Pebble Time with Michael

Pebble Time with Michael – Day 22

Back on Day 18, in my “Monitor Your Pebble Time’s Battery Life – with Battery+” article, I mentioned that I would continue to have Battery+ running on my Pebble Time as long as I didn’t find a better application that also required the use of the Activity Tracker function. As you may recall, only one application at a time can use Activity Tracker to run in background and continuously monitor the Pebble Time’s sensors. Well I’ve finally removed Battery+. It has been booted off my Pebble Time in favor of PlexFit. This is an Android-only application that provides me with just what I want in the way of fitness tracking, along with providing automatic integration with the Google Fit application.

Read moreLet Your Pebble Time Act as a Fitness Tracker – with PlexFit

Pebble Time with Michael – Day 21

It’s safe to say the world is a big place with a with lots of items of interest going on across all of the continents. In an age where online providers are increasingly erecting pay walls to access their content, it’s not all that easy to keep track of important current news events.

Fortunately, news consolidators like Breaking News can provide news content from sources that span the globe. Breaking News gathers news stories published by over 400 news organizations and makes them available on the Web and via a variety of mobile device applications.

Read moreLet Your Pebble Time to Keep You Informed – With Breaking News

Pebble Time with Michael – Day 20

Just the other day my wife wanted to put one of her indoor plants by a north-facing window in our house. So she asked me, “Which way is north?”. For once I was able to immediately answer her because I had the Compass app installed on my Pebble Time.

Compass is one of those very simple, single-purpose applications that seem to become invaluable once you have them readily available to you. It does just what its title implies – it serves as a magnetic compass using the Pebble Time’s built-in compass hardware.

It’s also very nicely animated with a virtual spirit level that transforms the compass shown in the accompanying picture into a heading indicator when you move the watch from a horizontal to a vertical orientation. So if you’re looking down at your wrist, you see the compass. If you raise your wrist to in front of your face the app screen transforms into a current heading indicator.

Compass is very simple and straightforward, but also very handy for a wide variety of daily activities, especially outdoor activities. I highly recommend this app for your consideration as an addition to your own Pebble Time’s application library.

Pebble Time with Michael – Day 19

I’m always ordering things from the web, usually from Amazon. It seems that in any given week I’ve got one or more packages on their way to my home. Heck, it wasn’t that long ago that one such package was of extreme interest to me – the package from Pebble that contained my Pebble Time!

So over time I’ve used a variety of web-based and mobile device-based tools to track the status of incoming packages. I was very happy to discover one such app for my Pebble Time: Deliveries.

Read moreLet Your Pebble Time Track Package Deliveries – with the Deliveries App