Entries from October 2007

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Track your runs the cheap way: Manually!

You may think tracking your runs manually is not very “geeky” at all.
But with the API of Yahoo! Maps some smart Canadian programmers took the time to write an interface where you can set every track-point after your run!
Today: Runningmap.com
It’s an easy to use site where you just have to search for your city, then [...]

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Partial RSS Feed - Sometimes

Although I thought there isn’t much content to steal at the moment I got a lot of trackbacks which had my content in it. This was new to me, because it is not happening at my German blog which currently has more traffic.
So I read a lot of sites and blogs according partial and full [...]

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Push-Up Counter - Funny, but usefull?

This is one of the oddest sport gadget I’ve ever seen. It’s manufactured by Konami and sold in Japan. If you’re in Japan you can buy it for ~ 15 $.

This gadget can count the number of push-ups you make. Obviously. As you can see on the image, you have to go down until [...]

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Nike + iPod Sport Kit - Nice motivating gadget

Although this tracking gadget may be already a little old for you, this is one of my favourites:
The Nike + iPod Sport Kit!
This blogpost is for those of you, who are not very familiar with this gadget!
What you need is:

An iPod Nano of any Generation
(1st G is supported, too!)
Nike + iPod Sport Kit

With the [...]