Like many people, I am terrified of spiders. I am such a wimp when it comes to spiders that I once stayed in a hotel for a night when I found a spider on the head of my bed at home. By the time I came back with my industrial-strength spray to vanquish it, it [...]
Do you want to know what I think is one of the most powerful software applications in the world? Microsoft Excel. I am an unadulterated fan of Microsoft Excel and if I could only choose one piece of software to take with me to a deserted island, it would be Excel (assuming one of the [...]
I have been spending time getting to know Microsoft Windows 8, trying to learn as much as possible so that I can give the best advice I can to health clubs and other fitness industry businesses. There’s a lot to explore and even more to learn. There is just so much to write about Windows [...]
As an IT professional and self-professed expert in technology for the fitness industry, it is surprisingly easy for me to admit when I get things wrong. Luckily it’s rare, but I have made some monumental mistakes in the past. I have made technical errors that have had quite severe consequences; I’ve given advice that in [...]
I’ve been running the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on various computers since it hit the download servers last week. I will discuss my thoughts on the new user interface and various other new features in later posts, but today I wanted to talk about something that I believe will be Windows 8′s most underrated and [...]
I encounter quite a few personal trainers in my life and I really enjoy swapping war stories with them. I can’t deny there’s a touch of vicarious living in this as I stopped having paying personal training clients around three years ago now. And as is often the case when you have a computer geek [...]
It is a regrettable but understandable culture in the Australian fitness industry (certainly far more so than in the US based on my experience) that when it comes to capital expenditure, priority is usually given to floor equipment rather than information technology. When a club or studio finds itself with some capital to invest, the [...]
I create software solutions for health clubs and personal training studios. It’s what I do. So I can be forgiven for getting excited about the confirmation that Microsoft will be releasing a go-live beta release of the next version of Visual Studio on the 29th of February.
I know this doesn’t have much to do with the fitness industry, and will in the end have zero impact on our industry one way or another, but the Internet has been all abuzz about the recent announcement of a major redesign of the Microsoft Windows logo. It appears the redesign has polarized the tech [...]
Here’s another quick one that has little to do with the fitness industry, but I find it both hilarious and disturbing at the same time so I thought I’d pass it on. * Disclaimer- ‘hilarious’ in a way that maybe only a nerd would find funny…
