Of course his run is available at Pulse-O-Meter ! Check it out.
Thanks to all supporters who made this possible.
Enjoy the pictures from the event.
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Of course his run is available at Pulse-O-Meter ! Check it out.
Thanks to all supporters who made this possible.
Enjoy the pictures from the event.
]]>As Pulse-O-Meter already makes use of Facebook connect we are happy to announce, that we are among the first sites to add the Like button to our shared trainings.
Check out this shared training session with the new Facebook Like button.
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Pulse-O-Meter altitude chart
Furthermore we made some more changes to the Mac Desktop client. To get a better overview of your training sessions we integrated a calendar.
If you use the desktop client to sync with Pulse-O-Meter.com and you have either a gps-enabled heart rate monitor or you use our newest feature to draw your maps by yourself, you can now also see them inside the desktop version.
At the moment the Pulse-O-Meter desktop client supports the following heart rate monitors:
SonicLink:
FlowLink:
The missing FT models will follow soon. Please check the complete device compatibility here.
]]>If you want to be part of the beta phase for the desktop version, please send us an email including
your Pulse-O-Meter.com username to: mac@pulse-o-meter.com
After working for quite a while with our statistics module we decided to re-design them a few days ago. The reason was that the results where sometimes quite hard to explain to users. Even though the results where correct the representation of the data was sometimes confusing.
The next version of the statistics will be a lot easier to understand right away.
]]>Due to the enormous positive feedback we received from the sports community, we decided to scale up! So we are pretty happy to announce, that Pulse-O-Meter is hiring.
At first we want to give young and motivated people in the Cologne area the opportunity to hop on board and join us at these early stages. You can find the job openings (in german) here.
]]>We will ship the first version of the desktop version in the next hours. This version will be shipped only to a small group of individuals. If you want to be part of this beta phase, contact us via this link.
The features of the desktop client:
For all Polar users: You can get rid of Bootcamp or any Windows installation on your Mac to download your data from Polar’s devices! Pulse-O-Meter offers you a native Mac application which supports both sync protocols available for Polar devices.
Please note that Pulse-O-Meter desktop is only available for Mac OS X.
Please check device compatibility here.
]]>Just connect your device via USB, start the import, choose the trainings you want to receive and a few seconds later you can start analyzing your trainings. The plugin is available for Windows and Mac browsers (download here). Please contact us if you encounter any problem using this feature.
We are planning to support all FlowLink models (FT7, FA20, FT40, FT60, FT80 and RS300X) in the future. Due to very few documentation, this as a very hard and often frustrating work, but we are confident to get this done soon. We started our work with the Polar RS300X. This will be the first FlowLink watch we will support in our next Pulse-O-Meter desktop release.
]]>These last months were pretty intense, but it was worth every second.
So if you are a serious athlete and are as frustrated as we were 4 months ago with the insufficient solutions to manage your training data you should sign up at Pulse-O-Meter.
We will now continue adding new features and finish the companion Mac desktop application and the iPhone application to provide our users with the ultimate training diary.
Bernd and Rafael
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All the testers who contacted me will get a trial version as soon as possible.
]]>This looks like there is a real hardware incompatibility between Nike+ and the iPhone, so I might have to abandon the hope of using it with my iPhone.
]]>Please Polar, give us poor Mac developers a “Device Interface Toolkit” as you offer it to our Windows colleagues! We want to have more time left to make sports instead of spending it to get our training data on our Mac!
]]>When the receiver is connected to the iPod nano, a new menu option is displayed in the main menu. This is where some settings as weight and power-song can be changed. To improve the performance and accuracy of the measurement, it can be calibrated with a 400 meter test run. The last thing to do is to choose the playlist that should be played during the training and your iPod is ready to start.
During the run the display of the iPod shows time, distance, speed and the song that it is playing. If you run too fast to read, just press the OK Button, and time, distance and speed are announced by a nice configurable female or male voice.
While jogging, I recognized that the displayed speed was very unstable. Sometimes it showed 4:25 min/km and a minute later 7:40 min/km, although my impression was that I didn’t change my speed at all. As every kilometer on my route along the Rhine is marked with a milestone, I was able to test how exactly the distance is measured. The first try was good with about 5% difference (950 meter instead of 1000) but when I tried it a second time,there was a difference of 20% (1200 meters instead of 1000).
Back at home, I used Google Earth to measure the track and to my surprise there was only a difference of about 1%! Google Earth counted 10,3 km and the iPod showed 10,2 km. So I will give it another try to proof that this was not just luck.
My first impression is that the Nike + iPod Sport Kit is a nice device for people who use an iPod nano to get a feeling about their track-length without manual measurement. It is a good start into training documentation, but misses some important features for advanced users.
Pros
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So far I did not have the time to upload the data to the Nike + iPod portal, but as soon as I
]]>So far the pulse-o-meter desktop-client has the following features:
The iPhone-client is still a prototype with the following features:
Accurex Plus, Polar XTrainer Plus, S210, S410, S510, S520, S610, S610i, S710, S710i, S720i, S810, S810i, E600, AXN50021, AXN700, S625X, S725X, S725.
I’m not sure if the new RSxxx models use this format too, but I will try to find out.
The importer works fine with my S410. Now I need testdata from different models to ensure that it works well. If you have one, please contact me.
This feature will allow you to import all your old training data records into pulse-o-meter and manage them on your iPhone.
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