MyWalks for people like you and me
- MyWalks is a tiny app. It is at your service on iPhone and watch: activity time, pause time, and steps done.
- It accompanies your everyday walks with limited interest in physical performance.
- So that MyWalks is fine for your walks with your dog, with meeting friends and neighbours on the way, with observing ducks or squirrels, with sitting in the sun, and so on.
- MyWalks is easy to use: you tap the icons for the trackers, and a long tap into the background resets and stops the app.
- Please allow the step count on phone for both phone and watch. Without the app cannot count your steps.
- By the way, MyWalks is tiny in its code, too. All my former apps needed much more of it!
Have fun...
Tiny app, but lots of background!
- The beautiful witch Alcina accompanies you.
- Alcina is a sorceress. She picks heroes from the troops, forces them to stay on her island and transforms them into plants.
- Alcina is well known from Middle Ages legends around Charlemagne and Roland fighting against the Saracens in Spain in the 8th century.
- She is at home in Palermo, among the traditional Sicilian puppets ("pupi") who often tell tales about Charlemagne's christian crusades to free Spain from Saracens, and other stories from the past.
- The app presents Alcina as redesigned by Tania Giordano. I saw her in an exposition with much puppet company (see report below).
- Sicilian puppets are moved by long strings of rope and two iron rods, one of which is attached to the hand and the other passes through the inside of the head. There are also four strings to allow the puppet to unsheathe his sword, move his left hand and raise the visor of his helmet.
- There are different traditions, so that eg. the puppets from Syracuse are taller than their colleagues from Palermo, and they have other rods.
