Guest Post by Claus Wolf Hello fellow NosillaCastaways! Do you know how much storage your Watch apps are using? Well I found out the hard way! While on a bicycle ride to Darmstadt this week, I noticed that my watch at one point had stopped showing Average Speed and Distance. As you can imagine I […]
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NC #698 Series 4 Watch Sizes Compared, How Not to Buy Apple Products, First Impressions, Security Bits
This week I’ll bring you all the maths on how to compare the different Apple Watch sizes. Then I’ll tell you how I managed to find the worst way possible to order new Apple gear (hard to believe it but I outdid myself). Then Bart Busschots is back with Security Bits were he tells us […]
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Every year when the new shiny comes out, I find a worse way to buy my Apple products. Who can forget when the iPhone 4 came out and I stood in line how long to get it? I think it was 7 or 9 hours, can’t remember exactly. Then the next time I thought I’d […]
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Series 4 Apple Watch: How Much Different Is It in Size to Series 3?
Apple has accomplished something really extraordinary in the physical design of the Series 4 Apple Watch. They have managed to give us a far bigger display area in a watch that is barely larger than it was in the previous generations. I wanted to figure out a way to convey this without just splatting out […]
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10 Reasons to Get an Apple Watch
I was chatting with my good friend Dorothy (aka MacLurker in the chatroom and in our podfeet.com/googleplus) about the big Apple announcements and we got talking about the Apple Watch. She tends to be of the more frugal amongst us and instead of going for the new shiny, she casts a more critical eye on […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #697 Affinity Publisher Beta, Rowenta Fan, Scanner Pro, 10 Reasons to Get an Apple Watch
My iThoughts tutorial for ScreenCasts Online is up and I’m really proud of it. I give Affinity Publisher beta a first look. I’ve found the perfect fan – the Rowenta VU2660 (and I throw in a heat transfer lesson for free). I’ll tell you how Scanner Pro from Readdle might make me not hate scanning. […]
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The Apple Heart Study – Is It Right for You?
I received an email from Apple inviting me to participate in the Apple Heart Study. I got interested in the program so I read up about it and decided to download the app and sign up for the study. Here are the questions I had about the program which Apple answered quite well in their […]
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Tech on Travel in France
After a big trip, I generally like to chat a bit about how tech worked out while traveling. I’ve got a few new observations this year. Project Fi Back in 2016, Mike Elgan came on the show to talk about tech he uses as a digital nomad. In that episode he told us about a […]
Continue readingMore TagNC #670 Paintcode, Apple Watch Health Tracking, Stretch Timer, We.Stream, Bellus 3D, Cyber Essentials, Rings
Allister Jenks stands in for a vacationing Allison Sheridan. We have a review of Paintcode, a story of using the Apple Watch to track health in ways other than the Activity app, Allister’s own health app Stretch Timer, two interviews from CES with We.Stream and Bellus3D, some security tips with Cyber Essentials, and a fun […]
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Apple Watch Health Tracking
Since I got my first Apple Watch two and a half years ago, one of my primary uses of it has been activity tracking. Those three coloured rings drive me to move during my day for the payoff of seeing them completed before bedtime. I have been managing over 3000 kilojoules a day (about 717 calories) by extending my daily commute and lunchtime walking. Part of the process is seeing the various reminders during the day – time to stand, and the occasional encouragement to get active. Plus the frequent notifications that friends have completed workouts. I’m looking at you, Allison.
Early in December I turned off all activity related notifications and removed the activity ring complication from my watch face. I did not want constant reminders that I could NOT meet my goals.
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