Posts written by Paul Sturgess
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Garmin Forerunner 405
Posted by Paul Sturgess on July 18, 2008 at 04:51 PM
The Garmin Forerunner 405 is a GPS running watch that actually looks like a normal watch.
But it’s not the looks that make this a runner’s best friend.
The GPS technology means it will track your run and tell you where to turn to stay on course.
Set a ‘virtual training partner’ to run against and it will tell you how far behind or infront you are.
Monitor your pace, your average pace and how many calories you’re burning.
When you’re back home it will wirelessly transmit your run data onto your pc (mac not supported yet unfortunately) allowing you to analyse to your heart’s content.
This is where Garmin have outdone themselves.
The watch can send and receive information just by by plugging in a small usb stick into your computer.
Most important though is that it’s all in a standard format and this allows for integration into various services and mashups gallore.
View where you ran on a Google map or import it into Google earth.
Create courses on websites like mapmyrun.com.
This means you can share your couses with friends and then run against the times they’ve set.
GPS is a very fashionable technology right now and Garmin are taking full advantage of it.
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Accessibility 2.0
Posted by Paul Sturgess on June 07, 2008 at 03:29 PM
Recently myself and Robin attended the Accessibility 2.0 conference. The agenda of the day was accessibility on the Internet in the ever changing world of rich media websites and social networking.
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Flickr... the greatest 90 second video site on the 'net
Posted by Paul Sturgess on April 09, 2008 at 01:07 PM
Flickr built it’s reputation and user base by creating a truly great social photography site.
Has it turned it’s back on the community it created?
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No spam please
Posted by Paul Sturgess on April 04, 2008 at 10:22 AM
Why is it the owners of mailing lists just wont let you leave? Even when you have no interest whatsoever in what they are sending you.
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HTML email creation just got a lot easier
Posted by Paul Sturgess on February 21, 2008 at 12:28 PM
The guys over at Campaign Monitor have just released a new feature that automatically converts your beautiful CSS into the inline style format required for cross email client consistency.
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Microsoft really don't want to break the Internet
Posted by Paul Sturgess on January 25, 2008 at 06:34 PM
When IE8 is released there is talk of it rendering, by default, as if it were IE7.
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IE8 passes the Acid2 Test
Posted by Paul Sturgess on December 20, 2007 at 12:40 PM
Microsoft proves it has genuine intentions to make Internet Explorer 8 Web Standards compliant.
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Email Standards Project launches
Posted by Paul Sturgess on November 28, 2007 at 01:14 PM
The team at Campaign Monitor have now setup their dedicated Email Standards Project website
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New standards compliant Apple store
Posted by Paul Sturgess on October 02, 2007 at 09:33 AM
Great to see one of the most prominent brands and technology leaders finally catching up with the ‘correct’ way to build web sites.
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How to price your web application
Posted by Paul Sturgess on September 12, 2007 at 03:40 PM
A great article on Vitamin gives some sound advice for any budding web entrepreneurs out there.
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Campaign Monitor and Web Standards support in HTML email
Posted by Paul Sturgess on September 11, 2007 at 07:44 PM
Campaign Monitor, our email newsletter manager of choice, will soon be launching a dedicated website to help fight the case for Web Standards support in HTML email.
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How API's have changed the 'net
Posted by Paul Sturgess on August 17, 2007 at 01:04 PM
When we went to the Future of Web Apps conference a while back everyone was raving about API’s – “You must build an API” we were told. I had no idea how much of an impact they were going to make.
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Ever wondered what to do with Moo cards?
Posted by Paul Sturgess on August 13, 2007 at 09:01 PM
Are they business cards? Are they pointless? Not any more they’re not!
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The Importance of Web Standards & Jeffrey Zeldman
Posted by Paul Sturgess on August 07, 2007 at 04:48 PM
BusinessWeek have just published an article on one of the most influential web professionals in the history of the Internet – Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards.
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What exactly is Ruby on Rails?
Posted by Paul Sturgess on July 23, 2007 at 10:29 PM
It’s easy to forget that Rails only first surfaced in the summer of 2005, just two years ago, and even people in the industry are still discovering it.
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Setting up Ruby on Rails on Media Temple's Grid Service - The Redux
Posted by Paul Sturgess on July 12, 2007 at 11:57 AM
So we’re no longer hosting this blog on Media Temple. Unfortunately their support was nothing short of terrible.
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Setting up Ruby on Rails on Media Temple's Grid Service
Posted by Paul Sturgess on June 27, 2007 at 01:24 PM
For this blog we’ve opted to host on Media Temple’s Grid Service. “Hundred’s of servers for the price of one” – It sounds impressive, it’s a shame it wasn’t particularly straight forward to get Rails going.