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.

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 [...]

Shovebox; The Digital Data Dumping Ground

1076 days ago in Articles, Contributors, Reviews by John Fuller | No Comments

There is no lack of information retention and note-taking software available to mac users, but one of the emerging players is Shovebox, a new piece of software from WonderWarp. Unlike some of the other applications available for this purpose, Shovebox acts as a menu bar application, not a program with a huge interface and lives [...]