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And welcome back! There’s been a long gap between posts hasn’t there – fact is, I did something stupid. A few weeks ago I decided to become a ‘serious blogger’ – I downloaded courses, I read posts, googled all sorts and for some reason during all this research, I decided…
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‘Download a new free cycling HIIT app’ said the advert for Push2Beat that popped into my twitter feed – which I guess proves that they work as I was interested. Admittedly I was mostly interested as the app came from a company called Skip2Beat. I’d interviewed their founder Wesley Eastman…
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Every time I finish cutting up a butternut squash I send up a little prayer to whoever it is that controls these things that I still have fingers – so when, I saw news of a new gadget called the Scoopsaw by Chef’n designed to make the process a little less painless…
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He’s pooped….how do I clear up poop? This was the slightly bizarre conversation going on at Health-e-Towers the other morning. It seems my new personal trainer isn’t quite so good on the personal hygiene front. Okay, he’s also a small animated giraffe called Flubby who appears on my phone encouraging…
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When I read about app The Walk, I was excited. Created by the team behind Zombies Run but with the backing of the NHS, it sells itself as a storytelling app/game that you use while you walk. Hit a set number of steps and you unlock the next chapter. It…
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The end of the year is fast approaching and I’m conscious I have some wrapping up to do on here. There’s still two apps from Apptober to talk about (which may mean what I have to do is actually Apping-Up but I digress). You can imagine my joy when I…
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It’s pink (or green or black), it’s plastic, it’s on Xmas lists all over the globe – but it’s not a Barbie playhouse, it’s the new TomTom Multisport watch. I was lucky enough to have a play with this a couple of months back and can safely say that if…
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Ladies and gentleman, I welcome you to tonight’s Award Ceremony: The Health-e App-e’s. After testing 30 apps in 30 days I’ve realised that like everything in life there are good, bad and ugly workout helpers on your smartphone and so I’d like to award those that I think fitted the…
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So technically the challenge is over – I did test 30 apps in 30 days even if I didn’t quite write them all up yet – I’m still waiting to try the Water-rower app on the machine it’s designed for to see how that compares to the normal rower I…
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When I first read the description of Beatburn, I thought it was just a music service – the idea is that it speeds up songs to match the speed at which you’re running. Yay, went my slightly strange brain, I can make Adele sound like a chipmunk. It was only…
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