Techinch in 2012

In early 2011, I decided to start focusing more time into writing for Techinch. I’d written for a number of sites by that time, and wanted to take my own site to the next level. It was a rather successful move, at first: Techinch was mentioned in a number of sites, including Wired and CNN, and the site made about 5% of my income in 2011. Not too bad.

Life kept me busy, though, and I took on new responsibilities throughout the year. I started doing tech support and documentation work for CoSupport, and through that now work directly for Metalab Design’s Flow app doing their tech support. I also became editor of Web.Appstorm.net in May of 2011, and much of the time I might have otherwise spent writing here went into my Web.AppStorm writing. I also graduated with my Bachelors degree from Florida Tech in December, so a large portion of my time went into writing essays in Word and tackling MySQL problems for database classes.

And now it’s 2012. I’m still editor at Web.AppStorm.net, and the tech support guy for Flow, and I’d still like to keep writing at Techinch. My workflow’s changed: I switched to a Mac last year as well, work from my iPad 1 on the go, and continue to use more web apps as part of my daily workflow. The site’s just barely changed: I ditched the sidebar and old logo, and will keep making small tweaks over time. We’re also back to using Adsense, since Techinch’s pageviews dropped rather sharply after I quit writing as often. But the tech world continues to get more interesting by the day, and there’s dozens of things I’d like to write about that don’t fit into the world of web apps that I cover at Web.AppStorm.

So that’s why I’m back. I hope to update Techinch more often, perhaps with more link posts and light content, and then with longer full-length articles as I can. I want it to be a place I love to write, which is why I’m clearing out anything that’s taking away from the site’s main content. Most of all, I hope to write articles that make technology make a little more sense, and help you take the complexity out of your tech life.

Over the past year, I’ve found that the simplest apps are the ones I use the most. The simplest sites that focus on the content end up being the most interesting. And that’s what I want to cover. The simplest apps and tips that make your life easier, and the interesting analysis that brings everything better to make the larger picture of tech make more sense.

And that’s enough.

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