Brian Raney

This app is great for monitoring your website analytics.  It ties into Google Analytics.  It's free and lets you monitor up to 6 websites at a time.  It gives you the basic info you need like page views, browsers, referral info, etc.  It's simple and I'm a fan. Check it out ...

Google's 2-step verification adds an extra layer of security to your Google Account.  Why am I concerned about this you might ask? Well, I've seen several of my friend's accounts get hacked recently...and on top of that, two of the smartest people I know said I should - Nick Such ...

For about a year now, I've been doing a "picture a day" project.  It's where you take a picture every day and post it to the internet.  Kind of a picture journal of your life.  It was inspired by my friend Luke Murray - you can read about it here. I had ...

Speak Selection allows you to select text on your iPhone and then have it read aloud to you. This is great for when you are driving or doing something else and you want to listen to emails, articles or other content. To enable it, go to your settings, go to ...

I often want to capture a screenshot of the website I am displaying and then save it as an image to send to someone else to view. I used to do this by hitting the "print screen" button, opening up a graphic design program (such as Photoshop or Paint), pasting ...

Cool internet tool of the week - MyRegistry.com.  One of the more fun parts of wedding planning is registering for gifts...except it's actually not that fun to take the time to walk through a store and be limited by the selection of that physical store.   Myregistry.com lets you setup ...

This week's tech tool is Kayak.com - travel deals site.  Kayak is awesome for three reasons: Finds the best deals (actually aggregates searches of all other flight search sites such as Priceline, Travelocity, Orbitz). Allows you to setup price alerts - Email me daily reports on my trip or alert me when the price ...

I'm a believer in continuous learning.  It's one of the reasons I believe college is overrated (a finite education period doesn't seem all that useful in a world where you can fall behind in a blink of the eye).  In addition to continuous learning, I believe in experiential learning (learning ...

I hate losing.  I hate it.  I hate losing more than I love winning. I think I know how Billy Beane felt when he said that as he tried to change the game of baseball with math theory and new school “sabermetrics”. If you are one of the 3 people that read ...

About a year ago I attended a service at Southland where my minister gave a talk about removing yourself from the outcome.  “Do everything you can, do your best, and then trust that God will control the outcome and it will be according to his plan.” There is a verse in ...