Track your exercise with a GPS enabled mobile phone

I’ve always wanted to track or log my exercise without too much hassle. Nokia have released a beta version of such a product called SportsTracker.

It uses the GPS fucntion in your mobile phone to map your exercise activities. These can be uploaded to the Nokia sportstracker site and you can view your route in Google Maps - very handy indeed.

There are a large number of phones currently supported. I use it on my Nokia 6110 navigator and have yet to have any problems - even though it is still in a ‘beta’ stage of development.

Kudos to Nokia for such a great piece of software that is available free of charge.

Here are a few screenshots:

For more information, check out the sportstracker wesbite.

Outlook 2007 has a RSS feed reader built in, but what about if you have Outlook 2003?

RSS popper takes care of it for you. Once installed and configured, RSS feeds will appear in your folder list - one folder for each feed under the RSS folder. It even handles RSS feeds that require a user ID/password. If you have a large number of feeds, you can alter the refresh rate of feeds to minimise net traffic to less intervals.

I haven’t tried this myself, but according to the video below, if you have a dead laptop battery, sticking it in the freezer overnight can breathe a new new life into it.

I would love to hear from anyone that has actually tried this to see if it actually works.

disclaimer: What you do or where you stick your battery is up to you. I take no responsibility for any results (good or bad) as a result of you doing the above.

Does you love the little icons to the left of a URL when you are on a webpage? Would you like your own? Well, look no further. Here’s a simple way to design your own favicon image.

A favicon (short for ‘favorites icon’), also known as a website icon, a page icon or an urlicon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage.

The original way of displaying a favicon was by placing a file called favicon.ico in the root directory of your web server. This would then automatically be used in your browser’s favourites (bookmarks) display. But more recently, a more flexible system was created, using HTML to indicate the location of an icon for any given page. This is done by adding two link elements in the section of the HTML document. In this way, any appropriately sized (16×16 pixels or larger) image can be used, and although many still use the ICO format.

Anyway, either way will work, so to easily create one online and see the results immediately, go to http://www.favicon.cc/ and you can deisgn it as you go. Once you are happy with the result, there is a download button on the page so you can then implement the .ICO on you own website.

There’s nothing better than a router sim that has the full Cisco command set available to utilise. All of the router sims (up to now) have a stripped down collection of commands to use.

I stumbled on this website a few weeks ago. It’s an open source product that runs on Windows and Linux boxes, and enables you to simulate multiple routers on the one PC. You can even route real traffic out the ethernet interface of your PC, which takes it past the traditional ‘router sim’ that I am used to. The good thing is that this software supports multiple Cisco routers so it would be perfect for a budding CCNA, CCNP.

I have not tried it as yet as I’m building a PC specifically for this, but a friend of mine told me you need a pretty good PC with a Gig of RAM to make it worthwhile. He runs six instances/routers on his PC.

I would be interested in anyone that has tried this and what their thoughts are.