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Measuring Cup

Measuring Cup

Recipe management program.

Version:  1.2.4

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Love it

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: Vexis58 Saturday, January 22 2005 @ 05:46 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

This is probably the best free recipe program I've tried so far, for the features it has. I love having a main library of recipes, then sorting them out into different categories. I love being able to put a picture of the recipe along with it. I don't really love having the ingredients split into three different fields like that, but that's just a personal preference.

I gave this a four, however, because the interface is a little hard to get used to. The new category and new recipe buttons are so tiny I didn't see them at all for the longest time, and kept searching the menus for a way to add a new category. Whenever I add a step into a recipe, it is added at the top, and when I'm writing a recipe, I usually start with the beginning and work my way to the end -- so it'd be a lot better if the new steps appeared after all the other steps.

Also, I can't seem to find any way to rearrange the categories' order. They seem to be forever stuck in whatever order I created them in, which was rather random. When I try to drag a category folder, it will act as if I'm trying to move a recipe, and then do nothing when it realizes I'm not.

And I would also love to have an export to text feature in this program, so that I can export a recipe to my iPod's recipe database without having to copy-paste the text from a print preview and reinsert all the line breaks. But I'm not going to grade you on features I wish it had but doesn't, only on the features it actually has ^.^   
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Love it - miffyquek

  • I agree that the buttons to add category and recipe are kind of small to get used to. But I guess once you do, you can apply them to most tables.
  • As for adding steps, here's a trick:
    1. click on the '+' button first
    2. start editing
    3. don't hit return, hit 'shift-return', a new row is added automatically for you after the current row
    Remember that hitting '+' adds a row to the very beginning only if no rows are selected
  • As for rearranging the categories...Yes I hear you. I want that do but like everything else in life, it takes time :-) So I kindly ask you to be patient.
  • Export-to-text sounds interesting. I chalk it up with the 23 other requested features :-)
Thanks for the feedback! If adding the steps above doesn't work, write me an email. Who knows, it could be a bug.

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Wednesday, January 26 2005 @ 10:17 PM PST