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MacGourmet helps you create and edit recipes, wine notes and cooking notes, easily browse your entire collection, and build your own custom lists for categories like appetizers or desserts.
You organize your digital photos, you make playlists of your mp3s. Now bring your recipe organization into the 21st century with MacGourmet. Think of MacGourmet as "iTunes for Recipes".
MacGourmet also offers the following features:
You organize your digital photos, you make playlists of your mp3s. Now bring your recipe organization into the 21st century with MacGourmet. Think of MacGourmet as "iTunes for Recipes".
MacGourmet also offers the following features:
- Publishing of your collections to .Mac and WebDAV accounts
- Publishing of recipes to MovableType, TypePad and Blojsom weblogs
What's New
Version 3.2.2:
- [Preferences] Fixed a problem saving the window position and tab selection.
- [General UI] Fixed a problem enabling/disabling Move to Trash menu command correctly.
- [Import - Export] The right-click menu Clear command is now correctly enabled for the Last Import list.
- [Scaling] Improvements in the scaling of certain ingredient combinations.
- [Scaling] Fixed a problem where applying a scale wasn't working from the list. (you need to do this from within the editor)
- [Included Recipes] Fixed a crash caused by circular included recipe references.
- [Shopping Lists] Fixed an issue combining more than one shopping list when all of them hadn't been displayed and loaded fully.
- [Find & Search] Fixed the display of one of the search fields for Notes.
- [Web Import Assistant] Fixed an issue that was causing the CPU to be used unnecessarily when the sites list for "open anyway" was left open.
- [Ingredients list] Fixed a display caching issue seen after converting a row to a group.
- [Import - Export] Fixed a potential crash when importing Meal-Master files.
- [Find and Search] Fixed a problem where created and modified dates in a find results or filtered list were being displayed incorrectly.
- [Chef View] Fractions now get converted to the character when they can be.
Version 3.2.2:
- [Preferences] Fixed a problem saving the window position and tab selection.
- [General UI] Fixed a problem enabling/disabling Move to Trash menu command correctly.
- [Import - Export] The right-click menu Clear command is now correctly enabled for the Last Import list.
- [Scaling] Improvements in the scaling of certain ingredient more...
Requirements
- PPC / Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- MobileMe account or file server for MobileMe publishing
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| Downloads:32,721 |
| Version Downloads:420 |
| Type:Home & Personal : Cooking |
| License:Demo |
| Date:31 Jan 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $29.00 |
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MacGourmet helps you create and edit recipes, wine notes and cooking notes, easily browse your entire collection, and build your own custom lists for categories like appetizers or desserts.
You organize your digital photos, you make playlists of your mp3s. Now bring your recipe organization into the 21st century with MacGourmet. Think of MacGourmet as "iTunes for Recipes".
MacGourmet also offers the following features:
You organize your digital photos, you make playlists of your mp3s. Now bring your recipe organization into the 21st century with MacGourmet. Think of MacGourmet as "iTunes for Recipes".
MacGourmet also offers the following features:
- Publishing of your collections to .Mac and WebDAV accounts
- Publishing of recipes to MovableType, TypePad and Blojsom weblogs
- Many options for printing your recipes, including printing on index cards
- Easy import of recipes found on the web using clipping, drag and drop and cut and paste
- A sample recipe pack for first time users of 80 recipes
- Shopping list export to HandyShopper and SplashShopper on your PDA
- An extra large Chef's view for preparing your recipes in the kitchen
- Import of MasterCook, MasterCook Mac and Meal-Master recipes
- Flexible recipe scaling
- Metric conversion
- Many ways to search, including the recipe box search field, find, cupboard find and potluck find
- Smart lists that keep themselves updated automatically
- Chef's Reference of commonly used cooking information
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So, you can buy a bundle (Deluxe) with everything: Mealplan, Cookbook and Nutrition, or, if you just want a simpler product, buy MacGourmet from macgourmet.com and add a plug-in, or not, it’s up to you.
http://macgourmet.com/faq/deluxe
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Emotpix reviewed on 29 Dec 2009
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Corkroom reviewed on 28 Nov 2009
Some issues are quite frustrating. The shopping list is often incapable of adding ingredients of different units correctly. For example, if one recipe calls for 200 g of flour, and another for an ounce, the shopping list totals these to 201 g. Perhaps a user-defined unit equivalence list would be useful, or at least a list of what MacGourmet's pre-defined conversions are.
The chef view is useless. Many recipe instructions refer to the ingredients for quantities, but the chef view forces you to scroll up to the top. Not good when you have a handful of raw chicken. The chef view really needs a split view to allow simultaneous viewing of ingredients and instructions.
The shopping lists could be formatted more intelligently, with page breaks at logical spots, such as between shops. Alternatively, user-defined page breaks would be helpful. Also, depending on the name of ingredients listed in different recipes, the shopping list can produce separate listings for flour, plain flour, and flour (plain), etc. Some other programs I have used also allow user-defined ingredients. While this is more fiddly, this option prevents this confusion.
UI issues are abundant. For example, the default "OK" button is often highlighted, but pressing "return" on the keyboard does not click it, as expected under OS X. Also, command-~ normally switches windows, but this does not work in MacGourmet. This prevents comparison of recipes.
Finally, I'm not really sure, but I couldn't find a way to create smart recipe lists based on preparation/cooking times. Given that this is an editable field in recipes, it would be useful to search by this! Again, since the developers do not reply to emails, I'm not sure if there is a solution.
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I'm one person, who still does all the development and email support. The volume of email doesn't always allow me to reply to every individual feature request, but every request gets logged and evaluated for future updates.
I also have to wade through the ridiculous amount of daily spam that an email address that has been around for over 5 years gets every day. If you never got a reply to your specific issues, trying to send it again and using the "Send Feedback" command in the Help menu to send the it will usually help it get through the noise.
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This morning I downloaded and started playing with Pantry, a free app to track what's in your kitchen, create shopping lists, sync to the cloud and there's an iPhone app you can buy for 2.00 to download lists to your phone. I'm not going to keep it, but I can see some potential there, it's just missing some deal breaking features and it feels like a work in progress.
I've also found a website: supercook.com where you create an account, add in the stuff in your pantry and it will find recipes based on those ingredients. Excellently cool, but you can bog it down by adding too much stuff like too many kinds of cheese, too many spices and condiments. You have to remove items to winnow down the results. It works best with just a basic set of items. And you can get some bizarre results: based on my ingredients, I searched for a first course and dog bones appeared as #1 in the results followed by butterscotch filling. Now anyone with any common sense knows butterscotch filling is a main course and dog bones go with the after-dinner liquors. I mean, really!
Anyone see where I'm going?
I have a dream.
The absolute all-time, full-on, crazy cool cooking app in the entire known universe!
Step 1: Food: Add in the stuff you have (ooh, with a barcode scanner that uses your iSight camera and connects to an all-knowing database in the sky, I have a dream.) Expiration dates a must. (If I believe in it, the baking powder will work on the sheer force of my will! Wait, those raisins are HOW old?) I'll add dates myself, I'm not a total slacker.
Step 2: Recipes: Add your own or grab off the web. (Done. It's called MacGourmet. Dreams can come true.)
Step 3: Use Step 1 with Step 2 to find recipes you do have that use the ingredients you already have or (wait, it gets better)
Step 4: Search for recipes you don't have with the ingredients you do. (Galactically cool.)
Step 5: Shopping lists. Two kinds: What I need to restock from Step 1 because I'm running out and/or What I need to make recipes from Step 3 or Step 4. (That's it, I can die happy.)
Who's with me?
Anyway, thanks to:
Apple for the laptop and
MacGourmet Deluxe 1.2 or
MacGourmet 2.4 with
Nutrition 1.3.0
Cookbook 1.1.0
Meal Plan 1.1.0
or whatever goofy nomenclature the developers use for letting me dream.
And no, I'm not sharing Bubbie's Brisket recipe.
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However, when my hard drive recently died and I had to replace it, I could not longer simply enter my serial number, but instead I need a key of some sort. I contacted the company and they did not respond at all. Luckily, I figured out how to get the "key" of my other hard drive but it wasn't easy. This was my LEGAL version.
Customer Service is not great, if you have a problem.
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I'm not sure why you never received my reply. You also never asked about "Cooking Light" which has actually bee "obsoleted" because that site is now rolled into MyRecipes.com. You are able to download an optional importer for that site on the web importers page: http://macgourmet.com/website_import.html. These sites change constantly, so while there might be lag time between updates, you also need to stay current with MacGourmet versions when things are fixed.
If you had received my reply, I guess we might not be having this exchange, but I do my best to supply immediate support, especially for registration issues, etc.
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The update to Deluxe is always just a tad behind the release of the standard version, just because of the change of hands. You'll find that Deluxe 1.1 (which includes Macgourmet 2.4) was released a day after MacGourmet 2.4 was.
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My concern is that Mariner tends to assimilate vibrant new shareware from independent developers and bloat it into dinosaurs bearing little resemblance to the original shareware. I used to use MacJournal, but finally had to stop because Mariner jacked the price and bloated it beyond all recognition.
I notice Mariner already has jacked the price of MacGourmet for a "deluxe" version that loaded with bloat I don't need. Sad.
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How does Mariner get access to markets you don't? Do they put MacGourmet in a box and sell it at real stores or something?
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"Q: What is the difference between MacGourmet and MacGourmet Deluxe?
A: Mariner Software is redistributing MacGourmet and its plug-ins as a discounted retail bundle, all in one convenient package, at one price, called MacGourmet Deluxe. The standard version of MacGourmet (still available here for $24.95), which you can add optional plug-ins to, is exactly the same as what is in the "boxed" Deluxe version, and it is still available as it always has been.
So, you can buy a bundle (Deluxe) with everything: Mealplan, Cookbook and Nutrition, or, if you just want a simpler product, buy MacGourmet from macgourmet.com and add a plug-in, or not, it's up to you."
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Haliomaster rated on 31 Jan 2012
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