I have been meaning to inform the masses through my blog about all the wonderful things that it can do.
Let me start by saying that I wanted one before they were available, yet I still held out until the first gen bugs were out of the way and gps was available. See I am a big fan of GPS and when they put it in their second gen Iphone, well I just had to have one.
I have not regretted it one bit. Best phone I have ever had!
I used to dream of an all in one compact phone and the Iphone is about 95% the phone I always wanted.
Let me tell you all the things that I wanted a cellphone to be/do and then I will come back to the IT DOES EVERTHING part. Continue reading →
I used to be able to run 3 miles all at once and not even think about it. I participated in 5k’s before too!
That was back in the good ole days.
These days its much harder for me to run. I get winded very easily. That’s why here lately I have decided to try my best to get back into better shape.
I have been doing so by bike riding, getting on the treadmill, and my favorite has become trail hiking/walking/running.
I get bored easily on treadmills or the track so fitness trails, biking, and hiking seem to be the solution to that.
With the help of my co-worker Justin, we decided that we would try to use Tuesdays and Thursdays to do some sort of cardio exercise. I may be running, walking, hiking the Lost Bluff trail, nature trail, or biking. Anyone of you that read this blog, know me and live in my area, feel free to hit me up through email or whatever if you would like to join in. The more the merrier.
Whats making all of this exercising even better is some of the apps that I have been using on the iphone.
So far I have used some really great apps like MotionX GPS, Trailguru, and Runkeeper.
MotionX-GPS was great but it loses gps signal if you fall below 3mph. I think this is terrible for a PAID FOR app as I sometimes only walk 2mph and I would like for it to log my walks. For bike riding it may be ideal, but I have yet to use it for that yet.
Trailguru is an awesome free app for the iphone. I like it alot, it has never lost signal even if I were to crawl. It makes really nice posts to the web as well as the ability to embed into your webpage as I have done here before. Right now however at the time of this writing, their website is down and I can not post my logs to their site.
Runkeeper was the very first app I ever put on my phone relating to walking/running and I have just now got back to using it. Mainly because the Trailguru website was down. I am glad I relaunched the use of this fabulous free program.
Today Justin and I did the regular 1 mile nature trail near the tennis courts at Grenada Lake. We ran it mostly and walked it in spots. We did it twice playing with the app runkeeper.
Below are the results using runkeeper. I think so far out of all 3 apps, I like it the best.
First time through.
Ok @leggett and I decided to hike the Lost Bluff Hiking trail together yesterday and this time I wanted to try trailguru again an use it to take pictures along the way to see if it would put the pictures on the map as we progressed the trail.
I learned a few things yesterday doing this.
While using trailguru, if you press the iphone’s lock key to blank out the screen, you turn gps off.
Also if you get a phonecall or reply to a text message, during your trek, it will stop the timer and mapping so you will have to start it again after the phone call or text. You will not lose already mapped data, you will just have to press start again on the app to pick up where it was paused.
I know now that the app has its own lock button that I can use instead of the iphones lock button. This prevents the GPS and app from going to sleep and losing trail data.
I posted the map below to show you that during screen locks and phonecalls it really messed up the mapping of my hike. It did however do as I expected and put the pictures on the map.
You will have to click on the plus sign and zoom in on the trail to see the pics. YOu will notice the broken trail lines where the gps got deactivated.
I want to do this will MotionX gps next and give it another shot. The reason I am liking trailguru (free app) over MotionX Gps (pay app) right now is that it doesnt lose GPS signal like Motion X does.
Ever wondered what kind of cell phone the President of the United States uses? Me too!
I never really knew until now.
It seems that President Obama did not want to part with his crackberry, err umm I mean Blackberry cellular device after his inauguration. As it turns out, he will be able to keep it, but it will be limited to personal use matters only.
For all non personal and business related calls, he will have to use the NSA approved Sectera Edge
There is only one thing that concerns me about this phone other than the size of it. IT RUNS WINDOWS MOBILE !!! How secure can this thing really be?
Ok so I have been meaning to write about my Tom Tom Go 730 for some time now and have not really made to time to do so, but since the holidays are upon us and I have this time off I decided to get it done.
Ok so to rehash. I sold all of my carputer stuff on eBay and took the money and used eBay once again to purchase the Tom Tom Go 730.
I managed to get it brand new on eBay for $150 less than in stores.
I actually use it to navigate with and hands free calling as well as an mp3 player. I have it playing some of my mp3 collection through the audio out cable into my car stereo. Continue reading →
