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A few years ago we wrote a little application to calculate target heart rates for cardiovascular exercise so that, when we’re working out, we can make sure we’re working in the optimal heart rate range to gain the maximum benefit from the exercise (we found out we were slack and not pushing ourselves hard enough? 
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We decided that others might also find this application useful (especially all you cardio junkies out there) so we thought we’d share it with you.? We rewrote it so it allows multiple user profiles, jazzed it up a little and added a small help file.
The idea is you calculate your target heart rate range based on your age and then, armed with this information, monitor your heart rate while exercising to ensure you’re within this range.? We use the watch type heart rate monitors but you can also check your pulse rate manually using good old fingers.? The calculator also divides the target heart rate range into low intensity, medium intensity, high intensity and very high intensity (psycho intensity if you ask me? 
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We call this program the Target Heart Rate Calculator.? Catchy name, eh?? Yeah, well we were struggling to think of a cool name so we opted for that instead.? Anyhoo, you can download the calculator program from the Target Heart Rate Calculator page.? Oh, by the way, it’s free too.
PhonePad Version 4.09 Build 4 (4.9.0.4) has just been released and is available for immediate download. This is a maintenance release – there are no new features.? The following issues have been addressed:
This is a free upgrade for all licensed PhonePad users.
PhonePad Version 4.09 has just been released and is available for immediate download. There are a couple of minor fixes and improvements. This is a free upgrade for all licensed PhonePad users!
PhonePad Version 4.08 has just been released and is available for immediate download.? There are a few minor fixes, changes and improvements but probably the most noticeable thing is the new Spell Check feature.? ? Live spell checking, auto correction and manual spell checking are all supported.? Included is a bunch of dictionaries for various languages, and it’s easy to add more if required.? And the best news is, this is a free upgrade for all licensed PhonePad users!
Well, after a harrowing few days trying to get our email working again, followed by a server crash to top it off, we are finally back to normal. We think we’ve managed to recover the majority of emails but there may be some that have gone astray. Of course, a lot of them were spam so we don’t really care about those ones, but we do care about yours. If you’ve sent us an email in the last few days and haven’t had a response yet, please send it again. Chances are your email was probably lost when our email system decided to go on strike.
We have been experiencing some problems with our email system over the last few days and still haven’t got it rectified. If you have sent us an email then please be assured that we are not ignoring you. We apologise if you are still waiting for a response. We will respond as soon as possible, providing we can keep the email system up long enough to send out emails. 🙁
It may seem as though things have been very quiet here but that’s just because we’ve been very busy working on some new features for PhonePad as well as a new add-on.? Can’t say too much about the add-on at the moment but we think you are going to find it very useful.
Stay tuned.
We recently added PayPal as an additional payment method to the order page, providing a choice of either PayPal or Digibuy. We’ve been having a look at Google CheckOut, which looks very interesting. We might end up adding it as well.
I don’t know if you’ve tried this, but PhonePad can alert you to new messages by playing a sound.? Select Preferences from the Tools menu.? Under the Messages-1 options, you will see the Notification Sound option.
Any .wav file can be used as a notification sound that is played whenever new messages arrived.? Sure beats the boring Windows beep.