Tag: Apple
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A Critical Look at the Apple Watch and Why Coros is a better Backup
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs an early adopter it makes perfect sense for me to have played with an Apple Watch but it doesn’t make sense that I would keep wearing it. The reason for it being absurd for me to wear an Apple watch is primarily that I managed to damage a screen on an…
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On Backing Up Photo Library Folders Rather than Photos
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years, or even decades many of us backed photos up using Picasa, Flickr, iPhoto and other apps. We’d download photos from cameras and import them to these photo apps and we’d have a local library of all of our photos. With time our libraries grew so we backed up to the…
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The iPhone, Digital Minimalism, and Social Media
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen I was at university the second time, as a mature student I estimated that my social network was around 600 people deep. In light of this it seems absurd that I hooked on to Facebook and Twitter at the same time. Why would it make sense to hook on to both…
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Thinking of the One Hour Workout and the Apple Watch
Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently someone said that the Apple watch is seamlessly integrated and easy to use. I never considered its simplicity of use because I grew up playing with GPS devices from the etrex 32 to the Nokia N95 8GB to several dozen watches and devices over the decades. As a result the difficulty…
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The Vintage Apple Watch SE 2
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years I have been struggling with the Apple Watch concept. With the Series 4 it’s because a hairline fracture killed the touch screen functionality. That’s why I got an SE, and eventually the SE 2. Now, with both of these the screen survived, and with the SE 2 I got the…
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A Fitness Discussion with MyAI about Silos, Running, Cycling, and Strava
Reading Time: 4 minutesYears ago we had bulky GPS watches that we wore only when we were hiking or doing sports. They only tracked our speed, location, and elevation. With time they were made less hideous and more socially acceptable. We could go from wearing them when doing sports, to when doing nothing. With time…
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Playing With Our Sports Data With Eleventy and Strava
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis month Apple wants me to walk ten point three kilometres with the Apple Watch 10 times. Garmin and Strava want me to cycle 8000m uphill, 800km horizontally, and more. Apple, Garmin and one or two other companies want me to walk 300,000 steps per month. Now, I have two ways of…
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The Zero Second Not a Number Strava Mystery
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I noticed that I had an unusual workout that was getting likes. It had zero minutes of exercise, zero distance travelled, and NaN speed in km/h. In other words I had a track that should not have been counted by Strava as a workout. Everyone is familiar. If you go for…
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The End of ‘Clouded’ Judgement
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf I was up to mischief I would say that some people, especially Apple users, suffer from clouded judgement. Of course I mean this as a pun. If you use Android devices, or Windows machines, or Linux, you can purchase a microSD card and within seconds have one or even two terabytes…
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Having a Cold with Garmin and Apple
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I woke up feeling tired and both Garmin and Apple said that I neded to rest. What I thought were allergies turned out to be a one day cold, I hope. According to the Apple Watch my HRV crashed down and in the evening I definitely had a cold/flu dream.…