January 2012

Tuesday Tech Talk #102

by Rob Williams on January 31, 2012

Hello everybody and welcome to what I hope is the re-launch of Tuesday Tech Talk. Going forward it will be more of a review of a certain hardware or software app as opposed to a rundown of general tech news. So with that in mind I want to talk about a new app I am using on both my MacBook and my iPhone and iPad, it is called Day One and it basically allows you to jot down thoughts, updates, links and even YouTube videos as you go along through the day. They make a version for the desktop which runs $9.99 and for the iOS at $1.99 and the best part is it has iCloud built in as well as Dropbox support so whatever you record on one device will appear on the other.

I had seen it promoted on both the Mac App Store and the iTunes App Store but then my good friend Scott mentioned it to me as a way to keep up with my blogging, so I checked out their website and sure enough it is the missing link I have been looking for. You can star certain posts that you view as more important, in my case these are things I want to record into my daily blog I have started as a result of using it which you can see here. What I really like about it is how it handles HTML. For instance copying YouTube embed code will actually display the video within Day One on the desktop (I have not tried it on the iOS side yet). At the end of the day I simply copy and paste my entries into MarsEdit on the MacBook or the WordPress app if I am blogging from the iOS. One feature I hope they add is the ability to export your daily entry right into a blog app like ME or WP.

Overall I have to say I love using it and I highly recommend it to anyone if they are looking to blog daily or simply to maintain a journal and yes it does offer a passcode/password entry on both versions for privacy concerns. Best $12 I have spent! 4 1/2 out of 5 stars.

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What is SOPA/Protect IP?

by Rob Williams on January 14, 2012

You may have noticed there has been a lot of discussion from your friends on social networking sites such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and many others, as well as from search engines and web hosting services such as Google and BlueHost. So what is this SOPA (House bill) and Protect IP (Senate Bill)? Well, here is a short video explaining the problems it may well cause to both users and websites and web hosts. Call your Senator and Representative and tell them to vote no on this unnecessary legislation.

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

 

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Web hosting

by Rob Williams on January 13, 2012

I’m asked a lot on where is a good source to both register a domain and host a website. It is real simple folks, BlueHost! They make it so easy. You can register a domain on their site and then setup hosting there too. Best of all if you have more than one website like I do (4 right now), they offer unlimited hosting as well as setting up personalized email accounts based on your domain. Best of all they have come out again SOPA. Their hosting makes it super easy to install a blog or whatever it is you want to do with your website using a variety of install tools available from their website. BlueHost can’t be beat IMHO!

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