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A taste of Slimming World 2.0

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:50:36 +0000

A brand new app for people in the UK and Ireland who haven't yet discovered Slimming World! For over forty years Slimming World has helped millions of people achieve their dream weight and maintain their slim new shape for life! And if you'd like taste of the UK’s favourite way to lose weight - before deciding whether to join a group - you can in our free app.

You’ll discover:
• An easy to follow, hunger-busting 7-day sample eating plan that’s perfect for you… and your whole family!
• Deliciously filling and slimming recipes, including Chilli con carne and our famous Slimming World chips!
• Inspirational success story videos from our members, including Roberto Enrieu who lost an amazing 25st, and the beautiful Leanne Needham who’s over 7st slimmer!
• A handy BMI calculator to check whether you’re in a healthy weight range – and, if you’re not, how Slimming World can help you get there
• Quick links to find your nearest Slimming World group – the very best place to lose weight and keep it off for good!

Download it for free today, and enjoy a taste of the success you can achieve with Slimming World.

Recent changes:
This update rectifies the ‘token not set’ message previously showing on some handsets, and fixes a small error in the ‘favourites’ section of the members’ Syns on the Go area.

ProPoints ® Calculator

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:21:59 +0000

At the Supermarket or a restaurant? Calculate ProPoints ® values on the go.
Only available to Weight Watchers Online and eSource subscribers - just use your valid username and password login to start to use the calculator. Works without a WIFI or internet connection, you will be prompted to login in every month.

Weight Watchers Mobile UK

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:18:14 +0000

Take Weight Watchers Mobile along to help you stay in control and make smart and satisfying food choices. We’ve added brand new interactive tools to help you follow Weight Watchers New Approach anywhere, anytime

With our eSource or Online subscription, you get access to great features like:
• Track your food, activity, and weight
• Review your weight-loss progress with our interactive chart
• Access your Places and Routines tools
• Search more than over 35,000 foods, meals and recipes
• Find a Weight Watchers meeting in your area

(Don’t have a subscription? You can still access recipes, articles, and a few cheat sheets!)

REQUIREMENTS:
• You must be a current subscriber to Weight Watchers Online or eSource to access the weight-loss tools in this application
• App requires 60 mb of free internal storage space on your smartphone, but can be moved to your SD card after the first time you open the app; we also recommend 512mb of memory
• The following Android Operating Systems are supported on Android smartphones: 2.2 (Froyo), 2.3 (Gingerbread), 3.0 (Honeycomb), 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
• This app was made specifically for Android smartphones. While it might also work on your tablet, it is not yet fully supported.

Recent changes:
What’s new?
• We resolved a few big crashing issues: you'll need to re-enter your user name and password after you update the app to make sure the stability changes take effect
• Many other bug-fixes to make your app experience better than ever.
• Have questions on the new features or an idea? Check out our enhanced Help section at the bottom of our menu or email us at mobile@weightwatchers.co.uk

Change4Life healthier recipes

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:21:41 +0000

The Change4Life healthier recipes app is a great, free way of helping everybody eat tasty, healthier meals.

Sometimes it’s hard to know what to cook or have new meal ideas. And remembering ingredients and keeping track of calories can be a hassle. Don’t worry – the meal mixer takes care of it!
Download the app today and use it to:

-Search over 100 easy, calorie counted recipes for breakfast, lunch, evening meals, puddings and snacks
-Find delicious meal ideas if you’re short of inspiration – just use the meal mixer
-Keep track with the handy shopping list, which organises the ingredients you need by supermarket aisle
-Email recipes and shopping lists
-Share with friends via Facebook and Twitter
-Learn more about being food smart and making healthier choices

Recent changes:
New recipes, new calendar functionality

First aid by British Red Cross

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:24:16 +0000

Free, simple and life-saving. Know what to do in an emergency with the British Red Cross’ official first aid app. With videos, interactive quizzes and simple step-by-step advice, it’s never been easier to know first aid.

The information is all hosted on the app itself, meaning no internet connection is needed, making it fast and easy to access. Best of all, it’s free. Get this essential app on your smartphone now.

FIVE SECTIONS

LEARN
Simple, easy-to-understand advice and frequently asked questions on 18 everyday first aid scenarios. Videos, step-by-step instructions and animations make it fun and easy to pick up.

PREPARE
Get expert tips on how to prepare for some of the most common emergency situations, from severe winter weather to road traffic accidents. Includes checklists on how to prepare and tips on what to do during.

EMERGENCY
Your personal panic button, this instantly accessible, step-by-step section gives you just enough information to know what to do in emergency first aid situations.

TEST
Find out how much you’ve learned by taking interactive quizzes. Earn achievement badges and share them with your friends on Twitter and Facebook to show off your life-saving knowledge.

INFO
Find out more about the life-saving work of the British Red Cross, including volunteering opportunities, latest news and information on in-depth first aid courses.

Download this essential app today.

* Note that while emergency numbers throughout the app are for UK users, the information in this app will be useful to anyone, anywhere in the world.

The app is ad-free and spam free.

System requirements

This app requires an SD card with 40MB of free space, and it’ll work on Android 2.2 or upwards.

Recent changes:
Version 1.1.1-
Fixed issue with content not updating properly
Fixed crash on content view pages
Added new tests into test section

Version 1.0.4 -
Fixed a major bug causing crashes
Optimised for Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0)
Other small changes (such as title text's now being readable etc)

Version 1.0.3 -
Fixed several bugs and crashes

Version 1.0.2 -
Fixed issue with content not updating
Fixed issue with scrolling
Fixed issue with drag and drop test
Fixed force crashes on certain phones

St John Ambulance First Aid

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:21:54 +0000

Every year, up to 140,000* people in England and Wales die in situations where first aid could have given them a chance to live. St John Ambulance is determined that no one should die because they needed first aid and didn’t get it.

This app includes the latest first aid advice and protocols for dealing with emergency situations. It is simple to follow with illustrated guides and voiced instructions.

The app doesn’t replace the benefits of learning first aid on a St John Ambulance course, nor is it as in depth as a full first aid manual. But when there is an emergency, it will help you to know what to do to in those few crucial moments when basic knowledge of first aid can make the difference.

Nothing is more tragic than a life lost needlessly. You can be the difference between life and death.

Please note: The first aid advice is based solely upon UK protocols. Both the UK and European emergency service numbers are provided.

* Source: Office of National Statistics death registration data (for England and Wales), 2010

Recent changes:
Exit button added and hardware back button exits, fixes for issues with small screen sizes.

Strava Cycling

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:42:54 +0000

“The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Fitness” -Fast Company
Track your rides with GPS, analyze your performance, join Challenges and see how you stack up against friends and locals.

TRACK YOUR RIDES
• See distance, speed, elevation gained and calories burned
• View the map of your ride as you record
• Collect heart rate, power and cadence data from sensors (supports ANT+ and Bluetooth LE)
• FREE unlimited ride uploads

SEE YOUR STATS & ACHIEVEMENTS
• See all of your recent rides and get accumulated stats
• Set personal records and earn achievements for outstanding performances

SEE WHERE YOU STACK UP
• Earn King and Queen of the Mountain honors on specific sections of road or trail
• Ride the same segments as your friends, beat their time, and climb the leaderboards
• Compare your performance against locals and pros

JOIN CHALLENGES
• Stay motivated with monthly Challenges designed to push you further
• Climb the leaderboard and see how you stack up against athletes around the world

STAY IN TOUCH
• Follow your friends and clubs and see their latest rides
• Give comments and kudos and help motivate your friends
• Get notifications when you receive kudos, comments, and new followers

FIND PLACES TO RIDE
• Explore the most popular segments anywhere you go

GO PREMIUM
• Filtered Leaderboards - See how you compare against athletes in your own age & weight class
• Power Zone Analysis - Monitor your power output and focus on your watts
• Heart Rate Analysis- Dial in to your fitness zones to get the most out of your training
• Suffer Score - Quantify your suffering & determine exactly how hard you're working
• Advanced Segment Effort Comparison - Compare your efforts against friends and see how you’re tackling favorite sections of road or trail over time
• These Premium features are available through in-app purchasing

VISIT WWW.STRAVA.COM TO:
• See even more ride analysis
• Join clubs and create new ones in your area
• Access additional features for Strava Premium members

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT STRAVA

“Besting personal milestones are one thing; crushing your buddy's best time up a local climb with data to prove it, is something else entirely.”
- Velo News

“Capture the fastest time on a climb and Strava will crown you king or queen of the mountain.”
- Bicycling Magazine

“…an ingeniously conceived app…”
- Men's Journal

“…Strava's app lets you get competitive any time you want.”
- Triathlete Magazine

“Editors’ Choice...the Strava app sees no equal...”
- Road Bike Action Magazine

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NOTE ON GPS SUPPORT:
Strava depends on GPS for recording activities. In some devices, the GPS does not work properly and Strava will not record effectively. If your Strava recordings show poor location estimation behavior, please try to update the operating system to the most recent version. We recommend running Android version 2.3.3 or above. Furthermore, there are some devices which have consistently poor performance with no known remedies. On these devices we restrict installation of Strava, for example Nexus One and HTC Hero. See our support site for more information: http://support.strava.com/kb/alerts-and-known-issues/does-strava-2x-run-on-my-android-device

Recent changes:
Version 3.4.0

Join a Challenge: monitor your progress, invite your friends to compete and see who gets to the top of the leaderboard. Choose from different Challenges every month.

Interactive Map: the recording screen has been improved and now features a full screen interactive map so you can zoom in and out and better explore your location.

My Diet Diary Calorie Counter

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:18:10 +0000

Get to your goal weight faster with My Diet Diary, your weight loss sidekick! Track your food, exercise, weight, cholesterol, nutrition data and more to see whether you are on track to lose weight, gain weight, or maintain weight.

My Diet Diary is an easy to use calorie counter!
* Track all major nutrients, create your own custom foods , track exercises, view progress reports, customized weight loss goals, recipe calculator, and more.

NUTRITION TRACKING:
* View daily nutritional summary reports
* Use our calorie counter and track other nutrition data (protein, carbs, cholesterol, sugar, etc)
* Built-in BMI (Body Mass Index) calculator. Track your BMI
* Set your weight goal and Diet Diary will help you create a plan to get there!
* Check your progress with a simple calorie tracker that shows how you’re tracking against your daily calorie budget and diet
* Track all key nutrients: calories, fat, protein, carbs, sugar, fiber, cholesterol, and more
* View weight charts, diet summary details and track your weight loss

FOOD TRACKING:
* Add your food easily with our database of 150,000+ foods and recipes.
* View info about everything you eat - from calories to vitamins and minerals and cholesterol
* Enter your own recipes and calculate their nutritional contents
* See a breakdown of calories from carbs, fats, and protein
* Not on a diet? Use it as a food log.

EXERCISE TRACKING
* Log over 65 exercises to see how many calories you’ve burned
* Enter your own calorie amounts with exercises
* Exercises for men/women. Strengthen your abs & have a flat belly!
* See how many calories & fat you burned
* BMR Calculator
* Track your cardio, aerobics, weight lifting, walking, biking, running, and more!

PERSONALIZED FOR YOU:
* Customized goals and calorie counter based on your specific diet profile – age, gender, height
* Personalize with an avatar
* Set reminders and notifications for meals and exercises
* Let My Diet Diary be your personalized diet coach, weight coach, and fitness coach

FORUMS:
* Have a question? Tap in to MedHelp’s community as the largest health social network by asking questions in one of our many diet-related forums, fitness forums, and weight-loss related forums.
* Get support and motivation from millions of people just like you who are dieting

My Diet Diary is the smart way to achieve your weight goal and healthy way for weight loss! If you want to slim down or are slimming down already, do it the healthy way with our calorie counter. Consider this app to be your diet coach and dietitian! It’s better than a diet coach because your phone is always with you. Get started for free today.

USER QUOTES
“Diet Diary helped me with weight loss! I lost over 10 pounds and found it better than Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, Atkins, GI, or all those various personal diets out there. I tracked my weight-loss over time with the weight graph chart, tracked my calories, tracked my cholesterol intake, and more. Highly recommend!” - Sigor

“Probably the best weight-loss app and calorie tracker out there. I tried the scarsdale diet, HCG diet, south beach diet, medifast, mediterranean, and more but I gained weight again after I was done dieting. My Diet Diary, on the other hand, motivates you to just eat better. It’s simple. Eating better meals is key to weight loss. It tracks your daily exercise and fitness too!” - Isaac

“The food and recipe database in My Diet Diary is amazing. I could search on several different foods and recipe search, and it would automatically display all the nutrition info. My husband is a vegetarian, and I’m a vegan so it is important for us to track our protein intake. With Diet Diary, we can do that!” - Liz

“Easy to use nutrition tracker! It feels like my personal dietitian, planner, and trainer. I was on the HCG diet before, Jenny Craig diet, low carb diet, weight watcher diet, and tried the juice detox. They all were not enjoyable, especially the juice diet! But the app I feel is helping me.” -- Gwen

Recent changes:
* Daily reminders (in Settings)

Strava Run

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:18:18 +0000

“The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Fitness” -Fast Company
Track your run with GPS, analyze your performance, join Challenges and see how you stack up against friends and locals.

TRACK YOUR RUNS
• See distance, pace, elevation gained and calories burned
• View the map of your run as you record
• See your splits and hear audio updates as you run
• Hear audio updates while you run
• Collect heart rate data from Zephyr HxM Bluetooth sensors
• FREE unlimited run uploads ds

SEE YOUR STATS & ACHIEVEMENTS
• See all of your recent runs and get accumulated stats
• Set personal records and earn achievements for outstanding performances

SEE WHERE YOU STACK UP
• Earn Course Record honors on specific sections of road or trail
• Run the same segments as your friends, beat their time, and climb the leaderboards
• Compare your performance against locals and pros

JOIN CHALLENGES
• Stay motivated with monthly Challenges designed to keep you push you further
• Climb the leaderboard and see how you stack up against athletes around the world

STAY IN TOUCH
• Follow your friends and clubs and see their latest rides
• Give comments and kudos and help motivate your friends
• Get notifications when you receive kudos, comments, and new followers

FIND PLACES TO RUN
• Explore the most popular segments anywhere you go

GO PREMIUM
• Filtered Leaderboards - See how you compare against athletes in your own age & weight class.
• Pace Zone Analysis - Monitor your speed and focus on your effort
• Heart Rate Analysis- Dial in to your fitness zones to get the most out of your training
• Suffer Score - Quantify your suffering & determine exactly how hard you're working
• Advanced Segment Effort Comparison - Compare your efforts against friends and see how you’re tackling favorite sections of road or trail over time
• These Premium features are available through in-app purchasing

VISIT WWW.STRAVA.COM TO:
• See even more run analysis
• Join clubs and create new ones in your area
• Access additional features for Strava Premium members

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT STRAVA

"Strava's phone app lets you get competitive any time you want. It tracks a user's performance and compares it over specific courses to thousands of other athletes, with a worldwide leaderboard." - Triathlete Magazine

"...I didn’t plan on running such a pace when starting my run, but knowing a segment was upcoming motivated me to run harder and earn an achievement." - GigaOm

“We are already addicted, using it to try to beat the time of someone we have never met.”
—Pocket-Lint

“I found myself glancing at the app’s simple display of my stats throughout the day, something I’ve never done with Nike+.”
—Ars Technica

“I’m loving that any time I want, I can fuel the competitive fire.”
—Runnersworld.com

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NOTE ON GPS SUPPORT:
Strava depends on GPS for recording activities. In some devices, the GPS does not work properly and Strava will not record effectively. If your Strava recordings show poor location estimation behavior, please try to update the operating system to the most recent version. We recommend running Android version 2.3.3 or above. Furthermore, there are some devices which have consistently poor performance with no known remedies. On these devices we restrict installation of Strava, for example Nexus One and HTC Hero. See our support site for more information: http://support.strava.com/kb/alerts-and-known-issues/does-strava-2x-run-on-my-android-device

Recent changes:
version 3.4.0

Join a Challenge: monitor your progress, invite your friends to compete and see who gets to the top of the leaderboard. Choose from different Challenges every month.

Interactive Map: the recording screen has been improved and now features a full screen interactive map so you can zoom in and out and better explore your location.

MapMyRide GPS Cycling Riding

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:59:34 +0000

Turn your phone into the ultimate cycling computer.

Easily track route, speed, distance, calories, time with audio alerts and much more!

+++++ -“Awesome - Easy to use and everything you'll need. Auto-stops when you're held up by a light. Sharing controls and a great flyover of the route when you're done. Also useful to find local routes from other riders.” - Atlstjohn

Basic and advanced ride tracking capabilities for novices thru competitive cyclists.

Track cycling, running and over 600 types of other activities with:
⊕ Speed (Avg, Max, Current)
⊕ GPS Route Mapping
⊕ Distance
⊕ Calorie counting
⊕ Elevation profile
⊕ Route navigation
⊕ Nutrition, food, diet, and weight tracking
⊕ Real-time Stats (avg, min, max) during workout
⊕ Voice prompts that give you updates on your progress as you go!
⊕ Compete on local Courses: receive automatic achievements and overall rank on Leaderboards for popular local climbs and rides.
⊕ Tracks in the background so you can listen to music, take calls, and use any other feature of your phone, while still tracking

Bragging (optional!):
⊕ Post your workouts to Facebook and Twitter, or keep every thing completely private

All of your info syncs securely with your free account on www.MapMyRide.com.

Training and tracking features to suit recreational cyclists, bike touring, commuters, all the way through competitive racers. Great for training for group rides, century rides, and everything in between.

Visit www.MapMyRide.com to:

⊕ Search the world’s largest database of cycling, running, walking routes.

⊕ Join sponsored challenges and WIN PRIZES (i.e. trips and shoes) just for riding.

⊕ Connect with our community of millions of fitness enthusiasts.

⊕ Sync devices like CycleOps Joule, PowerTap, Fitbit, Nike+, Garmin, Polar, Timex, Magellan.

Tips:

⊕ Turn off wifi before you start, to improve battery life and GPS accuracy.

⊕ Explore settings, with many great features including auto-pause, audio alert settings and more.

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Be sure to visit us at www.MapMyRide.com for the full experience.

Recent changes:
New in 2.7:
✭ Improved GPS accuracy and tracking.
✭ Uses less battery during your ride.
✭ More Voice Feedback stats.
✭ Improved workout save and sync. Better than ever!
✭ Instantly see your workout stats when you finish.
✭ Upgrade to MVP to remove all ads!
✭ We listened and fixed the problems.

2.7.7: Fixes for Live Tracking second recorded workout. Added permission for Motorola BTLE HRM.
2.7.8: Fixes an issue when deleting a workout.