07-18-2003, 01:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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Dr. Spock Would Be Proud - Tracking Your Baby with BabyTracker
http://www.mantiev.com/
That is Dr. Spock, not Mr. Spock, although he would be proud too if he had any emotions. 
"If you want to be a better parent and you want to keep, organize information about your baby, track his/her development at anywhere and anytime. The BabyTracker for Pocket PC is right solution for you. BabyTracker is the first line of parenting tools designed to easily capture and track the important information of baby. With BabyTracker parents and caregivers can easily organize care information about their baby."
Any expectant parents out there? This would be a good substitute for the typical baby book. There is a trial version and you can buy it for $19.95. It requires an ARM processor to run, so it should be ok on iPAQs with Pocket PC 2000 and any 2002 or higher device. There is no limit on the numbers of babies it supports.
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07-18-2003, 01:47 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 130
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This is so well-timed! We are expecting our first baby in about a month� so I'm gonna give this software a try!  Thanks Ed!
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07-18-2003, 02:04 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 713
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I would have loved this about 4 1/2 years ago. We had spiral bound notebooks, calendars with little stickers, and baby books to log stuff in. Trying to organize the info for trips to the doctor or just looking up info was such a pain.
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07-18-2003, 02:13 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 566
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Given that this one seems like it could be duplicated with Syware, HanDBase, or any of the other db building apps w/o too much difficulty, $20 seems a little pricey to me.
And maybe it's just me and the products that pique my interest, but has inflation hit the PPC s/w market in recent times? Seems like most everything I've run into of late is in the ~ $18-24 price range...whereas when I 1st purchased a PPC device (fall 2001), I seem to recall the majority of apps I looked at being in the $10-15 range.
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07-18-2003, 02:33 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 5
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Obviously a must have application for any PPC :wink: but will the means to review the data be around in 5, 10, 15 years time?
Simon
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07-18-2003, 02:37 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 278
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I agree with the pricing comment. I can appreciate that the relatively small PPC market may require developers to charge higher amounts for their products, especially given the amount of time and effort they expend on creating the products. However, while I have done no research at all and cannot cite any studies to support my thoughts, I feel that they would sell a lot more copies of their software if they charged in the $9.99 to $14.99 range rather than the $20+ range.
This piece of software is a good example. I have 3 kids, (2 older and one baby) and I think this software would provide quite useful. For $10 or so, I would buy it and I am sure I would be very happy with it. But for $20, (and all of these "specific use type" pieces of software seem to be $20+) I will keep using a notepad.
I find that PPC software tends to be very use specific. This baby tracker is good software, and it would likely be easier to use than ListPro or some other database software, but I really feel that developers are pricing these specific use type pieces of software too high. Just my $.02. (Let the flames begin.)
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07-18-2003, 02:38 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 37
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I can only imagine what my wife would say (or rather scream) if I show up in the delivery room with my DV cam, digital camera, and PocketPC to record the memories! :lol:
We're not due until the end of the year, so hopefully I can start warming her to the idea that technology really has to be instilled at birth. Just think, the baby's first sights could be mom and dad with all of his gadgets!
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07-18-2003, 02:43 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 65
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Originally Posted by uvahoos
I can only imagine what my wife would say (or rather scream) if I show up in the delivery room with my DV cam, digital camera, and PocketPC to record the memories! :lol:
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Mine just shook her head when I showed up with the Nikon film camera, Digital camera, digitial video camera and the PocketPC. She's getting use to me! 
I agree with the comments about pricing. Seeing as we have a 6 week old, I'd like to give this software a try. I hope there's a demo.
Rob
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07-18-2003, 03:06 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 92
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Showing up in the delivery room with my Pocket PC was one of the best things I did. I have a great audio recording of Lily's first cry (and my wife crying for joy).
-J
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07-18-2003, 03:14 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 396
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I thouht from the title "Tracking your baby" that this would be some sort of GPS that you implant so you can find the baby if you leave it on the bus, etc. What a let down! 
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