This is our last major release before the end of 2010 and we have three very exciting announcements to make. The holiday vacation season is right around the corner, and we’re releasing new features to help you stay on top of your fitness goals for the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011.

New Year’s Resolutions: Set up your goal and put some money on it!

We want to help you make exercise a big part of the new year, and when you update to CardioTrainer v3.4, you’ll immediately have the chance to set up a New Year’s fitness resolution.

How many times a week do you want to exercise for the next months? Something as simple as five minutes of walking counts! Choose a goal you’re comfortable with, and you if you want to give yourself extra incentive, stake some money to be donated to the charity of your choice if you don’t keep the resolution. After you’ve chosen the amount, you will be quickly redirected to the Android Market to purchase one of our donation modules (you can also continue without staking any money on the resolution).

Once you’ve purchased the donation module, you’re done! The app will tell you how much time you have left and how many workouts you have to do. As long as you keep up with your resolution, you’ll be refunded your original stake at the end of two months. If you don’t keep your resolution, the amount of money will be donated to the charity you chose.

CardioTrainer Twitter Integration

Twitter integration is here! After you’ve exercised with CardioTrainer, you can send a tweet with the details of your workout. All tweets are automatically tagged with the #cardiotrainer hash tag. To share a workout on Twitter, click the Twitter icon at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen (see below).

Brand New CardioTrainer Facebook application!

Following our completely updated Facebook integration, it’s now possible to post workouts to your Facebook profile right from your computer. When you visit apps.facebook.com/cardiotrainer, you’ll see the workout entry screen (seen below) where you can enter your details and immediately post the workout to your Facebook wall. This is a great way to get all of your friends and family to share their exercise activity, even if they don’t have an Android phone!

Since this is a very early version of the CardioTrainer Facebook application, the workout will not be saved to your CardioTrainer account but we’re going to be improving this as we keep working on the feature.

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Download the latest version of CardioTrainer from the Android Market, and share your feedback below!

Happy holidays!
The WorkSmart Labs family

We just released updates to CardioTrainer v3.3 and Calorific v1.3 with some big new features and bug fixes. Here are the details:

CardioTrainer v3.3: Facebook map sharing and Google Health integration improvements

For everyone who has been asking to share their workout maps on Facebook, the wait is over! You now have the option to post your workout to your Facebook wall with a map of your route. Map sharing is optional, of course, and with our new Facebook integration, you can easily pick and choose which workouts you share.

We’ve also improved CardioTrainer’s Google Health integration. Before this update, if you didn’t have service or if there was an error when uploading a track, the workout data was never sent to Google Health. CardioTrainer now knows to resend the information to Google Health, and will retry until the data is successfully uploaded.

We’ve also fixed the bug that turned on GPS while doing workouts that don’t use GPS, like Treadmill Walking and Treadmill Running, to help you save battery life when working out indoors.

There are also new exercise icons for all of the newest exercise types!

Updated CardioTrainer Facebook sharing dialog, new Calorific setings, and new exercise icons.

Calorific v1.3: Logging reminders and Facebook sharing

We designed Calorific as a tool that helps you track how healthy you’re eating. We want the logging process to be painless and quick, but no matter how easy it is, it doesn’t work if you forget to log your food.

With this newest version, Calorific will automatically remind you to log your meals throughout the day. Just open the settings page and select the button to “Enable Logging Reminders.”

Sharing your diet history with friends is also something that we’re hoping will keep you motivated to eat well. Calorific nows gives you the option to post daily or weekly updates to Facebook profile. These updates will show what percentage green, yellow and red food you’ve eaten over the day or week with a pie chart and your 0-5 star rating.

Posting your Calorific progress to Facebook.

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We would love to hear your thoughts on these new features, so please leave us a message in the comments below to share your feedback!

All the best,
The WorkSmart Labs family

Burn the Turkey

Are you getting ready to stuff yourself with turkey, mashed potatoes and pie?

Scared of putting on extra weight during the upcoming holiday season?

We hear you loud and clear, and we’ve just released a new application called Burn the Turkey that’s designed to help get you moving after your Thanksgiving feast. It’s easy to forget about exercise during the holiday season, but we want to help you motivate yourself to burn off all of those extra calories.

After you download Burn the Turkey, follow the instructions to place a Thanksgiving delicious turkey right on your home screen. After you’ve started, all of the calories you burn from exercise will be automatically counted towards your goal. Watch the turkey disappear as you make progress, and burn off 3000 calories to finish the entire thing!

Burn the Turkey: Place a Thanksgiving turkey on your home screen and watch it disappear as you exercise!

Burn the Turkey automatically integrates with CardioTrainer, our free application that lets you track all of your exercise activity using your phone. If you’re reading this blog post on your phone, click here to download Burn the Turkey from the Android Market. For detailed instructions on how to install the application, visit the Burn the Turkey help page for more information.

CardioTrainer v3.2 – Facebook Sharing Improvements

We are also releasing an update to CardioTrainer v3.2 with some big improvements to the way you share your workouts on Facebook. Instead of automatically posting each workout, you’ll see a dialogue after each workout asking if you want to share on Facebook with a comment. You’ll also see the Facebook icon in the lower left-hand corner of the screen when you’re reviewing a track from your history. This lets you post the workout and share your progress at any time.

The new sharing dialogue that you’ll see after you finish your workout, and the Facebook icon right in your workout history.

If you’ve had any trouble with CardioTrainer posting to Facebook, this should help with most of those problems. Giving you more control over what gets posted to Facebook is just the first step in how we’re getting ready to let you do more right from your mobile device, so stay turned for lots more features coming soon. If you’re not interested in sharing on Facebook, you can go to CardioTrainer Settings > Sharing Settings and check the button to “Never share,” which won’t show you the dialogue box after each workout.

Let us know if you have any questions, we’d love to hear what you think of the new Burn the Turkey widget and new Facebook sharing features!

Happy exercising, and Happy Thanksgiving!

Sincerely,
The WorkSmart Labs family