Category Archives: FatWatch

Use your iPhone to record and analyze your weight, using methods from The Hacker’s Diet.

You can’t control your weight if you aren’t aware of it

I’m about to do that annoying thing bloggers do where they write a response to something on their own blog rather than in the forum of the original comment. I’m also going to use curse words. Somebody using the pseudonym Overweight on the Joel on Software message board started a thread about his New Year’s resolution …

January 7, 2009 – 3:41 pm | By Benjamin | Posted in FatWatch | Comments (1)

Lock ‘n’ Roll: a new game for your iPhone

One of the reasons it’s been so long since the last update to FatWatch was because I’ve been working on a game for Canned Bananas. It’s called Lock ‘n’ Roll, and it’s finally available for download from the iTunes App Store. It’s really a clever game (I can say this because, while I did the …

December 21, 2008 – 3:03 pm | By Benjamin | Posted in FatWatch, Lock 'n' Roll | Comments (33)

2008 Best App Ever Awards

148Apps is accepting nominations for their 2008 Best App Ever Awards. Please click to nominate FatWatch in the “Most Useful” Category. Their goal is to recognize the best, not just the best-selling. It will be interesting to see how their results match up with Apple’s Top 100 lists. You can see the whole thing at bestappever.com.

December 16, 2008 – 3:50 pm | By Benjamin | Posted in FatWatch | Comments Off

A FatWatch API?

So, instead of doing the work I should be doing, I’ve been seeking out Hacker’s Diet aficionados on Twitter, and found my way to a Hacker’s Diet plug-in for WordPress. Then it occurred to me, it would be possible to write a web app that could pull data from FatWatch right now, without any updates to …

December 13, 2008 – 2:29 am | By Benjamin | Posted in FatWatch | Comments (2)