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…

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.