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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…

One of the things we’re quite often asked is how to import a group of existing .hrm files into iSMARTtrain. These are often the user’s existing sessions from the Polar PPP windows software or another application, such as PC Coach, that creates files in this format. Using ‘Import’ from the ‘File’ menu only lets you…

One thing it looks like I missed out of the last couple of postings about Suunto support is that it requires 10.5 or newer. I haven’t tested in on 10.6 yet, but I’m assuming any problems will be driver-related, rather than library related. The required drivers for the T6 and the PC Pod can be…

The latest version of Garmin Backup is out tonight. This release fixes a few bugs in the last release and adds support for SRM PC8 devices. Download from https://garminbackup.com.

In V4.1.1, a new feature allowing you to delete sections of a session was introduced. This is useful, if, like me, you sometimes forget to stop your Garmin after a ride, and it records the drive home as part of your data.To delete a section, simply select the area in the ‘Data Graph’ view (drag…

Beta 34 of iSMARTtrain is now 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 serial number here – Mac or PC….