Category: Resources (Page 26 of 60)

A summary of useful links, applications, and tools that I find around the Internet.

Winners: A Year of Free Hosting From InMotion Hosting

October 29, 2013 / Tom

Comments are closed. Congrats to those who entered, and read on to get 30% off of the Power Plan.

Last week, the guys and gals over at InMotion Hosting were kind enough to offer a year of free hosting for their Power Plan, and one year of free hosting from WebHosting Hub.

The winners for each of the prizes, respectively:

Arup Ghosh
Rogério Moreira

Congrats to those guys!

If you entered the contest and are still looking to InMotion Hosting as a provider, then they’ve been kind enough to offer a discount through this site.

My First Two Months with SpiderOak Hive

October 25, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

Note that I no longer use SpiderOak Hive. You can read more about this in the comments of the post.

A couple of months ago, I came across an interesting article by Doug Belshaw that covered his thoughts and experiences with Dropbox, SpiderOak Hive, and why he made the jump from one to the other. In short (and straight from his blog):

I’m moving from Dropbox to SpiderOak for file sync/backup. SpiderOak not only encrypts files in transit, but on their servers. The encryption key stays on the user’s machine so SpiderOak employees (or anyone else) can’t get access to your files.

Shortly after reading the article, giving it some thought of my own, and taking an in-depth look at SpiderOak, I ended sharing the following:

so i made the switch and am giving spideroak hive a try. keeping dropbox free, but everything else is going into spideroak.

— Tom McFarlin (@tommcfarlin) August 29, 2013

My current setup – as mentioned – is the free Dropbox plan (with which I have 6.2GB of space), and a SpiderOak Hive subscription for 100GB. It’s been just shy of two months, so I thought it was time to follow-up with my experience thus far.

Giveaway: A Year of Free Hosting From InMotion Hosting

October 22, 2013 / Tom

The contest has ended. For details on the winners and how you can get a discount on InMotion hosting, see this post.

As you guys know, one of the things that I like to do for those of you who are regular readers is to provide giveaways for various software, applications, services, and products.

Today, I’m stoked to be offering up a giveaway for two web hosting options:

One year of hosting with the InMotion Hosting Power Plan
One year of hosting with the WebHostingHub

As usual, if you’re interested, there are more details below:

Searching For a Startup

October 18, 2013 / Tom

A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Stephen Bateman. During this time, I was working at 8BIT and he was spending his summer working with us.

Because of a weird scheduling conflict, he ended up staying at my place for about three or four weeks. During that time, my wife and I had just found out we were pregnant, and we were playing parents to a twenty-something.

I kid, I kid.

Pun intended.

It was awesome having Bateman around, and it’s hard to summarize my overall opinion of the guy in just a few words. But, basically, he’s smart and he’s going places, and he recently started a blog that I think many of us should be reading.

ManageWP.org For Community-Curated News

October 17, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the problems of trying to keep up with all of the various news outlets as it relates to WordPress is finding the right sources. I mean, there’s Twitter accounts, blog subscriptions, blog aggregators, podcasts, and so on.

Personally, one of the best blogs that I’ve found for curating content is Post Status – it has a healthy balance of links from around the community, and one person’s commentary on some of the larger issues. A good read for sure!

But one of the things that the WordPress community has been lacking for sometimes is a Hacker News-esque site where stories can be contributed, voted, commented, shared, and so on.

In short, a full on community-driven-and-curated site of WordPress-based content for those who are specifically interested in, well, WordPress.