Diet and Exercise Tracking Software Second Post

Rene said:

Well, we now have the free stand-alone version that runs completely in your
computer. So could you guys please check out the software and give us your
opinion?

VIRUS ALERT! This file contains a well-known worm to track you.
BEWARE!
TBR

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."

Since everybody in the newsgroups knows that you are a troll, I am not even
going to bother trying to convince the readers that what you are saying is
not true.

Rene said:

Since everybody in the newsgroups knows that you are a troll, I am not even
going to bother trying to convince the readers that what you are saying is
not true.

Because you know it's true. Your ISP has been alerted, as well as the
webmaster. Bye bye
TBR

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."

Oh aren't you wee nasty spiteful little man. You were much more fun when
you were boozing Wobbit. Or perhaps you've gotten a tad tubby and your
one one pair of ladies nickers are far too tight.

Monty

The Bill Rodgers said:

Rene said:

Since everybody in the newsgroups knows that you are a troll, I am not even
going to bother trying to convince the readers that what you are saying is
not true.

Because you know it's true. Your ISP has been alerted, as well as the
webmaster. Bye bye
TBR

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."

The software has potential and it's obvious you've put a great deal of
effort in to it. Potential meaning lots of interesting reports can be
generated. Effort meaning it may be more complex than need be, which is
often the result of one man working very late in to the night. While I'm
sure I could use it for a number of weeks an report that it has this
bell and that whistle I won't. The number one reason I won't is all the
data that has to entered. Let's pretend I'm a big fat guy putting my
dieting hopes in to your software. Am I motivated enough to beak down
ingredients, calories, fat content etc. to record my Denny's 'meat
lovers skillet'. No! I'm a fat [censored] who can hardly move and my angina
is killing me!

Perhaps the online version has a vast library of foods n' stuff and all
the fields are friendly drop downs menus that complement and correct
each other but this does not yet seem to be the case with the
stand-alone version.

I must say however you are off to a good start. You face a number of
challenges. The largest of which must be being named René and living in
Texas. Oh, BTW that 'all disputes shall be resolved in Dallas' or
whathaveyou, in the agreement section, is complete bafflegab. My advice,
move to Walnut Creek CA. It's still affordable, you'll likely survive
the 'big one', you won't be in Dallas and you can BART down to San
Francisco. Once you've settled in start a religion whose never ending
mantra is user friendly, user friendly, user friendly ohmmm ... user
friendly, user friendly ohmmm ... assume all users are blithering idiots
ohmmm ...

Were it up to me I would make all versions the same. Installed locally
while web enabled so that upgrades and data librarys (food vs. calories,
exercise vs. KFC etc.) may be downloaded either automatically (with the
permission of my firewall) or manually.

Other concerns:

The standalone version I downloaded was 25 megabytes. I cannot fathom
why the install package, which went on to download at least another 10
megs (in .Net framework) should be so large. Perhaps you've a number of
unnecessary dependencies?

While the InstallShield Wizard was 'Preparing to Install' & configuring
the .Net framework, it seemed to repeat the entire process about five
times. I was one second away from CTRL-ALT-DEL.

The 'System must be rebooted to continue the installation' bit is never
welcome from the users point of view. Perhaps it is absolutely necessary
(what with a fresh coat of .Net) but you should at least give the LATER
option. Point being, I had to save 3 documents, complete one email and
bookmark 2 sites while the Reboot OK message hung about on top.

After reboot and firing her up she wanted a use name and password which
I made up on the spot. That is the web connected version's leftover I
assume.

Good luck,
Monty

Rene said:

Hi

About a week ago I posted a message asking for some help. I wanted to see if
you guys wouldn't mind checking out the fitness software that we are
developing and get your opinion about it. We also wanted to see if there was
something we could do to improve it.

Unfortunately, for the most part, we got a bunch of emails from people who
did not want to have their data stored online and people wondering what
would happen if for some reason our servers or their Internet connections
went down. In other words, you guys were requesting a version that did not
require being online.

Well, we now have the free stand-alone version that runs completely in your
computer. So could you guys please check out the software and give us your
opinion?

The software is totally free and it does not have an expiration date. Also,
the forums do not require you to verify your email. If you don't feel
comfortable giving away your email then simply put a bogus email. The
primary reason why the forum asks you for you email is for cases where you
have to reset your password.

To download the free software please visit www.dietandexercisetracker.com.

Thanks.

J. Montague Gypsum said:

Oh aren't you wee nasty spiteful little man. You were much more fun when
you were boozing Wobbit. Or perhaps you've gotten a tad tubby and your
one one pair of ladies nickers are far too tight.

Monty

Boozing? That's been eons ago Roidger.
TBR

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."

The Bill Rodgers said:

Boozing? That's been eons ago Roidger.
TBR

Well start again would ya!? It is not like your on Vioxx anymore. And it
is well known that booze and Viagra complement each other like Burgundy
and Provolone.

J. Montague Gypsum said:

Well start again would ya!? It is not like your on Vioxx anymore.

Wanna bet? I bought a 1 year supply just days before it poofed. I
could care less WTF they say, Vioxx is MY miracle drug.

Quoted message said:

And it
is well known that booze and Viagra complement each other like Burgundy
and Provolone.

So now you want me drunk AND with a stiffie? C'mon Rog, we both know
what happened when I was drunk and bonerized, if not I have the hidden
video you didn't know I was taking. And my [censored] is just now healing
up.
TBR

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."

Thanks Monty:

We are definitely going to be working on making the application as user
friendly as possible. We have just finished it and are now looking forward
for to getting feedback like yours. Give us some time to work on those
issues, we are done with the bulk of the program and now we are honing down
on the details.

Concerning the setup file size, we have added a page on the website that
explains why the size of the file is 25 Megs (thanks)

Concerning the installation process there is really not too much we can do
about it. We are pretty much at the mercy of whatever the software we use to
package and distribute our files!

The program asks you for a User Name and Password because you can have more
than one user using the application. Note that you don't have to supply a
password; you can leave the password blank if you want to.

Thanks again for the feedback.

"J. Montague Gypsum" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

The software has potential and it's obvious you've put a great deal of
effort in to it. Potential meaning lots of interesting reports can be
generated. Effort meaning it may be more complex than need be, which is
often the result of one man working very late in to the night. While I'm
sure I could use it for a number of weeks an report that it has this bell
and that whistle I won't. The number one reason I won't is all the data
that has to entered. Let's pretend I'm a big fat guy putting my dieting
hopes in to your software. Am I motivated enough to beak down ingredients,
calories, fat content etc. to record my Denny's 'meat lovers skillet'. No!
I'm a fat [censored] who can hardly move and my angina is killing me!

Perhaps the online version has a vast library of foods n' stuff and all
the fields are friendly drop downs menus that complement and correct each
other but this does not yet seem to be the case with the stand-alone
version.

I must say however you are off to a good start. You face a number of
challenges. The largest of which must be being named René and living in
Texas. Oh, BTW that 'all disputes shall be resolved in Dallas' or
whathaveyou, in the agreement section, is complete bafflegab. My advice,
move to Walnut Creek CA. It's still affordable, you'll likely survive the
'big one', you won't be in Dallas and you can BART down to San Francisco.
Once you've settled in start a religion whose never ending mantra is user
friendly, user friendly, user friendly ohmmm ... user friendly, user
friendly ohmmm ... assume all users are blithering idiots ohmmm ...

Were it up to me I would make all versions the same. Installed locally
while web enabled so that upgrades and data librarys (food vs. calories,
exercise vs. KFC etc.) may be downloaded either automatically (with the
permission of my firewall) or manually.

Other concerns:

The standalone version I downloaded was 25 megabytes. I cannot fathom why
the install package, which went on to download at least another 10 megs
(in .Net framework) should be so large. Perhaps you've a number of
unnecessary dependencies?

While the InstallShield Wizard was 'Preparing to Install' & configuring
the .Net framework, it seemed to repeat the entire process about five
times. I was one second away from CTRL-ALT-DEL.

The 'System must be rebooted to continue the installation' bit is never
welcome from the users point of view. Perhaps it is absolutely necessary
(what with a fresh coat of .Net) but you should at least give the LATER
option. Point being, I had to save 3 documents, complete one email and
bookmark 2 sites while the Reboot OK message hung about on top.

After reboot and firing her up she wanted a use name and password which I
made up on the spot. That is the web connected version's leftover I
assume.

Good luck,
Monty

Rene said:

Hi

About a week ago I posted a message asking for some help. I wanted to see
if you guys wouldn't mind checking out the fitness software that we are
developing and get your opinion about it. We also wanted to see if there
was something we could do to improve it.

Unfortunately, for the most part, we got a bunch of emails from people
who did not want to have their data stored online and people wondering
what would happen if for some reason our servers or their Internet
connections went down. In other words, you guys were requesting a version
that did not require being online.

Well, we now have the free stand-alone version that runs completely in
your computer. So could you guys please check out the software and give
us your opinion?

The software is totally free and it does not have an expiration date.
Also, the forums do not require you to verify your email. If you don't
feel comfortable giving away your email then simply put a bogus email.
The primary reason why the forum asks you for you email is for cases
where you have to reset your password.

To download the free software please visit
www.dietandexercisetracker.com.

Thanks.

Rene said:

Concerning the setup file size, we have added a page on the website that
explains why the size of the file is 25 Megs (thanks)

The size is due to the worm they added to spy on you.
TBR

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."