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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.

Having my Asus A636N PDA with wireless built in was a good idea I thought to check the strength of the wireless signal around the house rather than carrying a bulky laptop.

Finding a wifi-scanner that worked on the ASUS A636N took a bit of searching, trial and error. Two that I tried working with Pocket PC 2003, not Windows Mobile 5.0 which the Asus comes with.

MiniStumbler (a cut down version of the brilliant netstumbler program) didn’t work. Neither did WiFiGraph. I didn’t get to try Retina but it looks like a good program.

Also, RW Wifi Scanner supposedly works as well, but I did not try this (Note: this app costs $3.99 whereas all the others are freeware).

I tried WiFiFoFum. It has a nice interface - either a list view or radar view which is prefect for war driving (if you are into that sort of thing). It also has the ability to use the GPS and export the co-ordinates to such formats as TomTom POI, netstumbler so they can then be used in those programs.

The download comes with Compact Framework 2.0 SP2, both which are installed via Active Sync. So if you need to uninstall them for any reason, it can be done easily.

To get this to work with my ASUS A636N, I got into the options menu (once started up), and turned the device off/on. worked without any hassles, and the only other option I would turn on is the aggressive scanning feature so you get real time signal strength updates.

At the time of writing I had not tried the GPS (or export) option.

Overall, a handy little utility to have installed on your PDA to scan wireless networks. It certainly helped me find where the blackspots were in my house.

A credit report is meant to be scrutinized. Unfortunately the populace is only concerned with more credit cards. They have gotten into the internet banking too, using their online credit card heavily. The credit cards have indeed lost their actually purpose.

Thought I’d do my own review on Asus mypal A636N PDA/GPS as I have one and couldn’t live without it. The unit is a great PDA, and with a GPS built in, makes this unit a great valued price product.

The ASUS 636N is a PDA and GPS in one. There are other similar products but for the price and features you can’t go wrong. These two units have been around for a while, and the A639 has recently been released that supersedes the 636 range. So I thought the time to buy was right.

Anyway, let’s get to the features and specs …….

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Asus Mypal 636N review