Wahoo Fitness App and HR Monitor Review
In the past I’ve written a lot here about tracking my workouts here but I haven’t always had all of the data that I would like to have around my workouts. Recently Angela and I put money into purchasing heart rate monitors to enhance the detail around our workouts. We tried a couple of different heart rate monitors including the Polar H7 and the Wahoo Blue HR monitor. Both of which utilize Bluetooth Smart technology to connect and stream heart rate data to your Bluetooth Smart enabled phone. Each monitor rests in a strap that you wear around chest. After trying out the Polar it to be inconsistent in its compatibility and performance with many of the apps that we like to use. We switched to the Wahoo because it came highly recommended from a number of sites and is RunKeeper endorsed.
Garmin Swim Watch Review
So anyone who’s followed my fitness blogging on my website knows that for long time I have wanted a device or app that would help me with the swimming portion of my training. Well, I finally broke down and spent the $150 and bought the Garmin Swim Watch to help me track all the metrics related to swimming. I got the watch through REI using the fall member discount, so I saved 20% on the price. I debated for long time between getting the Garmin Swim watch and the Finess Swimsense watch. After reading a lot of the online reviews and different fitness sites, I decided to go with the Garmin Swim watch.
Broken Macs and Caviar Dreams
Ok, so far so good, 2 posts over 2 weeks for 2009. I hope to put up 5s posts this year. No promises, but I’ll do my best.
Science Fiction & Society
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain… Time to die.”
April 2012 – Curate This!
Earlier this month I shared the press release of the launch of Scribit™. Scribit changes the way businesses find and share great content, and makes it insanely easy to engage and convert new visitors on your website and social pages. In short, Scribit let’s businesses curate content in a way that is relevant to their core business and drives traffic back to their site. Unless you have been living under a rock this year then you have probably heard about the meteoric rise of Pinterest and the buzz word of the day ‘curation’. It’s been said that information wants to be free, it would seem that it also wants to be curated. So what does, this movement to crowd sourced content recommendations mean for, well, everything?
Scribit Debuts: First Content Marketing Platform to Transform Social Media Sharing into Selling
ATLANTA (April 18, 2012) – Scribit (www.scribit.com) is the first web-based content marketing platform that enables businesses to easily find, publish and share quality content from premium brands to increase engagement and drive traffic to their sites. In addition to transforming how sharing works, Scribit lets businesses publish content with a single click making their sites more compelling, current and likely to drive revenues.
iPhone 4S Camera+ App
The most complete guide to the best camera app short of owning a SLR.
The Digitization Migration
I am late in posting this (I actually started working on it in March) but on the heels of the scheduled iPhone 5 announcement I didn’t want to sit on it any longer. Of course this is another post about technology, as if you couldn’t tell what my number one passion is. Although I have been using technology heavily for over a decade now; 2011 has really been something else in terms of the total digitization of our real world activities. This year has without a doubt been the most digitally liberating of any year since smartphones first took hold in 2007.
Mobile Banking
Yesterday I made my first two deposits to my Chase Checking account using simply my iPhone and the Chase Banking app. I have been an early adopter of smart phones since the StarTac got the add on PDA accessory; yet, for all my experience even this functionality was a new and awesome experience. I find it difficult to understand incredulous position and resistance to smartphones that some maintain even though these devices afford a wide array of conveniences. I can honestly say that between ScoutMob, PayPal, Chase, Square and other apps, the phone has actually paid for itself and then some. Last Black Friday for example, we did all of our Christmas shopping on our iPhones while sitting at the Starbucks in our hotel lobby in New York. If time is money, the iPhone is making us rich.
Recommended Mobile App of the Year
I haven’t written in my blog recently and I haven’t ever written recommending an app before, but today I must make a suggestion. I have been telling a lot of friends about this application in person lately but I figure why not make it global this morning. I recommend that anyone with an iPhone and living in Atlanta download and start using the ScoutMob app.
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