After numerous phone calls, faxes, and emails from the White House and the Buckingham Palace, we’ve finally come about to support the “imperial system” or the “American system”, whichever term you prefer. You can now choose to use the metric system (km-m-kg-Celsius) or the American system (mi-ft-lb-Fahrenheit) in your HeiaHeia entries! You can switch the system used from the settings.

If you switch your units, all your old entries will be shown according to your current setting.

You’ll see your friends’ entries in the system their where made in (to give some cross-cultural flavour), but all the summaries etc will be made based on your own measurement units.

Anything missing or not working the way you’d want to? Please let us know!

This news piece is einfach super - we now support German, the most widely spoken first language in the European Union!

If you spot any problems with the translation: typos, funny expressions, grammar mistakes – please let us know!

Big thanks to Päivi for helping us out with this! We’re working on a couple other new languages (e.g. Italian, Estonian, Norwegian) – if you’d like to help us with some other language, don’t hesitate to contact us.

New sport types added today:

Freediving, Streetball, Roller derby, Springboard diving, Infrared sauna, Wheelchair curling, Simplefit, Swamp walking, Swamp running, Swamp football, Car washing, Suburi, Water skiing, Trikke, Mölkky, MBT-walking, Kundalini yoga, Line dancing, Belly dancing, Back exercises, Rug washing, Rescue dog activity, Spear fishing, Bailing hay, Baby swimming, Croquet, Bodyharmony, Moonwalk, Parallel bars, Bandy, Painting, Synchronized skating, SHAPE, Wife carrying,  Flexi-bar, Deep stretching, Ab wheel, P90X, Diabolo, Motorcycle trials, Open water swimming, Trail running,  Aviation, Stable work, Touch rugby, Kung fu, Canine freestyle, Skike, Irish dancing, Afro, Motocross, Canyoning, Miniature golf, Oriental dance. Huh! ; )

If there are issues with terminology or translations in any of the sports, please let us know!

A special request to our users: as you may have noticed, our sport icon creation is sometimes lagging a bit behind and we use our generic H! icon for some sports. If you have the required Photoshopping skills, we can share our sport icon PSD templates with you, so that you can create an icon for your favourite sport (either creating a new icon or to fix an existing one).

Our earlier submission in the Ovi Store is a Web Runtime version supporting S60 3.2 and S60 5.0 devices.

Both the apps are in principle “wrappers”: icons in the homescreen, which open the mobile browser optimized version of HeiaHeia.

For the lucky ones who don’t speak in three letter acronyms: this means that you can track your outdoor activities with a GPS device & if your tracking app supports HeiaHeia as a destination site, you can automatically push your activities also to HeiaHeia and have nice route thumbnails in your feed to complement your other sporty activities.

The first app supporting this is our friend eCoach, available for the Nokia N900. The feature will be supported in the next eCoach release, due in a couple of weeks.

The mobile version of HeiaHeia has been out for a while now, but so far only for select devices, for which we’ve automatically served the mobile optimized version. Now you can point any browser to m.heiaheia.com and start using this small screen friendly version.

Comments on how the site works on different devices very much welcome!

Hejsan alla!

Things don’t get much more Nordic than this: a start-up from Finland with a Norwegian name launches support for the Swedish language! Just click the flag icon on the top right corner & switch to Swedish in order to hurra på dina vänner! Huge thanks for our friend Daniel for helping us out with the localization.

As with any of our supported languages (so far English, Finnish, Russian, Swedish – Norwegian, Italian and German in the pipeline), please let us know, if you have a better wording for something, if you discover typos, or anything else you’d like to change.

If you have talent and interest for localizing stuff and would like to help us out with your mother tongue, please contact us! We can offer you e.g. a special status in our service  and some pretty cool cheering icons! ; )

As always, comments very much welcome!

Comments, improvements? Please let us know!

How to use it: make new entries the usual way, but for the future. When these planned events “take place”, you’ll be asked if you want to approve the exercise as planned, if you want to edit & approve it, or if you want to delete it (=it didn’t take place). The approved exercises go into your training diary, the planned entries are kept for a planned vs. actual presentation (we don’t have this yet, but are working on it).

The planned entries are visually represented as gray icons e.g. in the timeline.

Comments & ideas very much welcome, as usual!