I like numbers, and any tool that helps me generate data about my activities is A-OKAY in my book. On Tuesday, I heard a report on NPR about being productive in the workplace. They laid out some pretty astonishing numbers, like on an average "good" day in the office, a worker is 68% productive. I [...]
It has been a while since I last worked on new features for the tracking system! Over the last couple of weeks I started thinking about what I wanted to improve, and I set my sights on data visualization. After having spent time at a conference for work, where data visualization was a major selling [...]
This morning I want to take a look at a tool that I have found immensely helpful in my journey to slim down. Myfitnesspal.com is a website designed to keep track of your daily calorie and nutrition totals from the food you ingest. The website, as well as the accompanying mobile phone app let you [...]
My wife recently started an account with a website called StickK.com. The concept of the site is to make a goal, and attach some sort of financial liability to it. It is a way to encourage a little bit of extra incentive to attain your goals. The website is founded upon the idea of a [...]
Edit: I Just Realized it's Tino's Birthday!! Happy Birthday! With the Boston half marathon quickly approaching, our Saturday long-training runs have started getting serious. We are now in the eight- to ten-mile range, which is long enough that Ellie and I started getting significantly more thirsty toward the end of the sessions. Ellie got the [...]
As some of you may know, I've been working pretty hard on setting up a tracking section of the blog, where users can log in, submit data, and see trends and things like that. It has been an interesting experience, and I've been learning quite a lot about how the Web works. I am learning [...]
Spotify is an up and coming music player that relies on a combination of peer-to-peer sharing and server hosting to deliver the users choice in music, quickly. It's power lies in the fact that the user can specify what he or she listens to, as opposed to Pandora Radio, which allows the user to listen [...]
So, during my rainy night run, I toasted my Nike+. . . thus, we have a new Tech Tuesday post! Now, to say up front, I am not promoting the use of Smartphones, I think they are a waste of money. BUT! If you so happen to own one, like myself, I highly recommend trying [...]
This is the first installement of a segment Brian and I have been thinking about, known as Tech Tuesday. Each week, we want to review some cool technology that may or may not have any relevance to anything our readership is interested in. Really, its just a way for us to talk about things we [...]
