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Some more useful phone apps

Karen Chaton — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:57:07 +0000

Most of these are available for both Android and iPhone. I always try these apps out before blogging about them. I often end up uninstalling more apps than I keep. The more I use my phone, the more I am in awe over all of the things that it can do. I may as well use it for as many things as I can, since it is sort of pointless to have a “smart

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Horse Radio Network – I was interviewed about endurance riding!

Karen Chaton — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:01:41 +0000

I was recently interviewed by Horse Radio Network on the topic of endurance riding. Click here to listen! Thanks to the Stable Scoop and hosts Helena and Glenn for giving some exposure to our sport. Doing the interview was a lot of fun. The part where I come on is a few minutes into it.

I was in Reno at the AERC convention when the interview came out and I got

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More phone apps

Karen Chaton — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:40:11 +0000

These are not necessarily useful only for endurance riders, but for anybody using a Droid phone. I found that some apps were battery hogs and have done away with those. I have also learned that if I am at a ride and there is no cell service that I can put the phone in airplane mode, which turns off the phone’s ability to try and access a signal. This will keep the battery working

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Useful Android Phone Apps for Trail and Endurance Riders

Karen Chaton — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:44:42 +0000

It seems like a lot of riders these days have smart phones. I resisted for a long time, but then when my phone started to die on the XP this summer I ended up getting a new Android phone while we were in Wyoming. By that point I had already seen how useful they could be from other riders. I’ve added a lot of apps to the phone that are fun, but there are

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What GPS should I use? Part 1

Karen Chaton — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:41:45 +0000

I get asked that question a lot. I’ve been using GPS’s for more than a decade now and have used several different models. I’ve written articles about using GPS’s for various publications. For starters on this topic, I’m going to copy and paste a previous article that I wrote about using a GPS. Keep in mind that this is now several years old. However, the basics still apply and are useful to know.

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Moving average versus total time and figuring out how to ride the Tevis!

Karen Chaton — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:06:43 +0000

My actual “moving” average speed on the Tevis was 6.07 mph. During the 24 hours of the Tevis Cup there were 2 one-hour holds (vet checks), and eight vet checks total. The majority of the vet checks do not have hold times so you have to ride so that you have time to allow for the time spent in those checks.

My ride numbers: 5:15 start, 3:33 finish. That left me with 1:42 time

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I made some new headers; website updates for Sunrise Ranch; kitchen remodel getting closer too!

Karen Chaton — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:53:02 +0000

Been getting a lot done this week though not as much as I would have liked. I did a bunch of updates on the sunriseranchrides.com website. From looking at it you probably won’t notice. Where it’s going to be noticed is on the back end when we receive the ride entries they are now going to come in formatted exactly how they need to be to reduce the amount of work that

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What are the best headlamps?

Karen Chaton — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:30:17 +0000

Anybody here have any recommendations? I still have my old original blue Petzel headlamp that is probably a dozen years old, or more. It has 5 LD lights on it that can flash or be solid. It is “okay” for doing barn chores in the winter, but is just not very bright. I use it every evening this time of year. It is not really that great for use on a 100. It is

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Blog Updates

Karen Chaton — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:34:32 +0000

I just updated my blog to the newest WordPress version – 2.9. It went really smoothly and everything seems to be working in the dashboard. If somebody spots something that doesn’t work in a previous blog post, let me know. I see that the links in my right hand column are gone. I’ll work on fixing that. A widget probably needs to be updated to work with 2.9.

I really like using WP because

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Cool ringtones, and they really are free!

Karen Chaton — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:29:58 +0000

I love having custom ringtones on my cell phone. It’s really kind of cool to have a special ringtone for different people so that you can immediately identify who is calling. There are so many places to get ringtones, either free or by purchasing them. It’s also easy to make them yourself, which is what my husband does.

Bongotones (http://www.bongotones.com) is a great site that will give you free ringtones. There are a couple

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