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CookWare: organize your favorite recipes
Do you have too many random bookmarks to your favorite recipes, or print them out and shove the papers in a random cookbook somewhere? Ok, so maybe that's just me, but CookWare Deluxe is an inspiring bit of niche software that promises to organize all your favorite recipes (up to 64 quadrillion, in fact), in addition to a wealth of other handy food-related features. All you have to do is drag your favorite recipes into the application, and CookWare will reformat text and change quantity abbreviations according to your preferences, making everything nice and consistent when hunting through recipes later. You can even plan meals with the built-in calendar feature, and write and organize your shopping lists, and these lists and your recipes can be exported as HTML files so you can carry them around and to the store on your iPod. Ok, I think we're getting a little food-organization-crazy now.
But seriously, the list of CookWare's features are impressively robust, and the brand new version 3.0 introduces a wealth of new features and options, and other minor enhancements. Unfortunately, I have not been able to download the program to try out myself (something appears to be wrong with the download link as I write this), but I'm looking forward to a test run. A single user license for CookWare Deluxe 3.0 rings in at $35.95.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
drivebybiped said 9:25AM on 3-14-2007
No need to wait for Cookbook from the My Dream App contest now. This looks a lot better than the latest mock-ups of it anyway.
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stainboy said 10:13AM on 3-14-2007
i beg to differ. this looks rather un-Mac-like to me. i'm in the process of evaluating cookbook programs right now. it's coming down to either Connoisseur or MacGourmet.
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Brady J. Frey said 2:56PM on 3-14-2007
This app is quite ugly and not design orientated. Overzealous buttons with poor photoshop style gloss on a bluish pinstriped backdrop? Bad shadowed edges on an odd placed rounded corner, various button styles throughout, is that a brown backdrop for the sub pages - it maybe a good app from a great developer, but that's not a designer with UI experience. It ends up looking like a filemaker application or an ASP homegrown system designed by a production artist on windows. I know as designers I'm picky, but I choose the mac for a reason - if you can't do a quality design, stay within the UI guidelines they provide so it atleast comes out decent. I'm sorry, it could be great, but the design is low quality.
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Brian Liloia said 7:23PM on 3-14-2007
That's unfortunate... the download link was giving me problems all last night, and I never got to test it out and see it for myself... at least the description looked good. +_+
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