Archive for February 26th, 2009

An iPhone App As A Fitness Aid?

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Seriously, give it a years time and there will be an iPhone application for anything you can think of. If you’re a would be iPhone application developer, this is certainly time to get cracking, before all the good ideas are taken, and competition becomes too intense for the little guys.

With that in mind, I came across an awesome new iPhone application today, that helps with something that most of us North Americans clearly need help with: fitness! It’s actually a series of applications, from a company named ITMP, and you can download them free to your iPhone (for now!)

Basically, the programs allow you to better monitor your body when working out, by providing information such as calories being shed, heartrate, fat being burned, and more. Of course, you can do all of this while running the treadmill to your favorite iPhone stored music selections.

If you want to try the applications, you will need to purchase a SMHEART link, which is a gadget that will be able to send your heartrate directly to your iPhone.

Windows Seven Is Just Around The Corner

Those of you have been holding off on upgrading to Vista, or wishing to skip the operating system all together by moving directly to Windows Seven, may see the new Windows OS in stores as soon as this coming September!

According to a bevy of tech blogs, “7″ could be ready to launch as early as Q3 2009, a full quarter earlier than was previously thought, and better than the simple “2010″ time frame given by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. This would clearly be a much appreciated release time for those hoping to avoid the troubled Vista OS all together.

As someone who bought a new PC which included Vista, and have been somewhat unhappy and oftentimes annoyed by the OS, I will be very interested to see what the consumer response is to Microsoft Windows 7.