Why a Chest Strap Is the Best Way to Track Your Heart Rate During Exercise

I knew that a chest strap was going to be more accurate than any watch based tracker, but I was not aware that a Coospo H808S chest strap heart rate monitor (quite a bit cheaper than the Polar H10 chest strap I'm using) can also connect to various third-party fitness apps like Polar, Wahoo, Endomondo, UA Run, Garmin, Peloton and more (seemingly via its own CoospoRide app).

This chest strap does basically what the H10 does, and is also waterproof, and has Wireless HRM Dual Mode Connection like the H10.

I'm very happy with the Polar H10, but I'm due to replace the strap soon, and they are not exactly cheap (in South Africa anyway). For me, it looks the Polar strap will need replacing every 14 or 15 months.

See https://lifehacker.com/why-a-chest-strap-in-the-best-way-to-track-heart-rate-while-exercising

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6 reasons why OnlyOffice is a great Microsoft Office alternative

OnlyOffice is a suite that is available as a paid enterprise version for broad deployments, but also works completely for free on desktop and mobile operating systems. It is fully cross-platform including Linux.

While it's not exactly the same, the OnlyOffice UI is very close to what Microsoft offers with its own Office suite. There's a ribbon-style UI and all the tabs are very similar, with the same options generally being available in each tab and presented in a very similar way, too.

Another great thing about OnlyOffice is that it includes some PDF tools that you can use for free, too. Essentially, this allows you to create easily fillable PDF forms, which you can send to people when you need to collect some kind of information from them.

There is also online collaboration and an OnlyOffice account is available for free with 2GB of cloud storage.

What I do like about the cross-platform support is that you can use and be familiar with one tool across all your operating systems.

Another plus is, apart from full Microsoft DOCX compatibility and some other formats as well, it also supports the open standards ODF format.

The Enterprise version is a charged for service which they host it, and that is not open source. The desktop version as well as community hosted server are free and open source, even for enterprises if they host it themselves.

See https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-onlyoffice-great-microsoft-office-alternative

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