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  • The Mature Smartwatch Habit

    The Mature Smartwatch Habit

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesI see people. I see them say that they have given up on wearing fitness trackers and smartwatches because they hate the tyranny of the device. I have felt an intense dislike for Apple behaves in particular. At the same time I have been playing wit Sportstracker for eighteen years or so.…

  • TomTom Go and the diminishing cost of live traffic data when driving

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday with Tomtom Go you pay 20CHF per year for the maps and traffic information. When I first bought the TomTom Europe apps for iOS and Android they cost about 170CHF an operating system. If my memory serves me well traffic information would cost an additional 100 CHF per year. As a…

  • Turn by turn navigation with the Nokia N97

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I recovered my N97 after lending it to a friend for a few days and he told me it was too complicated to use, which I do agree with, after seeing how easy the 3gs is, but that’s not the point of this post. Turn by turn navigation is. For…

  • Three percent of people in Europe use maps on their mobile phone

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to the report, the majority of users — 73% in the United States and 57% in Europe — accessed mobile maps via the handset’s browser. Less than a third of customers in these markets used a downloaded application. Source In a town like Lausanne it would make sense to use…

  • Sports tracker and Google Earth

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteSix thousand steps later and I’ve created yet another track via the Sports tracker application for the N95. What’s fun is that within a few seconds of arriving home I can bluetooth the KML file to my laptop, open it in google earth and I’ve got an arerial view of the…

  • Sports tracker on the N95

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s fun to walk fast and far, especially in the countryside where there are fewer people to avoid. I often walk for fourty minutes to an hour at the end of the day to think about the day and process all that’s happened. Recently though I realised one of the shorter…