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Tech Tip Tuesday – Unlocking Your Mac with Apple Watch

Last week, I showed you how to customize the Dock on your Apple Watch so that you can get to the apps you use quicker. This week, I’m going to show you how to use your Apple Watch to Unlock your Mac. Security While the iPhone has had the TouchID sensor or FaceID since the […]

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Tech Tip Tuesday – Customizing The Apple Watch Dock

Welcome to another Tech Tip Tuesday! This week, we’re going to be customizing the dock on the Apple Watch. What is the Dock? On the Apple Watch, a press of the large square button near the crown (the crown is the the spinning part) brings up the dock on your Apple Watch. By default, the

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Updated: Using the ECG on the Apple Watch

Update (3/28/2019): The ECG has been enabled on Series 4 watches in some parts of Europe and Hong Kong I thought it would be good to update this for those folks. On your Apple Watch go to the new ECG app. It is a white circle with a red heart rate line. The first time

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Apple releases watchOS 5.2

Apple release watchOS 5.2 today. The release is for all models except for the 1st generation, but it’s really interesting to those with the latest model in come regions of Europe and in Hong Kong. Apple has finally enabled the ECG feature to series 4 watches in those regions. The update also adds support the

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The Apple Watch’s ECG Helped My Wife

My wife and I had an adventure with the Apple Watch’s ECG when my wife started to experience some large dips in her ecg. Some of you might have noticed that I didn’t update the site at all last week. That would mark the first time the site had gone that long without an update

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Best Running App Diary: Strava

Man, the last couple of weeks have been jam packed. I haven’t really had much time to do anything outside of work and weddings for the past ten days or so. It was nice to actually have some time to go running yesterday. It was even better to be testing out the next and final

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Best Running App Challenge: Run 6 – Runkeeper

I’m six runs and three apps into my best Running App Challenge. This week, I’m taking a look at RunKeeper. (Check out my opinions on the other apps so far – Workout App, Nike Run Club, and Strava). Runkeeper is actually one of my oldest used running apps. When I first started trying to run

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Running Diary – Run 3 – Nike Run Club’s Popular App

Well, I’ve stayed with it heading into week 2 of the year. I’ve now completed 3 runs, which I’ve tracked on my Apple Watch. The first two runs were completed using the standard Workout App on the Apple watch. For my last run, I used the Nike Run Club app. The Nike Run Club app

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The Rock Solid Workout App – Running App – Diary Day 1

Update: I updated this after my second run.  Check out the pace alerts and other new tidbits So I managed to get my first run of 2019 yesterday. I’m off to a great start if I do say so myself. As I mentioned yesterday in my first post about using tech to get healthy I recorded my first run of the year. To start with I’m using the Workout App

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Add Music to Your Apple Watch

I’ve talked to some people that didn’t know that you could add music to your Apple Watch even if you don’t have the LTE version. I figured with my Running App Challenge, it would be a great time to show people how to add music to your Apple Watch. Here’s how to add music to

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