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Click to count calories
Tired of dragging out the calorie counter and pen and paper to log your daily consumption, nutrition breakdown and exercise?
Instead, register and let FitDay.com keep track of all those cumbersome calculations. This will give you 10 to 25 minutes more each day for walking, aerobics or yoga.
You’ll get plenty of support for changes you want to make. FitDay analyzes your diet and helps you determine whether you are meeting your goals. For example, you may want to increase your dietary fiber and calcium while lowering your consumption of fats. Click and you have a color-coded chart tracing your progress.
To begin, set up an account. Then use the Foods tab to enter the food you’ve eaten. (You will find a database of more than 12,000 of them.) You can add or modify foods by entering information from the nutrition label and saving it on the Web site.
Don’t forget to set the servings and serving size value for each food. Log your daily activities  painting a room, riding an exercise bike  and FitDay will figure out your caloric burn rate or metabolic information.
Everything is pretty much self-explanatory. Our crystal ball tells us you’ll be looking good in no time.
Personal digital recording for the PC Â and beyond
The digital crowd is fast losing patience with the television. It sits in a corner, waiting to be lit. The death of the party.
Thankfully, smart terminals have emerged that make television more malleable.
Any TV show or movie can now be digitized, recorded to a hard drive or CD, streamed across the Internet, paused and rewound with precision  even re-edited with off-the-shelf software.
That tantalizing prospect is now shipping in a program called SnapStream Personal Video Station, above, that is written for Windows operating systems and records at network-streaming quality in Microsoft’s proprietary format.
It allows you to put television shows or other video on a computer and view them over a network on any PC equipped with the free Windows Media player.
You can watch the video on the TV tuner-equipped computer during or after recording. Once a show is recorded, you can stream it to other machines on a broadband network.
You can buy SnapStream for $89 with a TV tuner card that installs in a standard computer PCI slot. Alone, the software costs $50.