Category: Resources (Page 33 of 60)

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

Static For iPhone – Giveaway Results

February 1, 2013 / Tom

Last week, I did a short review of Static for iPhone. Though you can read the entire review on the post itself, I think it’s worth reiterating a couple of points.

First, here’s Static’s claim:

Static is the easiest way to view the most important statistics from Twitter, Google Analytics, Instagram, Dribbble, and Github.

Secondly, I think that the app stays true to its vision. The user interface is intuitive, looks good, and the developers have released two small updates since my last review.

With that said, here are the winners (completely chosen at random):

Yet Another Blogging Podcast – Episode 4: Finding Your Rhythm

February 1, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

In the third episode of Yet Another Blogging Podcast, I talked about how to go about scheduling your time without completely having to readjust your schedule, get up early, stay up later, or whatever other options a lot of conventional wisdom share.

At this point, you know that nothing that I’m saying is meant to be taken as the definitive guide to blogging. In fact, I don’t believe there is one. Instead, it’s meant to be nothing more than helpful pointers for what I’ve found useful in running this blog.

With that, this is the final podcast in the series in which I talk about what it means to find your rhythm in blogging.

Static For iPhone – A Short Review and Giveaway

January 25, 2013 / Tom

A good friend of mine recently released Static for iPhone – a really simple application for tracking statistics for various web services.

Straight form the website itself:

Static is the easiest way to view the most important statistics from Twitter, Google Analytics, Instagram, Dribbble, and Github.

As I mentioned in the video above, I’ve been using the application for the past week, and despite expecting not to find it particularly useful, I actually really enjoy using it.

Jayson, the lead developer on the project, has been gracious enough to share several promotional codes to use for the application that I’ll be giving away in this post, but first I wanted to share my thoughts on the application.

Check out my video and several points below:

MaxCDN Giveaway: Ten 1TB Accounts!

January 21, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

When it comes to managing a blog, one of the pressure points that many of us feel – at some point – is how to manage the amount of bandwidth our site requires in order to serve the assets.

Case in point: if you’re a designer and you’re serving large images to your audience, you can drastically impact their experience with your site with how fast your server provides the images.

Similarly, if you’re a developer and you’re serving up files for people to download as examples of your work, then bandwidth is required to send the data across the wire. And the same goes for people producing videos, musicians sharing their work, and so on.

For many of us, we start off on a budget-friendly hosting plan and then drop some cash on a beefier server when the time comes. The thing is, there’s middle ground between the two: introducing caching.

Specifically, setup caching such that all of your assets are hosted on a content delivery network that will host the files and make downloading the data that much faster for your readers and/or visitors without taxing your server.

Granted, this can cost a little bit extra, but I am proud to announce a MaxCDN giveaway.

Yet Another Blogging Podcast – Episode 3: Scheduling Your Time

January 17, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

In the last episode of Yet Another Blogging Podcast, I shared several tips for generating and collecting ideas. Specifically, I discussed using your opinions, learning from existing projects, various material that you read, watch, or hear, and/or inspiration that you garner from other sites.

As I’ve said in the previous episodes, this isn’t meant to be the definitive guide to blogging. It’s nothing more than practical advice that I’ve found that has worked for me, and that answers a number of questions that I’ve received in previous posts and/or emails.

So, with that said, hopefully there will be something useful in this episode.