Handpicked Software » Health_Fitness

Eliza – Discuss your feelings and the future with your computer

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

Enjoy a rousing conversation with your Mac. Eliza will play the part of
a psychologist conducting an open-ended clinical interview. As the
patient, you get opinions and advice on a wide range of subjects. Eliza
has a large vocabulary and the ability to formulate a virtually
unlimited number of responses.

Developer’s website: Trans-Tex Software

CalcBMI – Calculate your Body Mass Index

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

CalcBMI helps you to calculate BMI (Body Mass Index) from height and weight. Control your weight and maintain good health with this software!

The package contains source code; it’s very simple source, so it may be useful for people studying Cocoa.

What’s New:
Version 1.2 adds good looking icons.

Developer’s website: sekn

Diet Sleuth – Track the foods you eat on a daily basis

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

Diet Sleuth allows you to keep track of what foods you eat each day, and their nutritional value. For each day, you select the foods you have eaten, and the number of servings of each. Diet Sleuth will automatically calculate your caloric intake, fat grams, carbohydrates, fiber, protein, cholesterol, along with sodium, potassium, and calcium.

You can select from over 5000 different foods from 21 categories, including fast food, lunchmeat, junk food, seafood, and baby food.

In addition to the included food groups, you can create and edit your own foods in a separate catagory. You can also create a category of favorite foods to quickly access commonly used foods.

A built-in Recipe Editor allows you to quickly enter a custom recipe, with the nutritional information automatically calculated, based on the ingedients.

A Weight Manager allows you to track your weight, and compute your percent body fat, metabolism, and estimate weight loss.

Graphing features allow you to easily visualize your nutritional intake and weight over time.

What’s New:
release notes not available currently

Developer’s website: Chris Smolinski

Fat O` Meter – Calculate body mass percentages

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

Fat O` Meter calculates your body fat percentage, your lean body mass and your body fat mass.

Developer’s website: Bad Software

Sim Daltonism – Color blindness simulator on your Mac

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

Sim Daltonism is a color blindness simulator for Mac OS X. It filters in real-time the area around the mouse pointer and display the result � as seen by a color blind person � in a floating palette.

What’s New:
Version 1.0.3:

Performance enhancements in the screen capture process.
Fixed an issue which prevented capture of screens set to thousand of colors.
The application now works correctly when a scaling factor is applied to the user interface. (Note that until Mac OS X is updated, you need the the developer tools to apply a scaling factor.)
Previous version of Sim Daltonism, despite what was claimed, did not work natively on Macs with Intel processors due to a build error. This is now fixed.

Developer’s website: Michel Fortin

ToneTester – Test your hearing

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

ToneTester is a Macintosh application that tests hearing. Specifically, it looks for offsets in how each of a person’s ears hears pitch (the formal term for this is “binaural diplacusis” or “interaural pitch difference”). To use it, you adjust a slider until your ears hear the same pitch, and then ToneTester tells you the actual pitch difference.

What’s New:
First release

Developer’s website: Suitable Systems

PDAbs – Fitness goals organizer

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

PDAbs helps organize fitness goals and results. Design your custom workout on your Palm OS PDA, bring your PDA with you to the gym, and simply check off the exercises as you complete them.

You can start using PDAbs immediately. The program has more than 150 workout routines and exercises pre-programmed, so setting up your exercise routine takes only a few minutes. With one tap of the stylus, you’re ready to enter a workout, or plan future workout routines. It’s easy to sort and view your workouts by person or client, by type, or by date.

In PDAbs’ strength/resistance section, you set up your strength workouts, and record seat position and sets. The cardio/aerobic section lets you track the category, time, distance, heart rate, and course that you run, bike, step, or walk. The measurements section allows you to measure your biceps, calves, waist, and other vital targets. The weight section tracks your body weight over time, as well as your blood pressure, cholesterol, maximum and resting heart rates, and more. There’s even a payments section so personal trainers can set up client profiles and maintain their billing information.

Developer’s website: Acrocat Software

Fat Calculator – Approximates your body fat percentage

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

Fat Calculator allows you to approximate your body fat percentage using a tape measure – even if you don’t have access to fancy scales or men with calipers.

It uses one of three methods to do so – those used by the US Navy, the US Army and the YMCA.

I’ve released this application as freeware. I’m considering enhancing it with the ability to store your figures each time you measure yourself and draw pretty graphs telling you the changes in your measurements and fat percentage over time. If I do that, I’ll probably charge a small amount for the application. Let me know if you’d like this feature – and you’d pay for it.

What’s New:
First release.

Developer’s website: HatCode

Ascent – Helps cyclists, runners, and hikers train better using GPS devices

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

Ascent is an application designed to help cyclists, runners, and hikers train better by organizing activity data and presenting it in useful ways.

Using Ascent, you can download activity data directly from your GPS into the program, and immediately begin analyzing the data as it is presented to you in various graphical and textual formats. The “Animation” feature lets you re-play the activity so you can review in detail your performance during any segment of the activity.

Ascent Includes:

Main Browser

Ascent organizes your activities in the main browser by year, month, week, activity, and lap. Each level displays running totals for all data.

Map Viewer

The Map View plots the path you followed against one of several different, selectable map types.

Activity Viewer

The Activity View allows you to plot the activity data, such as altitude, speed, heart rate, and cadence against distance.

Summary Viewer

The Summary View plots totals or averages for various data items on a weekly or monthly basis.

What’s New:
Version 1.7.6:

Give GPS data priority over cadence/speed sensor data when calculating distances (fixes bug where the Edge would report intermittent distance data if the sensor was removed but still set as “present” in the system settings)
Fixed problem with Browser Columns dialog that would cause the wrong columns to be displayed or removed in the main browser

Developer’s website: Montebello Software

GeoJournal – Plan, manage, and record your geocaching adventures

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

GeoJournal… Geocaching is like a high tech treasure hunt that the whole family can enjoy. It’s a sport that combines hiking with GPS technology together. The locations of the treasures (geocaches) are published on www.geocaching.com.

GeoJournal is the first application of it’s kind written for the Mac to manage your Geocaching adventures. It’s got a ton of great features that allow you to plan, manage, and record all of your geocaching adventures. Briefly, it’s great features include:

GPX/LOC support
Multiple cache categories
Multiple home locations
Embedded web browser with Google Maps
Itinerary generation
Associate pictures and notes with Found caches
POP3 importing for PQs
Paperless caching with CacheMate PDB files, GPX, or Text exporting
Integration with Google Earth, Apple iCal, and more!

For more information on the sport of Geocaching, please visit www.geocaching.com

Developer’s website: GeoIngenuity/Absolute Ingenuity, Inc.

TargetDate – Pregnancy tracker

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

TargetDateX is a small utility to track where you are in your pregnancy. It is an easy way to see how far you have come and how much longer you have to go. Allows you to determine Due Date, Conception Date, Last Menstrual Period, etc…

What’s New:
Version 1.0.3 Fixed bug that would not update dock icon if the main window was closed. Now correctly resets dock icon on quit.

Developer’s website: RebelTechs Software

iWorkout for iPod – Exercise routines on your iPod

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

iWorkout for iPod… The ULTIMATE digital fitness trainer for iPod is here! TRY iWorkout on your iPod for FREE today. Exciting new features are included.

Do you want a personal trainer in your pocket? How about on your TV? You�ve got it with iWorkout. We have added content from some of the best certified fitness experts in the industry to give you the ultimate fitness guide available. This new version of iWorkout takes our great video content to a whole new level by allowing it to be viewed in Apple’s Front Row application as well as on your television through Apple TV! Give yourself:

101 workout videos
Trainer tips
Illustrated fitness guides
Nutrition & dieting essentials
Exercise metronomes to time your reps
Fitness charts
Workout routines for every body region

If you want it, iWorkout has got it. iWorkout covers the following fitness areas:

Cardio
Core Exercises
Free Weights
Machine Exercises
Stretches
Swiss Ball
Abs, Circuit training, Full body, Lower body, & Upper body.

Workout the right way. iWorkout.

What’s New:
Verison 6.0:

Apple Front Row Integration
Apple TV Integration
Updated Fitness Charts
Updated Installation Process

Developer’s website: Helmes Innovations, LLC

The Body Journal – Store and retrieve family health records and more

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

Living healthier just got simpler with The Body Journal, the unique personal health-care system from Berkeley Medical designed to help you provide the best health care possible for yourself and your loved ones.

More than just a family health record, The Body Journal allows you to easily store and access your health records, retrieve the latest health-related information from the Internet, and communicate better with your health-care providers.

What’s New:
release notes not available currently

Developer’s website: Berkeley Medical Inc.

MP3 Alarm Clock – Wake up to specified MP3 songs

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

MP3 Alarm Clock is an alarm clock program that supports many audio formats such as MIDI, WAV, and MPG, not just MP3s. Unlike other alarm clock programs that only have a preset number of alarms, MP3 Alarm Clock supports an infinite number of Alarms, each with customizable playlists, date, time, volume, snooze times, and many other settings so you have complete control over your alarms.

What’s New:
Version 2.3.1:

Unmute+Max system volume
Improved time setting
Disallow Snooze
AAC support

Developer’s website: Josh Benjamin

Terror Alert – Checks the current U.S. Terror Alert level

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

Terror Alert will periodically check the homeland security website to see what the current Terror Alert level is for the United States, and update the application icon in the dock to represent that level.

Developer’s website: Chaotic Software

Relax – Listen to relaxing sounds at the end of your day

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

Relax is a program that plays relaxing sounds through your Mac, allowing you to unload your stress at the end of the day.

Developer’s website: Nova Cubed Software

AntiRSI – Helps prevent RSI injuries

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

AntiRSI is a program for Mac OS X that helps prevent RSI (repetitive strain injury) and other computer related stress. It does so by forcing you to take regular breaks, yet without getting in the way. It also detects natural breaks so it won’t force too many breaks on you. AntiRSI is freeware! Distributed onder the GPL from 1.3 onwards.

What’s New:
release notes not available currently

Developer’s website: TECH.inhelsinki.nl

pzizz – Audio relaxation tool

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

You have a new friend on your computer…

pzizz!

Let pzizz help you to feel better, work harder and play longer.

pzizz combines music to soothe you, voice to inspire you and a binaural beat to help take you deep into a deeply relaxed and blissful state.

The export feature means you can use pzizz anywhere you like. (iPod / MP3 / CD / Cell Phone)

You can select the exact length of program and customize it to suit you. pzizz will then generate a unique soundtrack for you – every single time you press “play” or “export”.

The clever little algorithm can create more than 100 billion combinations of soundtrack – so you’ll never hear the same thing twice!

Listen at your computer, export to MP3 player or burn to CD. It’s your choice how and where you use pzizz to get more out of each day!

pzizz supports the following modules:

Energizer: Enjoy wonderful naps whenever you want. The energizer module takes you into a deeply relaxed state, relieves the stresses of the day and equips you to get more out of life!

Sleep: Caress yourself to sleep every night with this module. The soothing music and relaxing voice will help you to get to sleep and stay asleep.

pzizz… energy for life!

What’s New:
release notes not available currently

Developer’s website: brainwave enterprises

DietMaster X – 5,000 food nutrition database

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

DietMaster is a diet / nutrition program with a database of over 5000 foods from the USDA food database.

Developer’s website: John Weinhofer

I Quit – Motivational tool to quit smoking

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

I Quit is a motivational tool to help you quit smoking.
Simply enter how much you smoked, what you paid for a pack of cigarettes and your quit date and I Quit will help you keep motivated.

What’s New:
Version 1.1 corrects some minor esthetic issues in v1.0.

Developer’s website:

Frenchdiet X – Nutrition weight and calorie calculator

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

Frenchdiet is a nutrition software which estimates the ideal weight and the caloric requirements. For people on a diet, Frenchdiet is a valuable companion by allowing the monitoring of the food intakes on a day to day basis.Several analyses are proposed : detailed reports for 19 nutrients, food pyramid, food podium, mediterranean diet analysis, weight curve, diet simulator. Custom foods, meals and recipes can be created. Various help systems are available : complete on-line documentation, description screens and tooltips.

What’s New:
Please view this page for complete details.

Developer’s website: Herve Proudhon

Moodstats – Record and graph your daily moods

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

Moodstats is an application that allows you to quickly record & rate how your day has been in six different categories. You can also attach comments to these values to further illustrate why your moods are the way they are.
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After you’ve entered at least three days of data into the program, Moodstats springs into action and begins to generate multi-colored graphs & statistics showing you exactly how your moods have been over the last week, month, two months, six months or year.

What’s New:
Version 1.2.1 fixed bugs when entering data, view data and thediary section. Removed the “double save” annoyance, and inserted missing scroll functions & view data.

Developer’s website: Kaliber10000

McHurricane – Hurricane/storm tracking utility

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

McHurricane is a Macintosh hurricane/storm tracking utility, covering the Atlantic Basin and Eastern Pacific including
Hawaii, (13 degrees West to 174 degrees West Longitude, and 0 degrees to 48 degrees North Latitude). Nine storms
of 100 plots each may be open at one time. Storm plots can be added, deleted, or inserted. Track plot list are shown,
and a selected plot’s data may be individually displayed including distances to four custom user installed city
locations.Maps and storm data may be printed, and map areas copied to the Clipboard. Preferences may be set for the
default map, plot symbols, and storm-strength wind circles, 12 or 24 hour clock display and time zone identification,
mileage in nautical or statute format, atmospheric pressure in inches of mercury or millibars, storm logs and tracks
displayed in selectable matching colors, entry of four custom city locations, and various other launch and screen layout
options. McHurricane versions 3.x and later are Year 2000 (Y2K) compliant.

What’s New:
Version 5.2 adds the following:

Do to changes at the National Hurricane Center’s website an update to the advisory downloader was needed.
Updated the Advisory import feature do to a couple of small changes in the NHC’s advisories.
Added another source for downloading advisories. (NHC’s public ftp area)

Developer’s website: A.S. Boyd

Don`s Calorie Tracker – Daily total calorie counter

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

Don’s Calorie Tracker allows you to easily record your daily intake of calories AND also easily record your daily exercise. Thus you can track the two main factors in weight maintenance. In general, in order to lose weight you need to burn more calories than you ingest. You can either reduce your calorie intake, or increase your exercise level, or both.

Don’s Calorie Tracker keeps a daily running total. You can easily see how you are doing and you’ll know when you must stop eating for a particular day. Or, if you go over your calorie target, you can see how performing a particular exercise will impact the calorie total. If eating that slice of chocolate cake puts you 100 calories over your target amount, then you’ll see that a 20 minute walk will bring the total back down to the target amount.

Knowledge is power. Don’s Calorie Tracker gives you all the information you need to control your weight. The simple act of knowing how many calories you eat, and how many you burn off with exercise is empowering!

Don’s Calorie Tracker has a few more tricks up its sleeve. It doesn’t simply give you a calorie total and leave it at that. What Don’s Calorie Tracker does is create a personalized estimated "base calorie burn" level. This allows the program to more accurately predict the calorie level where you will lose weight. This base burn level is adjusted as you use the program so it becomes more accurate the longer you use the program. Don’s Calorie Tracker gives you a plus or minus total which simply tells you how you are doing each day. If the total is bigger than zero, you’ve eaten more than you are allowed and must do more exercise. If the number is zero or minus, you are on track to achieving your target weight.

What’s New:
Version 1.0.5: Improved initial base burn rate calculation

Developer’s website: Bullseye Software

InsulinDiaryX – Helps diabetics track bloodsugar/insulin dosage levels

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:57:16 +0000

InsulinDiaryX is a new stupidFish23 project. InsulinDiaryX aims to help people with Diabetes to easier keep track of their blood sugar and insulin dosage levels. InsulinDiaryX is still a beta software, and stupidFish programming would like you to contribute to the development of InsulinDiaryX by sending us your thoughts, comments, bug reports and feature requests.

What’s New:
Version 1.0b3 adds the following:

updated interface
printnig support
graphing support
customizable date and time formats
calendar menu
weekly report printing
summary and graph saving
bug fixes

Developer’s website: stupidFish programming