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[vimeo 126395032 w=500 h=281] Here’s our new video for iSMARTtrain, which gives a brief overview of how the new version works. It was filmed using a Garmin VIRB Elite and a Canon 100D. The screen captures where done using ScreenFlow 5.0 and the video was edited in iMovie. The opening scenes were filmed earlier with…

Just a quick heads-up – for the moment, don’t upgrade from Garmin ANT Agent to Garmin Express. It looks like Garmin Express doesn’t keep a local copy of the files it downloads for your device, so there’s no data for iSMARTtrain to pick up. I’m investigating this further, and will hopefully have a solution soon.

Beta 5 of V3.0.6 is out – download from http://www.ismarttrain.com/Beta/ This release introduces downloading from Polar RS400, RS800 RS800cx, CS400, CS600 & CS600x. Fixes in this release include: Improvements in Garmin downloading Support for new format SRM Files Totals now works correctly for multiple users support for importing iBike files Various other bug fixes As…

V4.0 Beta 2 is out today. Fixes included: Fixed crash adding session manually Reduced memory usage importing .csv files Reduced memory usage importing iSMARTtrain V3.0 files Fixed validation error importing .tcx files or downloading from Garmin Edge 605 or 705 Now attempts to ‘guess’ the data of a PowerTap csv file from the filename Added…

We’re off the Club la Santa tomorrow for some warm weather training at Joe Beer’s (http://www.jbst.com) training camp. Hopefully, I’ll get a chance to get some decent biking & running in, while Gill relaxes by the pool. I’ll also get a chance to discuss iSMARTtrain’s development with Joe and Will, and some of our customers….

iSMARTtrain appeared in Cycling Weekly’s recent feature on using power monitors in training. Unfortunately, it was only a screen-shot with no mention of the software or the company’s name, despite contacting them several times since I gave CW a copy at TCR’05! Ah, well, there’s no such thing a bad publicity…