Read the announcement about getting fit by playing video games here.

If you want to help spread the word about this, please digg this article and / or vote it up on reddit.

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To anyone who received a spam recently from our domain… We appologize.

After receiving a bunch of weird bounced email messages earlier today that looked like they were coming out of our Contact form. It turns out that some spammers had figured out a new way of sending their spam through our server.

The long and the short of it is that we figured out how they were doing it, and we’ve plugged the hole that was allowing them to send emails using our server.

Our appologies to anyone who received spam. We have never, and will never, send out spam. We can’t stand the stuff.

What was the problem? The PHP code we use to power our mail script was not checking for malicious keywords. The spammers were submitting a contact us message that included a bcc: list of email addresses. The script was passing this along to the mail server which interpreted it as a legitimate list of BCC addresses and thus sent out the email to everyone on the list.

This was not a problem we had seen before, and we took immediate action to close the security hole. Once again I’d like to offer my appology to anyone who received one of these messages.

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December 5th, 2006

RSS2.com is launched Check it out: RSS2.com – Mobile RSS Reader

Welcome to the new Serafini Studios site

Welcome to the all-new Serafini Studios site.

We’ve moved onto our newer, faster server, and will be showcasing our client work with more regularity.

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August 20th, 2006

Craigs List ad for PHP Developer

We’re currently looking to hire an awesome php developer for part time / contract type work.

Serafini Studios is looking for a part time / contract web developer with extremely strong PHP, MySQL and AJAX skills.

This can easily be a nighttime / weekend position if you have a day job. If you are good you probably have a day job. We have a couple of projects coming up that require very strong, very detail oriented PHP + DB skills. Some involve cleanup work. Some involve PHP-based CMS.

We are working to establish better in-house AJAX capability. If you’ve been keeping up with the latest developments in user interface, HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc… then we would like to see some of your work.

You must provide 2-3 links to your work, or work you’ve contributed heavily towards. Describe your involvement. We’re looking for people who can go start to finish on a project. You must be cool. You must get along with others. You must think of customers as, well, customers, who deserve to be treated with respect and love. Although we do have a Project Manager to help with that too… 🙂

Describe why you would like to join a rapidly growing highly skilled group of Open Source fans who love the latest in sweet user interface design, high high quality coding like you’d like to show your mom, what some of your recent interests have included. If you blog, (and who doesn’t these days…) give us a link to your site. We want to get to know you. And if you’re cool and have the chops we’d like to include you on some projects. Some may have the potential to be full-time for a period of months, but this right now is mainly for smaller independent contractor type jobs.

So, give us some links to your work, an idea of what you’d like to be paid, and what your immediate and general time availablilty are. Once again, this is not (currently) a salaried position. More of a ‘if you’re awesome and have some time to work on cool php projects’ type position for now.

Gabriel Serafini

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March 29th, 2005

Replacement icon for Audio Recorder Download Audio Recorder replacement icon (.zip, ~17kb)

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December 27th, 2004

Dear agentx… Dear agentx,

Thank you for your inquiry regarding the design of our advertisement in the Midwest Technology Jounal print edition. We value your input. It really made us laugh. A lot. We appreciate your feedback. We’ll try to be more “interseting” and “eye-catching” with our “octupus” in the future. Um, BE GOOD TOO yourself. Thanks,

The ragingly AWESOME team at Serafini Studios.

Dear Serafini Studios.. I saw yer ad at Midwest Technology Journal.. you guys are suppose to be a design company right? well guess what, yer ad on that paper sucks!! it’s plain and boring.. the font’s are too plain, The logo and the catch phrase though is good.. okey where it says “REDESIGN TIME,” that should be on the bottom of the logo.. (the octupus) it would also be more interseting and eye catching if you guys changed the fonts.. that’s all!!! BE GOOD!!!!

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November 19th, 2004

Gateway Realtors® site is now live Check it out: www.gatewayrealtors.com.

Greater Gateway Association of REALTORS®

We recently began work for the Greater Gateway Association of REALTORS® new website and logo. So far, just the new logo is up on their site (http://www.gatewayrealtors.com/) plus the link to their old site. We’ve got some cool things planned for this site. It will be a huge improvement over the previous site… 🙂

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Midwest Technology Journal Cover Story We’re featured in a cover story about custom software development in the Midwest Technology Journal (formerly PC Journal). The article is about our recent work for Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods where we are building a custom web-based time-card and tracking system that Doug estimates will “…will give me exactly what I need.”

Link to complete article: Faster, Cheaper, Better

Note: we really like Doug’s website, but we did not design it. Our work is on his internal system that his employees will be using on a daily basis.
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