Jawbone UP API Discovery
November 28, 2011 – 9:42 am | 4 Comments

On Saturday I stopped by the Apple store and picked up an UP device by Jawbone. The UP is a wristband and iPhone app that will track your fitness and sleep activity and help encourage you to live a more active life style. As with most of my Quantified Self gadets (Fitbit, Zeo, Withings, Neurosky, etc.) my first reaction was to “free my data”. Similar to my initial journey with the Fitbit, I was inspired to find an “unofficial” way to get access to the data.

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Zeo Personal Sleep Coach – Hacking Your Way To A Better Night’s Sleep
January 2, 2011 – 11:53 am | 4 Comments
Zeo Personal Sleep Coach – Hacking Your Way To A Better Night’s Sleep

What’s a better way to kick off the New Year than by giving tips on how to improve your overall quality of sleep? I decided to write this post as a mini-review of the Zeo …

Learning Faster – Automatically Extract Highlighted Text from PDF Documents
December 17, 2010 – 12:46 am | 11 Comments
Learning Faster – Automatically Extract Highlighted Text from PDF Documents

Overview
I never really considered myself a “highlighter” until a couple years ago.  Back in school I would, on occasion, highlight some interesting passages while doing homework or reading books and jot them down later. …

GeoLocation (GPS) and Self-Tracking
August 28, 2010 – 11:10 pm | 5 Comments

You know what they say: Location Location Location.  I posted a reply to yesterday’s Quantified Self article answering what degree of self-tracking I’m already doing.  Here’s the rundown:

Mint for financial tracking and monitoring of budget …

The Quantified Self
August 27, 2010 – 7:18 pm | One Comment

Since my last post on Personal Informatics for Fitness Tracking I’ve been digging deeper into the emerging trend of self tracking (a.k.a personal informatics) and have come to realize that there are a lot more …

Fitness Tracking Platform – Personal Informatics for Fitness
August 14, 2010 – 1:00 pm | 8 Comments
Fitness Tracking Platform – Personal Informatics for Fitness

When I woke up this morning, I didn’t say to myself “Boy, I don’t have enough going on and need to add just ONE more huge hobby project to my list!”.  But these things tend …

Fitbit – Perl API Hosted at GitHub
June 30, 2010 – 6:11 pm | 5 Comments

Last month I announced a new “hacking” project – creating a Perl API for my FitBit device.  Traditionally, whenever I host one of my projects I usually include both the project page and source code …

Fitbit – Unofficial Perl API and CSV Download
May 11, 2010 – 11:03 pm | 8 Comments
Fitbit – Unofficial Perl API and CSV Download

The other week I received my Fitbit and have been in geek heaven ever since. Fitbit is a tiny magical device($99 USD) that automatically tracks your fitness and sleep statistics. Throughout the day it …

IPad Tip: How To Convert HTML to PDFs
May 3, 2010 – 10:24 pm | 3 Comments

Since I bought my iPad a few weeks ago, you can’t seem to pull me away from it.  I have a number of computers, and while I still use my Netbook quite a bit, I’ve …

Android Running on the iPhone
April 22, 2010 – 1:02 am | One Comment

This one needs to go to the top of my geek todo list!!

http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/2010/04/ive-been-working-on-this-quietly-in.html

Top 10 Ways to Declutter Your Digital Life, 2010 Edition
April 11, 2010 – 8:47 am | No Comment

LifeHacker recently posted some useful tips to help with users with Information Overload Syndrome:
10. Declutter and Streamline Google Reader Feeds
9. Clean Up Your Contacts
8. Compact and Manage Social Network Alerts
7. Build Yourself Serious Gmail Filters
6. …