The things people do…

As well as V4 of iSMARTtrain for the Mac, you may be aware that we’re also working on an iPad version. The iPad version will have all the features of the Mac version, with the exception of downloading from most training devices. Unfortunately, iOS doesn’t allow us access to USB subsystem to read from most of…

Wow… nearly a month since our last post. Anyway, when I got my Polar S625x in August last year, it came with Polar’s new WearLink transmitter, which has a far smaller plastic electronics module that their previous designs. The skin sensors are integrated into the strap. This makes it far more comfortable that their previous…

Got a shiny new iBook yesterday as my old one (800 Mhz G4) is getting a bit slow – it’s not so much the processor speed, as the memory – it’s maxed out at 640 Mb, which isn’t quite enough with the latest releases of RealBasic & XCode – the new one’s 1.5 Gig of…

The weather was fine enough at the weekend to get out on my bike for the first ride with the SRMs fitted. It was meant to be a ride for comparing the accuracy of the Polar Power system with the SRMs, but I realised just as I was about to set off that I hadn’t…

In Beta 10, we’ve moved from using a flat file format to a bundle. There’s various reasons for this, including compatibility with the forthcoming iOS version. You’ll need to convert any existing documents you have to the new file format as follows: Open the existing file in iSMARTtrain Select ‘Export to JSON’ from the file…

We’ve been playing around with the MSDN release of Vista recently on our new Shuttle SN26P. We installed it on a separate partition to our main XP install. When the PC starts up you’re greeted with two boot managers – one for Vista, and, after selecting ‘Legacy Windows’ to start XP, the usual XP boot…