Project ANT – Live ANT+ Data on Your Mac

Since I run a software company, relatives and friends know me as “One who knows about Computers”. Yesterday, I spent a fustrating couple of hours at my girlfriend’s Uncle’s house trying to connect his new Tiny PC to the internet, using his existing BTInternet connection. He’s already tried himself but failed – every time he…

Interesting… Garmin acquires Dynastream Dynastream supplies the footpod technologies to both Polar and Nike for its Speed & Distance HRMs. Since these are a competitior to Garmin’s GPS based systems, it’ll be interesting to see how these products develop. Garmin has recently introduced a footpod for it’s Forerunner models, mainly for use on treadmills, where…

Whoops, looks like I’ve missed posting the last couple of releases. Anyway, we’ve got Beta 16 out the door (Mac OS X only, at the moment). Hopefully, this is a step nearer to the final release, at the end of the month. We’ve still got an issue with equipment tracking, which we’ll get fixed for…

The latest beta of iSMARTtrain V3.0 is available for download from http://www.ismarttrain.com/Beta/ New features include: ‘Totals’ window now works correctly for multiple users ‘Today’ button in ‘Month View’ has been replaced by a ‘Go To’ button Average Data lines in Data Graph are now drawn correctly Newly created databases now have units for default sports…

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…

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…