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Re: How to set up CloudFlare’s Flexible SSL on WordPress

Sean MacEntee — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 15:28:50 -0000

yeah depending on the theme and plugins you're using it can take a while to fix all the insecure content... and the combination of a caching plugin and cloudflare's caching can cause confusing redirect loops too so best to disable them both before starting any work!

Re: Does my ass look fat in this?

Sean MacEntee — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 06:54:51 -0000

thanks :)

Re: Business banking with Bank of Ireland

Sean MacEntee — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 12:24:54 -0000

Hi Paul, only thing i can think of would be to download latest version of IE and try switching in to compatibility view at that stage...

But yeah, it's all quite depressing really... especially when you see them forking out for all the ads telling us how great they are at helping small businesses etc...

Re: how and why you should use SVG images on your site

Sean MacEntee — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:09:29 -0000

yep, that was a mistake, well spotted & thanks for letting me know!

Re: Don’t knock Bitcoin until you understand it

Sean MacEntee — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:09:13 -0000

Yeah Jeffrey is entertaining to watch, also speaks a lot of sense!

As for my philosophical or political affiliation, i don't really have any, but i'm a big believer in using technology to improve the world...

If we can make things cheaper, faster and less complicated with fewer rules, we should be doing it :)

Re: Bitcoin Mania

Sean MacEntee — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 16:44:07 -0000

Why didn't you tell me about them?! ha ha, it's crazy to think that you could mine 10,000 in a week back then on a normal computer and be a multi-millionaire today... just for being an early adopter and seeing the bigger picture...

I've another post coming about bitcoin but find it genuinely fascinating - so much so i threw up a site for myself to archive bitcoin related talks, presentations and news reports... http://btcvideos.com/

Re: Business banking with Bank of Ireland

Sean MacEntee — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:41:10 -0000

yep, the fact you need to search for help to figure out how to work a website says it all about:
1. the website
2. the people behind it

Re: Eircom to close its music service

Sean MacEntee — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:52:12 -0000

is there a source for this? eircom have said nothing online as far as i can see?

Re: The problem with Apple Maps is that it’s not Google Maps

Sean MacEntee — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:52:38 -0000

Yeah i love that tumblr blog, 'tis a great idea and highlights exactly why nobody is going to rely on Apple Maps...

Also, yeah i was probably the same age... even now 'vacuum cleaner' just sounds american or sounds strange... it's tough to re-learn words as an adult :)

Re: 11 ways the next iPhone can be improved

Sean MacEntee — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:44:48 -0000

maybe one day :)

Re: iPhone 5

Sean MacEntee — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:03:55 -0000

Depends on price but yeah that would be ideal! I'm semi-tempted by Samsung S3 but not quite worth switching yet because i've a lot of stuff integrated with iPad & desktop, plus i'm used to iOS to wouldn't be worth the hassle of switching to Android... but come my next upgrade which would probably be iPhone 6 (in 2 years time), i may well be jumping ship! What about you?

Re: Are Facebook Groups Necessary?

Sean MacEntee — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:48:24 -0000

yeah that's the only time i really used groups myself (during college for organising college stuff) but that was before lists was introduced... i dunno if i'd still use a group although i suppose it formalises things a bit better...

Re: Evidence That Google Plus Business Pages Are Dying A Slow Death Already

Sean MacEntee — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:18:30 -0000

The problem is simply that we're all still using facebook as our 'go to' social network. Why? Because that's where our friends are. In the past, people could be persuaded easily to join a new network by tech friends in the know but now everyone is tech savvy in that they can browse the web & communicate easily online. Facebook is the base for that activity.

There's already been several attempts by a large number of facebook users (many with vested interests in seeing Google+ grow) to boycott it... all of those attempts have been well publicised by mainstream media yet people are still using Facebook day in day out, not Google+.

Brands are usually one step behind the crowd... they'll just go wherever users are and the novelty of Google+ has worn off for everyone bar Google employees and some early enthusiasts who still find it a refreshing break from the noise on Facebook. Bottom line is if you want to get a message out to as many people as possible, you still use Facebook.

Re: Charts in Adobe illustrator

Sean MacEntee — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:24:43 -0000

i've been using it almost daily for the past year or more... i know pretty much every feature inside out and it's a breeze to get around now but only because i've been using it for so long...

for someone new to photoshop, i still think it's intimidating and not very user friendly.... the interface hasn't really changed all that much over the years compared to something like microsoft office or windows itself, maybe that's why it's so popular...

Re: September 2011 Review

Sean MacEntee — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:31:57 -0000

no, it's the grand canal theatre in the docklands!

Re: The New Facebook: 3 Major Implications

Sean MacEntee — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:44:09 -0000

Equally, if everyone was so protective & defensive over information, we wouldn't have a facebook today... i'd think twice about posting this comment as disqus / readwriteweb have my IP, they have my profile image, they possibly have my name & email... if they wanted they could probably piece together a profile based on that info and find my address, phone number etc...

I'd only be worried about that if i had something to hide or a reputation to protect or if i were putting my job / family at risk etc... if that were the case i simply wouldn't have a facebook profile or comment freely on articles i come across like this.
Of course you place a certain degree of trust in any service provider when you post stuff online... gmail could wipe my inbox tomorrow and say "oops" and there's nothing i could do about it - i've never read their terms & conditions but i'm pretty sure it'd be my problem, not theirs. I don't consider my email account public, but what i'm saying is before i click 'publish' or 'send', i try to make sure there's nothing that could come back to haunt me... if something does come back to haunt me well then i consider that my mistake, nobody elses, because it's come directly from me. I'd be pissed of course if my account was hacked or for some reason made public by gmail but i'd also (reluctantly) admit to myself that they're covered in their terms...I could fret over the very small chance of that happening the same way i could shut down my facebook over privacy concerns, but life's too short for that imo, unless, as i said before you have some great need to protect your identity (and i know some people have due to their positions / status). I accept Facebook isn't for everyone and the manner in which they go about introducing change is aggressive but it would appear younger generations just don't care all that much about privacy, certainly not as much as their parents do for example. Or a better way of looking at it is that most users are prepared to sacrifice more personal information for the convenience, ease of use and speed of communication Facebook provides. Time and time again Facebook roll out changes to a user backlash, but time and time again things go quiet, there is no mass exodus as feared and the loop continues....

Re: The New Facebook: 3 Major Implications

Sean MacEntee — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:12:32 -0000

I don't get why people are so concerned about privacy - if you post anything online, especially on a social network, you should expect it to be found - end of story. There's no such thing as 100% security online.

If you're an MI5 agent or something you should be concerned about privacy, if you're an average person on the street, which the overwhelming majority of us are, the chances of us having extremely sensitive information, posted by ourselves, to our facebook accounts is slim, and only fools would do it anyway.

Facebook have introduced lists, they've simplified privacy settings and reacted to feedback over the past couple of years. It goes against their philosophy to help people shut themselves off from other people online. That's not what has made facebook a success and it's not what has made the internet a success.

Ads go hand in hand with most FREE web services, if Facebook can serve me better ads that may suit my interests, based on my activity, why the hell would i complain about that? Surely if i'm going to see ads at all, i want them to be of interest to me, no?

Re: mobile command center

Sean MacEntee — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:50:34 -0000

yeah i figured that out quickly, i still prefer a 'hash' and 'delete' button though ;)

also discovered cmd + shift + 4 (screenshot thing) for the first time today - blew my mind and *almost* made up for the lack of a hash key :)

Re: unpaid internships: slavery or opportunity?

Sean MacEntee — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:31:15 -0000

"Unfortunately the more it becomes accepted the more it'll be abused" - absolutely and that's my biggest fear... like i said i've been looking at jobs for the past year or so whilst in college and it is becoming accepted... i'd say it's almost common practice... until something is done about it the idea and definition of internships will become mangled and associated with unpaid work, free labour etc.. which could end up destroying what can be a hugely valuable route to entry in to companies for graduates.

It just needs to be policed like you say and a fairer more transparent system put in place which encourages companies to offer internships and punishes those companies who take advantage of internships.

Re: unpaid internships: slavery or opportunity?

Sean MacEntee — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:25:17 -0000

Yeah but slaves.ie only went live this week, triggered by the recent internship discussions... (http://www.michele.me/blog/...

I agree, if a business can afford to pay minimum wage to interns, then they should do it, absolutely... but it's common now to have to work for experience before you can earn a wage.. i know several people doing it...

Doesn't make it right and like i said my gut instinct tells me it's open to abuse which is why i think it needs regulation. I wouldn't do it myself personally, i'd just invest my time in to my own projects. My thinking would be i could work for 3 months for nothing in a company and *possibly* have a job at the end of it, or i could work for 3 months by myself with potential to create my own employment / career...

That's exactly what i'm doing at the minute so for me, this whole internship trend was a trigger to try and create my own job rather than look for one... but i like the idea of internships whether paid or unpaid. It's an opportunity for graduates / young people to get in to a company and compete for jobs which they probably wouldn't get if they were to go through a traditional interview process for a full time job. But it's wide open to abuse at the minute and i think that's where we all agree :)

Re: Google Plus (Google+): The Painful Realization

Sean MacEntee — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 07:49:39 -0000

No site is ever too big to fail, but i really don't think Google+ are trying to 'replace' Facebook for the very reason you've highlighted - they can't compete directly against them so they must chip away at Facebook's market share and the time we spend on Facebook by slowly integrating Google+ with Google products (which we all use)...

Hangouts is a one up on Facebook. Circles is a one up on Facebook. The ability to read & comment on notifications in gmail / google is something Facebook simply can't do. I can see Facebook becoming a place for children / teens, much like Facebook's competitors of 3/4/5 years ago did once Facebook grew in popularity.

Right now Google+ is full of tech enthusiasts & adults, so it's a more 'serious' place than Facebook is and i think there is a need for a place like that... a more casual version of linkedin, more serious version of facebook...

Re: xtravision – enough with the upselling

Sean MacEntee — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:45:40 -0000

Good to see a comment from an employee, glad it's not just me going mad or being overly picky! I know that you guys are just doing a job & this is part of it, this was aimed at upper management because i'm certain all of this has only come in to force over the past year or so... i can tell most of them time when staff are reluctant to upsell, but know they have to or face the wrath of managers so i don't mind that :)

Re: cloud this and cloud that

Sean MacEntee — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:04:29 -0000

we were told we'd have to sign up to a new package and move the site ourselves so not much help there... it was quicker to go with dediserve, plus we wanted to make absolutely sure we could scale again quickly if need be... (our previous provider doesn't do cloud hosting, only VPS which would have done the job but didn't work out all that cheaper than dediserve)...

Re: Gravity Forms and WordPresss Custom Post Types

Sean MacEntee — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:28:36 -0000

legend! needed something like this, googled some solutions, came across this and it's exactly what i needed, thanks :)

Re: iPhone tracker app for windows

Sean MacEntee — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:16:23 -0000

yeah that would make sense all right :) i'm much too lazy to do encryption on my own backups myself!