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morning run

** check out this workout: 2 mi in 17'26'' and 223.0 calories burned.

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Morning Run

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iPhone Bike Mount & iMapMyRide on the Bianchi

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Originally uploaded by aperturismo.

iPhone video displayed on portable DVD player

Here's the completed solution to the pain we experienced when swapping DVDs on our road trip.

We were successfully able to get video from my iPhone displayed on our portable DVD player that was strapped in between the front seats.

I bought the Apple Composite A/V Cable, 1 audio to stereo mini-jack converter for the audio and a audio to mono mini-jack converter for the video. These were able to plug directly into the mini-jack inputs on our portable DVD player. My car also has an axillary input on for the stereo, so we were able to both pump audio into the DVD player as well as into the car sound system using the headphone jack on the iPhone.

The advantage: Play video after video without having to unbuckle, turn around, bend over backwards and swap out DVDs. Not having to carry transport DVDs.

The challenge: I was able to have 8 feature length movies on my 16GB iPhone. But with 3 kids, it wasn't necessarily enough variety to meet the requests of all 3 kids.

The downside: Alex wasn't able to play with the maps on the iPhone without interrupting the video, but the car has navigation.

DVD player in/outputs

100 miles with Nike +

I finally hit the 100 mile mark running with my iPod Nano and Nike+. Alex & the kids got me the nano for Father's Day. Its definitely been handy to track my casual running  over time.

There's probably better technologies out there, more techie with gps, etc. but this has been a pretty cool experience for me. I think Apple and Nike have done a pretty good job with the overall experience. Alex has been using hers as well and has been running longer average distances than me.

I think now that we have a treadmill to run in the winter, the next thing is to get a small tv down in the exercise room so we don't get bored running indoors... (I don't think the nano video will suffice).

Tonight, I hooked up the psp to the speakers built into the treadmill and watched Transformers. I ended up running 4 miles. A couple of nights ago, before refiguring out how to get videos onto the psp in the right way, I watched a video on the iPhone. While handy, both of these screens are a little small. I'm going to keep an eye out for an inexpensive 19" tv.... Hey, it's for our health, right?

Ah, able to post again!

Had a problem with the templates that was preventing me from posting since the end of August. It's resolved now.

I've got an iPhone

So I've had a blackberry for about a year and a half for work, the phone quality has sucked to the point I've avoided using it for calls. Today I got an iPhone! We waited in line  at the AT&T/Cingular store starting at 11:30 this morning. We walked out at 7 pm with our phones. (from left, that's me, Pashmina & Tyler)

Some thoughts on IE7 user experience

So I just loaded IE7 tonight and haven't had many issues so far. I believe they brought a solid effort on the user experience (not tooting my own horn...yet).

1) The start up page with settings is a nice touch, it's a great way to introduce new features/settings without some silly flash tutorial.

2) Quick tabs, simple and elegant way to get a visual of your open tabs without over gadgetizing it.

3) Tabbed browsing implementation (now tooting own horn): scrolling and the dropdown with the list of tabs is something that I thought would be better when you've got 20 or 30 tabs open. It might be easier to pick from a dropdown where you can read the name rather than a 20px wide tab when the bar is full. And new tabs spawned from a page open directly to the right of the original tab. One of the things that I disliked about firefox and safari is that i'm browsing and open a link in a new tab and it opens way to the end of the stack -- out of context from where I was. But, I know it's not something people will be used to. I'm interested to hear your thoughts.