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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…

Beta 35 of iSMARTtrain is now available. Both Mac & Windows versions are available. As usual, you can download a copy from http://www.ismarttrain.com/Beta/. As before, this release requires a valid serial number – V2.0 serial numbers are valid. For the remainder of the Beta period, we’ve held the price at $39.95/€34.95/£23.95. You can buy a…

I updated my PowerTap hub today to the new firmware which supports ANT+ Sport, which meant I’m able to use it with my Garmin Edge 705. The update was fairly painless – the updater cost £75 from cyclepowermeters.com. It was simply a case of removing the cover of the PowerTap hub and pulling out the…

At the 220 Magazine awards on Saturday night, Joe Beer scooped the award for the Best Coach of 2004. Joe advises us on the development of iSMARTtrain from a science and coach’s point-of-view.

Apple announced yesterday that they have teamed up with Nike to produce an integrated iPod/Nike shoe running system. The system consists of a tiny accelerometer that fits into a pocket in the sole of certain Nike shoes and a receiver that clips onto the bottom of the iPod Nano. The iPod then shows you the…

I’ve recently got my hands on Polar’s new RS300x model, with an aim to integrating Polar’s new FlowLink interface into iSMARTtrain, starting the with RS300x. The RS300x is functionally pretty much the same as the RS200 – it provides average heart rate & speed for each session and each lap, as well as time in…