Shrty is the best alternative to tinyurl

What is url shortening

First of all a short url works wonders and is much better and easier to use and share on social networks or the platform of your choice.

Competition improves

Now you need to understand that in order for a product to progress there must be competition because competition creates better product.

Compare Tinyurl vs Shrty

Looking at Tinyurl we've all used tiny url to get a shorter url and at first some of us didn't understand why this was needed, but when we realised the importance of this shortened url it changed our online lives!

Okay getting back to what this article is all about, Shrty is a new kid on the block, and Shrty is great at shortening urls and getting a much nicer shorter url. Although Shrty is still in the first fazes the developer has announced that version 2 will be a full fledged system with in-depth analytics giving you the user the best experience for shortened url services.

Shrty url shortener is best of both worlds, in-depth analytics and best of all it's free.

Shrty URL Shortener

Shrty.link is a capable and impressive free url shortener. With version 2 about to be released you can expect to have the following features as part of the release absolutely free at no charge.

Real Time Data

You have the ability to view Real-time statistics of your shortened URL's this will give you the ability to track clicks by user's IP address, referral website where the link is, user's location, device.

Short URL Service

Your custom short url is unique and easy to share with the ability to take a long url and make it shorter is very helpful and more friendlier for sharing on blogs and social media sites.

Location Tracking

With the geo tracking you have full access to the location of the clicks on your shortened url. This helps a lot especially if you are specifically targeting a specific location.

Shortening your url will never expire using Shrty.link and will always be available, unless if you decide to remove the shortened url. We hope you enjoy using the best url shortened and may your links receive many clicks.

It's lunchtime let's play around with some Electron!

I've recently discovered a very cool tool for creating cross platform desktop apps.

Say hello to my little powerful friend, Electron

Basically in a nutshell you use web technologies, for example html, css, javascript, build a mini app, port it into a folder structure for Electron, then bob's not my uncle, I have a working desktop app!

Things that I've noticed about it

1. Ease of use

I'm honestly surprised at how easy it was/is to create a so called desktop app using web technologies.

2. Bug Fixing

Using Electron is so easy, if anything does go wrong, it wont be Electron, you may have something wrong in your code, after all Electron only uses what you give it.

3. Capabilities

Since Electron uses Node to compile and do it's thing, the sky is really not the limit, electron really makes desktop app building so easy using Node you can obviously use Node packages to build your app and make it one mean working machine/app.

4. Lunch is short

I need a longer lunch so I can create a more in depth articles on Electron! Perhaps I'll do some more testing and building once I get home.

Cheers!

Why I enjoy using Atom as my code editor

Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core—a tool you can customize to do anything but also use productively without ever touching a config file.

1. Beautiful

I'm a sucker for when it comes to UI, I like clean flat and soft colors. Atom gives you an opportunity to change the theme, and tweak it as you like.

'One Dark' is my favorite by far, it's easy on the eyes and nice to look at!

2. Light

Apart from Atom being good on the eyes, Atom is also good to your machine, it's lightweight, slim and super fast. I'm not sure what the specs are, but one thing is certain, it kicks ass all the time!

3. Code

If you have been using code editors like Sublime, Brackets or Visual Studio, you would definitely enjoy Atom's code recognition and code completion capabilities.

Now I must add, you will need to install packages to your liking, but that's not an issue as these packages only improve the usability of Atom.

4. Try it

This is a short and sweet article of why and what I like about Atom, so do yourself a favour and go visit Atom's website and download it after all it is free!

3 Operating Systems I cant wait to try!

I must admit, I'm obsessed with operating systems. I despised the days when I used Windows 95/98 and it looked so boring and ugly, my brain was saying "surely this can be and look better?"

So then I discovered Linux and absolutely loved using it, I started out with DSL (Damn Small Linux) and then onto Ubuntu, eversince I've downloaded almost every Linux flavour I can get my hands on, testing and tweaking it to my liking.

Long story short, I've discovered 3 new Linux Distros that I am absolutely excited about.

1. Papyros

What I'm loving about Papyros is the Material UI, I'm a sucker for flat design!

2. NodeOS

Well, it's node, what more need I say? haha

3. RemixOS

Remix Os looks promising, but I have a sneaky feeling it wont be a free distro :(

3 User Interface Frameworks I always use

So we are living in an exciting day and age, where we aren't limited to the normal boring code structures and coding techniques, we actually now have a huge varitety of methods and steps we can take that suit our way of thinking.

I'm the type of person that absolutely love trying new things, when I discover a new Linux Flavour OS I always download it and try it out, even though I know I'm not gonna use it. I'm exactly the same when it comes to programming languages.

So before I go on and on and on, let us start talking about what the titles indicates!

1.Materializecss

Created and designed by Google, Material Design is a design language that combines the classic principles of successful design along with innovation and technology. Google's goal is to develop a system of design that allows for a unified user experience across all their products on any platform.

2. Material ui

Material-UI came about from their love of React and Google's Material Design. They're currently using it on a project at Call-Em-All and plan on adding to it and making it better in the coming months.

3. Angle Material

The Angular Material project is an implementation of Material Design in Angular.js. This project provides a set of reusable, well-tested, and accessible UI components based on the Material Design system. I really really love using this, but it works with AngularJs and not all my projects use AngularJs, that's why it's in at nr 3.