It seems that, globally, HbA1c will be changing how it is reported: the current % units will change to mmol/mol. In the UK this will start in June 2009 with dual use of mmol/mol and %; In 2011 the use of % will be phased out. More information is available in these links.
i. http://www.acb.org.uk/docs/hba1clabprofessional.pdf
ii. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2282401

Available clicking here. Changes:

1. Updated: HbA1c graph report now supports mmol/mol units. If the reporting period inlcudes HbA1c values above 15.0 these are assumed to be mmol/mol and the graph switches to these units: any values found below this will be converted to mmol/mol, hovering the mouse over the graph will show the original value. If no values are above 15.0 the original % units are used.
2. Updated: The default HbA1c standardisation scheme for current % values is set to the US NGSP. Published research papers indicate two other standardisation schemes: Japan's JDS/JSCC; Sweden's. Support for converting to mmol/mol from these three schemes is included. To switch schemes one of the following commands must be run in the Terminal.app:
   1. defaults write com.Nesfield.DiabetesLogbookX HbA1cStandard NGSP
   2. defaults write com.Nesfield.DiabetesLogbookX HbA1cStandard JDS/JSCC
   3. defaults write com.Nesfield.DiabetesLogbookX HbA1cStandard Swedish
3. Updated: HbA1c fields no longer include number formating with %.
4. Fixed: Corrected a bug caused all imported events to be set to the current month.

Available clicking here. Changes:

1. Fixed: Corrected a bug caused all imported events to be set to the current month.

Available clicking here. Changes:

1. Updated: Now supports Note templates for user created Event types.
2. Updated: Average Medication Summary report now inlcudes the number of doses occurring in each period.
3. Fixed: Corrected detailed and summary reports to show all recorded insulin and medicine events for a given date and timestamp.
4. Fixed: Average Medication Summary report to include all insulin and medicines events, even those without blood glucose tests. Also fixed to include multiple events for the same date and timestamp.

Available clicking here. Changes:

1. Added: New report added showing a summary of average inhaler/medicine doses by time period and by day, and the number of doses in each period.
2. Updated: Graph reports now adjust the Y-axis scale to focus on the range of data.
3. Updated: The 'Health' option in Graph reports is now limited to show/hiding Height, Weight and BMI.
4. Updated: Now supports Note templates for user created Event types.
5. Fixed: Corrected detailed and summary reports to show all recorded inhaler and medicine events for a given date and timestamp.

There's been three of releases of Diabetes Logbook X since the last announcement here are the combined changes that have occurred since v1.4.8:

• Added: Importing CSV data files now supports direct import from a web URL. Currently tested using HanDBase for iPhone.
  
• Updated: PDA import file format:
  • 12-hr format times in the PDA import file format now supports uppercase AM/PM as well as lowercase am/pm.
    
  • Added extra filters when process text for Period, Units, Inhalers, Medicines, Breath, Health and Event. If these are "NO VALUE" or start with "--" it is assumed that the field value is to be ignore. Extra string keys in the localisation files have been added for easy definition of new exclusion strings.
• Fixed: Corrected minor display bug in logbook reports for periods where no Peak Flows have been recorded.
  
• Fixed: Added a database save after importing events, ready for creating reports.
  
• Update: Minor adjustment to improve importing of CSV files from mobile database apps. Now supports CSV format where selected fields are enclosed with double-quotes.
  
• Added: New report added showing a summary of average insulin/medicine doses by time period and by day. The new report is visible in the all reports (except Notes) when Insulin and/or Medicine data is selected for inclusion in the report.
  
• Fixed: Localisation files may not have shown 'accented' characters correctly in the generated reports when shown in the Reports window [saved reports display correctly in Safari].

Additional example HanDBase databases have been added to the downloads page. The database files can by used by HanDBase Database Manager for iPhone (and other mobile devices) to record all the information that the Logbook does on the Mac. Uploading the database file is done through a built-in web server in the HanDBase app.

There's been a couple of releases of Asthma Logbook X since the last announcement here are the combined changes that have occurred since v1.1.3:

• Added: Importing CSV data files now supports direct import from a web URL. Currently tested using HanDBase for iPhone.
  
• Updated: PDA import file format:
  • 12-hr format times in the PDA import file format now supports uppercase AM/PM as well as lowercase am/pm.
    
  • Added extra filters when process text for Period, Units, Inhalers, Medicines, Breath, Health and Event. If these are "NO VALUE" or start with "--" it is assumed that the field value is to be ignore. Extra string keys in the localisation files have been added for easy definition of new exclusion strings.
• Fixed: Corrected minor display bug in logbook reports for periods where no Peak Flows have been recorded.
  
• Fixed: Added a database save after importing events, ready for creating reports.
  
• Update: Minor adjustment to improve importing of CSV files from mobile database apps. Now supports CSV format where selected fields are enclosed with double-quotes.

Additional example HanDBase databases have been added to the downloads page. The database files can by used by HanDBase Database Manager for iPhone (and other mobile devices) to record all the information that the Logbook does on the Mac. Uploading the database file is done through a built-in web server in the HanDBase app.

1. Fixed: Summary graph report updated to display correctly in Safari 3.
   
2. Fixed: Graphs of Health and Breathing updated to display correctly in Safari 3.

A minor upgrade to correct the impact of Apple Web Kit changes on the graph reports.

Also, now supports Spanish localisation. Find out more here.

Following on from my earlier review of Palm OS applications Resco Backup v1 and BackupBuddyVFS Pro V3 and V4, here is a revised review that includes the new Resco Backup v2.

Resco were keen to address the new user experience and so have added a Basic mode, while still retaining and expanding the features from version 1.

The review is here.

I've just released new versions of both the logbook applications. The updates address reports, importing data, and a small bug. Find out more about them:

• Diabetes Logbook X v1.4.5
  
• Asthma Logbook X v1.1.1