codenamed “Edge.” (Ironically, the video requires Flash.)

Handy htaccess snippet

Joe Fino — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:56:50 +0000

If you need to redirect a whole site to https try adding these 3 lines to you .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

Search engine wars over?

Joe Fino — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:22:35 +0000

In his blog post entitled The search engine wars are over, my friend José Roig suggests that someone needs to break the news to Microsoft, Yahoo!, Ask, and the Yellow Pages and let them know that they lost the Search Engine War. I disagree. Here’s why:

It’s not over until it’s over.
Years back many people were ready to declare Microsoft (MS) the winner of the browser wars. Thank God no one did or we may not have Firefox, Safari or Chrome today. Yes, MS is still used slightly more than those other browsers, but they are all gaining ground fast and they are forcing MS to make their product better.

I also think that when it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), you should definitely to improve results on other search engines in addition to Google. Doing this will improve your Google rankings. If I’m able to get my site listed higher on Yahoo — both in the search engine an directory, then Google will take into account those in-bound links.

Yes, Google is king (for now), and we should focus on improving rankings in Google; however, the rest of the world can not be ignored. If I told you a few years ago that Apple would be selling more computers today than Dell you may have laughed at me…but today Apple DOES sell more. So I say let this war rage on and maybe we’ll continue to get better search results out of it. Or, possibly a new search engine? Or both?

For the record…

I think José has lots of great ideas
I prefer Apple OS X over Microsoft Windows (I use both everyday)
Google is my default search engine
Firefox is my favorite web browser

Did you sell your soul?

Joe Fino — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:45:18 +0000

Thousands of shoppers unknowingly signed their souls over to a computer-game store after failing to read the terms and conditions on their website.

Many people don’t read before submitting online forms. Here’s the proof at news lite.

Keeping Up!

Joe Fino — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:10:47 +0000

So I have one of these magical new devices called an iPad. And, recently I’ve been complaining to myself and anyone else around that I really need to get to the blog and start posting more about the work I’ve been doing. Recently I’ve worked on a few killer websites but have been so busy stuck in production that I’ve used it as an excuse to not get to the blog. So, enter this new device into my life. . .the perfect excuse to get to the blog. If I have time to mess around with this thing i have time to blog, right?

I’ve decided that a good way to accomplish both tasks is to use the iPad to enter my new blog posts. Right now I’m just sitting here at the kitchen table getting ready for the usual family activities that happen on Easter, and I’m able to blog to my hearts content.

In the past this blog has been a mosh of so tech, some opinion and some personal thoughts and it will continue to be. However, moving forward I promise to be better with tags and categories to help sort all of the content. I also suspect that I will soon be working on a new design to reflect this new direction.

Well I better get on with preparing for the day. We’ll be running to my sister-in-law’s for brunch then off to see my family later at my aunt’s.