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RunForIt app teams up with charity for virtual runs
UK-based charity Trees for Cities has teamed up with a new workout app called RunForIt in order to allow runners to take part in races no matter where they happen to be. The app aims to bring people from all over the world together in races, so they can still raise money for charity and raise awareness of the race in different places. It works by detecting a runner’s speed using the accelerometer and then plays them … Read entire article »
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RunKeeper app gets new training plans and coaching
Popular fitness app RunKeeper has had a host of updates this week, which mean that users can now access more free training plans and coaching advice than ever before. RunKeeper has always offered tailored advice and training programmes to paying users, but now the team behind the app has realised that because people get much better results when they have a strict plan that they have to stick to and specific advice, they’re opened up a … Read entire article »
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Top 5 workout apps for the iPhone: Nike Training Club, Sworkit, FitnessBuilder
Wow, there really are a LOT of apps out there developed to help you keep track of your health and improve your fitness, we know, we’ve been wading through them for the past 6 months in an attempt to bring you the best of the best. However, what we’ve noticed on our app travels is that many of them try to tick all of the boxes, but we prefer specialist applications that really make a difference … Read entire article »
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Gluco-Share, a diabetes app with a social twist
A new application to help family and friends monitor a persons diabetes has been released for iPhone users to help remind sufferers to take their medication and motivate them. Gluco-Share, wants to help sufferers monitor their blood sugar levels and communicate their results in real time to a circle of family and friends. The idea is, that this circle will help motivate and encourage the sufferer to maintain their good methods and lead a more positive … Read entire article »
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iThinkSmarter when it comes to your mental health
More and more apps are coming out to help people with their mental health and iThinkSmarter is another addition to this market. The app, developed for iPhone, is a free guide to help people with how to deal with psychological problems such as stress, anxiety, depression and panic. The free version is based around a series of questionnaires asking users questions relating to their problem. Their answers to questions will then guide them to what the … Read entire article »
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Top 5 running apps for the iPhone: Nike, Zombies, Garmin
The Olympics are on TV, making everyone feel energetic and totally into sport and it’s not raining (much) outside, so there’s never been a better time to get off your settee, move away from your computer, put some trainers on and get running, outside, where the human beings are. Of course we can’t give you a tech solution that motivates you or hits that cookie out of your hand (maybe one day), but we can give … Read entire article »
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UMSkinCheck app gives you a skin cancer self exam
A number of apps have been developed over the past year to provide users with ways of tracking and identifying skin problems that could be problematic and even cancerous in the future, take a look at Skin Scan. However, the University of Michigan has recently developed a new application for US users (sorry rest of the world) that claims to be able to spot the tell tale signs of skin cancer and provide people with a … Read entire article »
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Solaveil app tells you if you’ve been in the sun too long
As many of us jet off around the world this summer to escape the British clouds and rain and more rain, it can be hard to remember to not sit out in the sunshine and bake our pale skins. Luckily there are some gadgets and apps designed to ensure we don’t lose track of time in the sun, but we’d also recommend that you use your own common sense too… The new Solaveil app requires you … Read entire article »
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Rapid Rescue app finds first aiders during emergencies
In cheesy films when there’s an emergency and someone shouts “is there a doctor around?” one always appears from the crowd to help, but in the real world it often isn’t that easy to find someone with sound medical knowledge who’d be able to save lives in an emergency. Well in order to address this problem, a new application called Rapid Rescue is currently being tested in Singapore, which aims to connect those in medical emergencies with … Read entire article »
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Pain Squad app adds game mechanics to health tracking
Many of the health and fitness apps on the market at the moment employ game mechanics (also known as gamification) to encourage users to fill out more information, beat their personal best times and scores or just log-in more often. Whether you work your way up a leader board, receive a badge or unlock extra content, the success of these apps goes to prove that we all love playing games, we love competition and we love … Read entire article »
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