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Long Pond End-to-End
Long Pond Full Loop
2009-06-28 12:06:27 2009-06-28 13:08:53 Total Time: 1 hour 2 minutes Distance: 2.5 mi Avg speed: 2.5 mph Max speed: 3 mph Therapist charges: $0.00
Long Pond Geotracking
A nice Father’s Day morning workout in the Nauticraft tracked with InstaMapper. Just in case, here’s a screengrab of the live map below.
In: GIS, Health & Fitness, Long Pond, Technology
BlackBerry + PodTrapper. Zune-be-gone?
Happy to hear Zune (the far-superior podcast aggregator) is coming to XBox360. If only it were also coming to BlackBerry’s. Or is it too late? Last night, I downloaded a trial for PodTrapper. Very impressive. Suddenly my Zune (Zunes. I have two — so at least one will always be unlost) is feeling very superfluous. [...]
InstaMapper. LBS comes to my BB.
In keeping with 2009 being the Year of Location Based Services, InstaMapper, a free GPS tracking application, is now available for BlackBerry’s via BlackBerry App World. While the iPhone has arguably driven much of this interest in LBS services, its inability to walk and chew gum at the same time makes it one of the [...]
Pocketful of Evernote
It has been a long wait, but finally Evernote is available on BlackBerry’s. I’m looking forward to integrating this new tool into my Evernote-enhanced life-timeline. Auto OCR of scanned text works extremely well on Evernote. I’m very curious to see how well this will extend to images captured on my BlackBerry. This may be what [...]
Zune Podcast Snapshot
Dropped a few … added a few.
Windows 7 and SSD
Got my bootable USB drive with Windows 7 all ready to go for my HP Mini 1000 upgrade and chickened out. Solid state drives don’t do well with NTFS and Win 7 requires NTFS. Waiting to hear how others fair but came across this note and this from last november. Tim Sneath’s new post “The bumper list [...]
HP Mini 1000: A Winner
Ever since HP’s first laptop (The HP 110–sure wish I had held on to mine!), I’ve been a huge fan of HP portable computing. Not since the Omnibook 300 (and it’s later and amazing color sibling, the Omnibook 800, pictured), though, has HP captured my passionate support in the way the new HP Mini 1000 does. I’m [...]
Zune Podcast Snapshot
In: Tools · Tagged with: Zune