By Toasty, on September 18th, 2010 Charging my iPhone from the motorcycle battery More goodies in the mail yesterday after receiving my Powerlet inline charging kit for the iPhone from BlueRim Australia. Due to GPS applications being renowned for chewing through the battery on an iPhone, I knew I needed to get something so I can charge the iPhone while on the road. Plus it will help if I forget to charge the iPhone overnight – can’t have an eight hour day on the bike without tunes! The kit was incredibly simple to install, just hook the charger up to the correct battery terminals, loop the Continue reading the full Motorcycle Charger for the iPhone post. By Toasty, on August 28th, 2010 This will be a short post as I am doing it for no other reason than to test out a bluetooth keyboard I have bought for my iPhone. Since OS4 was released for the iphone they now have the ability to use bluetooth keyboards I have been very keen to try this out due to finding that writing a lot of text on the touchscreen can be quite fiddly. Due to the small size of this bluetooth keyboard it is feeling quite fiddly too however I can at least see the iPhone’s full screen while I am typing which does Continue reading the full Bluetooth Keyboard post. By Toasty, on June 11th, 2010 Short update today. I’m off for a run with the boys from Melbourne during the long weekend starting tomorrow. I’ll be riding from Canberra to Kevington, a small dot on the map just north of Melbourne. During this ride of three days I am going to try out some things with my iPhone as a practice run for October. First I am going to try the MotionX iPhone application which I will use to automatically log location updates to my Twitter and Facebook account every 15 minutes. Unfortunately I have been advised that most GPS apps for the iPhone absolutely Continue reading the full Testing iPhone Apps on a Motorcycle post. By Toasty, on March 8th, 2010 Sitting in a little cafe at the moment and have noticed I am not getting 3g access on my iPhone. So this is a quick post with a bit of text to see how long it will take to upload and if it is any good. As an example I tried browsing the Borders books website and it took an atrociously long time to load. Was it just the site or is the non 3g just not cutting the mustard. This post will be deleted, maybe. edit: later in the evening I updated this post. The transfer over the slow Continue reading the full A test on a slow speed network post. By Toasty, on March 7th, 2010 Well at the moment this post is coming to you from my new iPhone. That’s right the decision has been made, helped in no small part by the battery dying on my old Samsung mobile. So this is my first post via the WordPress app for the iPhone and I thought I would post an exciting picture of the new front tyre I had installed last week. The tyre has relevance as it is a Metzler Marathon ME880 and with a bit of luck it should last until October and make the trip around Australia without needing a change. First Continue reading the full The iPhone Wins post. By Toasty, on February 18th, 2010 What particularly interests me about the article is the talk of blogging photos from an iPhone. I would find that ability very useful as taking lots of photos from the fantastic and varied landscapes Australia has to offer and posting them to this blog is incredibly appealing. Continue reading the full Techonology Conundrum – More post. By Toasty, on January 10th, 2010 What to do, what to take, that’s the question. So here’s the deal, five weeks on the road will be a long time, and a lot of the days will be looong days. So I’ll need some music- I’ve got a 2nd generation iPod which has travelled tens of thousands of kilometres with me already, it’s a bit clunky but fits in the vest pocket. And no doubt I’ll want to take a picture or two along the way – I’ve got an older digital camera that I could have in a pouch off my belt (inconvenient) or in the Continue reading the full Technology Conundrum post. | Ride Around Australia October 2010In October 2010 I rode a Yamaha Road Star around Australia to raise money for the Steven Walter Foundation's Answers for Kids Cancer Program. This site documents the trip prep in the lead up to the journey and a daily diary of the trip itself. |  You can donate to the Steven Walter Foundation at the following link. |
