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GearDiary: The iambic Health & Diet Manager for Pocket PC Review

Posted by iampowered on May 14, 2007 at 10:15 AM under: Reviews | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (1)

[via GearDiary - Reviewed by Judie Lipsett Hughes]

One of the factors that made me drag my feet when deciding whether or not to fully migrate from the Palm OS to Windows Mobile was that the two software titles I considered essential were only available for the Palm OS at the time: one was Beik’s Woman which I use to track “female stuff”, and the other was Calorie King’s Diet Diary. Both programs came with desktop software, so although I would eventually lose the convenience of being able to enter or retrieve data on my PDA, I was still able to use these programs familiar interfaces on my desktop. That’s not to say that I didn’t hold out hope that one or both would eventually become available on Pocket PC, and sure enough - Woman eventually was…but not Diet Diary. Thus began the quest for a comparable program that I could use to record meals and workouts.

When I recently received an email regarding the new v2.62 release of Iambic’s Health and Diet Manager for Windows Mobile Pocket PC (HDM), I was eager to give it a try. I knew there would be a slight learning curve as it was a different program than I was used to, but I hoped that in time I would grow to like it as much as I had Diet Diary. According to Iambic’s site, HDM “does everything from tracking your health-related vitals (resting pulse, blood pressure, hours slept), calories consumed and calories expended, to helping you create an action plan for eating and exercising. Plus, it is easy to use.” Would Health and Diet Manager provide what I needed in order to use it regularly and as it was intended? I would soon find out…

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PdaLive reviews Propel

Posted by iampowered on May 13, 2007 at 8:40 PM under: Reviews | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

[via: PdaLive - Reviewed by: Daniel D. Montecillo]

Introduction
The Built-in Palm OS launcher (I mean the Default Interface) is look very old and lack the functionality that take fully advantage of the true productivity potential of the device. With the release of Propel by IAMBIC now Palm OS user will be able to maximize the capability of the potential of the device.

Propel has 2 versions the Standard Version and the Professional Version. The Standard Version does not support some of the features like voice lunching and applications both on the internal memory and the SD-Cards, voice dialing and voice lunching. Playing MP3 is also not supported in the standard version, and lunching emails and sms are only supported in the professional version. As for the features being showed in the IAMBIC'S website comparison chart the standard version seems being marketed for the standalone PDA's like the Tx, while professional version is aim to take full advantage of the phone features of the Treo.

Installation
The installation is very easy you only need to download the installer PRC file from IAMBIC's website. The size of the PRC file is actually very small (200 kb) including the plugins and the default skin, perfect for Treo 650 and Tungsten E2 which has only 32 mb of RAM. Then install the file in the internal memory by using the quick install tool then hotsync the device. After hotsync Propel will be automatically installed and will become your default launcher.

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TreoCentral Review: Agendus Mail v5 for PalmOS

Posted by iampowered on April 28, 2007 at 10:39 PM under: Reviews | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

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Agendus Mail for the Masses

Electronic Mail or e-mail is far from a recent innovation. Sure, it’s much younger than physical mail ("snail") by post, which has existed in some form or another for almost 3000 years, and perhaps longer. The ancient Persians and Chinese had working postal systems around 1100 BC, and by contrast, it was potentially just as efficient as our own postal system today considering their couriers rode across vast expanses of land on horseback, much like the American Pony Express did for a few years in the mid-19th Century.

That said, though, the electronic concept of messaging is still a fledgling child in comparison, but it has advanced far more in just the last forty years than any other means of communication, possibly barring the telephone.

E-mail has its roots in the MIT Compatible Time Sharing System, which in 1961 allowed users to store files on an IBM 7094 mainframe and retrieve them from remote (dial-up slave) terminals. This allowed a simple way to manipulate data at a distance, as well as deliver communiqués with relative ease.

Progress continued on efficient means of delivering messages over intranet based systems, but the most recognizable form of e-mail finally materialized in 1971 when Ray Tomlinson designated a method for which a user name and their machine ID were separated with an ‘@’ sign on the Dept. of Defense's ARPANET system. That’s still decades before the launch of the World Wide Web, A.K.A. the modern Internet.

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TreoCentral Review: Agendus -- The PIM for the rest-of-us

Posted by iampowered on April 24, 2007 at 6:19 PM under: Reviews | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

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Agendus -- The PIM for the rest-of-us.

When you look down at your Treo, how exactly do you reconcile it in your mind? Is it a phone, an organizer, a hand-held computer, a portable media machine, a PDA? All these things in one tidy package?

At its core, even the mighty Treo with all of its expanded widgets, phone and Internet capabilities is still just a super-shiny and primo-priced PDA. Yet, pondering term "Personal Digital Assistant" may conjure up images of a robotic secretary in a shiny leather skirt and Duran Duran’s smash hit "Electric Barberella", or, on the other end of the spectrum, Bender from Futurama."

Unfortunately, though no PDA in the world is that self-automated, or that alluring (or self-aware), there are ways to make these pocket-sized wonders do a lot of the workload that a real-life personal assistant does for you, or would do for you when they aren’t on their way to the hair salon (or bar)..

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PocketPCThoughts Review: The 'PI' eater? -- A look at Agendus for Windows Mobile v1.01

Posted by iampowered on April 14, 2007 at 5:35 PM under: Reviews | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

[via PocketPCThoughts]

Product Category: Software – PIM
Manufacturer: Iambic
Where to Buy: MobiHand (affiliate link)
Price: $24.95USD for the Professional Edition. $19.95USD for the Standard Edition. A fully functioning 10-day trial is available.
System Requirements: Windows Mobile 5 or above (PPC, PPC Phone Edition, or Smartphone).
Specifications: Application requires 2.5MB of memory. Can be installed to main memory or storage card.

Pros:

Well featured for a first release;

Small memory footprint;

Quick navigation between screens.

Cons:

Preferences selection held in a single, large menu;

Sometimes difficult to find features due to screen organization, or only available from tap&hold menus;

No native email support.

Summary:
In a world dominated by Pocket Informant and Agenda Fusion, Iambic has boldly proclaimed their entry into the Pocket PC Personal Information Management arena with Agendus. Based on the award-winning Palm OS version, Agendus claims to provide a full-featured PIM, “...optimized to handle the dynamics of your everyday life, and provide a level of proactive personal assistance that so far has only been available from a 'real life' assistant...” That's a pretty tall order, and Iambic has made a good attempt with their first release. But Agendus definitely shows its Palm roots and lack of Windows Mobile sophistication when compared to more mature offerings like Pocket Informant and Agenda Fusion.

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iampowered changes scope and mission

Posted by iampowered on January 2, 2007 at 4:52 PM under: News, Noteworthy, Reviews | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Hello Everyone,

effective today, iampowered changes its scope from "technology blog" to become the official "iambic corporate blog", which means if you want to learn the latest on new iambic, Inc. products, product updates, service updates, who's writing about us and more, this is the place to look.

Our titles are designed to help you save time and manage your activities more effectively. So we figured that our blog should do the same -- be the one place you can go for the most current information.

Welcome to the new iampowered.com !

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