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Heart health with your handheld (continued)

Blood Pressure Log 1.1
Visually, Blood Pressure Log 1.1 by CBK Software doesn't look like serious software for personal healthcare, as you can see in Figure D.

FIGURE D

Blood Pressure Log 1.1 has a rather bland look.

Instead of bug fixing and implementing the necessary features, such as sorting, charting, and printing, developers included the irrelevant Body Mass Index calculator. The three dollar price is fair for a program that can do almost nothing.

Pocket Pressure 1.0
The second "jewel" is Pocket Pressure 1.0 by Blackboard Software dba Lingle Tech (at http://www.lingletech.com). Pocket Pressure 1.0 is not the best child of the company. The first release, two years ago, became the last. The program is a plain record list without any sorting, filters, or charting, as you can see in Figure E.

FIGURE E

Pocket Pressure 1.0 is short on bells and whistles.

Entering a new reading is extremely difficult. I spent two minutes on typing the date manually rather than choosing it from a standard dialog box. To export and print your data you need a special third-party utility, which seems to require special programming skills to use. I don't think Pocket Pressure is worth a dollar, but it costs ten. This is the most expensive program in the category. Horror!

UTS Blood Pressure 1.4
My own company's UTS Blook Pressure program is also not free, but it is also quite inexpensive at under $10.

The smooth and colorful interface of UTS Blood Pressure 1.4 by UTrackSys.com LLC (at http://www.utracksys.com) makes a nice first impression, as you can see in Figure F.

FIGURE F

UTS Blood Pressure 1.4 has a smooth, colorful interface.

To justify the close to $10 price, we stuffed the program with lots of features. The features include an unusual and easy way to enter the readings without Graffiti, colored and marked records, statistical reports, several types of charts, and list filtering. All the features allowed me to view my blood pressure stats from various points.

UTS Blood Pressure still doesn't save the data to Memo Pad. Nevertheless, the program includes the conduit to export the data straight to Microsoft Excel and to automatically build a chart there. The flexible "Email Report" feature allows you to send the blood pressure statistics to your physician straight from Palm handheld. I suppose UTS Blood Pressure is a reasonable choice if you are ready to spend an extra dollar to use the stable, featured and stylish software.

MiniBloodPress 4.3
Here's one more veteran of the personal cardiology software squad. The author of the next program is an individual developer from Germany.

This blood-pressure tracking solution, MiniBloodPress 4.3, was designed by Sylvia Zedewitz (at http://www.s-ze.de). It's pictured in Figure G.

FIGURE G

MiniBloodPress 4.3 can chart statistics and saves records into Memo Pad.

The readings can be grouped by two series: home and doctor. Unfortunately, before spending the five dollars to purchase the software, you don't get a chance to test all the features announced, as many of them are not in the demo. The reading input is a bit complicated and allows empty values. Perhaps the standard value checking is also not in the demo.


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