Project ANT – Live ANT+ Data on Your Mac

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…

Towards the end of last year, I heard about Ultimate Sports Psychology’s range of CD through the FredCast podcast. This is a series of CDs designed to improve motivation and performance for cyclists, triathletes & athletes using hypnosis techniques developed by Dr Rick Collingwood. Since one of my big problems with my training is motivation,…

At long last we’re ready to release the first public beta of iSMARTtrain V4.0. This release only supports downloading for Garmin & Cycleops/PowerTap Joule 2.0 & 3.0 devices. See our website for a full list of the supported devices. We will, of course, be adding more devices in future betas, and will support most, if…

iSMARTtrain V4.2.2 Beta 2 is out today.  Now imports data from gpxtrkx:TrackStatsExtension block in gpx files Correctly imports enhanced altitude and speed in Garmin .fit files Improvements importing descriptions from gpx files Can now manually change Calories value Improvements downloading from devices which use a Serial-USB Interface. Download from https://ismarttrain.com/beta/. Any problems/issues, let me know.

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…

Our software is gets a little mention in this month’s Silent Sports magazine. Lee Borowski, the writer, contacted us about some problems he was having with his older Polar HRM (Pre S-Series), and I managed to get him quickly up-and-running. You can view the write-up here.