Five iOS Apps for the Cycling Enthusiast
// July 16th, 2011 // No Comments » // Cycling, iPad, iPhone
Very timely post over at tuaw.com as the 2011 Tour de France is 14 stages (with Garmin-Cervelo sprinter Thor Hushovd taking yesterday’s stage in his world champion colors).
Here’s a nice little list of apps for the cycling enthusiast. I’d also add RunKeeper app and web site as well. The app is free now. I recently bought the elite setup too so my wife and son can track my rides when I’m out and about on my two wheels. While it’s not as accurate as my Garmin 500 GPS on my handlebars, the near-live location update is great piece-of-mind for the wifey.
So any of you current iPad owners out there. Just a quick note I saw from Tuaw.com. With the iPad 2 going on sale today (an hour ago here in my time zone), a lot of apps are going to be on sale in the app store this weekend. If you’ve had your eye on an app or two, this weekend might be the perfect time to pull the trigger!
How many times have you actually said, “man, it’s great being a Time Warner Cable customer?” You can probably count on one hand, while still making a fist. But, this sounds promising. Time Warner is supposedly developing an app for the iPad to stream television content — both live and on-demand stuff. Now if I only had an iPad. Hopefully, it’ll get released for the iPhone as well.
iTunes has come a long way from its OS X only roots of being merely a way to organize and play your music. It’s now more of a media hub — pretty crucial to all consumer electronics products Apple has released — iPods, iPhones, iPads and even the AppleTV. It’s now includes their store for music, videos, podcasts and applications.
Yesterday, Apple announced the fourth major version of the operating system for the iPhone hardware (and iPod Touch and now the iPad as well). Out of all the little features, most of it did not pique my interest a bit. The only thing that I’ll be really ready for is multitasking — like copy and paste of 3.0, this is a feature that should have rolled out long ago. The only other thing that seems like I’ll use in this fourth iteration of the software is 
So here’s some good news for all of those TiVo fanboys out there who have snagged, or are going to snag TiVo’s newest hardware/software combo. TiVo is soon releasing a modified peanut remote control that has a full QWERTY keyboard. But as of now, it looks like most wireless computer keyboards will work. Plus, like the TiVo HD, there is IP control available, which means the Android Apps and the App Store for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad will soon have plenty of virtual controllers that are compatible with the Series 4 TiVo.
