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- Presenting EXERCISE LOG for the Macintosh (Hypercard).
- Current version: 1.20 (3 April 1995).
-
- By Maurits van der Veen.
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- General description follows feature/bug fix list.
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- This log is shareware! Shareware fee is $8 (see information below).
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- New features & bug fixes
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- Version Changes
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- 1.20 - added split generation capability; more cleanup
- - added 1-step version updating
- - added ability to copy workout types across sports
- - revised help section (fewer cards, now with scrolling text)
- 1.19 - added performance prediction functions
- 1.18 - added page to store PRs
- 1.17 - cleaned up some code for greater efficiency; minor fixes
- 1.16 - fixed bug in tally section (time conversion)
- - added popup menu to title card
- 1.15 - streamline importing of weekly overview data
- - fixed some bugs in weekly overview section (esp. in clearing)
- 1.14 - allow Comments field to be blown up,
- and to receive imported text from a textfile
- 1.13 - cleanup of progress messages
- 1.12 - minor added features in total calculation, pulse/weight info
- - small bug fixes in Tally section
- - layout change on Global Info card
- - corrected some problems with Help text
- 1.11 - fixed bug in bug fix for version 1.10 (oops)
- 1.10 - bug fix in weekly totals calculation
- 1.09 - made compatible (I hope) with different-language systems
- - bug fixes in totals calculation and weekly log section
- 1.08 - allowed carry-over for cum. distance/time tally
- 1.07b - fixed two minor bugs in time and pace display
- 1.07a - changed dist/time/pace calculation to minimize rounding errors
- 1.07 - redesigned global info card; now allows importing of data
- - fixed bug in totals calculation
- - cleaned up help section somewhat
- 1.06 - added time to running total display at bottom
- - fixed bug in weekly pull-down menu
- - small cosmetic changes
- 1.05b - corrected typo in script reference
- 1.05a - minimal layout changes
- 1.05 - can provide more default information for common workouts
- - expanded workout search functions
- 1.04 - fixed bug in "change workout date" function
- 1.03 - fixed bug in Help printing
- - replaced some shared-text fields by background
- graphics, to make display faster & less system-dependent
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- General description
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- Exercise Log is a Hypercard-based activities log that lets you store
- information about each workout you do in an unlimited number of sports.
- It offers an attractive and useful middle ground between paper-based logs
- (in which you have to do all the tallying, etc. yourself) and spread-sheet
- models (which tend to be too rigid for free-form information entry).
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- For each workout, there are fields for date, sport, workout-type, effort,
- distance, time, pace, course-name, details, comments, pulse, weight, weather,
- and equipment used (shoes, inline skates, bike equipment, etc.), including
- a separate provision for warmup equipment (and distance and time).
- The log will automatically calculate pace, and total distances, time spent,
- and number of workouts in a week or year-to-date.
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- Shortcuts allow you to enter new workout info quickly for workouts you do
- often, and to navigate easily between different workouts and sections in the log.
- Workouts can be displayed in a convenient weekly overview format, or can
- be displayed in a tally, filtered on criteria you specify
- (including effort-level, sport, workout type, or equipment).
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- Import and export facilities are provided to move data between logs and
- to and from data files that can be used in Excel, etc. Thus, if you already
- have an on-line exercise data base, you need not type all the data in anew.
- In addition, rather than relying on Hypercard's somewhat anemic charting
- capabilities, you can just export the relevant data and chart it any way
- you like in a spreadsheet program.
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- A number of predictions methods allow you to evaluate running performances
- and predict equivalent performances at other distances. A split generator
- will produce any number of regular splits for any distance you specify.
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- The log boasts many other features. A detailed (and printable) Help section
- explains all options and features.
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- The log requires Hypercard 2.0 or above, and will run best in 2.1 or above
- It uses the Courier, Geneva, Times and Palatino fonts,
- and has been tested on most common setups.
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- It is shareware, which means that if you decide to use it (after evaluation),
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- **** you are required to send me $8 ****.
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- This is significantly less than most other software exercise logs, and about
- equivalent to the cost of most paper-based logs, such as those produced
- by Runner's World and Bicycling Magazine. (I am not expecting to get rich off
- this, just to get back a little for all the hours I put into perfecting
- this log instead of pursuing my graduate studies.)
-
- Address comments, criticisms, suggestions for improvement, etc. to:
- maurits@fas.harvard.edu, and send the shareware fee to:
- Maurits van der Veen
- Department of Government
- Harvard University
- Cambridge, MA 02138.
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- Once you send in your shareware fee, you will automatically receive all
- future updates to the exercise log. When you send in the shareware fee,
- please mention your e-mail address, or send me a separate email message,
- so I can mail you future updates.
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- N.B. Harvard University and its Department of Government are in no way
- associated with or responsible for this product or anything I say
- about it or anything else. I just receive my mail there as a
- graduate student.
- Hypercard is an Apple Computer product, and copyrighted by them.
- If I should add any other disclaimers, someone please tell me.
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