In this video I review the RSJoomla.com component call RSFirewall by RSJoomla.com. This component is used to block hackers from getting into your website. in this video I run through the backend administrator of Morris firewall and show you some of the features. Some of the more impressive features are blocking by country, blocking by IP address and automatic blacklisting.

If you were interested in having RS firewall installed on your Joomla! website, go to www.HubuMedia.com/contact and contact us for more information. Would be happy to help you secure your Joomla website.

We are proud to offer website maintenance plans for Joomla! websites. If you have a Joomla! website the toasted with HubuMedia, purchase one of these maintenance packages and you will get the hourly assistance based on your package along with off-site backups. If you're struggling learning how to use Joomla!, one of these packages can help you get up and running quickly.

Making changes to your new Joomla! website can also be a tricky task if you're not familiar with Joomla!. By backing up your website once a month you have a copy of the website that will allow you to revert back to a previous version.

Click here to view the HubuMedia website maintenance packages for Joomla!.

We are happy to announce HubuMedia Joomla! websites design packages for small businesses. If you are a company that needs a manageable website for your small business, then the website design packages are great place to start. We offer three different levels of website packages for you to choose from.

The starter level will get you up and running with a content management website quickly. The standard and advanced package allows for more flexibility, more menu items and content. Take a look at the Joomla! website design package page on HubuMedia.com for more information.

They everybody, I just wanted to let you all know that HubuMedia will be traveling to New York City tomorrow to visit one of our best clients, Smith Micro. Makers of Anime Studio. Smith micro just came out with a new version of their software and HubuMedia assisted them in coming up with some new designs.  Were very proud to be a part of their team of friends helping to make a better product for all. One of the HubuMedia team members, Vernon is a Anime Studio professional user. He knows the software inside and out and can think outside the box when it comes to new scripts and uses for Anime Studio.

Vern will be giving a demonstration on some of the new features of the latest version or Anime Studio. I will be taking photos and videos for you guys to check out later on. I'll also be tweeting during the whole day keeping you up-to-date on some of the latest greatest things at comic con.

Have a wonderful weekend and we'll see you at comic con in New York City tomorrow.

JustCloud.com just came out with a new application for the iPhone and iPad. This allows you to easily backed up all of your photos without any thought involved. Read this article to learn how you can get a secondary backup of all of your photos from your iPad and iPhone safely up to the cloud. PS, when you go to signup for the service, I recommend the Unlimited plan. Its not much more and you won't have to worry about any limits on your backups

I've done the research for you. Now make sure you get your computer back up. Click on the link for justcloud.com or any one of the links in this article and you will be using my affiliate link to set up your new account.

Don't wait until your phone gets busted or lost. I would like to say, "Yes, I  signed up for justcloud.com so my files are safe!"

Thanks for listening now go back up your stuff!

John Hubickey

Hi everyone, I don't know if you are aware but it HubuMedia team has been running the folding at home software on many of our computers. If you don't know what folding at home is, it is a program that allows Stanford University to utilize your unused processor to fold proteins in the search for diseases. Myself and other members of the HubuMedia folding team have been doing this for over three years now.

Here is a link to our folding at home webpage where you can find out more information.

http://www.hubumedia.com/folding-at-home

If you have a computer that is just sitting around not doing much most of the time, consider joining the HubuMedia folding at home team. Our team number is 59438.

The long awaited PDF generation plugin from RSJoomla for RSFormsProis here. It is designed to generate PDF files that include submission information. The PDF files can then be attached to the built-in User and Admin e-mails or published on the website using our RSForm!Pro List Submissions Module.

If you need PDF Generation from form data on your website, contact HubuMedia for assistance.

HubuMedia has recently switched over from the standard Joomla! category blog layout to RSblogs. This new blogging module from RSJoomla! has many benefits. Some of the benefits are showing a tag cloud, a module with the most popular articles including showing the amount of hits. Basically RSJoomla provides a lotmore flexibility than Joomlas category blog layout.

I have also found that after posting to RSBlog, it gets indexed by google a lot faster than the standard Joomla post. If you need a great blog component for Joomla, contact HubuMedia and we will help you get it installed and setup on your Joomla website.

this year during comic con 2012 in San Diego, there was a zombie survival Ron at Petco Park. Since we didn't have tickets for every day of comic-con I decided that this would be an awesome thing to do. I mounted up both of my GoPro HREO2 cameras, one to my head and the other one to my chest and recorded the entire zombie survival run.

the running from zombies and attempting to not be infected was a challenge. But it was great training for the upcoming zombie apocalypse. I hope you enjoy the video as much as I enjoyed zombie survival run!

I went to the 2012 Comic-Con in San Diego and put on my GoPro HERO2 camera while walking around the exhibit floor

Thursday at San Diego Comic-Con 2012 was a blast. Holy mackeral there was so much to do. The first attack wave we split up and shoot for the Comic-Con exclusives. Exclusive are new toys and products they only give out at Comic-Con. We were able to get what we came for, unfortunately I can't talk about things that we picked up because they are going to be gifts for friends. Mwaaa, ha ha ha.

After we picked up the exclusives, I went and dropped everything off back at the room. One of the new services i used this year at Comic-Con great things is the bag check. You can fill an entire bag of Comic-Con crap for only two dollars. As much stuff as you can fit in one of the giant bags. Best dear around.
Preparing for Operation Comic-Con.

Wandering around comic con takes skill as well as specific tactical training. You need to know where you want to go and what you want to see in advance, especially if you have only two days versus the entire four days. Unfortunately this year we only got tickets for two of the dates.

Next year we are going to be extremely prepared and have multiple computers at the ready to get tickets. But then again I always say this.We got to spend a good amount of time wandering around the exhibit floor. We saw plenty of cool stuff and the idea is to make sure you get to see as much as possible on the first day.  I went by the walking dead booth and as I was walking by I saw Robert Kirkman. He was right next to me so I said "Hey, Robert Kirkman! "He looked at me and said "Hi", I held my hand out to shake his hand, he was very gracious and give me a firm handshake.  I told them I was a big fan and that was it. Sometimes I feel a little weird saying hello to a celebrity but sometimes it's just something you have to do. I always feel that I need to respect their personal space but in this case I was like holy crap, this is Robert Kirkman, Creator of The Walking Dead. Super Awesome!!!

He was going to be doing signings as well but unfortunately they sold out before I could get any. there's always next Comic-Con. Maybe NYC?

The people that dress up for Comic-Con 2012 are absolutely amazing. Here you can see a photo gallery of some of the best costumes and characters seen on Thursday. (posted as soon as I get home)

So after a while browsing all of the great comic schwag, it was time to go see the Psych panel. The line was stupid long. When I mean stupid long I mean absolutely ridiculously longer than long. The line was so long that by the time you get done reading the article you'll still have to go another mile and a half to get to the end of the line. that's just one of the things you need to be prepared for when you go. You're definitely going to wait in line. Make sure you bring snacks in your backpack as well as a few bottles of water. It's important to stay hydrated. You got to hydrate! ( video will be posted of line length )
The next part about waiting in line at comic con is the importance of making line friends. If for some reason you get stuck by yourself for a while you need to have a line friend in order to save your place.

When you're waiting in line, it's also good time to rest and put down all your stuff, sit on the ground and just relax. when the line starts moving, be prepared to move. Don't hold up people behind you and stay orderly.
As you approach the entrance to the hall, once you get in make sure you have your cell phone light ready so you can see where you're going. You need to find a seat immediately. Get situated and enjoy the panel.Yesterday the psych panel was very entertaining. We had a great time they showed some awesome videos of all of the episodes in one giant 200 second segment. It always makes me want to go back and watch all the episodes over again.

At this point it was time to leave, take some of the stuff back to the apartment and get some food. We went back drop the stuff off, relaxed for a bit and then went back out for dinner. On the way down to the restaurant I walked by Felicia Day on the street and said,"Oh my God! Felicia Day, I love you!"and then she was like "Hi". I know that seems super cheesy but I thought I was pretty cool. If you don't know who Felicia Day is, she is the producer of The Guild as well as Dr. horrible's sing-along blog.

Another guy we found at  Comic-Con was Stan Yan. Stan is a supertalented artist who will take a photo of you and turn you into a zombie. http://www.squidworks.com/Zombicatures/stan.htmlThis is something that I had to do. If you are interested in getting your self drawn as a zombie here is a link to Stan's website. Stop putting stupid photos of yourself up on Facebook and go zombiefied! He doesn't even charge that much for the photos and if you love zombies as much as I do then I would send him an email.That's the update for now. I will be working on video editing on the plane to get the video up as fast as possible.

John Hubickey gives you a quick video report from Comic-Con 2012. The Walking Dead Booth.

Comic-Con report by John Hubickey, HubuMedia.com
So I am sitting on the plane, 8:51 am looking over the Comic-Con schedule for Thursday and Sunday. Unfortunately we only got tickets for those two days. Friday and Saturday got sold out online before we were able to get the full package. 

So far I found the following panels I will be attending or attempting to attend on Thursday.

10:30 am to 11:30 am, room 6bcf:  Battle Star: So say we all in 

2:15 pm to 3:15pm, room 20:  Psych panel

3:45 pm to 4:45 pm, room 6a, The Walking Dead comics

4pm to 5pm, room 5ab, Time travel, science fact or science fiction

6pm to 7 pm, indago ballroom. riff tracks live7pm to 8 pm, room 7ab, History of the modern zombie

8pm to 9pm, room 7ab, zombies, vampires and wear wolves on trial

Or 8:30 pm to 10 pm, room 6bcf, Doctor horribles sing along blog

There will really be so much to do it will be ridiculous but I'll do my best to get as much in as possible. Of corse I will keep everyone posted via twitter. Follow me on twitter name HubuMedia and Hubukai. All postings, videos and everything will be put up on http://www.hubumedia.com/comic-con-2012

Tomorrows flight for San Diego Comic-Con leaves at 6:30 am. Tonight I will be packing all camera equipment including two GoPro HERO2 cameras for the Zombie Survival Run at PetCo Park. Follow me on Twitter for the latest Comic-Con 2012 updates. My Twitter names are HubuMedia and Hubukai! Comic-Con 2012, here we come!

Lindsay wanted me to show her how I can just send an email directly to the website. John Hubickey

Many people think that a lot of websites don't improve often. Feeling changes you might see would be new postings or some graphical updates. A new blog posting might be something interesting to read but it might be a little bit more interesting to make that posting if you could just send it to your website in an email.

This blog post happens to be sent to our website through email. Once the email is sent, the website scans the email and then automatically post it to the blog section. Another thing that simplifies this blog posting is the fact that I'm dictating it right now. I'm actually dictating it using my iPad. For me, this is helpful. I'm not the fastest typer in the world and being able to use dictation to put text on a page really speeds things up for me. Although dictation isn't perfect, it sure makes putting a bunch of text on a page a lot faster.

As technology progresses, so will dictating directly to a computer. Now I don't want to make this article about dictation, and what I really want to make it about is the fact that I'm dictating to my iPad and then sending this as an email which my website will then create a blog post from.

To me, that is very powerful. So many of my clients are not very excited about logging into a website to make changes. But everyone in the world is very happy with sending email. It seems like we've all been doing it forever. Making things easier for our clients is what HubuMedia is all about. Learning, experimenting and trying out new technologies to makes things flow faster and simplify processes is what we like to do.

If I'm lucky, I will send this email, turn off my iPad and go to sleep and when I wake up, I'll see this blog post on our website. I have a feeling it will happen. Thanks for reading and if you're looking for a blog website for yourself and you wanted to be easy to update then I would suggest giving us a call at 888-904-8444 and we be happy to help.

John Hubickey

PS. It works great!

YooTheme.com is an awesome company that produces very professional looking templates for Joomla and Wordpress.  Small businesses as well as individuals can utilize these themes to create a new, fresh looking website for their business. While YooTheme makes beautiful themes, sometime customization of these themes are needed to suit your business or brand.

Customizing a YooTheme theme for your company isin't as easy as you might think. It takes advanced knowledge of CSS, graphics design and Joomla to mold a YooTheme to have a custom look and feel.

YooTheme Customization and Website Design - HubuMedia.com

HubuMedia.com is a Joomla website development company based out of West Chester, Pennsylvania

I've spoken with a lot of people about what they do for a backup solution for their files. Read my reccomendations for the safety of your files.

I've spoken with a lot of people about what they do for a backup solution for their computer files. I am frequently asked  for advice from people buying new computers, if they should buy a PC or Mac. 

 

When I am asked for advice on computer purchases, I usually recommend Apple computers. I also talk to clients and friends about what they plan to do to back up their files. It's simple on both the PC and Mac to back up your files to an external hard disk, but unless you have an automated backup solution, most people forget to setup a backup and then tell me that their backup hasn't been run for 6 months or even longer.

In most cases, people don't backup their files at all. When something horrible happens to your computer like a hard disk failure or some kind of corruption or even a virus, friends, relatives and other clients would bring the computer in asked me to save their files.

A lot of times, I feel like the doctor in a surgery room. I have to come out and tell my client or friend, "I'm sorry, your files didn't make it, I did everything I could to save them."

All drama aside, I wanted to provide you with the research and information that I have been looking into for a long time about online backup or cloud backup solutions. I have checked into all of the big names in offsite backup solutions and I've finally landed on using justcloud.com.

The reason I'm using justcloud.com versus any of the other cloud-based backup solution providers is because they provide unlimited file backup with their professional edition. Many of the other online backup solution providers will only give you a maximum of 250 GB or 500 GB of storage space online. While this may be fine for a lot of people, I feel it is very important to have unlimited backup space. Over the years you will see increasing file sizes of your photos, videos and you will need that extra space.

I have set up an affiliate link for John Hubickey and HubuMedia.com on justcloud.com and I would recommend that you click on this link to sign up for this online backup service. Because I am providing you with the link, you are giving me credit on through the affiliation program that I have with them. This helps me out but more importantly gets you and your computer and online backup solution that I reccomend.

I've done the research for you. Now make sure you get your computer back up. Click on the link for justcloud.com or any one of the links in this article and you will be using my affiliate link to set up your new account.

Don't wait until your hard drive crashes or you get a virus. If you bring me your computer and ask "John, can you help me save my files?" I would ask you if your files are backed up one thing I would like to hear you say is, "Yes, I took your advice and signed up for justcloud.com so my files are safe!"

Thanks for listening now go back up your stuff!

John Hubickey

Unless you only watch TV and read newspapers for your news you probably (hopefully) have heard of the controversial SOPA/PIPA bills.

Unless you only watch TV and read newspapers for your news you probably (hopefully) have heard of the controversial SOPA/PIPA bills. I am not normally much of an activist or polical "expert". My knowledge of how bills become laws is limited to the cartoon I watched as a child. Also I have not... uh... actually read these bills... thoroughly (they make me sleepy). At my age I have biological, hard drive/cloud storage issues. In order to learn stuff over the years like Actionscript and Joomla, I had to delete reruns of School House Rock, Charlie's Angels or Gilligan's Island from the old biological flash drive I call my brain (those old shows are available on DVD now so I can watch them again!).

As I stated previously, I am not pretending to be an expert, or an activist. I do however read a lot of articles on many subjects. I am also "not stupid" (this being relative of course). I do not get all of my news from "traditional" sources (TV, newspapers) and not from a single source. The majority of the news I read is on the internet but is NOT restricted to one source or ideology. You can't understand the discussion or topic without reading many sources and both sides. When this news first broke, I had to read both sides of the discussion before I could formulate an opinion. I literally knew nothing about it and needed to be certain there was actually something to be worried about.

I don't think you have to be an "expert" to understand the danger of these bills. One issue that has inspired protests agains these bills is how much power the copyright owners like compainies in the music and movie industry, will GAIN from these bills. Baiscally they can accuse anyone of a violation and potentially get them shut down. The other issue is the internet infrastructure remifications. The laws require changes to how the internet works which is where the experts come in. When the experts who literally "invented" the internet (no, not Al Gore, allthough I think he does appose SOPA/PIPA) and know more about it than anyone, are adamantly and vocally against this new legislature, one can use common sense to see that maybe, there might be something to be concerned about. When I speak of experts who KNOW stuff, I mean EXPERTS who KNOW stuff, in all caps, bolded, possibly a larger font size, different color and with a link to some really dry technical discussion of internet protocols that contains many 3 letter acronyms. These experts KNOW about how the internet works and understand its complexities. When they say SOPA/PIPA is "not a good idea" I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt.

The worst thing I learned during my research was how proudly the committee in charge of creating these bills stated their total ignorance of the technology they were legislating. They actually think it is a GOOD thing that they don't have a clue about how the internet works. Let's consider for a moment that not having any knowledge of how it all works could be some sort of badge of "non-bias" for creating laws that protect intellectual property on the interent. Even IF that were true and not having a vested interest in the internet would make you less likely to be partial to one side or the other, you would STILL need and WANT MANY EXPERTS with technical knowledge to guide you. As many as you could possibly find from many different sources to avoid further bias. Without this technical guidance, this is the blind leading the blind. The internet is too complex and important to THE WHOLE FREAKING WORLD to allow anyone without any guidance or knowledge of a subject make laws that effect it so dramatically.

I am all for "unbiased" law making. I don't want anyone who would benefit monetarily from a law actually creating the laws... oh wait... hold on... that is EXACTLY what is happening. The companies supporting SOPA/PIPA are also supporting the politicians creating the laws. Lobbyists. I am not an expert on that topic either beyond knowing that the creators of SOPA and PIPA recieve more financial support from the companies who would gain incredible power and potential profit from these laws, than the businesses who could be hurt by it. I read somewhere that the techy business guys just aren't as good at lobbying as the RIAA and MPAA are. Obivously the music and movie industries have been doing it longer. Oh by the way, former senator Chris Dodd is now the CEO of the MPAA. Interesting. A former lawmaker lobbying for new laws to aid his new job and the movie industry he now represents and profits from.

The bottom line for me is deciding which of the following is more likely:

1. Companies like Google are just plain evil supporters of piracy who make money putting ads on illegal videos and search results to pirate websites.
2. The RIAA and MPAA are afraid of new technology.

Ah! There's an interesting topic of discussion. The music and movie industries trying to stop new technology because of potential copyright infringement and lost profits has been going on for over 100 years. From the player piano to internet music downloads. From the invention of television to streaming video content. It's always the same story. Those inventions would DESTROY their industries. Why go to a movie if you can stay at home and watch it on your VCR? Why buy a vinyl album if you can make a cassette tape for free? None of the technologies in the past had the enormous "the sky is falling!" effect the music and movie industries predicted. In reality every one of these new technologies created BRAND NEW revenue streams for the very industries who tried to kill them.

I support the protection of intellectual property and copyright. Maybe there could be some ways to improve this obvious issue. Insisting that Google, Facebook, Twitter and all other user driven websites vet every single upload (1000's a day? 100,000 a day?) is completely obsurd. Once again this is a solution that punishes the INNOCENT instead of the real criminals. These new laws WILL stifle creativity and innovation, rightly or wrongly, whether justified or not, people will think twice about saying or creating something because they might inadvertently comit a crime or violate some unclear rule or regulation. Imagine if you were driving and you didn't know the laws, or the laws were so complex or vague that you could break them literally "by accident". You would fear driving. You might actually avoid it as much as possible. Maybe you would walk more... uh... hmm... maybe this intenet censorship thing could be good... people would read more books, and hook up that old record player.

p.s. Once again the innocent are punished for the crimes of the guilty. Trying to do research on this topic today, I was blocked constantly by SOPA protesting websites. Had to use my memory... wow! I found an old episode of Kung-Fu in there! I think these sites could at least "let you in" after you sign the fraking petition.