Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Seeing as James asked for a daily updates as far as my attempts to get fit are concerned, here are the stats from my Mountain Bike Ride around the Pendam Trail at Nant-yr-Arian today. First the route itself, My Speed and Heart Rate graph… Max 172bpm once again! And the summary stats. After the first...
As you know my latest gadget which arrived yesterday is a Garmin Forerunner 305, which is a GPS enable Heart Rate Monitor training device. The idea is that when you are out running, cycling or doing any other outdoor activity it tracks your precise position and speed using the GPS and records your heart rate...
I seem to be becoming GPS enabled in all walks of life these days. It started with a Garmin eTrex that I originally bought to see how fast I could go whilst windsurfing and then started using for geocaching. I had a TomTom One XL for my birthday which has been working well and is...
As you know from a previous post the weather station is currently out of action. After some phone calls to the UK distributors it seems as though there is a fault on the main SIM board so it was dismantled and sent off to them just before Xmas. Unfortunately they will be on holiday until...
I knew it… The new iPod is an iPhone without the phone.. Perfect. I said, way back in January when the iPhone was released that the new iPods would be iPhones without the phone, and now it has come to pass. For me it has all of the best bits of the iPhone, touch screen,...
Sometime website development can be very frustrating, and as a freelance web developer with few people to turn to when I come across a problem I really get to experience the highs and lows. Just the other day whilst working on a fairly complex project that I have on at the moment I came across...
I had an e-mail from someone at WOM World the other day asking me if I’d like to testa Nokia N93 and review it on my websites… Now, I’m no real phone buff and didn’t know what Nokia N93 was but I do like gadgets and if I can get my hands on a top...
You won’t believe this… Anna did the washing today at the launderette and whilst she was doing one load she noticed my iPod earphones spinning around in the washing machine… Needless to say we were expecting them to be ruined 40 minutes on a high temp wash and a rinse cycle was bound to have...
No, this isn’t an “I’m feeling smug because I use a Mac” post. I do use a Mac and I do like it, but I’m feeling smug today because I’m all backed up. Actually I am good at backing things up on a regular basis. I use a program called SuperDuper! which allows me to...
The rumours were there, we all new that there would be an Apple Phone released sometime soon and the MacWorld expo sems the obvious place for the announcement. We also had ideas about a touch screen full screen video iPod. So the full screen video iPod phone (or iPhone as it is called) wasn’t that...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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