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Old December 5th, 2005, 07:32 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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The more elaborate paid version of Fitday will not work on a Macintosh.
I wanted to create a custom recipe and the free version (OK for a Mac)
will accept nutrients but not ingredients if you create a custom food.

They wrote:

There isn't a FitDay version for the Mac. Thanks for the
recommendations!

-FitDay Support


Diva
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Old December 5th, 2005, 08:36 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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Don't Apple products have some kind of Windows simulator?

Used computers are cheap. Someone you know might give away an old laptop
with Windows on it, just to get more storage closet space. You don't need
top CPU performance to run Fitday download software.

"Carol Frilegh" wrote in message
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The more elaborate paid version of Fitday will not work on a Macintosh.
I wanted to create a custom recipe and the free version (OK for a Mac)
will accept nutrients but not ingredients if you create a custom food.

They wrote:

There isn't a FitDay version for the Mac. Thanks for the
recommendations!

-FitDay Support


Diva



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Old December 5th, 2005, 10:05 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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"Carol Frilegh" wrote in message
...
The more elaborate paid version of Fitday will not work on a Macintosh.
I wanted to create a custom recipe and the free version (OK for a Mac)
will accept nutrients but not ingredients if you create a custom food.

They wrote:

There isn't a FitDay version for the Mac. Thanks for the
recommendations!

-FitDay Support


Diva


Recently, Apple has announced that they are planning to offer Macs based on
the Intel chipset. This in turn may allow them to (finally) allow you to
run native Windows programs on the Mac platform. Doing so would open up the
Mac to a much broader array of software that currently cannot run on it.

As a software developer myself, I can certainly understand FitDay's lack of
enthusiasm for creating a Mac version of their software. I've looked into
the issue with respect to some of my products, and it's a daunting technical
challenge. I estimate it would take at least 1000 hours to rewrite each of
my software titles for the Mac platform (not including an indeterminate
learning curve for the tools and the operating system). There would also be
additional costs for hardware and programming tools, and ongoing costs for
supporting the Mac version.

Given that Macs only make up about 5% of the market, the costs just don't
justify the effort.

Unfortunately, until Apple decides to allow Windows programs to run on the
Mac, you'll be shut out of many software titles due to the costs imposed on
software developers.

The previous poster makes a good point...you can find used PC's capable of
running FitDay for under $200. I'd recommend this approach for now.

GG
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Old December 5th, 2005, 11:07 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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GaryG wrote:

The previous poster makes a good point...you can find used PC's capable of
running FitDay for under $200. I'd recommend this approach for now.


It's a hell of a lot easier, less expensive, and more practical to just
jump ahead a day on your web-based Fitday account, put each of your
ingredients in separately, calculate the totals, and then create a
custom food from those totals.

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Old December 5th, 2005, 11:47 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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In article , The Queen of
Cans and Jars wrote:

GaryG wrote:

The previous poster makes a good point...you can find used PC's capable of
running FitDay for under $200. I'd recommend this approach for now.


It's a hell of a lot easier, less expensive, and more practical to just
jump ahead a day on your web-based Fitday account, put each of your
ingredients in separately, calculate the totals, and then create a
custom food from those totals.


Which is what I do but i forgot if a included the homey I top my cheese
crepes with.

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Old December 6th, 2005, 02:40 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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Carol Frilegh wrote:
The more elaborate paid version of Fitday will not work on a Macintosh.
I wanted to create a custom recipe and the free version (OK for a Mac)
will accept nutrients but not ingredients if you create a custom food.

They wrote:

There isn't a FitDay version for the Mac. Thanks for the
recommendations!

-FitDay Support


Diva


If you *really* want to use FitDay PC, you could get Virtual PC for your
Mac. It works fine if you have plenty of memory installed. I's an
expensive solution though.

--
jmk in NC
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Old December 6th, 2005, 02:43 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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GaryG wrote:
"Carol Frilegh" wrote in message
...

The more elaborate paid version of Fitday will not work on a Macintosh.
I wanted to create a custom recipe and the free version (OK for a Mac)
will accept nutrients but not ingredients if you create a custom food.

They wrote:

There isn't a FitDay version for the Mac. Thanks for the
recommendations!

-FitDay Support


Diva



Recently, Apple has announced that they are planning to offer Macs based on
the Intel chipset. This in turn may allow them to (finally) allow you to
run native Windows programs on the Mac platform. Doing so would open up the
Mac to a much broader array of software that currently cannot run on it.


I understand from talking to Apple developers that this is not in the
works at all.


As a software developer myself, I can certainly understand FitDay's lack of
enthusiasm for creating a Mac version of their software. I've looked into
the issue with respect to some of my products, and it's a daunting technical
challenge. I estimate it would take at least 1000 hours to rewrite each of
my software titles for the Mac platform (not including an indeterminate
learning curve for the tools and the operating system). There would also be
additional costs for hardware and programming tools, and ongoing costs for
supporting the Mac version.


Only because it was designed around a single operating system and not
with multi-platform support in mind. Plenty of programming tools,
databases, etc. are available on multiple platforms.

Unfortunately, until Apple decides to allow Windows programs to run on the
Mac, you'll be shut out of many software titles due to the costs imposed on
software developers.


Uh, see Virtual PC.


--
jmk in NC
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Old December 6th, 2005, 03:02 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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In article , jmk
wrote:

Carol Frilegh wrote:
The more elaborate paid version of Fitday will not work on a Macintosh.
I wanted to create a custom recipe and the free version (OK for a Mac)
will accept nutrients but not ingredients if you create a custom food.

They wrote:

There isn't a FitDay version for the Mac. Thanks for the
recommendations!

-FitDay Support


Diva


If you *really* want to use FitDay PC, you could get Virtual PC for your
Mac. It works fine if you have plenty of memory installed. I's an
expensive solution though.



Thanks!
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Old December 6th, 2005, 03:03 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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In article , jmk
wrote:

GaryG wrote:
"Carol Frilegh" wrote in message
...

The more elaborate paid version of Fitday will not work on a Macintosh.
I wanted to create a custom recipe and the free version (OK for a Mac)
will accept nutrients but not ingredients if you create a custom food.

They wrote:

There isn't a FitDay version for the Mac. Thanks for the
recommendations!

-FitDay Support


Diva



Recently, Apple has announced that they are planning to offer Macs based on
the Intel chipset. This in turn may allow them to (finally) allow you to
run native Windows programs on the Mac platform. Doing so would open up the
Mac to a much broader array of software that currently cannot run on it.


I understand from talking to Apple developers that this is not in the
works at all.


As a software developer myself, I can certainly understand FitDay's lack of
enthusiasm for creating a Mac version of their software. I've looked into
the issue with respect to some of my products, and it's a daunting technical
challenge. I estimate it would take at least 1000 hours to rewrite each of
my software titles for the Mac platform (not including an indeterminate
learning curve for the tools and the operating system). There would also be
additional costs for hardware and programming tools, and ongoing costs for
supporting the Mac version.


Only because it was designed around a single operating system and not
with multi-platform support in mind. Plenty of programming tools,
databases, etc. are available on multiple platforms.

Unfortunately, until Apple decides to allow Windows programs to run on the
Mac, you'll be shut out of many software titles due to the costs imposed on
software developers.


Uh, see Virtual PC.


Not to digress from diet or prolong the thread but I try to avoid
anything to do with PC. third party programs in general and have been
mac-ing for ten years. Love it!

Diva
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Old December 6th, 2005, 03:48 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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Carol Frilegh wrote:

In article , The Queen of
Cans and Jars wrote:

GaryG wrote:

The previous poster makes a good point...you can find used PC's capable of
running FitDay for under $200. I'd recommend this approach for now.


It's a hell of a lot easier, less expensive, and more practical to just
jump ahead a day on your web-based Fitday account, put each of your
ingredients in separately, calculate the totals, and then create a
custom food from those totals.


Which is what I do but i forgot if a included the homey I top my cheese
crepes with.


I figured you did know to do that, but I wanted to make sure that the
people who think BUYING ANOTHER COMPUTER is an effective solution were
given a clue as to how absolutely unnecessary their ridiculous idea is.

Like you, I'm happy with my Mac and would rather fight than switch. We
also run a network of about 20 of them on a pair of lovely OSX servers
at work. The "you can't do enough on a Mac because nothing runs on the
platform" people need to get a new argument.
 




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