On-The-Go? Not too bad, could be better.

Update / review on the WeightWatchers software I installed on my PDA yesterday.

The software synced up very nicely. There's a nice little app buried in it that acts alot like AvantGo's web client software.

The app logs int your WeightWatchers eTools account and pulls your eTools logged food choices right into your PDA. No muss, no fuss, no Windows app other than the Palm conduit installer for Windows (damn!) and the PDA client. Not only that, you have the full functionality of WW eTools -- food lookup, POINTS(tm) calculator food log, weight tracker, add-your-own food values.

And, Thank You WW for not taking the easy way out and writing some cheap ass Godsforsaken VB .NET app! .NET is one of the many reason Microsoft is EVIL.

One glitch: the software is dated 2005. I've seen some discrepancies in food value calculations between the PDA and the eTools. It looks like the *.pdb files have not been updated to the new (early 2007) program's food values. I think this may be because the tech biz is changing kinda fast and there is some talk about PDAs like the Palm going away as all-up portable computer systems get smaller, more capable, less expensive and more ubiquitous. Perhaps WW is making a decision to not invest the effort in supporting this software further.

Personally, I'd love to see a OS X-based conduit installer so I don't have to boot into WinXP (I spend 95%+ of my time booted into Mac OS X -- everything I really want to do on a computer is handled fine by the Forces of Light), but since my baby's an Intel Mac I can make use of WWOtG.

Final analysis: Nicely executed, could be a bit better, but still useful to me.