Android Apps Posts

22Mar
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Calorie Counter Excellent Droid App for Busy Moms

Calorie Counter is an excellent droid app for busy moms. If you an android phone search through the market place and install Calorie Counter. This is a free app.

The Calorie Counter app syncs with the FatSecret.com website as well fully tracking your calories and nutrition throughout the day. This app is superior because the of the enormous database of food and nutrition data. After using the app for 2 weeks I have found most items are included even calorie counts for a few of my favorite cocktails.

To begin using Calorie Counter install from the Droid App Market Place found on your android phone.
You can search for food items by using the quick and easy search function at the top of the screen. You can also search using your recent items function, quick pick and brand name database. If you happen to have the bar code handy simply point your phones camera lenses at the bar code and let the Calorie Counter scan your food item. I have tried this several times and it works like magic. If you do not find the food item, like my famous spaghetti pie casserole, you simply enter the nutritional information in. Your item is now saved to the database for future reference.

Beyond tracking your food entries and their nutritional value for each meal the Calorie Counter also tracks your weight as well as your exercise entries. If you are following the Weight Watchers plan the calorie counter also displays the points values for each of your meals.

The exercise tracker lets you choose between several different traditional exercises. It adds your calorie burn to your daily totals. The exercise database also includes calorie burns for other activities like desk work and house work.

The reports for Calorie Counter are excellent you can see your daily totals on one 1 screen. If you go over your the predetermined calories you get a little red arrow next to the date. If you are under you get a green arrow.

A few nice additions to the calorie counter are the quick picks which are items it see you entering regularly as well as a meal saver. This way entering an entire meal is quick and easy.

I like the calorie counter because it is very easy to use. It has an enormous database of food items to you are not switching to a book or another website to find nutritional values.  You can see your exact progress one screen.

You can read more about Calorie Counter at  Android Market

Calorie Counter also syncs with the Fat Secret Website.

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15Mar
2

Busy Mom Droid App: Big Oven Carry a Cookbook on Your Phone

Big Oven is my new Busy Mom Droid App for my Droid phone.  Big Oven is awesome if you love to cook and love to eat.  Big Oven boasts a recipe database with over 170,000 recipes.

One of my favorite options is the left over finder.  You are asked to put in three ingredients you have in your frig or pantry.  In a few seconds Big Oven searches the database for recipes that meet your requirements.  When you are a busy mom finding a recipe that fits what you have on hand is a huge benefit.  It prevents that thousand yard stare you get at dinner time when you are trying to figure out a food combination that your family might eat.

It is nice to have Big Oven with when you are at the grocery store and want to be positive that you have all the ingredients for the that special recipe.  It is also great when you have a little downtown and want to plan you weekly menus.

The Big Oven app links with your online BigOven.com account.  So what you do on the app will appear on your Big Oven.com account.

This a free application that can be downloaded from the Android Marketplace.

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10Mar
2

OurGroceries Android App for Busy Moms

OurGroceries Android App

last week I put the Android App OurGroceries through some serious paces.  We had 2 big birthday parties which required a pretty significant shopping list.  I installed theOurGroceries app on my Motorola Droid as well as on my husbands HTC Eris.

Download was quick and painless which has been the statis quo for all apps.  Being a former Blackberry lover I have to say the app install process is about 1000% better than my former Blackberry Curve experience.

The OurGroceries app is more than a simple grocery list app.  It has one particularly cool feature.  When you install the app you create a master account with your email address.  When you install it on a second phone register with that same email account.  Now both phones OurGroceries apps are in perfect sync.  Change the list on one phone and it changes on both.

Why is this important?  After cooking, cleaning and planning 2 big parties the brain was not function at full capacity.  There were a few things that I didn’t get on the list at the start.  While I was buzzing through the house I added more and more items.  The person with the other phone did not get updated phone calls or additional text message they just saw the list as I prepared it.

My second favorite is the quick recipe feature.  You know when you make hamburgers for supper you always need hamburger, buns, ketchup, pickles, mustard and cheese.  You plug these ingredients into a recipe in Our Grocery for hamburgers.  When you are doing your meal planning you don’t need to re enter these items into your list you simple select the recipe.  The items are added to the list.

You can make multiple lists.  You can make one for Walmart, office list, school supply list, project list.  You get the idea.  If you are shopping for it you can create a list for it.

When you are using the list in the grocery store it is a simple one touch on the item and it is checked off.  Super easy.

There are a couple of functions I would like added to OurGroceries.  One would be to categories the items on your list into aisle.  I know when I am doing my power shopping I check off and isle or category at a time.  I would like to see the items grouped together so you are not scrolling through the list or backtracking through the store.

I would also like to see some online integration.  While I usually have my phone with my I spend a lot of time in front of the computer.  It would be a little quicker to make my shopping at my desk on a full keyboard.

OurGroceries is an excellent app that any Busy Mom with a Android based phone should pick up.

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