My G4 iBook’s hard drive died on me yesterday. I got a strange lock-up then, when I ran Disk Utility, I saw that the SMART status of the drive was ‘Failing’. Fortunately, I had my old G3 iBook (which I kept as it boots into Classic) sitting in a cupboard, which I could transfer the…

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…

iSMARTtrain appeared in Cycling Weekly’s recent feature on using power monitors in training. Unfortunately, it was only a screen-shot with no mention of the software or the company’s name, despite contacting them several times since I gave CW a copy at TCR’05! Ah, well, there’s no such thing a bad publicity…

At Last! We’ve got V2.0.2 released this week. This release now supports Polar’s S410, S510 & S520 SonicLink monitors, as well as including TRIMPs calculations for the entered sessions. Much of the input for this was provided by Joe Beer (http://www.jbst.com). It also includes a number of bug fixes and other enhancements. As always, download…

We’ve recently got an RS200sd for testing with iSMARTtrain, as we’ve had quite a few customer requests for support of it and it’s brother, the CS200. However, it appears that the device only stores the SUMMARY of a session, NOT the actual HR Data. This doesn’t fit in with the way that iSMARTtrain is currently…

Finally go around to fitting the power sensor at the middle of last month – also fitted new cassette, chainrings and chain at the same time. Fitting went fairly well – quite a bit of messing about to get the height of the sensor on the chainstay correct, and ended up with 3 layers of…