Im Back been loafing....

After actually getting comments on my blog, I have been feeling really guilty that I havent been keeping my blog up to date. I could make loads of excuses but i havent got a good one so I will just post again and get on with it.

I had trouble doing this blog at this time of the evening as I got my new Home hub from BT (which by the way is excellent), but what it does have is, a standby setting on the hub. I thought that 10pm would be a good idea, its time for bed and no real need for internet....trouble is there is no going back on that once you have reached 10pm and your wireless shuts down. I have had to trawl the instruction manuals and have only been able to come up with the solution "reset to factory settings"

Anyway as I am here posting now the factory reset has done the trick...

I wanted to talk about a really good cheap application on the iPhone, (I don't normally pay for apps as there are so many free ones about but this is brilliant). Its Itrail basically it uses the GPS in your phone and tracks your movement and gives you results at the end. I used it on Sunday on a little walk we did up the Tiverton canal, but tonight was even better. I have been using the Gym quite alot recently but with very little success except for extreme tiredness, so I decided to have a break tonight and go on a bike ride. The neighbours aside I am really lucky in this house as I live so close to the Tarka trail. It is basically part of the national cycle network and as you can see from the google image is that it follows the river and coast here in Bideford (the blue line is my route on the trail).

I didnt use it on my way out but stopped at the 6 mile point (my bike computer told me that) and set the trail up. It has one draw back on the Itrail in that it will not work in the background, luckily Itunes does so started my music and then set up the trail.

I stuck it in the back of my rucksack and wasnt sure if the GPS would pick up the satellites from there but on arrival home here was my route...the GPS measured the route at 5.43 miles but i am happy to except the 6 mile of the cycle computer as I feel Ive done more...

The weather was awful on the way back but it actually felt better than being stuck in the gym and my trusty stead is here in the picture opposite.

Apple have been getting on my nerves just recently aside from the fact that they have produced the best phone ever with some great applications. It seems every week there is going to be a big apple announcement, the technical forums start buzzing with rumours and everybody gets excited. This week there was supposed to be yet more fixes for the phone, but what did we get an up dated Itunes. this must have had 5 updates at least in the last few months, though ranting aside have you used the Genius function? that is quite good and after spending ages reloading the new version it was actually worth it with this update.

Genius looks at your tracks and then selects similar either 25, 50, 75 of them and puts them into a playlist, which is really useful if you want to create a random playlist without all the hassle of going through and selecting individual tracks. It is quite good at getting similar tracks, I put in Oasis and got a good rock orientated playlist which helped my cycle ride this evening.

So well done for that Apple but let us get used to the latest updates before you spring more on us....