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Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe (original 2011; edition 2012)
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Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman Davies (2011)
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Holy crap, I finished it! It took me two months, but I did it. (To be fair, I had a 'few' things going on, and finished a few other books over the same period.)
This book is dense. It really is. But it is also really interesting. I didn't think I could enjoy this level of detail about states, family lines, successions, etc.; and in a sense it was as boring as it might sound (depending on your tastes/interests.) But the thing is... it actually was well worth the read, and maintained my interest throughout.
As an American, even one who reads a lot, the rise and fall of political units/states seems distant. Somehow, drowning in detail, this book manages to give a sense of the complexity and enormity of political changes that --even having read some previous history-- I was simply lacking. And not just the human suffering and cost (though there is plenty of that.) The sense of shifting identity, lost identity, just the vagaries of time, etc....
Yeah, this was a good book :)
I was really looking forward to reading this book and it certainly didn't disappoint. A fascinating topic, engaging writing and lots of interesting detail, I enjoyed every page.
Subtitled "The History of Half-Forgotten Europe", Norman Davies' book is a triple challenge.
First of all there is its bulk. It is the shape and weight of a substantial print dictionary, so it can't really be held in the hand for any length of time. It has to be read at a desk or table, preferably with a book-rest.
Then there is its breadth. It covers the period from AD418 to 1991, so a time-span of 1,500 years - that's a lot of scope to comprehend if you're not a historian who specialises in these eras.
Lastly, there's that sub-title and the concept of "half-forgotten". I find it difficult to accept because many of the kingdoms described here (there are 15 in total) are totally unknown to me, and so I never even had the chance to forget them....which doesn't mean, of course, that other readers won't have heard of them - perhaps they are those specialist historians I've just mentioned - but maybe test yourself with these three: Alt Clud (5th to 12th century), Sabaudia (1033 to 1946) and Tsernagora (1910 to 1918). Ring any bells?
So, with 3 hurdles to overcome, I decided to read this book as I would a dictionary - I dipped in to it, here using the contents as my guide.
The introduction was promising, since it explained that the opening section of each chapter located that chapter's kingdom in the modern world (so, my three puzzles above become Dumbarton, Rome and Montenegro), and also displayed Davies' passion and commitment to his subject.
I also read the chapters on Eire, which turned out to be a fine exposition on the end of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and CCCP, a clever narrative about the collapse of the USSR from the perspective of the State of Estonia.
Finally, I tackled Davies' end-piece on how states die. I found this less satisfactory and perhaps a bit forced in the way it sought to fit vanished kingdoms into defined groups.
In summary, I found Davies' book mostly well-written, if ambitious in its scope. The discoveries I made in the chapters about Eire and CCCP were genuinely enlightening and I would probably turn to the book as a work of reference if I needed a broader and a deeper understanding of other former European kingdoms.
A revised list of contents, indicating modern geographical reference-points, would be helpful, though.
If anybody wonders why this book is spending so long in the limbo of "currently reading", it is because I read the introduction and first chapter and then some reviews on Good Reads and decided that an apparent indigesibility would be best served by reading it a chapter / country at a time between reading other books. So it will be some time before I rate / review.
I think you shouldn't attempt to read this book in one go. Like most Norman Davies books, this is physically too heavy and your arms will get tired! Also some chapters are too long and some too short. Some chapters will be more interesting depending on where you come from and what period of history you already know about. I found the early
chapter on British history (Alt Clud) fascinating as I had never read anything about it before.
Each chapter is divided into three parts: the kingdom as it is today, which often owes a lot to googling, and so can be rather tongue in cheek or flippant. The history itself is the second part and is solid and always interesting. The third is what is left of the kingdom now. Since the kingdoms are, by definition, vanished and (often) far distant in time, this tends to be sad or nostalgic, though sometimes there is not much to say.
Some chapters are not quite what they seem: the fall of the Soviet Union is actually about the liberation of Estonia, which was a bit of a surprise. Some chapters extend the usual histories eg Prussia. The chapter on Byzantium is one of the shortest, which seems odd as Davies himself writes that most histories of Istanbul itself only deal with Ottoman history. For me the history of Galicia was the most interesting.
I haven't quite finished the book, as my arms ached, but I guess I will try again soon.
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WASHINGTON (July 24, 2012) – The 2012 Olympic Games are just days away, and as Team USA prepares to compete in London, Americans here at home look for ways to incorporate more exercise and physical activity into their own lives.
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Toronto's auditor general says the city's integrity commissioner should consider launching an investigation after it was revealed this week that the Ford brothers helped a printing firm lobby city staff for contracts without disclosing that their family business was trying to strike a deal with the same firm.
A Globe and Mail investigation found that Mayor Rob Ford and his brother Councillor Doug Ford helped printing giant RR Donnelley and Sons lobby the City of Toronto for work – without telling city staff that the Fords' Deco Labels and Tags was negotiating an agreement that would see Donnelley refer clients to Deco.
On Friday, Doug Ford – who refused to provide comments to The Globe earlier this week – broke his silence, saying Donnelley has referred "zero" business to Deco over the years. He declined to make further comment.
Auditor General Jeff Griffiths told The Globe Friday that he'd like to see an investigation. "It's an issue that should be referred to [integrity commissioner] Janet Leiper," Mr. Griffiths said.
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The Globe investigation, which showed that the Fords repeatedly intervened on Donnelley's behalf – including Mayor Ford personally calling the city's director of purchasing to arrange a meeting with Donnelley representatives – sparked criticism from Mayor Ford's election rivals this week.
At an Etobicoke debate held in Mayor Ford's absence Wednesday night (the mayor is on a temporary leave while receiving treatment at a Muskoka rehab facility), John Tory described the allegations facing the Fords as "mixing up public and private."
Olivia Chow, meanwhile, said the mayor and Councillor Ford's behaviour was "not acceptable, not appropriate, and it's definitely not ethical."
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The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, formerly known as Australian Film Institute Awards are the main national movie awards in Australia. It is presented annually by the Australian Film Institute. The awards recognize excellence of professionals in the movie industry and television industry, including directors, actors and writers. It is the most prestigious awards ceremony for the Australian movie and television industry.


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Re: Reset Button to Clear ListPlot
We that was easy. LOL I guess that's what happens when you're working too late at night on these things.
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Button["Reset", a = {0}]?
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2012/3/11 Scott Colwell < scolwell at uoguelph.ca >
Does anyone know how to create a "Reset" button that will clear a ListPlot (ie: clear off the data that is plotted) but leave the Plot axes and ticks there so that it can be started again.
Here's what I have. Basically I need to be able to clear the graph.
ListPlot[a, Joined -> True],
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text: I posted a thread a while back about my iBook G4's screen blinking and going white. I took it to the Apple store and the guy there said it's most likely a logic board issue, but could possibly be due to the fact that it needed more memory. I bought new memory and upgraded it from 512MB to 1.5GB. It's much faster now, but still blinks and turns white. Then I ran the hardware test that came on the install disc 1 twice. It said that all the hardware was fine, including the logic board. What else could it be? Any ideas?


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Black Friday 2013's best Canadian deals
Take a look at what's on offer this year.
Black Friday shoppers lived up to their reputation as thousands flocked — and in one case stampeded — into stores in the everlasting hunt for cheap TVs, XBoxes and cookware.
Early in the day, chaotic, sometimes violent videos started emerging from Wal-Marts across America.
A YouTube user posted a video of a melee over discounted TVs at unnamed Wal-Mart, which begins with smiling and rushed customers grabbing products before the supply runs out, which happened in less than a minute. The camera pans away as the crowd disperses and turns back as two women go to battle over on of the sets.
Two well-placed police officers wrestle them apart and then pin one of them to the ground yelling "settle down!" One of the women is being handcuffed when a Wal-Mart employee waves her arms and yells "stop" to the videographer.
By 1 p.m. Friday, the video had been viewed 358,235 times.
In a separate video, purportedly filmed at a Wal-Mart in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, shows shoppers crashing through barriers set up around the store, apparently in an attempt to control the number of people in the store at one time. It doesn't seem to have worked.
Staff watch helplessly as the crowd pours through and sprint in. "The apocalypse has started, all this for a cheap Funai LED TV," the YouTube user wrote.
That video had been viewed more than 42,000 by 1 p.m. Friday.
After years of having its stores become the centre of viral videos, Wal-Mart is pushing back.
"A few tweets aren't representative of what's actually happening at 4,600 stores," Wal-Mart's Brooke Buchanan told
Wal-Mart U.S. CEO Bill Simon called it a "fantastic night" and "much more calm than it had been many years ago."
"Any time you get more than 22 million people together you are going to have some behavior that you're not proud of," Simon told Business Insider.
In a new twist this year, violence hit United Kingdom stores Friday as well.
At least one person was injured in Northern Ireland when a fight broke out as shoppers rushed to get their hands on deals at a supermarket.
British chain Asda — owned by Wa-Mart — has been advertising its Black Friday deals throughout the U.K.
The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said it was called to Westwood Centre in Belfast around 8:30 a.m. and took a woman with an arm injury to the hospital.
Asda's Westwood store had two dozen 32-inch TVs on sale at reduced prices.
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Print-on-Demand is a fantastic development in the publishing industry because it allows authors to publish with a lower cost of entry, more control and often, more profit than traditional printing/self-publishing. Latest statistics from Bowker show Print-on-demand titles actually exceeding traditionally printed books in 2008. Wow!
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Kind of the opposite of the thread about critically acclaimed movies you didn't like. What about the ones that didn't receive a whole lot of praise from critics but that you liked?
The main one on my list that comes to mind among the recent years' crop of movies is Flyboys. I really enjoyed it and I don't remember it getting a whole lot of critical attention, except for a rather negative review I read. The review criticized it for being "overly patriotic" or some such nonsense, but I tend to like films that are rather black and white with clearly defined good guys and bad guys, and this appealed to that side of me. Every year I find myself enjoying a couple films that the critics either ignore or don't speak highly of. I don't think I'm the only one.


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Steamboat lodging occupancy to be up slightly this weekend before dipping next week
January 18, 2013
Steamboat Springs — The weekend forecast is for sunny skies and more overnight visitors to Steamboat Springs than stayed here during the corresponding weekend in January 2012.
The Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association's weekly lodging barometer predicts 10,600 guests will stay in nightly lodging properties Saturday. That equates to 71 percent occupancy and a 10 percent higher rate than the ninth weekend of the 2011-12 ski season.
However, the lodging barometer also forecasts a dip in overnight guests midweek and next weekend as compared with 2012. There are 6,000 visitors expected to stay in Steamboat Springs hotels, motels and condos Wednesday and 7,000 on Jan. 26. Both of those numbers represent a decrease from the corresponding days last winter.
The Chamber's lodging barometer is based on survey data from local lodging properties. Its primary function is to help businesses determine staffing levels during the winter and summer tourism seasons. Actual lodging occupancy levels tend to increase from the forecast levels as a result of last-minute bookings.
After an abundance of snow in mid- to late December, Mother Nature has dealt most of Colorado's mountain resorts a dry start to 2013. But according to the Mountain Travel Research Program, or MTRiP, that December snowfall boosted end-of-year occupancy at ski resorts and had a significant impact on reservations through the rest of the ski season.
The end-of-year boost appears to have been true in Steamboat Springs, which experienced its highest occupancy levels of the past three seasons during the Christmas and New Year's holiday period. According to MTRiP's most recent report, the booking pace in December for Western U.S. mountain resort communities was up 10.4 percent for folks scheduling trips to ski towns through May 2013. January bookings saw a 3.5 percent increase from 2012. February bookings at resort properties surveyed by MTRiP are up 8.6 percent, but March and April bookings remain down from last year.
MTRiP's data is collected by sampling 260 property management companies in 16 mountain resort destinations in Colorado, Utah, California and Oregon.
Other factors playing into the pace of bookings include a drop in the Consumer Confidence Index driven in part by the fiscal cliff and other national economic issues as well as an increase in crude oil prices, according to MTRiP.
"We anticipate that markets will continue to be vulnerable in the coming months as unemployment, consumer confidence and investor confidence will all be impacted by upcoming budget issues in Washington," MTRiP Operating Manager Tom Foley said in the organization's latest trend report. "Although the national inflation rate remains at a comfortable 1.8 percent, that rate is still higher than current increases in household earnings, and when coupled with the payroll tax increase that took effect Dec. 31, it is uncertain how much impact that will have on consumer retail and travel decisions."
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With shares of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) trading around $553, is GOOG an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE, or STAY AWAY? Let's analyze the stock with the relevant sections of our CHEAT SHEET investing framework:
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Google is a global technology company focused on improving the ways people engage with information. The business is based on the following areas: search, advertising, operating systems and platforms, and enterprise. The company generates revenue primarily by delivering online advertising. Google is a search giant with most of the market share largely because of its execution and delivery. An increasing number of consumers and companies worldwide are coming online, which will surely increase the amount of eyes on the company's ads and, in turn, advertising revenue. At this rate, look for Google to remain on top of the Internet world.
Google Fiber's next city is likely Portland. The city counsel agreed to the deal, where Google will invest likely about $300 million minimum in infrastructure for the city and some surrounding suburbs to enable the gigabyte speed connections. Two Portland suburbs have also approved the deal. Google Fiber's entry into the Pacific Northwest follows the successful installation of Google Fiber in Kansas City, Austin, and Provo. For a $300 one-time price, users will get to use the speedy connection. While that price is higher than many Internet users pay per month, the cost will break even and become cheaper over time. The city also waived a three percent "PEG fee" that the city charges fellow Internet service provider Comcast reported local media. In exchange, Google Fiber has to set up public Wi-Fi hot spots and give free service to area non-profits.
Google Fiber is a radical spin on broadband Internet service. It is charging a one-time fee for what many Internet service providers charge a premium for on a monthly basis. Once it is installed, it gets to compete with other service providers for customers who may be lured away from their current Internet companies by the promise of eliminating a monthly bill and getting faster Internet. Google is also working with other cities to bring Google Fiber to their metropolises, but none are confirmed yet. Potential future cities to get Google Fiber include Nashville, Atlanta, and San Jose, but none of these are as far ahead as the Portland deal. Google will have to begin to survey Portland to see how it will build up the needed infrastructure to enable Google Fiber. If it is not possible, the city may not get Google Fiber, but Google will not make the final decision until the end of the year.


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DURHAM, NC -- (Marketwire) -- 02/13/13 -- Open Invention Network (OIN) today announced that the OIN licensee community exceeds 500 licensees. IBM, NEC, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony created OIN with the mission to promote a positive ecosystem for Linux through the purchase and royalty-free licensing of strategic patents.
While numerous defensive patent management entities have formed to protect small groups of companies, OIN is distinguished as a resource available to all of the technology industry. Established companies like Cisco, HP and Google as well as emerging entities like Twitter and Facebook benefit from leverage against patent aggression and access to OIN's shared IP resources. OIN's patents cover areas that include big data and analytics, cloud computing, smart mobile devices and mobile broadband, and social networking, among others.
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Open Invention Network is a collaborative enterprise that enables innovation in open source and an increasingly vibrant ecosystem around Linux. It does this by acquiring and licensing patents, influencing behaviors and policy and protecting the integrity of the ecosystem through strategic programs such as Linux Defenders. OIN enables the growth and continuation of open source software by fostering a healthy Linux ecosystem of investors, vendors, developers and users.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Lights across Britain switched off for an hour on Monday night in a tribute to the dead of World War One inspired by the prophetic observation of Britain's foreign minister on the eve of war 100 years ago.
"The lamps are going out all over Europe," Edward Grey told an acquaintance, shortly before Britain declared war on Germany on Aug. 4, 1914. "We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
British landmarks, including the Houses of Parliament, Tower Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral, went dark from 10 p.m. local time (2100 GMT), and Prime Minister David Cameron had asked Britons to switch off all but a single light in their homes for an hour.
The "war to end all wars" spread carnage across Europe, especially northern France and Belgium, killing 17 million soldiers and civilians in 1914-18. Over one million of the dead were soldiers from Britain and its then empire.
Grey's prophecy was also at the center of a service in London's Westminster Abbey later on Monday, where candles went out one by one until only a burning oil lamp remained at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior.
At 11 p.m., the lamp was extinguished, marking the exact time the British Empire joined the war. In Trafalgar Square, one single light shone from an old police box.
Acting as beacon for the capital, a monumental pillar of light beamed into the clouds from Victoria Tower Gardens. Installation "spectra" by Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda was commissioned by 14-18 NOW, the official cultural program for the centenary, and will fade away as the sun rises over the London skyline on Aug. 11.
"The light that 'spectra' throws up into the night sky is a unifying point; it echoes how the First World War affected all Londoners, but also how they and the rest of the country came together, standing united during those dark days," Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, said in a statement. Continued...


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For those of you just joining us, we are on a continuing journey to learn more about heart rate monitors, and the best way to choose the right one. Our website covers all types of electronics and tech stuff, but overwhelmingly, triathletes and runners come to our site to check out methods to measure heart rate and learn more about GPS watches. We have had so many questions about using smartphones as a heart rate monitoring device, which smartphone heart rate monitor straps to buy, and which apps to use that we decided we should start reviewing the the heart rate monitor straps, and the smartphone apps that work with them. Today, we are reviewing runtastic and runtastic PRO apps for smartphones.
Before we get started, we should tell you a little bit about us and how we perform product evaluations. We have a group of 4 people who do the evaluations of all of the stuff. One person is the lead on a piece of gear, but everyone gets an opportunity to evaluate the product. We have 2 guys and 2 ladies, so it's a good mix of people. It gives us better insight, and we get a better review overall. Everyone has an input to the review, and if there is a major disagreement, we will note it in the review. If you want to know who these people are, check out our About Us page. Four of us are seasoned triathletes, and 2 of us are are also full time Pilates instructors. Jennifer Lynn, who is a guest blogger, is a full time Pilates/spinning instructor. All swim, bike, run, do Pilates and Yoga, and use all of the gear on a daily basis. Many of you have read the FitnessElectronicsBlog disclaimer, but here it is in case this is your first time reading one of our reviews. For the record, we are in no way connected with runtastic or any of the companies whose gear we review. We love playing with the latest technology, and we couldn't keep our hands off this stuff if we tried. We downloaded and purchased runtastic and runtastic PRO from the iTunes and Android Play store. We typically don't take gear for free, and there is never give-us-gear for a favorable review, or anything like that. We call 'em as we see 'em. It keeps us honest. Typically, if we like the product, we spend our own money to make sure we have it around to use. it helps us answer questions, and compare products, and check out the latest software updates. So, enough with the babble. Let's get to the review.
So who and what is runtastic? runtastic is an app aimed at logging your fitness in a number of different activities and sports. Here are some of the apps and sports that runtastic have created:
The apps that we are reviewing today are runtastic, and runtastic PRO. These apps are centered around running, and logging your run.
So how did runtastic start? Here s a little bit of the company history:
runtastic was founded in 2009 by four friends with a shared passion for combining exercise and technology: Florian Gschwandtner, Alfred Luger, Rene Giretzlehner, and Christian Kaar.
The idea for the company actually began two years earlier, when Christian and Rene were master's students at FH Hagenberg. Their thesis project, called mSports, focused on using GPS technology available on smartphones, such as the Apple iPhone and Google Android phone, to track race positions for sailboats and racecars. Using a smartphone mounted on the boat or in the car, sailors and racecar drivers could track their overall location and position using the mSports application.
The project was interesting, but purely experimental, and neither Christian nor Rene had any business background to take mSports from a great technical idea to a commercial product. As graduation neared in mid-2009, Christian secured a job offer in Amsterdam and was set to pursue an exciting new career. In the meantime, Rene approached his old friend, Florian, who had more business know-how, with the idea to productize mSports in some way. He was intrigued, enlisted his friend Alfred with whom he was studying at FH Steyer, and the two business-focused men decided to help Rene during his off-hours.
runtastic can thank the economic crisis of 2009 for the rest of the company's history. Three days before he was supposed to leave Austria, Christian's potential employer rescinded the job offer! Seeing the opportunity that presented itself, both Florian and Alfred quit their existing jobs to join Rene and Christian and found runtastic.
Today, runtastic develops a series of apps and gear that help athletes of all levels track their activities, share progress with friends, track their heart rates and locations, and many related features. runtastic apps are available on the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows 7, and bada platforms. Tens of thousands of runners, walkers, hikers, bikers and other athletes enjoy runtastic apps every day.
The company is headquartered in Pasching, Austria with an office in San Francisco.
One of the founders of runtastic, Florian Gschwandtner is the CEO of the company and is responsible for overall business development and product development. Prior to founding runtastic, Florian was an international project manager at NTS Wincash GmbH, which develops and installs point-of-sale (POS) systems for mobile network providers worldwide, such as AT&T, Verizon, and Vodafone. Florian holds a master's degree of science and engineering in mobile computing from the FH Hagenberg (Austria) and in supply chain management and e-commerce from the FH Steyr (Austria).
Typically, the first question we usually get is, which phones work with runtastic?
- iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S. If you want to use a heart rate monitor, you can use the runtastic Receiver and chest strap on any of the iPhones listed above. If you want to use the Wahoo BlueHR or Polar H7 heart rate monitor straps, these are only compatible with the iPhone 4s.
- Android Phones. If you want to use a heart rate monitor, you can use the runtastic Receiver and chest strap on any of the Android phones.
- Windows 7 Phones. If you want to use a heart rate monitor, you can use the runtastic Receiver and chest strap on any of the Window 7 phones.
So what are the features?
Here are the features of the runtastic free app:
- Map your workouts in real-time with built-in GPS and monitor your progress (time, distance, speed, pace, calories, altitude, etc.)
- Personal workout diary and metrics
- Weekly, monthly and yearly statistics
- Mapping: Detailed live mapping and historical mapping of previous sessions (Google maps)
- Dashboard configuration: Display preferred statistics
- Graphs: Get charts with altitude, pace, speed and heart rate information
- Performance analysis with lap times
- Enjoy your workouts with the integrated iPod function player
- Set goals for time and distance
- Accurate calculation of elevation gain and loss
- Manual entry of workouts: Add treadmill, spinning and weightlifting workouts
- Share your success on Facebook and Twitter
- Don't train alone! Sexy voices will give you feedback about different statistics (distance, speed, pace …) and our cheering feature will help motivate you.
- You can save all your workouts at www.runtastic.com.
- Using the online community you'll get further analysis, metrics and comparisons to your friends. Additionally, you can choose a training plan and track your body statistics. Share all your workouts easily with the facebook and twitter connect.
The runtastic PRO version has all the features of the free app plus:
- Voice feedback during a workout: Get audio feedback for each mile or kilometer
- Live tracking: Show your friends and family where you are
- iPod integration: Listen to your music while you are training
- Power song: Activate your power song to give your workout a boost
- Cheering: Hear cheers and receive messages live from your friends and be motivated to go even further
- Interval training and coaching: Improve your performance by gradually increasing your training
- Heart rate support
- Competitions: Challenge yourself or your friends. The voice coach supports you and tell you how you´re doing.
- Split table for each mile or kilometer
- Calorie goal: Set a specific calorie goal and use the voice feedback to reach your workout goal
- Pace goal: Define your favorite pace
- Geotagging: Take pictures during a workout and see these pictures online at your map trace
- Weather and Temperature: Receive live weather information and save weather data automatically after a workout
- Prediction of sunrise and sunset
- Landscape mode
- Remote control for pause and resume a session
- Heart rate zones
- Weather integration
- Ad free
So what's new?
Here is what's new in the latest versions of the app:
Using the app
We will dive right into using the runtastic. Once the app has been downloaded, you will be taken to the login screen:
Here you should login to your runtastic account. If you haven't created one, you can create one through the app, or go online to www.runtastic.com and do it. It only takes a minute. After you have logged in on the phone, it's time to make sure you have the app settings configured the way you want. Click on the Settings icon in the lower menu bar, and you can see all of the settings that can be changed:
Clicking on Activity takes you to the Activity screens, where you can choose your activity. You can choose from 28 different activities:
After you have chosen your sport and setup your distance and temperature units, you might want to setup Voice Feedback. You can set the volume and language of the voice, and the feedback interval:
You can choose which metrics use the voice:
Clicking the Live Tracking setting allows you to connect with your friends, and share your workout:
Selecting the Interval setting allows you to set up an interval workout. We will cover this in more detail later:
You can choose to turn headphone control on or off. If you are using Apple iPhone headphones, you can use the button to start and stop your workout:
The Social Network Accounts setting allows you to post automatically to Twitter and Facebook:
If you have a heart rate monitor, you can pair and connect it with the Get Heart Rate Monitor and Heart Rate settings. You can use a runtastic heart rate receiver and chest strap, an ANT+ dongle and heart rate monitor strap like the Wahoo Fitness Run/Gym Pack for iPhone, or a Bluetooth Smart heart rate monitor like the Polar H7 or the WahooFitness BlueHR (note – the Bluetooth Smart heart rate monitors only work on an iPhone 4s or later). For my tests, I am testing a Polar H7 and Wahoo Fitness BlueHR heart rate monitor strap. I will start out with the Polar H7 HRM:
When you have paired and connected your heart rate monitor strap, you can set your maximum heart rate and heart rate zones:
Clicking Invite a Friend lets you send an email to a friend without leaving the application:
Clicking the Website icon in the lower menubar shows people around you, and live workouts taking place:
Now that you have the application setup the way you want, it's time to get going and start a workout. My first workout with a new phone app is typically a walk around the the park that is down the street. There is a short 4 mile loop that I walk around, and while I'm doing this I check out the app. So the first thing I did was to fire up the app, and pair it with a heart rate monitor strap. This time, I paired it with the Wahoo Fitness BlueHR Bluetooth Smart heart rate monitor for the iPhone:
Next, I went to the Session screen, and started my workout:
Click on the Session icon in the lower menu bar. You will see the main screen of the app:
There are 5 main screens that you can view during a workout. They are the music screen:
The main workout screen (there are different metric display settings which I am showing):
The full screen map view:
The metrics graph view:
And the Compass screen:
On the main screen, pressing the landscape button gives you a full screen view of the map:
I'm walking around the lake that is shown on the map:
After you are done with your workout, you can upload it to the runtastic website. You can add any notes and observations during your workout before you upload:
You can also set up your own workout. On the main Session workout screen, before you start your workout, you can see in the middle of the screen a button to change the type of workout. If you select this button, you get the following screen:
By selecting Workout, you can select interval training. You can choose from one of the three standard interval workouts, or create your own. You can add a Warm Up and Cool Down, and add as many repeats of different times and speeds as you need:
You can also create a Target Pace workout, by selecting your target pace, and hitting the start button. This is a great way to maintain your pace on a tempo run.
You can also also purchase a training plan from runtastic. This will add the workouts in your schedule:
Overall, the app is very easy to use, and worked very well to this point. Now that I had logged some data from my walk, viewed it on my phone, and uploaded it, it was time to go online and see what capabilities the online website had.
You can view all of your workouts online, with as much detail as you like. Here is a map view, with elevation, speed and heart rate plotted against time:
Here you can view your heart rate. Since I was walking, my heart rate didn't change much:
There are many other features available online, but this gives you a good idea of some of the viewing features available to you.
Thoughts, Opinions and Summary:
- The app is very easy to use. Maps and data fields are easy to configure and use.
- Has all of the most requested features
- The heart rate zones are nice
- Has Facebook and Twitter posting capability
- The online workout review and graphing features are a plus
- There are settings for 28 different sports to choose from when selecting a workout
- The app layout is easy to navigate
- We really liked the interval workout feature in the Pro version
- My personal favorites were the weather and temp capabilities, geotagging capabilities, interval workout feature, remote control features with the iPhone headphones, and ease of uploading your workout
Would we recommend it? The answer is yes. We use this app, and feel that this is one of the top 3 workout logging apps. runtastic is free, and runtastic PRO costs $5.99 in the iTunes store. I recommend the PRO version if you are looking for the ultimate app.
As an FYI, iTunes gives the free version of runtastic a rating of 4.5 out of 5 star rating, and runtastic PRO a 4.5 out of 5 star rating. The Android Play store gives the free version of runtastic a rating of 4.5 out of 5 star rating, and runtastic PRO a 4.5 out of 5 star rating. Check it out below:
runtastic Lite – Android – Free
runtastic PRO – Android – $3.99
We will leave you with a few runtastic videos. The first is a general video showing overall features:
Here is a video on how to use runtastic abroad:
Here is a video on how to use the iPod controls in runtastic:
Here is a video on how to upgrade to the PRO version:
Here is how to record a session:
Here is how the voice feedback works:
As always,
Happy Training!!
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Hi! Comprehensive review. Unless I missed it, did you provide any details on where you can buy the runtastic chest strap? I live in Australia and can buy here, but will be in the US in June and was wondering if it would be cheaper to pick up while I'm there. P.S. The bluetooth version won't work for me as I have a Windows phone. Thanks, Ross
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Runtastic PRO does an okay job of tracking your run (or your skate, in my case).
But like a lot of people, one of the big draws of a workout app is the history it keeps. I'm using the Android version of Runtastic. Last time the app upgraded it decided to lose my history. I went to the support page on the web site. There are 12 articles. There's a place to enter your search, but the button is disabled. There is no "Contact us" option.
Runtastic isn't all bad, but they're definitely not ready for prime time. I don't know what else to recommend, but I'm going to go looking.
Hey there!
I need some help with runtastic pro, my question is, how do I import my completed activites from free runtastic app, to runtastic pro app on the same android phone?
Thank you so much!
how can I move Runtastic Pro from my old iphone, to a new one I just bought?
Giant article.
I just want two questions answered that relate to whether I'll continue using this app or just buy a Fit Bit:
1) Does the app use data on my phone-plan, and if so, how much for a 1-hour run?
2) Can I change settings so that it uses far less data, but still records my distance and pace?
Location is less important to me than assuring that I don't turn my near-daily run into a budget item, due to an increase in data-use on my phone-plan.
Does anyone know if the Runtastic Apps are compatible with Garmin products?


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