Apple News: Ski and Snowboard Activity Tracking Update on Apple Watch

New updates to Apple Watch 3 make it easier to track skiing and snowboarding activity with activity contributing to the Apple Watch Activity app and shared with the Health app with permissions enabled.

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We're excited by the new Apple updates to the Apple Watch 3 where we can track ski and snowboard activity. This helps us in the app we have been developing for the last few months of 2017 and into this year. 

Now we can track:

• Total vertical descent and horizontal distance

• Number of runs

• Average and maximum speeds

• Total time spent

• Calories burned

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image via Apple

This helps in tracking active calorie measurements directly to your Apple Watch Activity app. You can record runs and see your vertical descent and horizontal distance as well as speeds. You can also save your workout info to your Health app. In addition, you can use Siri to track runs with your voice.

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Our Ski App at Elf

Our new ski app at Elf is suitable for anyone who wants to have a great workout skiing or snowboarding, track performance and improve over time. We are fortunate to have a wide variety of beta testers, ranging from college athletes to Olympic skiers and snowboarders in a variety of disciplines. We are eager to share our app with you when it is completed and ready for you - beautifully!

February Monthly Roundup: 3 Books We Recommend

Catching up on our book list! We'll have a new one for March too. Here you go!

February 2018:

1. Built to Last
by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras

“To be built to last you must be built to change...Built to last is at its core about relentless, creative drive.”

— Jim Collins

2. Power versus Force
by David Hawkins

“Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.”

— David Hawkins

3. Think and Grow Rich
by Napoleon Hill

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

— Napoleon Hill

See our January list here. We hope you find inspiration, learn essentials and gain mastery in your personal and professional lives through the insight in these books. Happy reading!

January Monthly Roundup: 3 Books We Recommend

Hello! Several years ago, we decided to share books we've read with an accompanying short book review, along with interviews from a variety of business owners, designers and creative people via Books on the Go. 

As a precursor to that, we want to share with you a list of 3 books a month that we recommend.

January 2018

1. Good to Great
by Jim Collins

“Good to great companies first got the right people on the bus—and the wrong people off the bus—and then figured out where to drive it.”

— Jim Collins

2. From Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future 
by Peter Thiel

“The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.”

— Peter Thiel

3. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
by George McKeown

“How can we discern the trivial many from the vital few?”

— George McKoewn

Excerpt from the book Essentialism by George McKeown