HealthEngage Diet+Fitness for Mac

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• Not great

  kalstaApril 18, 2010

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br /><p><b>Positives</b></p> <ul> <li>Includes food/nutrient database â?? and despite the hint of US-bias, it even includes vegemite! :D</li> <li>Choose from a number of predefined diets (Standard, Low-carb, etc.)</li> <li>Customise which nutritional data to display on meal and recipe screens.</li> <li>Choose daily 'favorite and most frequent' activities from a great list of common tasks including: cleaning, ironing, washing the car, and (snicker) changing light bulbs. I don't know about you, but I just love changing those light bulbs each day â?? it's a full body workout!</li> <li>Allows you to record level of well-being: physical and emotional (although it doesn't seem to try and relate this data to anything useful.)</li> </ul> <p><b>Negatives</b></p> <ul> <li>The name for one thing! Seriously peopleâ?¦ 'HealthEngage Diet+Fitness Multimedia Edition'? What were you thinking?! It takes up half the width of the menu!! Luckily however, the program completely disregards Apple's UI conventions and doesn't have any menu items to fit in after the program name anyway. (Even the version number is longer than most program namesâ?¦)</li> <li>No metric units?</li> <li>After entering only integer numbers in the setup window I am given the following warning: 'Please enter integer numbers only!' Oh, I forgot to enter zero in the inches fieldâ?¦</li> <li>Program generally feels quite slow and unresponsive.</li> <li>Each time you launch the program and go to add food data the program takes a painfully long time to load 'food data'. (Go grab another cup of coffee and a big slice of chocolate cake while you're waiting.)</li> <li>I found the interface for finding and choosing foods very awkward. Browsing for foods feels slow and inefficient. I gave up and relied on the search field. Even that is not as user-friendly as it could be.</li> <li>Trying to resize the window resulted in the program freezing and I had to force quit.</li> <li>This message on one of the windows worries me: 'In order for the data â?¦ to be saved successfully, do not forget to click the Logout button when you are finished, then click Quit on the main Logout/Login screen.' Hmmmâ?¦ and if I do forget? Or if the program freezes again?</li> </ul> <p>Overall, the user interface feels outdated and cumbersome for a desktop application â?? more like a traditional web browsing experience, with lots of new screens and 'next' buttons.</p>

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• Rip-Off Deluxe

  ghlatta3November 29, 2008

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Looked good - worked bad. Have tried on multiple occasions to get my money back from these scam artists, but no reply. Terrible interface and (obviously) no support. RUN!!!!

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• on par badness as their other programs

  bundy5150December 22, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I wasnt hoping for much after just trying this companys other program and found it to be just as bad. this thing is just a ripoff of the normal healthengage program they make [which is horrible as well] and rebranded to try and make a quick buck from unsuspecting users. the base for this program, the healthengage program is not good already. this offshoot just adds to the problem.

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