Don’t Be Stupid Ok? Mobilize Your Website Already!

 Joe On The Move  1 Response »
Aug 132011
 

You know what’s wrong? It’s wrong that millions of websites and blogs even the ones that are on top of the list still didn’t mobilize their websites.

Millions of people from work, home and anywhere in the world are browsing Internet via their mobile devices yet webmasters still don’t see the benefit of mobilizing the website.

I really hate the fact that when I go to some “popular” tech blog and I have to wait till site loads, then I have to pinch-zoom-in to read the content. For wordpress bloggers it takes literally 20 seconds to mobilize their blogs: I use wp-touch..its an awesome wordpress plugin that can difirentiate the visitors, whether they are browsing from Some Tablet, Smartphone or Desktop PC.

When I look at some of my sites that received millions of pageviews, 15-25% of traffic came from mobile devices!

Don’t be stupid and wait 5 years till you realize that you can help your mobile visitors read your content faster and easier.

Get wp-touch if you are on wordpress, if you have some other CMS platform, lookup how to mobilize your website. Or pay $200 some offshore developer to mobilize your website. Trust me it’s worth it, and people like me will love to come back and read your content.

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iOS 5 Predictions

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Jul 122011
 

For past few years my predictions in technology were 90% accurate and spot on the release dates for gadgets.  Just recently my iOS 5 predictions were 100% accurate and lets hope that iOS 5 release date prediction is also going to be spot on.

iOS 5 Release Date Predictions

iOS 5 Beta 4 – July 25th

iOS 5 Final Release – Late August

According to what I see in tech industry and how things are moving around, iOS 5 should be released to public in late August. To be more specific I am thinking August 22nd.  It does not really take any special sense to predict those dates, basically I compared how apple worked out previous iOS 3-4 releases and apply that same knowledge to iOS 5.

IBM researches predicted that in next 5 years there are going to be devices which will be able to display holographic images. I totally support that prediction because I predicted that about 4 months before they even release that news to the world.  Bad thing about such predictions is that there is two things that can happen to me : If predictions of mine are correct I get to be called , genius.. but if they are incorrect, I get to be called an Idiot…Oh well! Ill take my chances whether I was right or wrong.

So far all my predictions are 90% accurate in IT world.

 Posted by Joe Hobot at 11:10 pm

D5000 Fireworks Settings

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Jul 082011
 

This July 4th I took some awesome pictures of fireworks with my D5000 camera with my 18-55MM lens. After reading few of articles on how to setup Nikon D5000 to photograph fireworks, I learned a lot about the colors, aperture and shutter.

My Nikon D5000 Settings

  • Manual Mode also known as (M)
  • F13-F22 – Aperture was set between F13-F22 depends on how near I shot the fireworks
  • Shutter Speed was set to between 2-4
  • Focus on the lens I set up manual

Speaking of Focus, I would strongly advice to put it in manual mode vs automatic, because when you put it on automatic, you will lose a lot of time and fireworks between the shots.

Here are some of my pictures that I took this July 4th in Urbandale, Iowa

As you can see above some shots are good some bit bad, that’s why changing the aperture between F13 and F22 helped a lot, I left the shutter speed between 2-4 as I mentioned above. I took 233 pictures which you can see the rest of them on my flickr account. Am not profesional photographer but if you leave comments below I will respond to whatever questions you have in mind.

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Taking Pictures for 4th of July of Fireworks with DSLR – Tips Resources

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Jul 052011
 

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We are few hours away from experiencing the 4th of July fireworks, while looking up online for some DSLR Tips I stumbled upon on few sites that give great tips on how to take pictures of fireworks.

My favorite post about taking pictures of fireworks  is from friend of mine Darren Rowse, who is also very known among professional bloggers like my self. In the link below you will find almost everyhing you need to know about taking picture of Fireworks.

How to Photograph Fireworks Displays

My second favorite is from Photo Kaboom, has lots of tips and tricks on photography – but bit too confusing to read…

Fireworks > DSLR Cameras

And my top resource which comes from Ken Rockwell who is one of the well known and experienced photographers. In his post below he describes a lot of useful information just like Darren Rowse does.

Photographing Fireworks

Hope you like my limited resources on how to photograph fireworks. I tested Darren’s tips last year and worked perfectly!

 

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#8035 by Joe Hobot

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Jul 052011
 

Here are some of my @8035 Instagram pictures I took with iPhone, must say that Instagram still works with iOS 5 Beta 2. #8035 is yearly music festival in Des Moines, Iowa where you can see some new and popular bands playing for 2 days.

Anyway,

Just wanted to share some of my latest pictures I took.

 

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Who Did We Become?

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Apr 262011
 

Where is this world going?

What are we favoring?

Who are we honoring?

Those are some of the questions I ask my self from time to time (every day). Where is this greed for MORE and MORE money going?

Where is media shifting us?

Why is Charlie Sheen 24/7 on TV  for past few weeks, yet soldier that died today who fought for his country was not even seen by local news.  Who are we favoring, Who is our hero? Who is our idol?

We all know that it’s wrong, we all have that feeling that its wrong, but we still at the end of the day do exactly what others tells us to do. By the time you go to bed, sometimes people don’t realize that a peace of their heart and soul just died, and it’s dying every single day, because we resist that feeling, we don’t want to feel guilty, we want to be happy for that moment.

But then again, who am I to say those things, right? ……..

YOU: That’s right Joe! …..who the f** are you?

Sincerely,

Your Guilt.

 

 

 

 

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Blogging from iPhone

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Mar 222011
 

Ok so this will be my first post that I’ll attempt to write on this blog via iPhone app called WordPress. So far iPhone app for WordPress seems to be easy to use, very straight forward but that also means it’s very limited to what you can do. For an example if I would like to view post in HTML I can’t. Nor I am not able to use bullet points. So basically I am stuck with text writing only. I think that is the reason why this app is low rated on apple store. But for quick posts I think the app does well job.

Another way I usually post stuff is by installing mobile admin plugin on WordPress, that way when I login with android or any other mobile device it’s easier for me to write quick posts.

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Joe Hobot Live on ABC 5 and WebCastOneLive

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Mar 192011
 

Tonight I will be on ABC 5 (Who-TV) at 10PM. Some of you might land on this page by searching for Joe Hobot, so I wanted to say… Thank you for watching.

I am not sure how the news will come out on ABC but if it needs more explaining in detail, I will update this page tonight (03/18/2011).

Today I created new YouTube channel called JoeHobot (Simple,eh?) that will contain all the stuff that I will be doing forward on, I also will upload videos on regular basis.

So, if you do have Gmail or YouTube account please do subscribe to my channel , that way you will stay up-to date with all my progress of helping those in need.

Thank you again for watching and coming to this page.

If you have questions or comments please leave creative responses in the section below.

 

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Search Engine Traffic Vs Readership

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Feb 092011
 

What is your focus for 2011 in Blogosphere? Search Engine Traffic or Readership? After small fight with Google I came to conclusion that readership is way better than receiving search engine traffic.

After Google took MWD off from Google News (For no apparent reason) MWD traffic went down for 12% and to be honest in some way I am glad they did here is why.

  • I was forced to let few people go that did not perform good in English grammar
  • Hired Proof Reader (Editor)
  • My entire focus now is on building readers and loyal visitors (people that stop by every day)
  • Changed the layout for better look and feel

You can say that sometimes negative impact on blogs like one I own (270.000 unique visitors) could be turned into positive future.

Search Engine Traffic is good am not saying that it isn’t, but if you own blog you also should focus to keep at least 10% of new monthly visitors as your loyal visitors.

Readership in my opinion is always better because they:

  • Know who the authors and content contributors are
  • Read your blog every day
  • Recommend your blog to others
  • Subscribe to Newsletter
  • Retweet on Twitter and press LIKE on Facebook

What you don’t get with readership is the income you might expect, because your readers also know where your ads are displayed, and most likely they already clicked on the ads long time ago.

Basically what I am trying to say is that not only you should focus on rich keywords, search engine optimization and search engine traffic but also on making your visitors come back for some quality content, interaction and more.

Does that make sense?

See at JoeHobot I don’t have any ads displayed and I  never will, but my passion to write every now and then comes from loyal visitors that I know in person or we interacted online. I love to help people build something I already built years ago and share my thoughts and experience, whether it’s  physical, emotional or technological.

Again, thanks for stopping by, I hope you found this article interesting enough to share with others.

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First Experience with Apple and iPhone 4

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Feb 092011
 

After being devoted Android users for 3 years now I decided to switch to iPhone 4 on Verizon network for few reasons. This morning I woke up at 1:30AM made Bosnian Coffee (Super Strong) and went to my PC and went to Verizon Website at 1:55AM with Firefox (Which by the way is best browser for Linux distro’s)

Anyway, I went through the process of ordering iPhone 4 and I got stuck at the page where I can port my phone number from previous carrier (T-Mobile) over to Verizon Network. Page was loading for 5 minutes and I did not get through, 10 minutes went by that thing at the lower end corner was still loading. At that point I gave up on Verizon website and went to Apple.com/iPhone

I saw iPhone 4 with the Verizon logo and started the process, I almost got to the end of the process and I said “Wait, I am ordering family pack plan but only got offered 1 iPhone to select, wth?” I clicked on the Apple Chat and it said that I have to wait 12 minutes and 45 seconds for somebody to chat with me. In the mean time I just went through the pre-order process twice while waiting for Apple Tech Support.

Finally after 12 minutes I got Apple support, and asked them “Yo, Yooo wasup? How come I can’t pre-order 2 iPhones with Family data plan?” Apple support said “You have to go through the pre-order twice” (Which I already did ahead).

Right after she “Elizabeth” wrote that she also asked, did you get Apple Care? I said “No, why?” and then she said “ Did you order Cases and Car Chargers for your iPhone 4?” I said “No”

Anyway , the point is that they were trying to sell me stuff that really is pointless at that time, I didn’t even get the phone and they already try to sell me accessories for it. It’s like being at the dealership pre-ordering Ferrari, and the dealer says, “Did you buy spare tire and extra warranty?”

So what’s going to happen next?

Well I already have few plans:

  • load all my music from iTunes (finally wife and I can have separate music to listen (we shared iPod Touch be4))
  • Get apps I need: Seesmic, Facebook, SSH client, URL checker, SEO Checker, RSS Reader, Angry Birds, Skype!, Pandora

I guess I’ll be one of those iPhone 4 users that just shut up and wait for the next awesome phone because iPhone 4 is getting pretty old for what’s on the upcoming market. *dual core, 8MP Cam, 1080p HD, 4G!*

Well, I stop writing now, am not 100% sure why I posted this, but then again I do have 51.000 followers and at least 1% of them do care whats next on Joe’s plate.

What’s your next thing on plate for today or this year?

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