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Fitday and Macs
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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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 ... 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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"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 http://www.WeightWare.com Computer-Assisted Weight Management |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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