Nov 14

Fitness apps for Android with Polar HRM compatibility

It’s late 2012.

Given the obesity epidemic here, (and more to the point, in the US), you would think that there would be a glut of fitness apps for your phone that worked with a chestband (or armband) heart rate sensor.

But no, there’s really not too many.

And not many reviews, either, so I’ll test them for you and write them up here :-)

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Nov 14

Writing blog posts offline

Is there a decent offline blog post writer out there?

I’m writing this in Windows Live Writer, but as I’ve explained before, the way it handles images is beyond moronic, so I’m reluctant to use it.

But is there anything else?

I have been trying to use Zoundry Raven, but it keeps throwing errors, and then stripping the post formatting, and this morning it deleted a full post. No thanks.

Most of the others that are around haven’t been developed since 2008.

So – any suggestions? They’ll be very gratefully received.

Nov 05

Why Windows Live Writer sucks

OK, it doesn’t really, REALLY suck, but one really important part of it does. Image handling.

And it sucks massively.

Say you want to put an image in a post. One image. Just that, nothing else.

One like this, which is called test-1.png.

test-1

Here’s what WLW uploads for you:

 

And it’s not even smart enough to use the original filename for the one it shows in the post, no, it links to that one with one called “thumb”.

Spare me.