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Cooking With SousChef
1041 days ago in Articles, Contributors, Reviews by John Fuller | 1 Comment
Analog recipe managers aren’t fun to use, or easy for that matter. One of the new digital recipe managers for the mac is SousChef from Acacia Tree Software.
At its simplest, SousChef allows you to import and create recipes. Recipes can have pictures, ingredients, directions, notes, and other information assigned to them. Each recipe can then be printed, blogged, or emailed.
SousChef can also store Grocery lists, that can either be printed or emailed. There’s even a full-screen cooking mode that includes support for control via an Apple remote and voiceover reading. Recipe search can be done with any number of factors, including name, ingredients, category, and cuisine. These factors can be combined and modified to any degree.
One feature that is unique to SousChef is a vast online database of recipes that, at the time of writing, has totaled over 103,000 recipes. The cloud database is accessible by the in-app search. SousChef will also keep track of recently imported and recently cooked recipes.
For the most part, SousChef is an excellent recipe manager and stacks up nicely against the other competition. It offers great features and has a supreme ease-of-use. SousChef costs $30, and can be downloaded for a free trial from Acacia Tree Software.
Blogging with MarsEdit
1042 days ago in Contributors, Reviews by John Fuller | 2 Comments
Blogging, as most people know, is typically done by writing posts in an online client. Yet, if you find yourself blogging a lot, and to different blogs, using the web interfaces can become tedious and even annoying. Luckily, MarsEdit is here to improve that experience as a desktop client. The main window in MarsEdit is [...]
iPhone App Spotlight: DirecTV
1043 days ago in Articles by John Fuller | 1 Comment
As a national satellite provider, DirecTV’s foray into the iPhone app store was no surprise. Functionality might be limited, but the DirecTV app actually surpassed my expectations. The DirecTV app has two central functions, to serve as a program guide and to record shows on your DVR. The program guide can be viewed in a [...]
iPhone App Spotlight: Kindle
1045 days ago in Contributors, iPhone App Spotlight by John Fuller | 1 Comment
If you don’t feel like paying close to $400 for a Kindle, you’re probably not alone. Lucky for you, Amazon created the Kindle for iPhone app, which is free (if you factor out the cost of the iPhone). Dubbed as a ‘wireless reading device’, the Kindle is an e-book reader with free, built-in 3G connection [...]
Feed Reading with Times
1048 days ago in Articles, Contributors, Reviews by John Fuller | No Comments
RSS Readers are used to retrieve articles, or posts, from frequently visited sites using an RSS feed. This typically includes online newspapers and blogs. Yet, most RSS Readers are boring. That’s where Times comes in, designed to bring the newspaper experience to the desktop. Times is heavily graphics-based, with a design that mimics a physical [...]
Tweetie
1049 days ago in Articles, Contributors, Reviews by John Fuller | 1 Comment
One of the most popular Twitter clients for the iPhone, Tweetie, has been translated for the Mac OSX desktop. As a competitor of TweetDeck and Twitterific, Tweetie brings a slick interface and many new features to the table. Similar to the iPhone client, Tweetie for the desktop allows you to post and read tweets from [...]
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