Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or later is required. If your using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widgets icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If your using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widgets icon in the Widget Bar to open it.

To switch between the two measuring standards supported in the Calorie Counter, flip over the widget and choose your region code. Once set fill out the information and start using your calculators.

The activity calculator has two versions an american version using inches and pounds. The other version is a european version that deals in metrics. To use the calculator simply enter all the information into the appropriate field. Choose an activity and it will calculate the amount of calories burned. To choose MPH / KPH manipulate the miles and time drop downs. To increase your speed choose your time vs your miles ran that will give you your accurate MPH and will calculate the calories accordingly.

This calculator works by using the formula (Fat X 9) (Carb X 4) (Protein X 4) = Calories. The calculator takes the difference between the calories listed on the label and the calculated calories and divides that result by 4 to arrive at the answer. It then adds that number of grams to the carbohydrate grams listed on the label. This hidden carb calculator assumes that all missing calories are from hidden carbohydrates.

The bmi calculator has two versions an american version using inches and pounds. The other version is a european version that deals in metrics. Simply fill in the calculator and it will spit out your BMI rank and your status.

Once you have calculated some items you may add those items to your daily exercise list. The list is accessable by pressing the list icon in the lower left hand corner of the screen. Here you can add and remove exercise items. It will automatically tell you how many calories you have burned at the bottom.

The Calorie Counter has a new feature that will graph total calories burned against time and distance. This will let you know how effective your exercises are in burning calories. It will also let you see a total of the time, calories and distance for all items in your exercise list.

The Calorie Counter has a new feature called Daily Calculations, this will measure the amount of calories you have burned and show you a target graph per day. You can also see how much time and the distance by day as well. The graph calculates these at 100 cal burned per hour as a benchmark or 600 calories burned per hour.

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