Link Dump – Feb 2014

A few months ago, I discovered Raymond Chen‘s occasional Link Clearance posts. I decided I’m going to do a similar style post once in a while, to clean out the ever-growing stash of “must-read!” bookmarks. Many of my links are from hacker news, or boing boing, some other news source, or friend, naturally. WHAT SUCCESSFUL …

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The Fall From Grace (Life & Career Lessons, 2013)

2013, for me, sucked. The overly-simplistic way to summarize would be to say that I simply made a bad career move. It’s more than that, though. The person I had become leading into 2013 was not who I want to be – to be clear, I did not say it’s not who I wanted to …

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Music To Code By, 2013

It’s that time of the year again. For more great music, check out the previous ‘Music To Code By’ posts from 2011 and 2012. It seems this year, soundcloud really became a thing. In previous years I’ve had to link to Amazon mostly for 30 second clips at best. This year, links below are actually …

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Oh, Google just turned my iPod touch into a free wifi phone

Today I noticed that Google turned my iPod touch into a free wifi phone. That’s nice of them. To turn your iOS device into a free wifi phone. Simply create a Google Voice #, and install the Google Voice and Google Hangouts apps on your device. You’ll be able to send and receive text messages …

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Cool Stuff: Music & Audio (Part 1)

I recently discovered that I’m the son of an audiophile – suddenly I understand why I was encouraged to buy a decent amplifier/receiver at a very young age, suddenly I appreciate those old dads-college-days/hand-me-down kickass KLH speakers just a little bit more than I always have. I am definitely not an audiophile myself, but music …

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Coder Cowboy designs and develops applications for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.

 

a million moments fills your screen with random photos from your device’s photo albums and camera roll, and changes them as time wears on. Take a break from the chaos of life, and focus on what truly matters.

 

rTimer is an easy-to-use interval training application for iPhone and iPod Touch. Features include: customizable interval labels, sounds, background colors, and times; music playback controls; support for more than two intervals; and much more.

 

Music Roulette is a random music selection application for iPhone and iPod Touch. Simply open the app, watch the random album covers flash by and tap stop, then play or shuffle the selection by album, song, or artist. Music is played via the normal IOS Music app, so you can pick, play, exit, and go.

 

Coder cowboy also features open-source code, a blog about coding adventures, and a few programming resources lists.