Our mobile site is now available for any mobile device on m.heiaheia.com!
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! ; )
We’ve received a number of requests for attaching media like photos and video to your training log entries. We’ve now done this the following way: we recognize links to media on Flickr, Vimeo and YouTube in training log notes and put thumbnails in the feed and training log. Clicking on the thumbnails takes you to the original media.
As always, comments very much welcome!
We’re happy to announce that our first delivery to Nokia’s Ovi Store is now available at http://store.ovi.com/content/32392
This app supports the following devices: Nokia E71x, Nokia 6788, Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, Nokia E55, Nokia 6210 Navigator, Nokia N86 8MP, Nokia E52, Nokia N96, Nokia 6710 Navigator , Nokia E72, Nokia N78, Nokia 6720 classic, Nokia 6650 fold, Nokia E5-00, Nokia E75, Nokia 6730 classic, Nokia 6700 slide, Nokia 5630 XpressMusic, and Nokia 5320 XpressMusic. And maybe some others that we might have missed, basically these are all S60 3rd Ed FP2 and S60 5th Ed devices.
We have another version supporting a wider range of devices in the pipeline waiting for approval.
We also have an iPhone version in the screening process of the App Store, but it looks like the process might take a while. In the meantime, we suggest iPhone users to go to our site, click the + sign at the bottom of you browser and select “Add to Home Screen” – this adds an App icon linking to HeiaHeia to your device home screen.
We have identified one solution for the instability problems with Firefox on Windows. The F-Secure Browsing Protection toolbar is causing Firefox crashing for users of e.g. FarmVille, a lot of other Facebook games, and HeiaHeia.
A popular request among users has been to “not spam your friends on Facebook or Twitter” by sharing all HeiaHeia entries with them, but instead share only the “meaningful entries”.
We’ve now implemented more granular settings for sharing on other services: You can decide to share only items marked as favourite, share all entries, or share no entries at all (naturally the default). Also, you can state if you want to share your training goals in other services. Sharing your weekly training summary (the one you get on your weekly summary email) is possible on Facebook, we’re working on a solution for Twitter.
Once again, we’d love to hear your comments, improvements & ideas regarding this!
Welcome to H8, HeiaHeia.com’s brand new developer newsletter!
Joking aside, we’ve just finalized the first version of our API. This will enable that our service will be able to receive data from other relevant applications, services, and devices. A very practical example of this: You’re using a tracking device (like a heart rate monitor), an application (like a GPS app on your phone) or service (like a training log web service) to log e.g. your runs. This data could automatically be pushed to your HeiaHeia account also.
To make the most out of this feature, we have a couple of questions to ask:
1) HeiaHeia users: which tracking devices, apps or services do you use currently? Would you like to get the data in to HeiaHeia?
2) Developers of other tracking devices, apps, or services: would you like to work with us? Just email: heia (at) heiaheia.com! You can take a look at our API documentation here: apiwiki.heiaheia.com, discussions on the API take place here: http://groups.google.com/group/heiaheia-development-talk
A couple of sneak peeks of the first supported apps & devices:
- Nokia N900: we’ve piloted the API with an app called eCoach (http://ecoach.garage.maemo.org/) running on Maemo. Pushing your exercises to HeiaHeia will be supported in the next eCoach release, out in a couple of weeks (more info from here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=16639&page=15).
- Withings scales: we have an eager developer working on getting data from the awesome Withings “internet connected body scales” (www.withings.com) to HeiaHeia. More news to follow.
EDIT: http://blog.heiaheia.com/2010/05/a-solution-for-firefox-problems/
We’ve been recently experiencing some random crashes with the Firefox browser (version 3.6.3) running on Windows. Mozilla Foundation has been notified about these problems, and they seem to be related to a more generic issue on Firefox, but so far the root cause of the crashes has not been identified on a detailed enough level to fix it.
If you run across this problem, it would be great if you could submit a crash report to Mozilla (by following the instructions of the “Mozilla Crash Reporter”
which appears automatically). If you’d like to help us a bit more, please also send the report ID to us (email: heia(at)heiaheia.com). You can get the report ID by typing “about:crashes” in your browser address bar after restarting it. Besides helping us, you would be contributing to the quality of open source software (the Firefox browser) here, so it’s definitely a valuable thing to do!
In the mean time, if you are suffering from Firefox instabilities, unfortunately the only thing we can do right now is to recommend you to use HeiaHeia on another browser (like IE, Chrome, or Safari – in a random order here ; ) before the FF issues get fixed.
Thanks for your help and sorry for the crashes!
Suomeksi:
Ongelmia Firefoxin kanssa? Korjataan ne.
Olemme saaneet Windows-käyttäjiltä ilmoituksia Firefoxin (versio 3.6.3) satunnaisesta kaatumisesta HeiaHeiaa käytettäessä. Olemme ilmoittaneet Mozillalle asiasta, ongelmat näyttävät liittyvän yleisempään ongelmaan Firefox-selaimessa, mutta toistaiseksi ongelmien syytä ei ymmärretä tarpeeksi yksityiskohtaisella tasolla niiden korjaamiseksi.
Jos ongelma koskee sinua, olisi loistavaa jos lähettäisit Mozillalle ilmoituksen asiasta (seuraamalla kaatumisen jälkeen ruutuun ilmestyvän “Mozilla Crash Reporterin” ohjeita). Jos haluat auttaa meitä hieman lisää, voisit lisäksi lähettää raportin ID:n meille (osoitteeseen heia(at)heiaheia.com). ID:n saat kirjoittamalla selaimeen “about:crashes” käynnistettyäsi sen uudelleen. HeiaHeian auttamisen lisäksi osallistut avoimen lähdekoodin ohjelmiston (Firefox-selain) laadun parantamiseen, joka on itsessään hieno asia!
Ennen kuin saamme ongelman korjattua, valitettavasti ainoa ratkaisu minkä voimme tarjota, on että käytät HeiaHeiaa toistaiseksi jollain muulla selaimella (kuten Chrome, IE, Safari – lueteltuna satunnaisessa järjestyksessä ; ).
Kiitos avusta ja pahoittelumme ongelmista!
We’re on a roll with new feature releases! Today’s new feature is “Friend log”, a view with all your friends’ training log timelines in one, similar to the group training log. You can find it in the People view of HeiaHeia.
Comments, improvements? Please let us know!
New feature in our API: Map support
As of today, our API eats GPX files and HeiaHeia presents them as routes in the feed and in individual entries!
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.