Category: tech related

  • Garmin Connect and the Daily Step Goal

    Garmin Connect and the Daily Step Goal

    Reading Time: 4 minutes Yesterday I took over 16,000 steps. Some of those steps were during a short run from Eysins to Nyon and the rest were during the walk around Nyon and back to Eysins. By the end of the day I had manage to accumulate the step goal of 15300 steps. With Fitbit…

  • Cropping an activity on Strava

    Cropping an activity on Strava

    Reading Time: 2 minutes When you’re hiking, cycling, climbing or doing other sporting activities it is easy to forget to stop tracking an activity. When you’re at home or static this is less critical. When you get into a car after a hike or other activity that mistake will screw up your average speed and…

  • Thoughts on the Garmin Vivosmart 4

    Thoughts on the Garmin Vivosmart 4

    Reading Time: 5 minutes The Garmin Vivosmart 4 is the first activity tracker that I see tracking descent as well as ascent. It is yet another fitness tracker and in theory I had no need for it as my Suunto Spartan Wrist HR Baro and my Apple Watch Series 4 do almost the same thing.…

  • 100 Move Day Goals reached

    100 Move Day Goals reached

    Reading Time: 2 minutes I have 100 move day goals reached. The difficulty of this goal depends on how high you set the bar. If you set the bar at two hundred calories a day then the goal is easy to achieve. If you set the goal at 500 or 600 calories then the achievement…

  • Planned Obscolesence as Fragility

    Planned Obscolesence as Fragility

    Reading Time: 4 minutes I want to discuss Planned obsolescence as fragility. In the days of Nokia you could buy a phone and give it to a teenage boy and expect it to survive without breaking. I know because I was a teenage boy with a Nokia phone. So were plenty of my peers. It…

  • Indoor Climbing and the Apple Watch

    Indoor Climbing and the Apple Watch

    Reading Time: 2 minutes After just three climbing activities the Apple watch screen broke, rendering its smart features unusable.  Indoor Climbing and the Apple Watch are a bad mix. They are a bad mix because the Apple watch has an unprotected glass screen. The screen is so exposed that last Thursday I shattered the screen…

  • Mouse trap videos

    Reading Time: 2 minutes When I lived by the seaside in England I was told by one of my flat mates that they had seen a rat go into my room and I don’t remember how I felt about it. Rat traps were soon placed to catch them. A few years later I saw a…

  • Listening to podcasts with the Apple Watch

    Reading Time: 2 minutes This morning I was listening to podcasts with the Apple Watch I have. I like that I can listen to podcasts that play straight from the watch because more often than not I have the watch on my wrist almost all the time. This means that I no longer need to…

  • The best edit suite is the one you have with you.

    The best edit suite is the one you have with you.

    Reading Time: 2 minutes You remember the old saying. The best camera is the one that you have with you. Today the same can be said about “edit suites” that you carry in your trousers or jacket pocket. I’m speaking of edit suites that work with your iphone or ipad. Lumafusion is one such example. …

  • Indoor Training With The Elite Qubo Fluid

    Reading Time: 2 minutes The Elite Qubo fluid is a home trainer using a viscous fluid to provide resistance when you’re cycling with your road bike indoors. It is easy to assemble and within minutes you can start using it.  These devices cost less than apartment bikes and allow you to train with your existing bike…